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 *1941 – [[Thomas C. Latimore]], U.S. Navy captain and former [[Governor of American Samoa]], never returned from a hike in the [[Aiea, Hawaii|Aiea Mountains]] of Hawaii during July 1941. No body has ever been found.
-*1944 – [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]], French author and aviator. His plane vanished while conducting an intelligence mission over German-occupied France near Marseilles. A bracelet bearing his name was recovered in a fishing dragnet in 1998, and part of his airplane&mdash;a [[Lockheed_P-38_Lightning|Lockheed F-5B]] reconnaissance plane&mdash;was found in 2000, recovered in 2003. The wreckage was confirmed in 2004.
+*1944 – [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]], French author and aviator. His plane vanished while conducting an intelligence mission over German-occupied France near Marseilles. A bracelet bearing his name was recovered in a fishing dragnet in 1998, and part of his airplane&mdash;a [[Lockheed P-38 Lightning|Lockheed F-5B]] reconnaissance plane&mdash;was found in 2000, recovered in 2003. The wreckage was confirmed in 2004.
 *1944 – [[Glenn Miller]] (40), the popular American [[jazz]] musician and [[bandleader]], was en route from England to France on December 15, 1944, to play for troops in recently liberated Paris when the single–engined [[Noorduyn Norseman]] aircraft in which he was a passenger disappeared over the [[English Channel]]. The plane and those on board have never been located. As a U.S. military officer who vanished in wartime, Miller continues to be listed officially as [[missing in action]].
-*[[Ian Mackintosh]], creator and writer of [[The Sandbaggers]] British television series, was flying with two others over the Gulf of Alaska in a light aircraft in July 1979. The plane sent out a distress signal, which was picked up by the United States Coast Guard. The plane's last-known position was searched, but no wreckage of the plane was ever found, and its passengers have not been heard from since.<ref>[http://www.opsroom.org/pages/intelligence/ian-2.html Sandbaggers - My Brother Ian Mackintosh 2]</ref>
+*[[Ian Mackintosh]], creator and writer of [[The Sandbaggers]] British television series, was flying with two others over the Gulf of Alaska in a light aircraft in July 1979. The plane sent out a distress signal, which was picked up by the United States Coast Guard. The plane's last-known position was searched, but no wreckage of the plane was ever found, and its passengers have not been heard from since.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opsroom.org/pages/intelligence/ian-2.html |title=Sandbaggers - My Brother Ian Mackintosh 2 |publisher=Opsroom.org |date= |accessdate=2013-05-22}}</ref>

This is a '''list of people who disappeared mysteriously''', and whose current whereabouts are unknown or whose deaths are not substantiated, as well as a few cases of people whose disappearance was notable and remained mysterious for a long time, but was eventually explained.

==Before 1800==
*71 BC – Although he was presumed killed in battle, the body of the rebel slave [[Spartacus]] was never found and his fate remains unknown.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Appian/Civil_Wars/1*.html#120 |title=Account of Spartacus's final battle by the Roman historian Appian |publisher=Penelope.uchicago.edu |date= |accessdate=2012-02-11}}</ref>
*53 BC – [[Ambiorix]] was, together with Catuvolcus, prince of the Eburones, leader of a Belgic tribe of northeastern Gaul (Gallia Belgica), where modern Belgium is located. According to the writer Florus (iii.10.8), Ambiorix and his men managed to cross the Rhine and disappear without a trace.
*AD – [[Legio IX Hispana]] (Ninth Spanish Legion) was a legion alleged to have disappeared in Britain during the [[Roman conquest of Britain]]. Many references to the legion have been made in subsequent works of fiction.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12752497 | work=BBC News | title=The Roman Ninth Legion's mysterious loss | date=2011-03-16}}</ref>
*378 - Roman Emperor [[Valens]] was defeated by the Goths at the [[Battle of Adrianople]] (modern Edirne, Turkey). The body of Valens was never found.
*834 (circa) – [[Muhammad ibn Qasim (al-Alawi)]] led a rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate but was defeated and detained. He was able to flee but was never heard from again.
*1021 – [[Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah]] (36), sixth [[Fatimid Caliphate|Fatimid]] caliph and 16th [[Ismailism|Ismaili]] [[imam]], rode his donkey to the Muqattam hills outside Cairo for one of his regular nocturnal meditation outings and failed to return. A search found only the donkey and his bloodstained garments.<ref>[http://www.iis.ac.uk/view_article.asp?ContentID=104798 al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah], Institute of Ismaili Studies, Dr Farhad Daftary.</ref>
*1071 - [[Hereward]] This formerly exiled Anglo-Danish minor noble rebel led a huge revolt in the marshy region of [[Ely, Cambridgeshire|Ely]] in England against the rule of William the Conqueror. Eventually betrayed by fearful local monks who led the Norman troops through secret trackways, many rebels were mutilated or executed, but Hereward escaped, never to be heard of again.
*1203 – [[Arthur I, Duke of Brittany]], designated heir of the throne of England. He was supported by French nobility who did not want [[John of England]] as overlord. On 31 July 1202, Arthur was surprised and captured by John's barons and imprisoned at Falaise in Normandy. The following year Arthur was transferred to Rouen and then vanished mysteriously in April 1203.
*1291 (circa) – [[Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi]], [[Republic of Genoa|Genoese]] sailors and explorers lost while attempting the first oceanic journey from Europe to Asia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Ugolino_Vivaldo |title=Ugolino Vivaldo |publisher=1911encyclopedia.org |date=2006-09-22 |accessdate=2012-02-11}}</ref>
*1412 – [[Owain Glyndŵr]], the last native [[Welsh people|Welsh person]] to hold the title [[Prince of Wales]], instigated the Welsh Revolt against the rule of [[Henry IV of England]] in 1400. Although initially successful, the uprising was eventually put down, but Glyndŵr disappeared and was never captured, betrayed, or tempted by royal pardons.<ref>[http://www.owain-glyndwr-soc.org.uk/achievements.htm#burial%20site The Society's achievements – attempts to identify the grave], Owain Glyndwr Society.</ref>
*1483 – The [[Princes in the Tower]], [[Edward V of England]] (12) and [[Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York]] (9), sons of King [[Edward IV of England]], were placed in the [[Tower of London]] (which at that time served as a fortress and a royal palace as well as a prison) by their uncle [[Richard III of England]].<ref>[http://www.worldreviewer.com/travel-guides/castle/tower-of-london/10969/], ''World Reviewer'', accessed March 21, 2011.</ref> Neither was ever seen in public again and their fate remains unknown.
*1499 – [[John Cabot]], Italian explorer, disappeared along with his five ships during an expedition to find a western route from Europe to Asia.<ref>[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=101&interval=20&&PHPSESSID=ro1i9qk53ht6ftrb2t384m80d3 Cabot (Caboto), John (Giovanni), Italian explorer], Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.</ref>
*1501 – [[Gaspar Corte-Real]], Portuguese explorer, disappeared on an expedition to discover the [[Northwest Passage]] from Europe to Asia. Two of his ships returned to Lisbon, but the third, with Gaspar on board, was lost and never heard from again.<ref>[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=138 Corte-Real, Gaspar, Portuguese explorer], Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.</ref>
*1502 – [[Miguel Corte-Real]], Portuguese explorer, disappeared while searching for his brother [[Gaspar Corte-Real|Gaspar]]. Like his brother, he took three ships, and as with his brother, the ship with Miguel on board was lost and never heard from again.<ref>[http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=139&interval=20&&PHPSESSID=kqrdm11sb9fkrerkgh97ec40e6 Corte-Real, Miguel, Portuguese explorer], Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online.</ref>
*1526 – [[Francisco de Hoces]], Spanish sailor, was commander of the ''San Lesmes'', one of the seven ships of the Loaísa Expedition under [[García Jofre de Loaísa]]. It has been speculated that ''San Lesmes'', last seen in the Pacific in late May, may have reached [[Easter Island]] or any of the [[Polynesia|Polynesian archipelagos]], or even [[New Zealand]].<ref>Langdon, Robert. ''The lost caravel re-explored''. Canberra: Brolga Press ISBN 0-9588309-1-6</ref><ref>Scowen, Greg. ''The Spanish Helmet''. Whare Rama Books ISBN 978-1-4635-5848-2</ref>
*1546 – [[Francisco de Orellana]], Spanish explorer and conquistador, disappeared while exploring the Amazon in November. His fate remains a mystery.
*1590 – [[List of colonists at Roanoke|The Roanoke colonists]] disappeared, becoming known as [[Roanoke Colony|The Lost Colony]], in 18 August 1590, when their settlement was found abandoned.<ref>[http://www.coastalguide.com/packet/lostcolony-croatan.shtml The Lost Colony: Roanoke Island, NC] Eric Hause.</ref>
*1611 – [[Henry Hudson]] was an English explorer and seafarer. He discovered New York Harbor for the [[Dutch East India Company]]. In 1611, mutineers set him, his son, and six others adrift in a small boat in what is now [[Hudson Bay]]. They were never seen again.
*1652 - [[Maurice of the Palatinate|Maurice von der Pfalz]] (31), brother of Rupert of the Rhine. During the English Civil War Rupert's fleet was destroyed in a terrible storm south of Puerto Rico. All ships except two were lost, among them Prince Maurice's ship Defiance. Neither he nor the ship was ever found.
*1696 – [[Henry Every]] was an English pirate who vanished after perpetrating one of the most profitable pirate raids in history; despite a worldwide manhunt and an enormous bounty on his head, Every was never heard from again.
*1779 – [[Thomas Lynch, Jr.]] (30), signatory of the [[United States Declaration of Independence]], boarded a ship bound for the [[West Indies]] with his wife and was never seen again.
*1788 – [[Aimée du Buc de Rivéry]], daughter of a wealthy plantation owner on the French island of [[Martinique]]. After being sent to a convent school in France, she was returning home in July or August 1788 when the ship she was on vanished at sea. It is thought that the ship was attacked and taken by [[Barbary corsairs|Barbary pirates]]. It has been suggested that she was enslaved and eventually sent to [[Istanbul]] as a gift to the [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] [[sultan]] by the [[Bey]] of [[Algiers]]. It is unconfirmed if she was the same person as [[Naksh-i-Dil Haseki]], consort of the sultan.

