List of solved missing person cases: 1950–1999

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This is a list of solved missing person cases of people who went missing in unknown locations or unknown circumstances that were eventually explained by their reappearance or the recovery of their bodies, the conviction of the perpetrator(s) responsible for their disappearances, or a confession to their killings. There are separate lists covering disappearances before 1950 and then since 2000.

1950s

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1950	J.K. Rideout	37–38	China	J.K. Rideout, a British linguist and professor of Oriental Studies at both the University of Sydney and the University of Hong Kong, disappeared on 16 February 1950. His body was found 12 days later upon the shores of Lantau Island. Although suspicion pertaining to a mooted connection to British intelligence surrounds his death, authorities ruled Rideout's death to be accidental.	Accidental	12 days
1951	Luis Albino	6	United States	Luis Albino, an American child who was kidnapped in Oakland, California on February 21, 1951 and was discovered to be alive living with a family in 2024.	Found Alive	73 years
1950	Ernest C. Fiebelkorn	27	South Korea	Fiebelkorn, a USAAF fighter ace who shot down nine aircraft during World War II and also fought in the Korean War, was listed as missing in action together with his radar operator Captain John J. Higgins on July 6, 1950, when they both failed to return to base while flying as part of a four-ship element sent to locate and strafe advancing enemy ground forces through heavy low overcast at the Suwon-Seoul area. The remains of both men were found in 1953 by UN troops on a mountainside approximately 40 miles (64 km) north of Seoul.	Killed in action	3 years
1951	Bill Barilko	24	Canada	Bill Barilko, a player for the Toronto Maple Leafs hockey team, disappeared in August 1951 while returning from a fishing trip at Seal River, Ontario. He was with his dentist, Henry Hudson, flying aboard Hudson's Fairchild 24 floatplane at the time of their disappearance. Barilko and Hudson remained missing for 11 years until the plane's wreckage was found 56 miles (90 km) off course north of Cochrane, Ontario, partially burned and submerged in a swamp with the men's bodies found still strapped in their seats.	Killed in plane crash	11 years
	Henry Hudson	Unknown	Canada			11 years
1951	Philip Mangano	53	United States of America	A mafia underboss of Mangano crime family (the future Gambino crime family), Philip Mangano disappeared on April 19, 1951. His body was found the same day. Also that same day, his brother Vincent Mangano disappeared; his body was never found. Both are believed to have been murdered on the orders of family underboss Albert Anastasia in Brooklyn in 1951 as part of a coup.	Murdered	Less than a day
1951	Renata Balleyova	Unknown	Czechoslovakia	On July 20, 1951, children playing in the sand near the village of Senec discovered a human leg, leading to the discovery of the decaying remains of Renata Balleyova, a photographer from Plzeň who had intended to defect from Czechoslovakia. This in turn led to the arrest of Hubert Pilčík, a human smuggler who also killed Balleyova's father, Emanuel, and kidnapped and repeatedly raped Emanual's 12-year-old niece while forcing her to write letters addressed from Bavaria, demanding payment for the letters in jewelry. Both Balleyova and her father were killed with baton blows to the head. Pilčík killed himself in prison on September 9, 1951.	Murdered	Less than a month
1952	George Andrew Davis Jr.	31	North Korea	Davis was a highly decorated fighter pilot and flying ace of the USAAF during World War II and later of the USAF during the Korean War. During his final combat mission in northwest Korea on February 10, 1952, Davis surprised and attacked twelve Chinese MiG-15 fighter jets about to attack friendly aircraft in "MiG Alley", downing two of the MiG-15s before he was shot down and killed. He was not seen bailing out and was declared missing in action and presumed killed. The Chinese military later recovered his body from the crashed aircraft, although they never returned it to the United States. Controversies arose surrounding the circumstances of his death, and he was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions that day.	Killed in action	1 week
1953	Wilma Montesi	21	Italy	21-year-old Wilma Montesi was last seen alive on 9 April 1953; her body was discovered on the shore of Torvaianica two days later. Montesi was found partially dressed; her handbag and several of her clothes were missing. Ugo Montagna and Piero Piccioni, son of deputy prime minister Attilio Piccioni, were alleged to have been involved, causing a scandal, though both were absolved of all charges. Montesi's murder remains unsolved, and the cause of death remains unknown.	Murdered	2 days
