International: Missing & Unidentified

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/29/1227574179/amelia-earharts-lost-plane-howland-island Earhart and Noonan vanished in 1937 while on a quest to circumnavigate the globe. The trip would have made Earhart the first female pilot to fly around the world. Nearly a century later, neither of their bodies nor their plane have been definitively recovered — becoming one of the greatest mysteries of all time and generating countless theories as to what may have happened. [...] The team spotted the plane-shaped object between Australia and Hawaii, about 100 miles off Howland Island, which is where Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, were supposed to refuel but never arrived. The shape of the object in the sonar images closely resembles Earhart's...

https://www.9news.com.au/national/samantha-murphy-victorian-mum-s-disappearance-now-deemed-suspicious-by-police/837da0f2-233d-44f0-a4fd-4bec2cb1a8a1 Victorian mum's disappearance is 'suspicious' and 'unusual', top cop says Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Shane Patton has conceded the disappearance of missing mother Samantha Murphy is "suspicious" but said no evidence of foul play had emerged. It's been 10 days since Murphy went missing after heading out for a run in the Canadian State Forest near Ballarat on February 4. Police have been following up hundreds of pieces of information and are conducting targeted searches of the local area. Investigators earlier said they didn't have any evidence to prove the 51-year-old's...

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-52125782 Coronavirus: Missing Owen Harding 'on 280-mile trek to girlfriend' A teenager missing for six days may have tried to walk 280 miles to see his girlfriend, his mother has said. Owen Harding, 16, was last seen leaving his home in Saltdean, Sussex, last Thursday. His mum Stella said he had been upset at being unable to get a train to visit girlfriend Meg in Pocklington, near York, amid the coronavirus lockdown. She said relatives were desperately worried and urged the public to be on the lookout for Owen. In an earlier appeal over her son's disappearance - shared by family friend Nadia Sawalha - Ms Harding said he had left home to watch the sunset. Some of Owen's friends have since...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Claudia_Lawrence http://www.ryedale.co.uk/ryedale/claudia_lawrence_missing_person.htm A chef at the University of York, Ms Lawrence was last seen walking towards her home on Heworth Road in the city on 18 March 2009.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/kryan-durnin-missing-louth-live-33901809 A missing eight-year-old is presumed dead after six weeks of searching that have revealed no trace of the youngster or his mum. Kyran Durnin and his mother Dayla went missing overnight on August 28 from the family's home in County Louth, Ireland, after the 24-year-old left a note saying she "needed to get away for a few days". Police launched search efforts two days later, and despite "extensive enquiries" have not found any clues to their whereabouts well over a month later. Garda have now issued an update saying Kyran is now missing presumed dead, having been unable to identify evidence suggesting he is currently alive. An Garda Siochana said in a...

Madeleine Beth McCann (born 12 May 2003) disappeared on the evening of 3 May 2007 from her bed in a holiday apartment at a resort in Praia da Luz, in the Algarve region of Portugal. Her whereabouts remain unknown.[3] The Daily Telegraph described the disappearance as "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".[4] Madeleine was on holiday from the UK with her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann; her two-year-old twin siblings; and a group of family friends and their children. She and the twins had been left asleep at 20:30 in the ground-floor apartment, while the McCanns and friends dined in a restaurant 55 metres (180 ft) away.[5] The parents checked on the children throughout the evening, until Madeleine's mother...

http://www.doenetwork.org/cases-int/1973dfuk.html Nicola Payne Missing since December 14, 1991 from Coventry, England, United Kingdom Classification: Endangered Missing Vital Statistics Date Of Birth: about 1973 Age at Time of Disappearance: 18 years old Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'3". Distinguishing Characteristics: White female. Brown hair; brown eyes; medium build. Clothing: Green trousers, a purple T-shirt, pixie boots and was carrying the keys. Circumstances of Disappearance On December 14, 1991, just after mid day, Nicola left her boyfriend's house in Winston Avenue, Wood End, Coventry to the home she shared with her 7-month-old son and her parents in Woodway Close, Woodway Park. It is a distance of...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richey_Edwards Edwards disappeared on 1 February 1995, on the day when he and Bradfield were due to fly to the United States on a promotional tour of The Holy Bible. In the two weeks before his disappearance, Edwards withdrew £200 a day from his bank account, which totalled £2,800 by the day of the scheduled flight. It is not known if he intended to spend the cash during the U.S. tour or whether a part of it was to pay for a desk that he had ordered from a shop in Cardiff. There is no record of the desk having been paid for. According to Emma Forrest, as quoted in A Version of Reason, "The night before he disappeared Edwards gave a friend a book called Novel with Cocaine, instructing her to read the...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Lars_Mittank On June 30, 2014, 28-year-old Mittank traveled with five of his friends to Varna, Bulgaria. It was his first journey outside of Germany. The group vacationed at the Golden Sands, a seaside resort just outside of the city of Varna. "The week went by really fast," said Paul Rohmann, one of Mittank’s friends, in 2016 on German television. "We relaxed on the beach, swam in the pool, played football, went clubbing. He was relaxed. He was in a good mood." Another friend, Tim Schuldt, said that Mittank did not eat much, and that he would have only a small bowl of soup or a small salad at a time. His friends reported no additional abnormal behavior by Mittank until the final part of...