==1800 to 1899==
*1803 – [[George Bass]] (32), British explorer of [[Australia]], set sail from Sydney for South America and was never heard from again.<ref>[http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/55411/George-Bass George Bass] ''Encyclopædia Britannica''.</ref>
*1809 – [[Benjamin Bathurst (diplomat)|Benjamin Bathurst]] (25), British diplomat, disappeared from an inn in [[Perleberg]].
*1812 – [[Theodosia Burr Alston]] (29), daughter of U.S. Vice President [[Aaron Burr]] and sometimes called the most educated American woman of her day, sailed from [[Georgetown, South Carolina]], aboard the ''Patriot'', which was never seen again.
*1826 – [[William Morgan (anti-Mason)|William Morgan]] (52), resident of [[Batavia (city), New York|Batavia, New York]], disappeared just before his book critical of [[Freemasonry]] was published.
*1829 – [[John Lansing, Jr.]] (75), American politician, left his [[Manhattan]] hotel to mail a letter at a [[New York City]] dock and was never seen again.
*1845 – [[Franklin's lost expedition]], with more than 100 seamen, made last contact with a whaling ship before entering [[Victoria Strait]] in search of the [[Northwest Passage]]. Although the remains of some individuals were later discovered, the majority of corpses were never found, and the exact reason for their demise remains a mystery.
*1848 – [[Khachatur Abovian]] (38), Armenian writer and national public figure of the early 19th century, credited as creator of modern [[Armenian literature]], left his house early one morning and was never heard from again.
*1848 – [[Ludwig Leichhardt]] (34), Prussian explorer and naturalist, disappeared during his third major expedition to explore parts of northern and central Australia. He was last seen on 3 April at McPherson's Station on the [[Darling Downs]], en route from the [[Condamine River]] to the [[Swan River (Western Australia)|Swan River]]. His fate after moving inland, although investigated by many, remains a mystery.
*1849 – [[Sándor Petőfi]] (26), [[Hungarian people|Hungarian]] poet and [[Classical liberalism|liberal]] [[revolutionary]], one of the key figures of the [[Hungarian Revolution of 1848]]. Petőfi was last seen in [[Transylvania]] during the [[Battle of Segesvár]]. Although there are many different theories and rumours about his supposed death or deportation to [[Siberia]], neither his body nor genuine records to support the theories were ever found.
*1865 – Captain [[James William Boyd]] (43), a [[Confederate States of America]] military officer, vanished after his release as a [[prisoner of war]] in February 1865, as he failed to show up for a rendezvous with his son to go to Mexico at the end of the [[American Civil War]]. Boyd’s disappearance was at the center of a [[conspiracy theory]] that he was killed in the place of [[John Wilkes Booth]], the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.<ref name=Guttridge>{{cite news | author =Leonard Guttridge | title =In Defense of Dark Union | publisher =History News Network | date =March 8, 2004 | url =http://hnn.us/articles/3873.html | accessdate=2009-04-23}}</ref>
*1872 – Captain [[Benjamin Briggs]] (37), his wife Sarah Elizabeth (31), their daughter Sophia Matilda (2), and all seven crew members were missing when the ''[[Mary Celeste]]'' was found adrift in choppy seas some {{convert|400|mi}} east of the [[Azores]]. Their [[unexplained disappearances]] are at the core of "one of the most durable mysteries in nautical history".<ref>[http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/abandoned-200711.html Abandoned Ship] ''Smithsonian Magazine'' 2007–11, Jess Blumberg.</ref>
*1880 – [[Lamont Young]], a government geologist inspecting new goldfields on behalf of the New South Wales Mines Department, together with his assistant, Max Schneider, boat owner Thomas Towers, and two other men all disappeared near [[Bermagui, New South Wales]], Australia.<ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/news/New-South-Wales/Bermagui/2005/02/17/1108500192720.html Bermagui] ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' 2008-12-16.</ref> The location where the abandoned wreck of their boat was discovered was subsequently named [[Mystery Bay]].<ref>[http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/name_search/extract?id=ujKqlMKmKW Register extract – Mystery Bay] Geographical Names Board of New South Wales.</ref>
*1888 – [[Boston Corbett]] (56), the [[Union Army]] soldier who fatally shot [[John Wilkes Booth]], later went insane and was incarcerated in a mental asylum in 1887. He escaped from the facility a year later and was never seen again, though some historians suspect that he may have perished in the [[Great Hinckley Fire]] of September 1, 1894.<ref name=Herald>''Lincoln Herald, Volume 86'', Lincoln Memorial University Press., 1984, pp. 152–155.</ref><ref name=Kubicek>Kubicek, Earl C, "The Case of the Mad Hatter", ''Lincoln herald, Volume 83'', Lincoln Memorial University Press, 1981, pp. 708–719.</ref>
*1890 – [[Louis Le Prince]] (48), [[motion picture]] pioneer, disappeared after boarding a Paris-bound train at [[Dijon]], France.
*1896 – [[Albert Jennings Fountain]] (57) and his son Henry (8) disappeared near [[Las Cruces, New Mexico]], United States.

==1900s==
* 1900 – Three [[lighthouse]] keepers working on the [[Flannan Isles]] (off the northwestern coast of Scotland) disappeared in a mystery commemorated in the ballad ''[[Flannan Isle]]'' and the opera ''[[The Lighthouse (opera)|The Lighthouse]]''.
* 1909 – [[Joshua Slocum]] (65), Canadian-American [[sailor]] and first man to [[Single-handed sailing|sail single-handed]]ly around the world (1895–1898), disappeared after setting sail from Vineyard Haven on [[Martha's Vineyard]] alone, bound for [[South America]], aboard the same {{convert|36|ft|9|in|abbr=on}} [[sloop]] ''[[Spray (sailing vessel)|Spray]]'' he had used for his circumnavigation.<ref>[http://www.joshuaslocumsocietyintl.org/jshistory.htm Joshua Slocum and His Travels] Joshua Slocum Society International Inc.</ref>

==1910s==
* 1910 – [[Dorothy Arnold]] (25), [[Manhattan]] [[socialite]] and perfume heiress, vanished after buying a book in New York City. She intended to walk through Central Park but was never seen again.<ref>[http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1960/5/1960_5_24.shtml "The Girl Who Never Came Back, American Heritage, May 1960]{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
* 1912 – [[Bobby Dunbar]] (4) disappeared during a fishing trip in [[St. Landry Parish, Louisiana]]. A child found in the custody of William Cantwell Walters of [[Mississippi]] some eight months later was ruled to be Bobby Dunbar by a court-appointed arbiter, and Walters was found guilty of [[kidnapping]]. The child grew up as Bobby Dunbar, had four children of his own, and died in 1966. In 2004, [[Genetic fingerprinting|DNA tests]] proved that the child found was not related to Bobby Dunbar's brother, Alonzo.<ref>[http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-05-05-1914-dna_x.htm DNA clears man of 1914 kidnapping conviction] ''USA Today'' 2004-05-05, Allen G. Breed (Associated Press).</ref>
* 1913 – [[Rudolf Diesel]] (55), German inventor and mechanical engineer, was lost overboard from the steamer [[SS Dresden (1897)|''Dresden'']]. The consensus of his biographers<ref name="Grosser1978">{{Cite book | last = Grosser | first = Morton | year = 1978 | title = Diesel: The Man and the Engine | publisher = Atheneum | location = New York, NY, USA | url = | doi = | isbn = 978-0-689-30652-5 | ref = harv | postscript = . | lccn = 78006196}}</ref><ref name="Moon1974">{{Cite book | last = Moon | first = John F. | year = 1974 | title = Rudolf Diesel and the Diesel Engine | publisher = Priory Press | location = London, UK | url = | doi = | isbn = 978-0-85078-130-4 | ref = harv | postscript = . | lccn = 74182524}}</ref> is that he committed suicide, but homicide theories abound, and no one can be sure.
* 1914 – [[Ambrose Bierce]] (71), American writer known for "[[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge]]" and ''[[The Devil's Dictionary]]'', was last heard from in a letter of December 1913 bearing a [[Chihuahua, Chihuahua|Chihuahua]] postmark to his secretary and companion, Carrie Christiansen. Although alternative theories are plentiful,<ref>[http://www.biercephile.com/death.cfm The Death of Bierce] ''Ambrose Bierce Appreciation Society''.</ref> he almost certainly perished in war-torn Mexico, possibly at the Battle of [[Ojinaga]] on 10 February,<ref>[http://ojinaga.com/bierce/ Ambrose Bierce, "the Old Gringo": Fact, Fiction and Fantasy] Glenn Willeford.</ref> or perhaps was executed as a spy in the municipal cemetery of [[Sierra Mojada]], [[Coahuila]], where a gravestone bearing his name was erected in 2004.<ref>[http://donswaim.com/bierce-lienert.html Retired priest erects Bierce gravestone in Sierra Mojada, Mexico] ''The Ambrose Bierce Site'' James Lienert, Don Swaim.</ref>
* 1914 – [[F. Lewis Clark]] (52), businessman from the U.S. state of [[Idaho]], disappeared while visiting [[Santa Barbara, California]].
* 1914 – [[František Gellner]] (33), Czech poet, was recruited to the [[Austro-Hungarian Army]] at the beginning of [[World War&nbsp; I]] and went to [[Galicia (Central Europe)|Galicia]], where he disappeared.<ref>[http://www.mzm.cz/mzm/osobnosti/frantisek_gellner.htm František Gellner] Moravské zemské muzeum {{Cs icon}}</ref><ref>[http://slon.diamo.cz/hpvt/2004/T/T10_Trantina.htm František Gellner – student Báňské akademie v Příbrami, spisovatel a básník] Hornické muzeum Príbram, Mgr. Václav Trantina {{Cs icon}}</ref>
* 1914 – [[Alejandro Bello Silva]] (27), a lieutenant in the [[Chilean Army]], disappeared during a qualifying exam flight over central [[Chile]]. Although search efforts commenced within hours, no trace was ever found. His disappearance is reflected in a Chilean [[set phrase]], "more lost than Lieutenant Bello", applied to people who stray off course or disappear en route.
* 1916 - [[Béla Kiss]] (39), Hungarian serial killer who murdered 24 young women prior to his enrollment in the [[Austro-Hungarian Army]] in the First World War. Upon the discovery of his crimes, he was traced to a Serbian military hospital but escaped a few days before investigators arrived. Although there were several reported sightings of the killer (notably in [[New York City|New York]] in 1932), his true fate remains a mystery.
* 1918 – {{USS|Cyclops|AC-4|6}}, collier, left Barbados on March 4, lost with 309 crew and passengers en route to Baltimore, Maryland.
* 1918 – [[Arthur Cravan]] (31), French proto-[[dada]]ist writer and art critic, disappeared near [[Salina Cruz]], Mexico; he most likely drowned.{{Citation needed|date=March 2009}}
* 1919 – [[Mansell Richard James]] (25), a Canadian [[flying ace]], was last seen in western Massachusetts on 2 June, just days after a record-setting flight between [[Atlantic City]] and Boston<ref>(''Saskatoon Star-Phoenix,'' 2 October 1930) as reproduced at http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lxBlAAAAIBAJ&sjid=zW4NAAAAIBAJ&pg=1221,3596411&dq=mansell-james&hl=en Retrieved 10 April 2011.</ref>
* 1919 – [[Ambrose Small]] (56), Canadian millionaire, disappeared from his office. He was last seen at 5:30&nbsp;pm on December&nbsp;2, 1919, at the [[Grand Theatre, Ontario|Grand Theatre]] in London, Ontario.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?BioId=41831 |title=Dictionary of Canadian Biography, "Small, Ambrose Joseph" |publisher=Biographi.ca |date=2007-10-18 |accessdate=2012-02-11}}</ref>