1953	Kyllikki Saari	17	Finland	Kyllikki Saari, a girl from Finland, was last seen alive on May 17, 1953, cycling home from a prayer meeting. Kyllikki's bicycle was recovered in a marsh that summer and her remains were found on October 11, 1953, in a bog.	Murdered	147 days
1953	Art Gilkey	26	Pakistan	Gilkey disappeared while climbing K2 mountain in 1953. He had developed thrombophlebitis (blood clots in his leg), followed by a pulmonary embolism, and his fellow climbers, including Charlie Houston and Pete Schoening, wrapped him in a sleeping bag to bring him down the mountain. However, while resting at camp, Gilkey was swept away by an avalanche and disappeared. His body was found at the base of the south side of K2 in 1993.	Died while climbing mountain	40 years
1953	Christine Reed	18	United Kingdom	Victims of the "Towpath Killer" Alfred Whiteway. Reed and Songhurst were teenage friends last seen cycling along a towpath close to the River Thames on 31 May 1953. Songhurst's body was found in the river the following day; Reed's body was discovered on 6 June. Both had been bludgeoned and raped. Whiteway was hanged for their murders on December 22, 1953.	Murdered	6 days
	Barbara Songhurst	16				1 day
1953	Eugene Lindsey	45	United States of America	Father and son Eugene and Richard Lindsey, and their friend Frederick Claar, were last seen on June 12, 1953, in the Gaspé region of Quebec, where they had driven to from Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, on a hunting trip. Eugene Lindsey's body was discovered in deep bush a month later (July 15) and those of the other two men on July 23, some 4 kilometres away. Their clothing bore bullet holes. The discoveries led to the arrest of a prospector named Wilbert Coffin and his conviction based on circumstantial evidence. He was eventually hanged. The case is well known in Canada as the Coffin affair.	Murdered	33 days
	Richard Lindsey	17	United States of America			41 days
	Frederick Claar	20	United States of America			41 days
1954	Henri La Masne	30	Italy	Henri La Masne was a French man who went missing, while he was skiing in the Italian Alps on March 26, 1954, and his body was discovered in Valtournenche, Cime Bianche in 2005 and identified in 2017.	Froze to death after being buried underneath snow during a storm	60 years
1954	Honorah Rieper	45	New Zealand	Murdered by her 16-year-old daughter, Pauline Parker, and her daughter's friend, 15-year-old Juliet Hulme, in Christchurch, New Zealand. The murder had been planned by the schoolgirls as she was viewed as an individual who would refuse to allow her daughter to move to South Africa with her friend. Her body was found the same day.	Murdered	1 day
1954	Mary Hogan	51	United States of America	The first-known murder victim of Ed Gein. Hogan was a tavern proprietress whom Gein confessed to murdering on December 8, 1954. Gein transported her body to his farm, where he mutilated her corpse but retained her skull and preserved face. These were discovered following his 1957 arrest.	Murdered	3 years
1955	Curtis Chillingworth	58	United States of America	Curtis Chillingworth was a Florida attorney and state judge who disappeared from his Manalapan, Florida home in 1955. He was later discovered to have been murdered though his body was never recovered.	Murdered	never found
1955	Herman Schultheis	55	Guatemala	Herman Schultheis was a technician and photographer who worked for Walt Disney Studios who disappeared on May 20, 1955, near Tikal, Guatemala. His remains were found on November 23, 1956, as well as some of his belongings.	Died (undetermined cause)	18 months
1956	Donald B. Anderson	52	United States of America	Anderson was a justice of the Idaho Supreme Court. His body was found in his vehicle alongside U.S. Highway 30. His death was ruled a suicide.	Died by suicide	1 day
1956	Peter Weinberger	One month	United States of America	Peter Weinberger was a male toddler in Nassau County, New York, who, on July 4, 1956, was abducted and held for ransom. His kidnapper, Angelo LaMarca, was arrested over a month later. On August 24, LaMarca directed authorities to a location near a highway where he claimed he had abandoned Weinberger alive. By the time of LaMarca's arrest, Weinberger had died of asphyxiation, with starvation and exposure as contributing factors; a medical examiner posited he could have lived up to a week before perishing.	Murdered	More than 40 days
1956	Barbara Grimes	15	United States of America	Barbara and Patricia Grimes were sisters who disappeared from the Brighton Park, Chicago, Illinois area on December 28, 1956, while returning home from a movie. Their bodies were found on January 22, 1957, down an embankment off a roadway.	Murdered	25 days