Name: Susannah Lamplugh Case Classification: Involuntary Missing Since: July 28, 1986 Location Last Seen: London, England, United Kingdom Physical Description Date of Birth: May 3, 1961 Age: 25 years old Race: White Gender: Female Height: Unknown Weight: Unknown Hair Color: Brown hair, highlighted to blonde Eye Color: Unknown Nickname/Alias: Suzy Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown Identifiers Dentals: Unknown Fingerprints: Unknown DNA: Unknown Clothing & Personal Items Clothing: Unknown Jewelry: Unknown Additional Personal Items: Unknown Circumstances of Disappearance Lamplugh, an Estate agent, was last seen in London, England on July 28, 1986 after going to show a house in south west London to a client calling himself Mr...

https://www.crimeonline.com/2024/02/14/she-has-been-taken-against-her-will-missing-florida-woman-vanishes-in-madrid-after-unknown-man-blacks-out-security-cameras/ ‘She has been taken against her will’: Missing Florida Woman Vanishes in Madrid After Unknown Man Blacks Out Security Cameras A 40-year-old Florida woman temporarily living in Madrid amid her divorce has gone missing. Ana Knezevich was last seen on February 2 at around 10 p.m. at her Madrid apartment. Friend Sanna Rameau told 7News Miami that Ana had planned to meet a friend a few days into her visit, but failed to show up. Ramaeu added that a suspicious man wearing a helmet tampered with the surveillance cameras outside and inside the elevator of Ana’s apartment building by...

William Tyrrell (born 26 June 2011) is an Australian boy who disappeared at the age of 3 from Kendall, New South Wales, on 12 September 2014. He had been playing at his foster grandmother's house with his sister, and was wearing a Spider-Man suit at the time of his disappearance.[2] Tyrrell is believed to have been abducted.[3][4][5][6] Despite extensive investigations, as of 21 June 2019, five years after his disappearance, Tyrrell has not been found, or his abductor(s) identified. On 12 September 2016, two years after his disappearance, a reward of A$1 million was offered for the recovery of William and does not require the arrest, charging or conviction of any person or persons.[7]...

Toddler, Ben Needham, went missing on the Greek island of Kos. His mother Kerry, from Sheffield, has always maintained he was abducted. Media - http://crimewatchers.net/index.php?media/ben-needham-missing-from-kos-greece-since-24-july-1991-age-21-months.91/

https://web.archive.org/web/20090925145653/http://www.searchforamy.com/ Amy Fitzpatrick went missing on the evening of New Years Day 1st January 2008 at approximately 10pm when she left her friends house in the tourist resort of Riviera Del Sol on the Costa Del Sol to take the 10 minute walk to her house. Amy was 15 at the time of her disappearance she has black hair, is 1.65m tall, and was wearing brown crushed velvet tracksuit bottoms and a black T-Shirt with the word 'Diesel' in various different colours when she was last seen. Amy is originally from Clarehall in Dublin and moved to the Costa Del Sol four years ago.

https://www.missingpeople.org.uk/help-us-find/katrice-lee-00-001489 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Katrice_Lee Katrice Lee AGE AT DISAPPEARANCE: 2 MISSING FROM: Schloss Neuhaus MISSING SINCE: 28/11/1981 REFERENCE NO: 00-001489

https://missingpersons.gov.au/search/sa/daniel-sheppard On 31 December 1994, Daniel Sheppard, then aged 19 years, attended New Year’s Eve celebrations with his brother and friends at Lennies Tavern Glenelg, before catching a tram into the city to continue celebrations in Hindley Street, Adelaide. In the early hours of New Year’s Day 1995, Daniel walked alone to the Adelaide Railway Station and boarded the 4.13am train to Outer Harbor in order to go home. There were approximately 30 other commuters on the train, including three girls he knew from school. On the train Daniel told two of the girls: "I'm partied out ... I'm going home to crash." Daniel was described as being moderately intoxicated but still in control of his faculties...

Siriyakorn “Bung” Siriboon, was last seen on Thursday 2 June 2011 at approximately 8.25am. Siriyakorn left her family home in Elsie Street, Boronia to walk to school. She was dressed in her school uniform and was also wearing her dark blue zip-front school jacket and carrying a backpack. She was seen by a neighbour a short time later in Elsie Street, walking towards Albert Avenue. She did not arrive at school that day and failed to return home. Siriyakorn has not been seen or heard from since. Her disappearance is out of character, there are grave concerns for her welfare. If you have information that may assist police to locate Siriyakorn please call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000...

Victims found with in a forest near Oettingen, Bavaria, Germany. Presumed to have died around late July or the beginning of August 1995. Clothing is of Eastern European origin. Isotope analysis indicated the women had only been in Germany for about two to three years before they were presumably murdered. A cab driver eventually reported to police that he had possibly given the unidentified women and two men to where they later entered a dark-colored Mercedes car. Another witness stated she met the women hitchhiking, with plans to travel to Donauwörth. https://www.polizei.bayern.de/fahndung/personen/unbekannte-tote/005126/index.html https://www.polizei.bayern.de/fahndung/personen/unbekannte-tote/005120/index.html

Melanie Ethier disappeared on September 29, 1996 from New Liskeard, Ontario, Canada. edited by staff to add media link https://www.crimewatchers.net/index.php?media/melanie-ethier-missing-from-new-liskeard-ontario-canada-since-29-september-1996-age-15.104/#xfmg-comment-110

503UFNOR - Unidentified Female Sketches of victim by Stephen Missal and Audun Hetlands; victim's personal items, handwriting and dental work. Date of Discovery: November 29, 1970 Location of Discovery: Isdalen Valley, Bergen, Norway Estimated Date of Death: Several days prior State of Remains: Not recognizable - Charred/burned Cause of Death: Fenemal and carbon-monoxide poisoning. Her death was ruled to be suicide but others believe she was murdered. Physical Description Estimated Age: 25-40 years old Race: White Gender: Female Height: 5'4" to 5'5" (164 cm) Weight: 124 lbs. (56 kg.) Hair Color: Black to brown; worn in a ponytail with a blue and white print ribbon. Eye Color: Brown AKA: Genevieve Lancier; Claudia Tielt; Alexia...