==1920s==
*1920 – [[Victor Grayson]] (39), British socialist politician, received a phone call and told his friends that he had to go to the Queen's Hotel in [[Leicester Square]] and would be back shortly. He was last seen entering a house owned by [[Maundy Gregory]].
*1921 – The captain and crew of the ''[[Carroll A. Deering]]'', which was found beached near Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
*1921 – [[Charles White Whittlesey|Charles Whittlesey]] (37), American soldier and [[Medal of Honor]] recipient who led the "[[Lost Battalion (World War I)|Lost Battalion]]" in [[World War I]]. He was last seen on the evening of November 26, 1921, on a passenger ship bound from New York City to Havana, and is presumed to have committed suicide by jumping overboard.
*1924 - [[Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)|Andrew Irvine]] (22) English mountaineer who took part in [[British Mount Everest Expedition 1924]]. He and his climbing partner [[George Mallory]] disappeared somewhere high on the mountain's northeast ridge. Though Mallory's body was found in 1999, the search for Irvine's continues to this day.
*1925 – [[Percy Fawcett]] (58), British [[Archaeology|archaeologist]] and [[List of explorers|explorer]], together with his eldest son, Jack, and friend Raleigh Rimmell, was last seen travelling into the jungle of [[Mato Grosso]] in [[Brazil]] to search for a hidden city called the [[Lost City of Z]]. Several unconfirmed sightings and many conflicting reports and theories explaining their disappearance followed, but despite the loss of over 100 lives in more than a dozen follow-up expeditions and the recovery of some of Fawcett's belongings, their fate remains a mystery.<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2004/mar/21/research.brazil Veil lifts on jungle mystery of the colonel who vanished] ''guardian.co.uk – The Observer'' 2004-03-21, Vanessa Thorpe.</ref>
*1925 – [[Frederick McDonald]], Australian politician, set off from [[Martin Place, Sydney]], for a meeting with [[Jack Lang (Australian politician)|Jack Lang]] two blocks away but failed to arrive. He was possibly murdered by his political rival [[Thomas John Ley]]. In 1947, Ley was convicted at the [[Old Bailey]] of "the chalkpit murder" of a barman in England and sentenced to hang but was then declared insane and sent to [[Broadmoor Hospital|Broadmoor]] high-security [[psychiatric hospital]], where he died of a [[cerebral hemorrhage]] two months later.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2004/s1095204.htm Lateline History Challenge: Minister for Murder] ''Australian Broadcasting Corporation'' 2004-04-26, Margot O'Neill & Brett Evans.</ref>
*1926 – [[Agatha Christie]], the British crime writer, [[Agatha Christie#Disappearance|famously disappeared]], and although she was located 10 days later in a [[Yorkshire]] health spa, the actual reason for her disappearance remains a mystery.<ref>{{Cite news |title=MRS. CHRISTIE FOUND IN A YORKSHIRE SPA; Missing Novelist, Under an Assumed Name, Was Staying at a Hotel There. CLUE A NEWSPAPER PICTURE Mystery Writer Is Victim of Loss of Memory, Her Husband Declares. MRS. CHRISTIE FOUND IN A YORKSHIRE SPA |newspaper=New York Times |date=15 December 1926 |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60C17FE3C591B7A93C7A81789D95F428285F9&scp=4&sq=Agatha%20Christie%20Disappearance&st=cse |accessdate=16 September 2009}}</ref>
*1927 – [[Charles Nungesser]] (45), French aviator, and his navigator, [[François Coli]] (45), disappeared while attempting a flight from Paris to New York. They are presumed to have crashed into the Atlantic, or possibly in [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]] or [[Maine]], but no wreckage that could be confirmed to be from their biplane, ''[[The White Bird]]'', was ever found.
*1928 – [[Walter Collins]] (9) disappeared from his Los Angeles home.<ref>[http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/465341642.html?dids=465341642:465341642&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Apr+04%2C+1928pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=New+Kidnaping+Clew+Furnished+in+Hunt+for+Missing+Collins+Boy New Kidnaping Clew Furnished in Hunt for Missing Collins Boy] ''Los Angeles Times'' 1928-4-4.</ref> His disappearance and the attempt by the Los Angeles police department to convince his mother that a different boy was her son formed the basis of the 2008 film ''[[Changeling (film)|Changeling]]''.
*1928 – [[Glen and Bessie Hyde]] (29 & 22), American newlyweds, disappeared while attempting to [[Rafting|raft]] the [[Colorado River]] [[rapid]]s of the [[Grand Canyon]].
*1928 – [[Roald Amundsen]], Norwegian Arctic explorer, disappeared on a search-and-rescue mission in the Arctic.
*1928 - The Danish sailtraining vessel [[København (ship)|"København"]] ("Copenhagen") vanished en route from Buenos Aires to Australia sometime between December 1928 and January 1929 with the loss of 14 crew and 45 cadets, some of whom were as young as 16&nbsp;years old.

==1930s==
*1930 – [[Joseph Force Crater]] (41), an [[associate justice]] of the [[New York Supreme Court]], was last seen on August 6 after a meal at a restaurant. Judge Crater was never seen or heard from again. (His [[mistress (lover)|mistress]], Sally Lou Ritz (22), was said to have disappeared a few weeks later; however, this is false, as she was interviewed by police as late as July 1937.<ref>[http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/r/ritz_sally.html The Charley Project: Sally Lou Ritz] 2005-04-03.</ref>)  Crater's disappearance, which prompted one of the most sensational manhunts of the 20th century,<ref>[http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?id=25488&siteSection=1 1930 NYPD Cold Case 'Solved'] ''OFFICER.com'' 2005-08-19, Larry Celona, Lorena Mongelli & Marsha Kranes (courtesy of ''New York Post'').</ref> was the subject of widespread media attention and a [[grand jury]] investigation. Crater was declared [[Death in absentia|legally dead]] in 1939 and his missing persons file was officially closed in 1979; however, [[Cold case (criminology)|Cold Case Squad]] detectives have investigated new leads as recently as 2005.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/20/nyregion/20crater.html Judge Crater Abruptly Appears, at Least in Public Consciousness] ''New York Times'' 2005-08-20, William K. Rashbaum.</ref> To "pull a Crater" became [[slang]] for a person vanishing.<ref>[http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/citations/pull_a_crater_1/ Catchword: pull a Crater], Double-Tongued Dictionary.</ref>
*1934 – [[Wallace Fard Muhammad]] (43), founder of the [[Nation of Islam]], left [[Detroit]] and was never heard from again.<ref>[http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/fard.htm Wallace D. Fard] Federal Bureau of Investigation – Freedom of Information Privacy Act.</ref>
*1934 - [[Everett Ruess]] (20), young American artist travelling through the deserts of [[Utah]].
*1935 – [[Charles Kingsford Smith]] (38), Australian pioneer [[aviator]], and co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge disappeared during an overnight flight from [[Allahabad]], India, to [[Singapore]] while attempting to break the England-Australia speed record. Eighteen months later, Burmese fishermen found an undercarriage leg and wheel (with its tire still inflated) on the shoreline of Aye Island in the [[Andaman Sea]], {{convert|3|km|0|abbr=on}} off the southeast coastline of Burma, which [[Lockheed Corporation|Lockheed]] confirmed to be from their [[Lockheed Altair]], the ''[[Lady Southern Cross]]''. Botanists who examined the weeds clinging to it estimated that the aircraft itself lies not far from the island at a depth of approximately {{convert|15|fathom|0|abbr=on}}.<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,771071,00.html?promoid=googlep By Aye] ''TIME'' 1938-06-06.</ref> A filmmaker claimed to have located ''Lady Southern Cross'' on the seabed in February 2009.<ref>[http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25218600-421,00.html "Sir Charles Kingsford Smith's final resting place found, says film crew"] ''The Daily Telegraph'' 2009-03-21, Justin Vallejo.</ref>
*1937 – [[Amelia Earhart]] (39), famous American [[aviatrix]]; she was the first woman to try a [[circumnavigation]]al flight of the globe. During the attempt she and her [[navigator]], [[Fred Noonan]] (44), disappeared over the central Pacific in the vicinity of [[Howland Island]], July 2.
*1937 – [[Sigizmund Levanevsky]] (35), famous [[USSR|Soviet]] aviator, together with his crew of five and their [[Bolkhovitinov DB-A]] aircraft, disappeared in the vicinity of the [[North Pole]] after reporting loss of power from one of their four [[Mikulin AM-34]] engines while attempting to prove a trans[[polar route]] between [[Asia]] and [[North America]] commercially viable.<ref>[http://www.check-six.com/lib/Famous_Missing/Levanevsky.htm Sigismund Levanevsky] ''Check-Six.com''.</ref>
*1937 – [[Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe]] (24 & 28) escaped from [[Alcatraz Island|Alcatraz prison]] in the U.S. state of [[California]] and disappeared. Authorities presumed that they drowned, but no bodies were ever recovered.
*1938 – [[Ettore Majorana]] (31), Italian physicist, disappeared during a boat trip from [[Naples]] to [[Palermo]].
*1938 – [[Andrew Carnegie Whitfield]] (28), nephew of U.S. steel magnate [[Andrew Carnegie]], disappeared during a solo morning flight in a small [[light aircraft]] from [[Roosevelt Field, New York]], on [[Long Island]] to an airfield at [[Brentwood, New York|Brentwood]], approximately 22&nbsp;miles away.
*1938 - [[Willie McLean (American soccer)|Willie McLean]] (34), an American soccer player who played in the [[1934 World Cup]].  His family received occasional Mother's Day cards for several years afterwards, purportedly from McLean.
*1939 - [[Barbara Newhall Follett]] (25) was an American child prodigy novelist. Her first novel, ''The House Without Windows'', was published in 1927 when she was thirteen years old. Her next novel, ''The Voyage of the Norman D.'', received critical acclaim when she was fourteen. In 1939, aged 25, she became depressed with her marriage and walked out of her apartment with just thirty dollars. She was never seen again.
*1939 – [[Lloyd L. Gaines]] (28) was the central figure in ''[[Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada]]'' (1938), one of the most important court cases of the [[African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954)|U.S. civil rights movement]], though the movement did not truly begin until 1954. On the evening of 19 March, Gaines left his [[Alpha Phi Alpha]] fraternity house in [[Chicago]], having told the housekeeper he was going to buy some stamps, and was never seen or heard from again, forcing the NAACP to drop the case. It was another decade before MU admitted a black student. MU awarded Gaines an honorary posthumous law degree in 2006.<ref>[http://bcc.missouri.edu/history.php Quick Fact Sheet – Who is Lloyd L. Gaines?] Gaines Oldham Black Cultural Center – Our History.</ref><ref>[http://archive.columbiatribune.com/2006/may/20060514News023.asp MU awards law degree to kin of rights pioneer] ''Columbia Daily Tribune'' 2006-05-14 Alan Scher Zagier (Associated Press).</ref> Some accounts suggest he was living in New York or Mexico City in the late 1940s.<ref name="Riverfront Times story">{{cite news|last=Garrison|first=Chad|title=The Mystery of Lloyd Gaines|url=http://www.riverfronttimes.com/content/printVersion/220398/|newspaper=[[The Riverfront Times]]|publisher=[[Village Voice Media]]|location=[[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis, MO]]|date=April 4, 2007|accessdate=March 5, 2012}}</ref>
*1939 – [[Richard Halliburton]], missing at sea since March 1939 after trying to sail ''Sea Dragon'' (a gaudily decorated, 75-foot Chinese [[junk (ship)|junk]]) across the [[Pacific Ocean]]. In 1945, some wreckage identified as a rudder and believed to belong to the ''Sea Dragon'' washed ashore in [[California]].