	Patricia Grimes	12	United States of America			25 days
1957	Willie Edwards	24	United States of America	Willie Edwards was a black American man who on January 23, 1957, was killed by unknown members of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. His body was thrown into the Alabama River, Montgomery County, Alabama and was found three months later. His murder remains unsolved.	Murdered	3 months
1957	Joseph Augustus Zarelli	4	United States of America	The naked, extensively beaten body of 4-year-old Joseph August Zarelli was discovered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on February 25, 1957. Authorities believe the cause of death to be blunt force trauma. Zarelli remained unidentified for over 65 years and was known only as "the Boy in the Box." On November 30, 2022, the Philadelphia Police Department announced that Zarelli's identity had been determined via DNA and genealogical databases. Zarelli was publicly identified on December 8, 2022.	Murdered	65 years
1957	Mary Jane Barker	4	United States of America	Mary Jane Barker, a girl from Bellmawr, New Jersey, went missing on February 25, 1957, along with her playmate's dog. Barker was found dead in the closet of a vacant house near her home on March 3, 1957, after becoming trapped with the dog, who survived (but was euthanized for examination in an attempt to better understand the circumstances).	Died from starvation	6 days
1957	Lawrence Joseph Bader	30	United States of America	Lawrence Joseph Bader was a cookware salesman from Akron, Ohio who disappeared on a fishing trip on March 15, 1957, in Lake Erie. Eight years later he was found alive in Omaha, Nebraska working as a local TV personality named "Fritz" Johnson. He died from a brain tumor a year later, leaving six children from two wives. It has been debated, but never determined, whether he was an amnesiac, had multiple personalities, or was simply a hoaxer.	Found alive	8 years
1957	Maria Ridulph	7	United States of America	Maria Ridulph was an American girl who disappeared on December 3, 1957, from a street corner in her neighborhood in Sycamore, Illinois. Her body was found in Woodbine, 100 miles from her home, on April 26, 1958.	Murdered	144 days
1957	Anne Noblett	17	United Kingdom	Watford Technical College student who disappeared while travelling to her home in Marshalls Heath on December 30, 1957. Her fully clothed body was found in a wooded area near Whitwell on January 31, 1958. It was determined that she had been killed, but to this day, nobody has been arrested in her murder.	Murdered	1 month
1958	Ishinosuke Uwano	35 to 36	Soviet Union	Ishinosuke Uwano was a former soldier in the Japanese Imperial Army who disappeared in 1958 and was found living in Ukraine in April 2006.	Found alive	48 years
1958	Harry Baker	61	United Kingdom	British credit draper (loan shark) who disappeared on June 6, 1958, while visiting customers in Bootle. More than two weeks later, Baker's body was found wrapped up in two sacks, showing signs that he had been beaten and strangled.	Murdered	17 days
1959	Cheryl Lynne Harper	12	Canada	A Canadian schoolgirl who disappeared on June 9, 1959. Harper's raped and strangled body was discovered two days later. Fourteen-year-old Steven Truscott was arrested and convicted of Harper's murder; he was released from custody in 1969 and his conviction overturned in 2007.	Murdered	2 days
1959	Bob Doll	40	United States of America	Bob Doll was an American professional basketball player who disappeared from Rabbit Ears Pass, Colorado in early September 1959 and was found dead on September 18, 1959.	Died by suicide	Around 2 weeks

1960s

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1960s	António Alva Rosa Coutinho	30s	Portuguese Angola	Portuguese naval officer who was kidnapped by FNLA guerillas while patrolling the Zaire River in Angola. He was eventually released, and went on to participate in the Carnation Revolution.	Found alive	Several months
1960	Tang Choon Keng	59	State of Singapore	Tang was a Singaporean entrepreneur who founded the Tangs department store and later the Orchard Road, two of the country's principal retail stores. He was abducted by four armed gunmen in 1960, but released without incident three days later after the ransom demanded was paid.	Found alive	3 days
1960	Irene Garza	26	United States of America	Garza was a schoolteacher and beauty queen who went missing on April 16, 1960, while going to confession at a church in McAllen, Texas. Her body, bearing signs of sexual assault and suffocation, was found in a canal five days later. John Feit, the priest who heard her confession, was the prime suspect in her death for decades, until he was arrested and convicted in her murder in 2017, receiving a life sentence.	Murdered	5 days