==1940s==
*1941 – [[Thomas C. Latimore]], U.S. Navy captain and former [[Governor of American Samoa]], never returned from a hike in the [[Aiea, Hawaii|Aiea Mountains]] of Hawaii during July 1941. No body has ever been found.
*1944 – [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]], French author and aviator. His plane vanished while conducting an intelligence mission over German-occupied France near Marseilles. A bracelet bearing his name was recovered in a fishing dragnet in 1998, and part of his airplane&mdash;a [[Lockheed P-38 Lightning|Lockheed F-5B]] reconnaissance plane&mdash;was found in 2000, recovered in 2003. The wreckage was confirmed in 2004.
*1944 – [[Glenn Miller]] (40), the popular American [[jazz]] musician and [[bandleader]], was en route from England to France on December 15, 1944, to play for troops in recently liberated Paris when the single–engined [[Noorduyn Norseman]] aircraft in which he was a passenger disappeared over the [[English Channel]]. The plane and those on board have never been located. As a U.S. military officer who vanished in wartime, Miller continues to be listed officially as [[missing in action]].
*1944 – [[Rocco Perri]] (born 30 December 1887, date of death unknown, last seen alive 23 April 1944) was an organized crime figure in Ontario, Canada, in the early 20th century.
*1944 – [[Szilveszter Matuska]], Hungarian mass-murderer known as "The Train Killer", escaped from jail in 1944 and was never recaptured.
*1945 – [[Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)|Heinrich Müller]] (45), [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[Gestapo]] chief, last confirmed sighting in the [[Führerbunker]] on the evening of May 1, 1945. His [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] file and related documents state that while the record is "...inconclusive on Müller's ultimate fate... [he] most likely died in Berlin in early May 1945."<ref>[http://www.archives.gov/iwg/declassified-records/rg-263-cia-records/rg-263-mueller.html Analysis of the Name File of Heinrich Mueller] National Archives and Records Administration – Timothy Naftali, Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia; Norman J.W. Goda, Ohio University; Richard Breitman, American University; Robert Wolfe, National Archives (ret.).</ref>
*1945 – [[Raoul Wallenberg]] (32), Swedish diplomat credited with saving the lives of at least 20,000 Hungarian Jews during the [[Holocaust]], was arrested on espionage charges in Budapest following the arrival of the Soviet army. His subsequent fate remains a mystery despite hundreds of purported sightings in Soviet prisons, some as recent as the 1980s. In 2001, after 10 years of research, a Swedish-Russian panel concluded that Wallenberg probably died or was executed in Soviet custody on July 17, 1947, but to date no hard evidence has been found to confirm this.<ref>[http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/scandinavia/01/12/wallenberg.finding/index.html Wallenberg fate shrouded in mystery] ''CNN'' 2001-01-12.</ref> In fact, in 2010 evidence from Russian archives surfaced suggesting he was alive after the presumed execution date.<ref>{{cite news |author=Arthur Max and Karl Ritter |title=New evidence on WWII mystery of Raoul Wallenberg |url=http://www.salon.com/wires/allwires/2010/04/01/D9EQBH1O0_eu_sweden_wallenberg_mystery/ |work=[[Salon (magazine)|Salon]] |date=April 1, 2010 |accessdate=May 29, 2010}}</ref>
*1945 – [[Constanze Manziarly]] (25), cook and dietitian to [[Adolf Hitler]], disappeared while escaping [[Berlin]] following the [[Battle of Berlin|Soviet invasion]] and fall of [[Nazi Germany]]. She was believed to have been raped and killed by [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] soldiers in an [[Berlin U-Bahn|U-Bahn subway]] tunnel.<ref>{{cite book|last=Junge|first=Traudl|title=Until the Final Hour, Hitler's Last Secretary|year=2004|page= 219|isbn=1-55970-728-3|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ie1FsnzQkfUC&pg=PA219&dq=Constanze+Manziarly+just+want+to+see+my+papers}}</ref>
*1945 - [[Alfred Partikel]], German painter of [[East Prussia]]n origin, vanished while picking mushrooms in the woods near [[Ahrenshoop]], [[Darß]]. His remains have never been found.
*1945 – [[Subhas Chandra Bose]] (48), one of the most prominent leaders of the [[Indian Independence Movement]], disappeared after a plane crash in [[Taiwan]]. His body was never recovered and [[Death of Subhas Chandra Bose|his death]] has long been the subject of dispute.
*1945 – [[Flight 19]]: Five [[United States Navy|U.S. Navy]] [[Grumman TBF Avenger|TBM Avenger]] [[torpedo bombers]] disappeared on 5&nbsp;December while on a training flight in the area known as the [[Bermuda Triangle]]. During the subsequent search, a [[Martin PBM Mariner|PBM-5 Mariner]] [[flying boat]] participating in the search disappeared, apparently the result of a mid-air explosion. No remains of the six planes and 21 crewmen involved have ever been positively identified.
*1945 – [[Supriyadi]] (22) was an Indonesian national hero. On 6 October 1945, in a government decree issued by the newly independent [[Indonesia]], Supriyadi was named Minister for Public Security in the first cabinet. However, he failed to appear and was replaced on 20 October by ad interim minister Muhammad Soeljoadikusuma. To this day his fate remains unknown.<ref name="SUDARMANTO2312">Sudarmanto (1996), pp. 231-232.</ref><ref name="SIMANJUNTAK18">Simanjuntak (2003), p. 18.</ref>
*1945 – [[Genrikh Lyushkov]] (45), high-level [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] defector and former [[Russian Far East|Far East]] [[NKVD]] chief. A participant in the [[Great Purge]], he fled to avoid what he believed would be arrest and execution into the [[Japan]]ese [[puppet state]] of [[Manchukuo]]. After his defection, he became a military consultant and analyst for the [[Imperial Japanese Army]]. He disappeared during the [[Soviet invasion of Manchuria]] and was reported as being last seen in a crowded train station in Dairen ([[Dalian]]). Several theories exist about his fate, but he is presumed to have died in 1945, killed either by Soviet or Japanese forces.<ref>{{cite journal| last = Coox | first = Alvin D. | year = 1968 | month = January | title = L'Affaire Lyushkov: Anatomy of a Defector | journal = [[Soviet Studies]] | volume = 19 | issue = 3 | pages = 405&ndash;420 | publisher = [[Taylor & Francis]] | issn = 00385859 | jstor = 149953| doi = 10.1080/09668136808410603 }}</ref>
*1946 – [[Paula Jean Welden]] (18), [[Bennington College]] [[sophomore]], disappeared while walking on the [[Long Trail]] near [[Glastenbury Mountain]], [[Vermont]], USA.<ref>[http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/w/welden_paula.html The Charley Project: Paula Jean Welden] 2007-09-18.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1784dfvt.html |title=Paula Jean Welden |publisher=The Doe Network |date=1946-12-01 |accessdate=2012-02-11}}</ref>
*1948 – [[Arthur Coningham (RAF officer)|Sir Arthur Coningham]] (53), retired [[Royal Air Force|RAF]] [[Air Marshal]], disappeared when [[Avro Tudor|Avro Tudor IV]] [[G-AHNP "Star Tiger"|G-AHNP ''Star Tiger'']] went missing over the western Atlantic.<ref>[http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Coningham.htm Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham] rafweb.org.</ref> He was one of 25&nbsp;passengers, together with six crewmen, who were lost when the flight from [[Santa Maria Airport (Azores)|Santa Maria Airport]] in the [[Azores]] failed to reach its destination of [[Kindley Air Force Base|Kindley Field]], [[Bermuda]].<ref>[http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19480130-0 Avro 688 Tudor 1 G-AHNP western Atlantic Ocean] ''Aviation Safety Network'' 2004-03-13.</ref> ''Star Tiger'''s sister aircraft [[G-AGRE "Star Ariel"|G-AGRE ''Star Ariel'']] also disappeared over the western Atlantic, with the loss of all seven crewmen and 13 passengers, while flying from Bermuda to [[Norman Manley International Airport|Kingston Airport]], [[Jamaica]], the following year.<ref>[http://1000aircraftphotos.com/Contributions/Coates/1422.htm Avro 688 Tudor Mk.1 (G-AGRE c/n 1253)] 1000aircraftphotos.com.</ref>
*1949 – [[Jean Spangler]] (26), American dancer, model and bit-part actress, disappeared in October 1949 from [[Los Angeles, California]]. Last seen by her sister-in-law before going to meet her ex-husband. Two days later her purse was found near the entrance gate to [[Griffith Park]] in Los Angeles.

==1950s==
*1950 – [[Richard Colvin Cox]] (20), second-year military cadet, disappeared from the [[United States Military Academy]] at [[West Point, New York]].
*1953 – [[First Lieutenant]] [[Felix Moncla]] (27), pilot, and [[Second Lieutenant]] Robert Wilson (22), radar operator, disappeared when their [[United States Air Force]] [[F-89 Scorpion]] was scrambled from [[Kincheloe Air Force Base]] and subsequently went missing over [[Lake Superior]] while intercepting an unknown aircraft in [[Canadian airspace]] close to the [[Canada–United States border]]. The USAF identified the second aircraft as [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] [[C-47 Skytrain|C-47 Dakota]] VC-912, crossing Northern Lake Superior from west to east at 7,000 feet en route from [[Winnipeg]] to [[Greater Sudbury|Sudbury]], [[Canada]].<ref>[http://www.ufobc.ca/kinross/accReportDocs/accRep_Form14.htm Form 14 – Informal Report] ''UFO*BC'' Gord Heath.</ref> Some [[ufologists]] have associated the disappearance with alleged "[[flying saucer]]" activity and refer to it as the "Kinross Incident".<ref>[http://www.check-six.com/lib/Famous_Missing/Kinross_F-89.htm Kinross F-89] ''Check-Six.com''.</ref>
*1955 – The crew and passengers of the 69-foot merchant vessel ''[[MV Joyita|Joyita]]'', which disappeared in the South Pacific; the ''Joyita'' was found five weeks later, partially submerged and listing heavily, with no one on board.
*1955 – [[Weldon Kees]] (41), U.S. poet, disappeared without leaving a note but had talked about packing up and moving to Mexico. His Plymouth Savoy was found on the north side of the [[Golden Gate Bridge]] with the keys in the ignition.
*1956 – Three [[United States Air Force|USAF]] airmen, commander Captain Robert H. Hodgin (31), observer Captain Gordon M. Insley (32), and pilot 2nd Lt. Ronald L. Kurtz (22), disappeared when their [[1956 B-47 disappearance|B-47 Stratojet was lost]] after failing to make contact with an [[aerial refueling]] tanker at 14,000&nbsp;ft over the Mediterranean.<ref>[http://www.dod.mil/pubs/foi/reading_room/635.pdf DoD narrative summaries of accidents involving U.S. nuclear weapons 1950–1980]{{dead link|date=February 2012}}</ref>
*1956 – [[Lionel Crabb|Lionel "Buster" Crabb]] (46), retired British [[Royal Navy]] [[frogman]], disappeared during an [[MI6]] mission to spy on the Soviet [[Sverdlov class cruiser|''Sverdlov'' class cruiser]] ''Ordzhonikidze'' in [[Portsmouth Harbour]]. The coroner concluded that a body (missing its head and hands) in a frogman suit found floating in [[Chichester Harbour]] the following year was Crabb's, but no positive identification was ever made nor cause of death determined.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/9/newsid_4741000/4741060.stm 1956: Mystery of missing frogman deepens] ''BBC "On This Day"''.</ref>
*1956 – [[Gunnel Gummeson]] (26), Swedish teacher, disappeared with her American boyfriend, Peter Winant, travelling in [[Afghanistan]].
*1957 – [[Moira McCall Anderson]] (11) disappeared while on an errand for her [[grandmother]] in [[Coatbridge]], [[Lanarkshire]], Scotland. The [[Moira Anderson Foundation]] was established in memory of her.
*1959 – [[Camilo Cienfuegos]] (27), [[Cuba]]n revolutionary, disappeared when his [[Cessna 310]] went missing over the ocean during a night flight from [[Camagüey]] to [[Havana]].

==1960s==
*1961 – [[Michael Rockefeller]], son of [[Nelson Rockefeller]], disappeared during an expedition in the [[Asmat people|Asmat]] region of southwestern [[New Guinea]].
*1961 - [[David Kenyon Webster]] (39), a journalist for the ''[[Los Angeles Daily News]],'' and'' [[The Saturday Evening Post]], '' and a World War II veteran with "Easy" Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (made famous in the book, and miniseries ''Band of Brothers''), went out on a boat near the coast of Santa Monica and disappeared; he is presumed drowned, though no body was ever recovered.
*1962 – [[Frank Morris (prisoner)|Frank Morris]] (35) and brothers [[Clarence Anglin]] (31) and [[John Anglin]] (32) escaped from [[Alcatraz|Alcatraz prison]] in the U.S. state of [[California]] and disappeared. Authorities presumed that they drowned but no bodies were ever found.
*1964 – [[Charles Clifford Ogle]] (41) took off from [[Oakland International Airport]], [[California]], in his [[Cessna 210]], a single-engine aircraft, and was never seen again.{{Citation needed|date=July 2009}}
*1965 – [[Mehdi Ben Barka]] (45), a [[Moroccan politician]], disappeared while in exile in Paris.
*1966 – [[Beaumont children disappearance|The Beaumont children]], Jane Nartare (9), Arnna Kathleen (7), and Grant Ellis (4), were three siblings who disappeared from a beach near [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]].
*1967 – [[Jim Thompson (designer)|Jim Thompson]] (61), former U.S. [[military intelligence]] officer who once worked for the [[Office of Strategic Services]] (and later known as the "Thai Silk King" for his revival of the [[Thai silk]] industry), failed to return from an afternoon walk in the [[Cameron Highlands]] in [[Pahang]], [[Malaysia]], quickly prompting a massive manhunt. Many have since investigated his disappearance and attempted to explain it, but no trace of him has ever been found.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6484761.stm Mystery of missing Thai Silk King] ''BBC News'' 2006-12-13, Jonathan Kent.</ref>
*1967 – [[James P. Brady]] (59), Canadian [[Métis people (Canada)|Metis]] leader, and a [[Cree]] friend, Abraham Halkett (40), disappeared while on a prospecting trip in northern [[Saskatchewan]]. An extensive land, air, and water search located their camp but failed to find any trace of either man.<ref>[http://www.sacp.ca/missing/details.php?id=13 James BRADY] Saskatoon RCMP Historical Case Unit.</ref>
*1967 – [[Harold Holt]] (59), then [[Prime Minister of Australia]], disappeared while swimming in heavy surf at a beach notorious for strong and dangerous [[rip currents]]. Despite one of the largest [[search-and-rescue]] operations ever mounted in Australia, his body was never found.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/history/Transcripts/s951005.htm Harold Holt] ''ABC, George Negus Tonight'' 2003-09-22.</ref><ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2005/09/02/1451549.htm Coroner rules Holt conspiracy theories 'fanciful'] ''ABC News'' 2005-09-02.</ref>
*1969 – [[April Fabb]] (13) went missing in mysterious circumstances from Metton, [[Norfolk]], [[United Kingdom]].

==1970s==

===1970===
*[[Sean Flynn (film actor)|Sean Flynn]] (28), son of [[Errol Flynn]] and [[Lili Damita]], and [[Dana Stone]] (32), American [[Photojournalism|photojournalists]] on assignment for ''[[Time (magazine)|Time Magazine]]'' and [[CBS]] News, respectively, were captured by Communist guerrillas while travelling by motorcycle in [[Cambodia]], April 6.
*[[Disappearance of Robin Graham|Robin Graham]] (18), ran out of gas on the [[Hollywood Freeway]]. She was last seen by [[California Highway Patrol]] (CHP) officers, who directed her to a [[callbox]] and later saw her speaking with a man beside her car. The circumstances of her disappearance resulted in CHP policies being changed to ensure the safety of stranded female motorists.<ref>[http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/g/graham_robin.html The Charley Project: Robin Ann Graham] 2005-02-05.</ref>
* [[Jacques Vergès]], a French-Vietnamese lawyer, who left his wife [[Djamila Bouhired]] and cut off all ties.   He was [[Jacques Vergès#Missing years|last seen]] on 24 February 1970, until he reappeared in 1978, without ever explaining his whereabouts during that period.

===1971===
*[[D. B. Cooper]], [[Aircraft hijacking|skyjacker]], collected a ransom of US$200,000 and then parachuted from the rear stairs of a [[Boeing 727]] at a height of {{convert|10000|ft}} over the [[Pacific Northwest]] region of the United States, somewhere between [[Seattle]] and [[Portland, Oregon]], November 24.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fbi.gov/page2/dec07/dbcooper123107.html|title=D.B. COOPER REDUX – Help Us Solve the Enduring Mystery|publisher=FBI|date=2007-12-31|accessdate=8 February 2010}}</ref>

===1972===
*[[Hale Boggs]] (58), US House Majority Leader (D-LA), and [[Nick Begich]] (40), U.S. Representative from Alaska, disappeared with their [[Cessna 310]] in [[Alaska]], along with Begich's aide Russell Brown and pilot Don Jonz, presumably on October 16.
*[[Zahir Raihan]] (36), Bangladeshi filmmaker, went looking for his brother [[Shahidullah Kaiser]] and never returned.

===1973===
*[[Anna Christian Waters]] (5), disappeared from her backyard.
*[[Beaumont children disappearance#Possibly related cases|Joanne Ratcliffe]] (11) and [[Beaumont children disappearance#Possibly related cases|Kirsty Gordon]] (4) attended a football match at [[Adelaide Oval]] in [[South Australia]], and then disappeared.

===1974===
*[[Oscar Zeta Acosta]] (39), American [[Lawyer|attorney]] and [[Chicano]] [[activist]], famously portrayed as "Dr. Gonzo" in [[Hunter S. Thompson]]'s book, ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]''.
*[[Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan]] (39), the last person indicted for murder by a [[Inquest|coroner's jury]]. His whereabouts have been unknown since the night his children's nanny, Sandra Rivett, was beaten to death with a lead pipe in the basement of his estranged wife's home. He was [[Death in absentia|officially declared dead]] in 1999.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/19/newsid_2516000/2516103.stm 1975: Missing earl guilty of murder] ''BBC "On This Day"''.</ref>

===1975===
*[[Bas Jan Ader]] (33), Dutch artist, disappeared while attempting to sail a {{convert|13|ft|0|abbr=on}} [[pocket cruiser]] across the Atlantic.
*[[Mona Blades case|Mona Blades]] (18), New Zealander, disappeared while hitchhiking in the [[North Island]]. Believed murdered, but no remains have ever been discovered.
*[[Jimmy Hoffa#Disappearance|Jimmy Hoffa]] (62), U.S. trade union leader, president of the [[Teamsters|International Brotherhood of Teamsters]], disappeared in the parking lot of a restaurant, where it is believed he was to meet with two Mafia leaders—[[Anthony Giacalone]] and [[Anthony Provenzano]].<ref>{{Cite news| url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,917718-3,00.html | work=Time | title=INVESTIGATIONS: Hoffa Search: 'Looks Bad Right Now' | date=August 18, 1975 | accessdate=May 6, 2010}}</ref>
*[[Lyon sisters|The Lyon sisters]], Katherine Mary (10) and Sheila Mary (12), disappeared while walking home after visiting a nearby mall in the suburbs of [[Washington, D.C.]]
*[[Juanita Nielsen]] (38), Australian publisher and anti-development campaigner, disappeared from [[Kings Cross, New South Wales|Kings Cross]], Sydney.

===1976===
*[[Eloise Worledge disappearance|Eloise Worledge]] (8) disappeared from her home in [[Beaumaris, Victoria]], Australia, thought to have been [[Child abduction|abducted]] from her bedroom.<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/07/1057430137175.html Still a mystery after 27 years] ''The Age'' 2003-07-08, Selma Milovanovic.</ref>
*[[Renee MacRae]] (36) and son Andrew (3) were last seen in [[Inverness]], Scotland.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6177537.stm No prosecution over missing Renee] ''BBC News'' 2006-12-13.</ref>

===1977===
*[[Donald Mackay (anti-drugs campaigner)|Donald Mackay]] (43), Australian anti-drugs campaigner, was possibly murdered after providing information to police which resulted in what was then the biggest drugs bust in Australian history.<ref>[http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/PARLMENT/hansArt.nsf/V3Key/LC19980630046 Assassination Of Mr Donald Mackay] NSW Parliament, Hansard & Papers, Legislative Council 1998-06-30.</ref><ref>[http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A150274b.htm Mackay, Donald Bruce (1933–1977)] ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'' Australian National University.</ref>

===1978===
*[[John Brisker]] (31), former [[American Basketball Association]] and [[National Basketball Association]] player, disappeared after flying to [[Uganda]]. He was declared legally dead in 1985.
*[[Valentich Disappearance|Frederick Valentich]] (21) disappeared during a solo flight over the [[Bass Strait]] in Australia, after reporting to an air traffic controller that his plane was being circled by an unknown craft.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/10/06/2383131.htm|title=Frederick Valentich vanishes|publisher=''Australian Broadcasting Corporation''|date=2008-10-06|accessdate=8 February 2010}}</ref>
*[[Genette Tate]] (13) disappeared while delivering newspapers in [[Aylesbeare]], Devon, England.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3164793.stm Officers remember Genette mystery] ''BBC News'' 2003-08-19, Robin Forestier-Walker.</ref>
*[[Musa al-Sadr]] (49) and two aides, Mohammed Yaaqoub and Abbas Badreddine, disappeared six days after entering [[Libya]] on an official visit from [[Lebanon]] at the invitation of Libyan leader [[Muammar Gaddafi]].<ref>[http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=372294 Libya is responsible for Musa Sadr’s disappearance] ''Mehr News Agency'' 2006-08-27.</ref><ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7584557.stm Gaddafi charged for cleric kidnap] ''BBC News'' 2008-08-27.</ref>
*[[Peter Winston]] (19), American chess player, disappeared in New York City.
*[[Eddie Aikau]] (31), an Hawaiian life guard and surfer. After the crash of the ''[[Hokule'a]]'', Eddie paddled out to get help from the nearest island, [[Lanai, Hawaii|Lanai]], and was never seen again. The people aboard the ''Hokule'a'' were saved by air.