1960	Graeme Thorne	8	Australia	Thorne was an Australian schoolboy who was kidnapped on July 7, 1960, in Sydney, Australia, by a man who wished to extort his parents who had recently won the lottery. His body was found on August 16. A Hungarian immigrant was later convicted of the killing.	Murdered	1 month
1960	Sharon Lee Gallegos	4	United States of America	Abducted by unknown individuals from her home in Alamogordo, New Mexico, with her body found in Congress, Arizona, Gallegos could not be identified at the time, and was known as "Little Miss Nobody" until her identification in 2022. Her abductors have been never been apprehended.	Murdered	62 years
1960	Yossele Schumacher	6	Israel	Abducted by his own grandparents in order that he be raised as a Haredi Orthodox Jew as opposed to his parents' intention to raise the child as a secular Jew. The FBI eventually located Schumacher in the United States and returned the then-eight-year-old child to Israel to live with his parents in September 1962.	Rescued	2 years
1961	Jacques Stephen Alexis	38	Haiti	Alexis was a Haitian communist novelist, poet, and activist who was captured by a Tonton Macoute paramilitary force in April 1961 shortly after arriving at Môle-Saint-Nicolas. He was last seen alive being placed onto a boat at Port-au-Prince, and is believed to have died on or about April 22 that year, as his death was later confirmed.	Murdered	c. two weeks
1961	Jacqueline Thomas	15	United Kingdom	Thomas was a biscuit factory worker who disappeared from her native Birmingham on August 18, 1961, only to be found raped and strangled a week later. Anthony Hall, who would later be convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for a similar murder in 1969, was considered a suspect from the beginning, but authorities were unable to charge him until he was identified via DNA technology in 2007. He never stood trial for Thomas's murder and died behind bars in 2011.	Murdered	1 week
1961	Lucy Ann Johnson	25	Canada	Lucy Ann Johnson disappeared in 1961 from British Columbia, Canada, but was not reported missing by her family until 1965. In 2013, she was found alive in Yukon, Canada, having started a new family after her disappearance.	Found alive	52 years
1962–1963	Steven Crawford	2	United States of America	Toddler with Down syndrome whose body was found in a reservoir in Ashland, Oregon on July 11, 1963. He remained unidentified until October 2021, when his DNA was matched to a living half-brother.	Murdered	58–59 years
1963–1965	Pauline Reade	16	United Kingdom	Victims of the so-called "Moors murderers" Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, who sexually assaulted, murdered and then buried their underage victims in shallow graves. Four of the victims' gravesites were eventually discovered, with the only exception being Bennett's, whose body still has not been found.	Murdered	Various
	John Kilbride	12	United Kingdom
	Keith Bennett	12	United Kingdom
	Lesley Ann Downey	10	United Kingdom
	Edward Evans	17	United Kingdom
1963	Wallace C. Halsey	43	United States of America	On 27 March 1963, Wallace C. Halsey, founder of Christ Brotherhood (a UFO religious group) and his business associate Harry Cleveland Ross Jr. (a former mayor of Seal Beach, California) were flying a small Piper Tri-pacer aircraft from Utah to Nevada. Ross, the pilot, was the operator of the Meadowlark Airport in Huntington Beach, California, and a veteran aviator with an airline transport rating. The plane was lost and remained so for 13 years despite an extensive air search and attempts by Halsey's UFO coreligionists to locate him using the aid of extraterrestrial beings who indicated the key to the mystery involved the Egyptian pyramids and the number 14. For example, one seeker claimed extraterrestrials informed him the "pyramids and the number 14 will solve the Halsey mystery." At the time, Halsey was facing federal charges and it was speculated by some that he had fled the country. The wreckage was discovered by a lost deer hunter in rugged mountainous country on 30 October 1976 approximately 30 air miles north of St. George, Utah, some 10–15 miles off the filed flight course. The bodies and wallets of both men were found inside the fuselage, which was crumpled, but unburned.	Killed in plane crash	13 years
	Harry Cleveland Ross Jr.	48	United States of America
1963	Jenny Cheok Cheng Kid	22	Singapore	On 27 August 1963, 22-year-old Jenny Cheok and her boyfriend Sunny Ang, a 24-year-old part-time law student, went on a scuba diving trip near Sisters' Islands, Singapore (the waters around the area were known to be dangerous). Cheok disappeared at sea after making two dives that day. Although Cheok was classified as a missing person at first, the police re-classified Cheok's disappearance as murder after it was found that Ang had notified several insurance companies that Cheok was dead and demanded for insurance compensation worth $450,000. Sixteen months after Cheok's disappearance, Ang was arrested as a suspect and charged with murder. In May 1965, Ang was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death by a unanimous decision in one of Singapore's last jury trials before the local government abolished the jury system in 1970. Ang was hanged on 6 February 1967 after he lost his appeal. Till today, Cheok's body was never found.	Murdered	Never found
1964	Paul Fronczak	1 day	United States of America	Paul Fronczak was a newborn baby who was kidnapped from the Michael Reese Hospital by a woman who was dressed as a nurse in Chicago, Illinois on April 27, 1964. In 2019, he was discovered as a man named Kevin Ray Baty who was living in Michigan. This became known to the public a year later around the time that he died from cancer.	Found alive	54 years
1965	Yukon Eric	48	United States of America	Eric was a former professional wrestler who committed suicide at age 48 by shooting himself in the mouth in a church parking lot in Cartersville, Georgia, and was reported missing after not showing up for a match. His body was found the following day. Eric is believed to have chosen to die by suicide due to both financial problems and having divorced his wife.	Died by suicide	1 day
1965	Edmond Crimmins Jr.	5	United States of America	The Crimmins children disappeared from their apartment in Kew Gardens Hills in the Queens borough of New York City on July 14, 1965. Their mother, Alice Crimmins, reported their disappearance to police the same day. Alice "Missy" Crimmins' body was discovered the same day; Edmond "Eddie" Jr.'s body was discovered five days later. Both children had been murdered.	Undetermined	5 days
	Alice Crimmins Jr.	2			Strangulation	Same day
1965–1967	Margaret Reynolds	6	United Kingdom	Victims of the Cannock Chase murders, a series of murders of young schoolgirls committed in Staffordshire, England, from 1965 to 1967. Raymond Leslie Morris was convicted of one murder and considered the prime suspect in the other two.	Murdered	Various
	Diana Tift	5	United Kingdom
	Christine Darby	7	United Kingdom
1965	Jack Rosenthal	20 months	United States of America	Abandoned as a toddler in 1965, Jack Rosenthal was raised under the identity of a kidnapped child, Paul Fronczak. He discovered his true identity in 2015.	Found alive	50 years
1965	Robert Ivan Nichols	39	United States of America	Nichols last wrote to his family in March 1965 before severing contact with them, prompting them to file a missing report. Nichols worked using his real name until 1976 and before stealing the identity of a deceased boy and lived under his name until 2002 when "Joseph Newton Chandler III" committed suicide. It was only then that, when authorities tried to contact his next of kin, it was revealed that the Chandler identity was stolen, prompting speculations and investigations for his identity. It would not be until 2018 when Nichols was finally identified.	Died by suicide	53 years
1965	Ajjamada B. Devaiah	32 or 33	Pakistan	Ajjamada B. Devaiah, an Indian Air Force pilot, was shot down in an aerial dogfight in 1965 over Pakistan. The Indian Air Force was unaware of what happened and declared him missing. It was revealed much later by Pakistan sources, based on a 1979 book by John Fricker, that Devayya's body was found almost intact by villagers not very far from Sargodha and buried. He was decorated posthumously in 1988.	Killed in action	14 years
1965	Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock	both 15	Australia	The murders of best friends and neighbours Marianne Schmidt and Christine Sharrock occurred at Wanda Beach near Cronulla in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, on 11 January 1965. The victims' partially buried bodies were discovered the next day. The murders remain New South Wales' oldest unsolved homicides, and are known as the Wanda Beach Murders.	Murdered	1 day
1966	Hedviga Golik	42	Croatia	Hedviga Golika was a Croatian woman from Zagreb, Croatia, who in 1966 sat down in front of her TV with a cup of tea and died from unknown reasons. Her body was discovered 42 years later when the police entered her apartment.	Died (undetermined cause)	42 years
1967	Bernard Oliver	17	United Kingdom	Warehouse worker who vanished after spending the evening of January 6, 1967, with some friends in Muswell Hill, but was reported missing after he failed to arrive home. His dismembered remains were found in two suitcases, but despite intensive investigations into his death, nobody was ever charged.	Murdered	10 days