===1979===
*[[Etan Patz]] (6), disappeared while on his way to school in lower [[Manhattan]]. He is considered legally dead as of 2001. He was the first missing child featured on a milk carton.<ref>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9506E2DB1E3DF936A35756C0A9629C8B63 Judge Rules That a Convicted Molester, Now in Prison, Is Responsible for Etan Patz's Death] ''New York Times'' 2004-05-05, Susan Saulny.</ref> In May 2012 authorities re-opened the case.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/26/authorities-reopening-etan-patz-case/ | title=Authorities reopening Etan Patz case | work=CNN | date=2010-05-26}}</ref> Pedro Hernandez, 51, was charged with second-degree murder in the 1979 death of Etan Patz, based largely on a signed confession he gave after he spoke voluntarily to detectives for hours, according to police. However, Patz's body, which Hernandez said he put in the trash, has not been recovered.

*[[Ian Mackintosh]], creator and writer of [[The Sandbaggers]] British television series, was flying with two others over the Gulf of Alaska in a light aircraft in July 1979. The plane sent out a distress signal, which was picked up by the United States Coast Guard. The plane's last-known position was searched, but no wreckage of the plane was ever found, and its passengers have not been heard from since.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.opsroom.org/pages/intelligence/ian-2.html |title=Sandbaggers - My Brother Ian Mackintosh 2 |publisher=Opsroom.org |date= |accessdate=2013-05-22}}</ref>

*[[Disappearance of Martin Allen|Martin Allen]], 15 year old British boy disappeared while travelling home on the [[London Underground]]. Despite a large scale police operation at the time of his disappearance and a renewed appeal in 2009, no trace of Martin was ever found and his fate remains unknown.

==1980s==

===1980===
* [[Disappearance of Royal Marine Alan Addis|Alan Addis]] was a British soldier serving with the [[Royal Marines]] in the [[Falkland Islands]]. He disappeared without trace in August 1980 in a remote settlement on [[East Falkland]].

*[[Donald Eugene Webb]] American career criminal and fugitive wanted for attempted burglary and the murder of police chief Gregory Adams in the small community of Saxonburg, Pennsylvania on December 4, 1980. Webb is presumed to be deceased, If still alive today he will be 81 years old.

*[[Azaria Chamberlain disappearance|Azaria Chamberlain]], nine-week-old Australian baby girl. Her remains have never been found. Azaria's mother Lindy Chamberlain insisted that a [[dingo]] took her baby from her camping tent near [[Uluru]]. In a trial sensationalized by the media, Lindy was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life. Her sentence was overturned six years later when Azaria's jacket was found in a dingo lair. Azaria's disappearance was the subject of four inquests, the last of which, in 2012, concurred that a dingo had taken and killed her.<ref>''[http://www.smh.com.au/national/dingo-took-azaria-chamberlain-coroner-finds-20120612-206wt.html "Dingo took Azaria Chamberlain, coroner finds"], ''Sydney Morning Herald'',{{#time: j"&nbsp;"F Y|12 June 2012}} (Retrieved {{#time: j"&nbsp;"F Y|12 June 2012}})</ref> Azaria's disappearance and the subsequent police investigation were the basis for the 1988 motion picture ''[[Evil Angels (film)|Evil Angels]]'' (released as ''A Cry in the Dark'' outside of Australia and New Zealand<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094924/releaseinfo#akas|title=A Cry in the Dark (1988) - Release dates |publisher= IMDb.com|accessdate=2012-06-14}}</ref>).
*[[Louise and Charmian Faulkner disappearance|Louise and Charmian Faulkner]], mother (43) and daughter (2), disappeared from outside their home in [[St Kilda, Victoria|St Kilda]], [[Melbourne]], Australia.

===1982===
*[[Johnny Gosch]] (12) was reported missing to [[West Des Moines, Iowa|West Des Moines]] Police Department<ref>[http://www.iowaonline.state.ia.us/mpic/Controller.aspx?cmd=personDetailCommand&id=230 John D Gosch] Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, Iowa Department of Public Safety, State of Iowa.</ref> by his parents after he disappeared while delivering newspapers. At that time, there was a customary three-day waiting period before police responded to missing persons reports. Gosch was never heard from again, but his case prompted new laws for Iowa and other states, resulting in missing persons reports involving children being given immediate attention.<ref>[http://investigation.discovery.com/investigation/crime-countdowns/missing-children/missing-children-08.html Johnny Gosch, Missing Since 1982] ''ID : Investigation Discovery''.</ref>

===1983===
*[[Emanuela Orlandi]] (15), citizen of [[Vatican City]]. Her mysterious disappearance has been linked both to sexual exploitation as well as an attempt to demand the release of [[Mehmet Ali Agca]] from prison.
*[[Mirella Gregori]] (15) mysteriously disappeared from Rome during the Spring of 1983, about 40 days before [[Emanuela Orlandi]] vanished. The two cases are believed to be linked.
*[[Kirsa Jensen case|Kirsa Jensen]] (14) disappeared while riding her horse to a beach near [[Napier, New Zealand]].
*[[Tammy Lynn Leppert]] (18) a model and actress who disappeared without a trace after leaving her [[Rockledge, Florida]], family home.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/l/leppert_tammy.html |title=Tammy Lynn Leppert |publisher=The Charley Project |date= |accessdate=2012-02-11}}</ref>
*[[Víctor Manuel Gerena]] (35), is an American fugitive wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the armed robbery, in connection with the Los Macheteros group, of a Wells Fargo armored car facility.

===1984===
*[[Kevin Andrew Collins]] (10) disappeared while returning home alone from basketball practice at his school in the Haight district of San Francisco. His was one of the first of the "Have you seen me?" milk carton photos.
*[[Edward L. Montoro]] (52) motion picture producer/distributor, disappeared after taking more than $1 million from his own company, [[Film Ventures International]]. It was speculated that he fled to Mexico, but his whereabouts to this day have been undetermined.

===1985===
*[[Boris Weisfeiler]] (43), U.S. mathematician, disappeared in the [[Biobío Region]] of [[Chile]] during a solo [[hiking]] trip.<ref>[http://foia.state.gov/documents/StateChile3/00006BF8.pdf case of Boris Weisfeiler] U.S. Department of State – Freedom of Information Act.</ref> Chilean authorities originally concluded that he drowned, but documents released by the [[United States Department of State]] in 2000 included a 1986 memo suggesting he may be a captive "somewhere in Chile (probably [[Colonia Dignidad]])", and a 1987 account by a [[CIA]] source claiming that Weisfeiler had been interrogated and fatally beaten by a Chilean army patrol.<ref>[http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/55806770.html?FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Jul+1%2C+2000&author=Vernon+Loeb%3BGeorge+Lardner+Jr.&desc=Documents+Released+On+Chilean+Slayings%3B+Informant+Discussed+American%27s+%2773+Death Documents Released On Chilean Slayings; Informant Discussed American's '73 Death (preview)] [http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/chile/horman.htm (full text)] ''The Washington Post'' 2000-07-01, [[Vernon Loeb]] & George Lardner Jr.</ref>
*[[Vladimir Alexandrov]], Russian [[physicist]], disappeared while attending a [[nuclear winter]] conference in [[Madrid]].<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,960025,00.html Another Return From the Cold] ''TIME'' 1985-10-07, Jacob V. Lamar Jr., David Aikman, Erik Amfitheatrof.</ref>
*[[Christopher Dale Flannery]], a famous figure of the Australian underworld and an alleged hitman who was responsible for numerous murders, exited his apartment in May 1985 to meet with his employer and was never seen again.

===1986===
*[[Suzy Lamplugh]] (25), British [[estate agent]], disappeared from [[Fulham]], west [[London]]. In 1994 she was declared dead, presumed murdered. Despite further police investigations in 1998 and 2000, no trace of her has ever been found.
*[[Philip Cairns]] (13), Irish schoolboy, disappeared in October 1986 on his way back to school after going home for lunch. His schoolbag was found abandoned in a previously searched lane near his house a few days later, but there has been no trace of Philip, and no arrests have ever been made in connection with the case.

===1987===
*[[Federico Caffè]] (73), Italian economist, suddenly disappeared on the dawn of April 15, shortly after quitting university teaching.  He was declared dead on October 30, 1998.  The mystery of his disappearance has not been solved.

===1988===
*[[Ron Arad (pilot)|Ron Arad]] (30), Israeli jet-fighter navigator, was under Israeli intelligence sight from October 16, 1986 (the day he was captured by Amal Shiite forces in southern Lebanon), and until the early hours of May 4, 1988 (coincidentally his 30th birthday), when he abruptly vanished from the house he was held in, at the village of Nebbi Shiit. Several speculations regarding his fate and whereabouts have been made since, involving both Iran and Syria, but no hard piece of evidence to support these claims has been found to date.

*[[Disappearance of Lee Boxell|Lee Boxell]] (15), disappeared near his home in Cheam, Surrey on 10 September 1988. He was on his way to a football match at Selhurst Park and has not been seen since.

*[[Tara Calico]] (19), disappeared near her home in Belen, New Mexico on September 20, 1988. A Polaroid photo of a boy and girl, bound and gagged, surfaced on June 15, 1989. The girl has been identified by some as Tara Calico.

*[[Michaela Garecht]] (9), Abducted by an unidentified white male at a grocery store in Hayward, California on November 19, 1988.

===1989===
* [[Jacob Wetterling]] (11) was abducted by a masked gunman while cycling home in the dark with his brother Trevor (10) and friend Aaron (11) after going to rent a video from a convenience store a 10-minute ride away from his home in [[St. Joseph, Minnesota]].<ref>[http://www.courttv.com/news/hiddentraces/wetterling/wetterling_page1.html The search for Jacob] ''Court TV'' Steve Irsay.</ref>

==1990s==

===1990===
* [[Sarah MacDiarmid]] (23) disappeared from [[Kananook railway station]], Melbourne, Australia.

===1991===
* [[Disappearance of Ben Needham|Ben Needham]], a 21-month-old boy, disappeared from the island of Kos in Greece on July 24. He has never been found. It was believed Ben was abducted, and several suspects in [[Kos]] and [[Veria]] were suggested as being responsible, but no one was ever charged with abduction.
* [[Michael Dunahee]] (4) disappeared from a school playground in [[Victoria, British Columbia]], Canada. His parents were nearby, but no witnesses to his presumed abduction have ever been identified, and there have been no subsequent confirmed sightings of him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/148dmbc.html |title=Michael Wayne Dunahee |publisher=The Doe Network |date= |accessdate=2012-02-11}}</ref>

===1992===
* [[The Springfield Three]]—Sherrill Levitt (47), her daughter Suzie Streeter (19), and Suzie's friend Stacy McCall (18)—disappeared from Levitt's home in [[Springfield, Missouri]], after Suzie and Stacy had just graduated from Kickapoo High School earlier that day. Suzie and Stacy had arrived at Levitt's home at around 2:00 am after a graduation party.  It is  being investigated as an apparent triple disappearance.<ref>[http://springfield.news-leader.com/specialreports/threemissingwomen/day1.html Three missing women – an overview of the decade-old case] ''The Springfield News-Leader'' 2002-06-03, Laura Bauer.</ref>

===1994===
* [[Michael Anthony Hughes]] (6) was kidnapped from his school in [[Choctaw, Oklahoma]], by Franklin Delano Floyd, who claimed that Hughes was his son.<ref name="doenetwork.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/1061dmok.html |title=Case File 1061DMOK |publisher=The Doe Network |date= |accessdate=2012-02-11}}</ref> Authorities have received conflicting reports from Floyd as to whether Hughes was murdered or is still alive and safe in the custody of an undisclosed caregiver.<ref name="doenetwork.org"/>
* [[Ylenia Carrisi]] (23), Italian [[TV]] celebrity and daughter of singers [[Albano Carrisi]] and [[Romina Power]], disappeared during a vacation in [[New Orleans]].