1967	Alvar Larsson	13	Sweden	Alvar Larsson was a Swedish boy who disappeared on April 16, 1967, while going for a walk. In November 1982 a human skull was found on a small island 6 km away that was identified as belonging to Larsson.	Died (undetermined cause)	15 years
1967	Anne McFall	18	United Kingdom	18-year-old Anne McFall disappeared in July 1967, when she was eight months pregnant. McFall's dismembered remains were unearthed at the edge of a cornfield between Much Marcle and Kempley in June 1994. Serial killer Fred West initially denied being responsible for her murder; however, following West's arrest, he confided in a visitor that he had stabbed McFall to death following an argument.	Murdered	27 years
1967	Mary Terese Fleszar	19	United States of America	19-year-old Eastern Michigan University student Mary Terese Fleszar disappeared in Ypsilanti, Michigan on July 9, 1967. Her nude, decomposed body was discovered by two 15-year-old boys on an abandoned farm in Superior Township on August 7, 1967; the body was formally identified as Fleszar's the following day via dental records. Prior to her death, Fleszar had been severely beaten; she had been stabbed dozens of times in the chest and abdomen, and many of her limbs were severed or missing. Though never convicted for this murder, John Norman Chapman is believed to be responsible.	Murdered	1 month
1967	Jack McVitie	35	United Kingdom	Jack McVitie, who went by "Jack the Hat", disappeared on 29 October 1967 in Stoke Newington, London, England after going to a party when he was assaulted and murdered. His body was then wrapped in an eiderdown and disposed of. It was later discovered and then taken to a place where it was never recovered. Associates of the Kray twins were later charged and convicted of his murder.	Murdered	Body never recovered
1967	Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor	24	United States of America	Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor disappeared on December 6, 1967, and was found dead near Georgetown, Kentucky on May 17, 1968. Her unidentified body found wrapped in canvas, similar to that used for a tent, and she was dubbed "Tent Girl". The son-in-law of the man who discovered her body had an interest in the case and contacted her relatives after seeing a missing persons report. Barbara Taylor's remains were positively identified in 1998 following DNA testing.	Murdered	163 days
1968	Roy Tutill	14	United Kingdom	Tutill was an English schoolboy who was kidnapped while en route from the Kingston Grammar School to his home in Brockham. His body, showing signs of rape, was found three days later near Cherkley Court. The remained unsolved until 2001, when the perpetrator's DNA was matched to Brian Lunn Field, a long-time suspect with a history of abusing little boys. He was sentenced to life imprisonment for the crime, which is currently the oldest solved cold case in the United Kingdom.	Murdered	3 days
1968	Richard Robison Sr.	42	United States	A wealthy upper-middle-class family from Lathrup Village who were shot and killed inside their Lake Michigan holiday cottage on June 25, 1968. The murders were never solved, but are strongly believed to have been committed by an embezzling senior employee of one of Richard Robison Sr.'s businesses named Joseph Scolaro III. The alleged perpetrator committed suicide in 1973.	Murdered	1 month
	Shirley Robison	40
	Richard Robison Jr.	19
	Gary Robison	16
	Randall Robison	12
	Susan Robison	7
1968	Susan Ellsworth Perry	17	United States of America	Perry disappeared from Barnstable County, Massachusetts, on 10 September 1968. Her dismembered body was discovered in February 1969.	Murdered	5 months
1969	Mary Annabelle Bjornson	21	United States of America	Bjornson was abducted and murdered by serial killer John Dwight Canaday on the evening of 4 January 1969. Her body was discovered two months after her murder.	Murdered	2 months
1969	Mary Ann Wysocki	23	United States of America	A Rhode Island College student last seen alive on 25 January 1969. Her dismembered body was discovered in woodland on 5 March.	Murdered	6 weeks
1969	Linda Dawn Salee	22	United States of America	Salee was the last of four known victims of serial killer Jerry Brudos. She was abducted from a shopping mall parking lot on 23 April 1969 and subsequently raped and strangled at Brudos' home before her body was discarded in the Willamette River.	Murdered	2 weeks
1969	Theodore Conrad	20	United States of America	On 11 July 1969, Theodore Conrad surreptitiously robbed the bank where he was employed and then vanished. He evaded capture for over 5 decades by moving around the country for several years before he finally settled down (under an assumed name) in Lynnfield, Massachusetts, where he died on 18 May 2021 without ever having been caught. Several months after his death, US Marshals located his grave from a newspaper's obituary page.	Died of lung cancer	52 years