===1995===
*[[Kiplyn Davis]] (15), was a high school student who was reported missing on May 2, 1995 in Spanish Fork, Utah. She is a featured child on the Polly Klaas Foundation.
*[[Morgan Nick]] (6), was at a little league baseball game with her mother in [[Alma, Arkansas]], when she was believed to have been abducted by a man she was seen with earlier. Her mother started the "Morgan Nick Foundation" for missing children. However, she has yet to be found.
*[[Jodi Huisentruit]] (27), [[KIMT]] news anchor, was abducted from outside her apartment while on her way to work in [[Mason City, Iowa]]. She was declared legally dead in 2001.<ref>[http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2001/05/15/local/export16005.txt Court declares Jodi Huisentruit legally dead] ''Globe Gazette'' 2001-05-15, Bob Link.</ref>
*[[Richey Edwards]] (27), member of Welsh [[rock music|rock]] band the [[Manic Street Preachers]], had a history of [[self-injury]] and received treatment for [[alcoholism]], [[anorexia nervosa]] and [[Major depressive disorder|depression]] in the years leading up to his disappearance. His car was found abandoned at the [[Severn View services|Aust service area]] adjacent to the [[Severn Bridge]], a location notorious for suicides.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4210451.stm Ten-year tragedy of missing Manic] ''BBC News'' 2005-02-01.</ref> He was declared [[Death in absentia|presumed dead]] in November 2008.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7745273.stm Missing guitarist 'presumed dead'] ''BBC News'' 2008-11-24.</ref>

===1996===
*[[Kristin Smart]] (19), student at [[California Polytechnic State University]], disappeared after leaving a party. As a result of her disappearance, Cal Poly received criticism for not treating Smart's disappearance as a potential crime, and possibly pertinent evidence was destroyed when the university allowed student's rooms to be cleaned between the time of Smart's disappearance and the police investigations.
*[[Claremont serial murders|Sarah Spiers]] (18) disappeared after leaving a nightclub in [[Claremont, Western Australia]] in January 1996.  Her body has never been found.  Almost six months later, Jane Rimmer, 23, disappeared from the same part of Claremont.  Her remains were found in a southern Perth suburb in August 1996.  A third victim, Ciara Glennon (27), also disappeared from Claremont in March 1997, with her remains being found three weeks later in a northern Perth suburb.  The cases became known as the [[Claremont serial murders]].

===1997===
*[[Angelo Cruz]] (39), New York-born Puerto Rican basketball player.
*[[Grant Hadwin]] (48), an anti-logging activist, went missing while traveling by kayak across the [[Hecate Strait]] to [[Graham Island]] in Canada.<ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/news/canada/galapagos-of-the-north/2008/04/10/1207420567833.html Galapagos of the North] ''Sydney Morning Herald'' 2008-04-13, Sam Vincent.</ref>
*[[Kristen Modafferi]] (18) was last seen at the Crocker Galleria Mall coffee shop where she worked in [[San Francisco]]. She was living in [[Oakland, California]], while attending summer school at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], following the completion of her freshman year of college in [[Raleigh, North Carolina]].<ref>[http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/kidnap/modafferi_k.htm Kristen Modafferi] Federal Bureau of Investigation – Kidnappings and Missing Persons Investigations.</ref>

===1998===
*[[Amy Lynn Bradley]] (23), American passenger on the [[Royal Caribbean International]] cruise ship [[MS Rhapsody of the Seas|''Rhapsody of the Seas'']], disappeared while the ship was docking in [[Curaçao]], [[Antilles]].<ref name=visitaruba>[http://www.visitaruba.com/facts/newsdesk/missing.html Aruba's Missing Persons Information] ''VisitAruba.com''.</ref>
*[[Florinda Donner]] (54) and [[Taisha Abelar]], along with several other female followers of [[Carlos Castaneda]], disappeared shortly after his death. The remains of one, [[Patricia Partin]] (40), were found in 2003; the whereabouts of the others are unknown.<ref>[http://www.pahrumpvalleytimes.com/2006/02/10/news/remains.html Remains of guru's disciple identified] ''Pahrump Valley Times'' 2006-02-10, Robin Flinchum.</ref>

==2000s==

===2000===
*[[Bruno Manser]] (45), Swiss-born activist who fervently campaigned for the preservation of rainforests in [[Sarawak]], was last seen in May 2000 in the isolated village of Bareo in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, close to the border with Indonesia. He was declared [[Death in absentia|legally dead]] in March 2005.
*[[Trevor Deely]] (22) was last seen when filmed by a [[Closed-circuit television|CCTV]] camera near the Baggot Street bridge in [[Dublin]] city centre as he walked home to his apartment in Serpentine Avenue, Sandymount, on a stormy night during a taxi strike. Despite an extensive poster campaign and police searches from the air, with dogs, with divers, and by [[dredging]], his fate remains unknown.<ref>[http://www.herald.ie/national-news/eight-years-on-trevor-deelys-family-refuse--to-give-up-hope-of-finding-their-son-alive-1565908.html Eight years on, Trevor Deely's family refuse to give up hope of finding their son alive] ''Evening Herald'' 2008-12-06, Michael Lavery.</ref>
*[[Rilya Wilson]] (4) was a foster child of the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) who was last seen in 2000. As she wasn't discovered missing until 2002, she became the centerpoint of an investigation into neglect and mismanagement in the organization.

===2001===
* [[Jason Jolkowski]] (19), resident of [[Omaha, Nebraska]], disappeared on June 13. His parents subsequently founded Project Jason, a nonprofit organization that assists families of missing persons.

===2002===
* [[Bison Dele]] (33, born Brian Carson Williams), a former [[National Basketball Association|NBA]] player; his girlfriend Serena Karlan (30); and French skipper Bertrand Saldo (32) were last heard from on 6 July when they left the [[French Polynesia]]n island of [[Moorea]] aboard Dele's {{convert|55|ft|abbr=on}} [[catamaran]], ''Hakuna Matata'', bound for [[Honolulu]] via the [[Marquesas Islands]].
*[[Evelyn Hernandez| Alexis Geraldo Hernandez]] (5), disappeared with his heavily pregnant mother Evelyn, on May 1st, 2002. On July 24, 2002, Evelyn Hernandez's torso was found floating in San Francisco Bay, near the Embarcadero and Folsom Street. Her full-term unborn child and her son Alexis have not been found. Alexis' disappearance and Evelyn's murder have never been solved.

===2003===
* [[Ben Charles Padilla]] (50), licensed aircraft mechanic, flight engineer, and pilot of small airplanes, was on board [[Boeing 727]]-223 designation [[N844AA]] when it was stolen from [[Quatro de Fevereiro Airport|Luanda]], [[Angola]], on 25 May and has not been heard from since.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20070427001107/http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/seekinfo/padilla.htm FBI Seeking Information – Ben Charles Padilla] web.archive.org / www.fbi.gov</ref>
* [[Disappearance of Fryderyk Frontier|Fryderyk Frontier]] (28) disappeared near [[Taroko National Park|Taroko Gorge]] in Taiwan some time between May 22 and May 26, 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2003/09/21/2003068734 |title='Lost Frontier', Taipei Times 2003-09-21 |publisher=Taipeitimes.com |date=2012-02-05 |accessdate=2012-02-11}}</ref>

===2004===
*[[Maura Murray]] (21) from [[Hanson, Massachusetts]], a nursing student at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]], was last seen at the scene of a minor one-vehicle accident in which her car was immobilised after having crashed into a roadside snowbank on [[New Hampshire Route 112]]. Earlier on the day of her disappearance, she had lied to professors about a death in her family, saying she would be absent from class for a week.<ref>[http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/02/14/hanson_woman_21_missing_after_crash/ Hanson woman, 21, missing after crash] ''The Boston Globe'' 2004-02-14, Associated Press.</ref><ref>[http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/03/02/investigator_joins_search_for_woman/ Investigator joins search for woman] ''The Boston Globe'' 2004-03-02, Associated Press.</ref>
*[[Somchai Neelapaijit]] (52), Thai Muslim lawyer and human rights activist representing [[South Thailand insurgency]] terrorism suspects, was last seen in [[Bangkok]]. Possibly a case of [[forced disappearance]].<ref>[http://www.readbangkokpost.com/articles/somchai.php The case of the missing human rights lawyer] ''Bangkok Post'' "selected news stories from 2004".</ref><ref>[http://www.hrw.org/legacy/english/docs/2004/03/17/thaila8127.htm Thailand: Lawyer's Disappearance Darkens Rights Climate] ''Human Rights Watch'' 2004-03-18.</ref>
*[[Murder of Thomas and Jackie Hawks|Thomas and Jackie Hawks]] were a couple who were murdered in their yacht, their bodies have never been found and are presumed to be in the Pacific Ocean.

===2005===
*[[Natalee Holloway]] (18), American student from Alabama, was last seen leaving a nightclub in [[Aruba]] with three men, including [[Joran van der Sloot]].<ref name=visitaruba/> She was declared dead in 2012.
*[[Ray Gricar]] (59), [[Centre County, Pennsylvania|Centre County]] district attorney in the U.S. Commonwealth of [[Pennsylvania]]. Last heard from April 15, when he called his girlfriend from his car, stating he was in the vicinity of [[Centre Hall, Pennsylvania|Centre Hall]]. He was reported missing that evening when he failed to return home; his car was found the next day and his laptop and its hard drive (too badly damaged to read) found in a nearby river over the next several months. His family had him declared legally dead in 2011.<ref name=DailyTimes20110330>{{cite news|last=Ganim|first=Sara|title=Gricar disappearance at 5 years: Trail growing cold|url=http://www.centredaily.com/2010/04/15/1915225/trail-growing-cold.html|accessdate=March 30, 2011|newspaper=Centre Daily Times|date=April 15, 2010|location=State College, Pennsylvania}}</ref>
*[[George Allen Smith]] (26) from [[Greenwich, Connecticut]], USA, was discovered to be missing ten days after his wedding to Jennifer Hagel Smith, while cruising the eastern Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey aboard the [[Royal Caribbean International]] cruise ship ''Brilliance of the Seas''.
*[[Disappearance of Rahma el-Dennaoui|Rahma el-Dennaoui]] (1), disappeared from her home in [[Lurnea, New South Wales|Lurnea]], [[Sydney, Australia|Sydney]] in the early hours of November 10. Despite a police search and appeals to the general public, no trace of the little girl has yet been found.
*[[Disappearance of Tara Grinstead|Tara Grinstead]] (30), is a high school history teacher who lived in Ocilla, Georgia, USA, and has been missing since October 22, 2005. Neither police nor the Georgia Bureau of Investigation ever identified any suspects.

===2006===
*[[Jorge Julio López]] (77), retired Argentine bricklayer, was kidnapped during [[Argentina]]'s [[National Reorganization Process]] in the 1970s. In September 2006, López disappeared after testifying in a trial against [[Dirty War]] criminal [[Miguel Etchecolatz]].
*[[Sivasubramaniam Raveendranath]] (55), [[Sri Lankan Tamil]] academic and [[Vice Chancellor]] of the [[Eastern University of Sri Lanka]], disappeared while attending a conference in [[Colombo]].
*[[Jennifer Kesse]] (28), went missing in January 2006 near a local shopping mall in [[Orlando, Florida]].
*[[Jessie Foster]] (21), [[Canadians|Canadian]] woman who disappeared in the [[Las Vegas Valley]] in [[Nevada]], [[United States]]<ref>{{Cite book|page=212|author=[[Matthew O'Brien]]|title=My Week At the Blue Angel: And Other Stories from the Storm Drains, Strip Clubs, and Trailer Parks of Las Vegas|publisher=Huntington Press|year=2010|isbn=1935396412}}</ref>

===2007===
*[[Jim Gray (computer scientist)|Jim Gray]] (63), [[database]] pioneer, [[Microsoft Research]] scientist, and [[Turing Award]] winner, left [[San Francisco Bay]] in his {{convert|12|m|0|abbr=on}} sailboat ''Tenacious'' to scatter his mother's ashes at the [[Farallon Islands]], a wildlife refuge {{convert|43|km|0|abbr=on}} away, and was reported missing when he failed to return later the same day. No [[Mayday (distress signal)|Mayday]] call was heard, his [[distress radiobeacon]] was not activated, and, despite one of the most ambitious [[search and rescue]] missions of all time, no trace of Gray or his yacht has ever been found.<ref>[http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-08/ff_jimgray?currentPage=all Inside the High Tech Hunt for a Missing Silicon Valley Legend] ''Wired'' 2007-07-24, Steve Silberman.</ref> In 2012 he was declared legally dead.<ref name="JG_DecDeath_CACM072012">{{cite journal |last=Greengard |first=Samuel |year=2012 |month=June |title=Jim Gray Declared Dead |journal=[[Communications of the ACM]] |volume=55 |issue=7 |page=19 |publisher=ACM Media |editor1-first=Moshe |editor1-last=Vardi |editor1-link=Moshe Y. Vardi |issn=0001-0782}}</ref>
*''[[Kaz II]]'', a {{convert|9.8|m|0|abbr=on}} catamaran, was found adrift with its three-man crew, owner Derek Batten (56) and brothers Peter Tunstead (69) and James Tunstead (63), missing. The yacht's sails were up and its engine running, and the [[global positioning system]] showed the yacht had been drifting since around the time of their last known radio contact, about 11 hours after they departed [[Shute Harbour]] for [[Townsville]], [[Queensland]], five days earlier.<ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/cruel-sea-refuses-to-give-up-its-secrets/2007/05/04/1177788400656.html Cruel sea refuses to give up its secrets] ''Sydney Morning Herald'' 2007-05-05, Cosima Marriner.</ref>
*[[Disappearance of Madeleine McCann|Madeleine McCann]] (3) disappeared after being left asleep in the unlocked ground-floor bedroom of her family's rented holiday apartment in the [[Algarve]] (Portugal) while her parents dined with friends at a local restaurant; there have been no confirmed [[Sightings following the disappearance of Madeleine McCann|sightings of her]] since then.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6984836.stm Madeleine: What we know] ''BBC News'' 2007-09-26.</ref>
*[[Aeryn M. J. Gillern]], (34), American, was a research assistant at the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in Vienna (Austria).  He disappeared under mysterious circumstances after a night out on the town.  A documentary entitled [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1628042/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 "Gone: The Disappearance of Aeryn Gillern"] was produced in 2011.

===2008===
* [[Disappearance of Amy Fitzpatrick|Amy Fitzpatrick]] (15), Irish-born teenager, was last seen in Mijas Costa in Málaga, Spain. She had been babysitting with a friend on New Year's Eve. Amy left at about 10:10pm that night and never arrived home, only a short distance away. She has not been seen or heard from since. Investigators are working on her case.
*[[Leonid Rozhetskin]] (41), Russian-born British media magnate, disappeared from his house in [[Jūrmala]], [[Latvia]], in what Latvian police described as "extremely worrying circumstances"; he may have been the victim of a political murder plot.<ref>[http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/news/article-542412/KGB-plot-fears-London-oligarch-vanishes-traces-blood-mansion.html KGB plot fears as London oligarch vanishes and traces of blood are found in his mansion] ''The Mail on Sunday'' 2008-03-23, Daniel Boffey, Christopher Leake, Peter Allen.</ref>

===2009===

* [[Jure Šterk]] (72) was on a sailing trip around the world. He regularly communicated with radio amateurs but all communications ceased around January 1, 2009, as reported by an Australian ham radio operator.<ref name="Stuff.co.nz_1390877">{{cite news |url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/1390877 |title=Hope lost for round-the-world sailor |date=4 February 2009 |agency=[[NZPA]] |work=[[Stuff.co.nz]] |accessdate=15 October 2011}}</ref> His sail boat ''Lunatic'' was spotted on January 26 by a merchant vessel the ''Aida'' and it appeared abandoned. It was finally found adrift and abandoned on April 30, 2009, by the crew of science vessel [[RV Roger Revelle|RV ''Roger Revelle'']] with no sign of Šterk on board.<ref>[http://www.sail-world.com/Europe/Modern-Sea-Mysteries:-Solving-the-mystery-of-Jure-Sterk/63568 Modern Sea Mysteries: Solving the mystery of Jure Sterk] ''Sail-World.com'' 2009-11-22, Nancy Knudsen Share.</ref>
* [[Disappearance of Claudia Lawrence|Claudia Lawrence]] (35) was last seen on 18 March 2009 near [[Heworth, York|Heworth]] in [[York]], England.
* [[Disappearance of Susan Powell|Susan Powell]] (28) is a Utah mother of two who disappeared from her home under suspicious circumstances in December 2009. In spite of an ongoing investigation, her fate remains unknown.
* [[Jim Robinson (boxer)|Jim Robinson]] (84) is a former professional boxer, notable for his bout with [[Muhammad Ali]] in 1961. Robinson disappeared from the [[Overtown, Miami, Florida|Overtown]] district of Miami. His whereabouts and status are currently unknown despite repeated attempts by [[ESPN]] and autograph collectors to locate him.

==2010s==

===2010===
*[[Disappearance of Kyron Horman|Kyron Horman]] (7), American school boy, disappeared from his school in NW [[Portland, Oregon]]. Massive searches have taken place since June 4, 2010, but no evidence of his whereabouts has been found.

===2011===
*[[Disappearance of Lisa Irwin|Lisa Irwin]] (2). Lisa was reported missing from her home in Kansas City, Missouri in the early morning hours of October 4, 2011.
*[[Disappearance of Rebecca Coriam|Rebecca Coriam]] (24). A crewmember of the cruise ship ''[[Disney Wonder]]'', she was last seen in the early morning of March 22, 2011, when a security camera in the crew lounge recorded her having an upsetting telephone conversation. Investigations are continuing. Some reports suggest she went overboard; other evidence points to the possibility that she was alive as of May of that year.
*[[Tommy Davis (Scientology)|Tommy Davis]] (40), head of the [[Church of Scientology]]'s [[Celebrity Centres|Celebrity Centre]] International in [[Los Angeles]], [[California]],<ref name="shaw0217">{{cite news  | last =Shaw | first =William | title =The science of celebrity| work =[[The Sunday Telegraph]] | page =26 | date =2008-02-17 }}</ref><ref name="morton">{{cite book|last =Morton| first =Andrew| authorlink =Andrew Morton (writer)| title =[[Tom Cruise: An Unauthorized Biography]]| publisher =[[St. Martin's Press]]| year =2008| location =[[New York]] | pages =243, 317| isbn =0-312-35986-1 }}</ref> was reported missing on [[Nine Network|Channel Nine]]'s program, [[A Current Affair]] along with his wife; they have not been seen for over a year.<ref name="missing">{{cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67Jx9KG0VeU|title=Where's Tommy Davis|publisher=[[Nine Network]]|accessdate=2012-08-20}}</ref>
*[[Daniel Lind Lagerlöf]] (42), Swedish director and screenwriter who disappeared at Tjurpannans nature reserve outside [[Tanumshede]] in [[Sweden]]  during preparations for the filming of [[Camilla Läckberg]]'s ''Fjällbackamorden - Strandriddaren''. The search for him was suspended after two days without result.<ref>{{cite web|title=Famous Swedish director still missing|url=http://www.thelocal.se/36634/20111009/#.UMSgzHfNlLQ|publisher=The Local|accessdate=9 December 2012}}</ref>

===2012===
*[[Gavin Smith (film studio executive)|Gavin Smith]] (57), executive with [[20th Century Fox]]. Last seen May 1, 2012, leaving a friend's house in [[Oak Park, California]].<ref name="Gavin Smith disappearance">{{cite news|title=Missing studio executive search intensifies|url=http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/ventura_county&id=8654733|newspaper=[[KABC-TV]]|date=May 9, 2012|accessdate=May 16, 2012}}</ref> On May 7, 2012, Smith was reportedly spotted at a restaurant with an unidentified woman in Morro Bay, California, raising suspicion on the case.<ref>{{cite news|title=Gavin Smith Spotted: Missing Fox Executive Reportedly Seen At Morro Bay Restaurant (VIDEO)|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/24/gavin-smith-spotted-missi_n_1543801.html|publisher=Huffington Post|accessdate=12 June 2012|first=Anna|last=Almendrala|date=2012-05-24}}</ref> After his car was found nine months later at a storage facility connected to a [[person of interest]] in the case, police began considering the investigation a homicide although they have not yet found a body.<ref>{{cite news|title=Missing Fox executive Gavin Smith's car found; homicide suspected|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2013/03/gavin-smith-car-found-homicide-case.html|newspaper=[[The Los Angeles Times]]|date=March 14, 2013|accessdate=March 14, 2013}}</ref>
*[[Guma Aguiar]] (35), Brazilian-born American industrialist and part-owner of Israel's [[Beitar Jerusalem]] football club. Last seen leaving his home in [[Fort Lauderdale, Florida]], the night of June 19, 2012. Early the next morning, his fishing boat, the ''T.T. Zion'', its navigational lights on and engines running, was found after having run ashore on a local beach. His wallet and cell phone were on board. Two weeks of searches failed to find any trace of him.<ref name="Guma Aguiar">{{cite news|last=Trischitta|first=Linda|title=Guma Aguiar missing: As the search ends for missing millionaire, mother seeks to protect his assets|url=http://www.wptv.com/dpp/news/state/guma-aguiar-missing-as-the-search-ends-for-missing-millionaire-mother-seeks-to-protect-his-assets|newspaper=[[South Florida Sun-Sentinel]]|date=June 22, 2012|accessdate=July 3, 2012}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[Forced disappearance]]

==References==
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