1969	Donald Shea	35	United States of America	Shea was a ranch hand at Spahn Ranch who was murdered by members of the Manson Family led by Charles Manson on 26 August 1969. He is believed to have been murdered due to having informed authorities of the Manson Family's criminal activities. Shea's body was recovered in December 1977; his autopsy revealed evidence of multiple incision wounds to the chest and blunt force trauma to the head.	Murdered	8 years
1969	Catherine Cesnik	27	United States of America	Cesnik was an American Catholic religious sister at the Archbishop Keough High School, Baltimore, Maryland who disappeared on November 7, 1969. Her body was found a few months later near a garbage dump in Lansdowne. Nobody was ever charged, although priest Joseph Maskell is considered a viable suspect.	Murdered	3 months
1969	Rosemary Calandriello	17	United States of America	Calandriello was an Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey high school student. Calandriello disappeared on August 25, 1969. Her body was never found, although convicted murderer and suspected serial killer Robert Zarinsky confessed to her abduction and murder; he was convicted of this offense in 1975.	Murdered	Never found
1969	Joyce Malecki	20	United States of America	Joyce Malecki, American woman who disappeared on November 11, 1969, from Baltimore, Maryland and was found dead two days later after being killed.	Murdered	2 days
1969	Reet Jurvetson	19	United States of America	Reet Jurvetson, a Canadian-American woman disappeared on November 14, 1969, and was found murdered on November 16, 1969, in a dense bushland off Mulholland Drive in Los Angeles, California. She had been stabbed over 150 times and her body was rolled down an embankment. Jurvetson remained unidentified for 46 years until an online mortuary photograph was recognised by her family and friends.	Murdered	46 years
1969	Reyna Marroquín	27	United States of America	Reyna Marroquín, a pregnant Salvadoran woman, disappeared in 1969 from Nassau County, New York. Her remains were found on September 2, 1999, in the former Jericho, New York home of Howard B. Elkins, her former boss, sealed in a drum that was stored in a crawl space. Marroquín was having an affair with Elkins and DNA test showed that Elkins was the father of the fetus. Elkins committed suicide not long after police questioning.	Murdered	30 years
1969	Muriel Freda McKay	55	United Kingdom	McKay was a housewife kidnapped from her Wimbledon home on 29 December 1969. Her kidnappers had mistaken her for Anna Murdoch, then-wife of Rupert Murdoch. McKay's precise cause and date of death is unknown, although she is believed to have been kept alive by her kidnappers for at least three days. Her body was never found.	Murdered	Body never found

1970s

1970

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1970	Jacques Vergès	44	France	Vergès, a French-Vietnamese lawyer, left his wife Djamila Bouhired and cut off all ties with friends and family. He was last seen on February 24, 1970, until he reappeared in 1978 and refused to explain his disappearance or whereabouts during that period. It appeared in December 2017, in a Barbet Schroeder interview, that he was with extremist Palestinian militant Wadie Haddad in Palestine.	Found alive	8 years
1970	Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb	18	United Kingdom	English secretary who vanished after hitchhiking along the M1 motorway on March 8, 1970. Her body was found days later in some woodlands, and detectives believe her murder is linked to that of fellow hitch-hiker Barbara Mayo, who was killed under similar circumstances in the same year. It is often reported that the two murders were linked by DNA in 1990; however, DNA was only ever extracted in Mayo's case, and not until 1997.	Murdered	6 days
1970	Susan Blatchford	11	United Kingdom	Two British children who disappeared from Enfield, North London, on the afternoon of 31 March 1970 while playing. Seventy-eight days later their bodies were found in a copse in Sewardstone, Essex. Erroneously thought for nearly 30 years to have possibly died from exposure, causing the murdered children to be called the "Babes in the Wood" in the press, pedophile Ronald Jebson confessed to their rape and murder from prison in 1998, and was convicted in 2000.	Murdered	78 days
	Gary Hanlon	12	United Kingdom
1970	Pedro Eugenio Aramburu	67	Argentina	Argentine army general who served as the acting president from 1955 to 1958, Aramburu was kidnapped and later killed by Montoneros terrorist Mario Firmenich. His body was found a month after his disappearance at an abandoned farmhouse in Timote.	Murdered	1 month
1970	Alberto Fuentes Mohr	43	Guatemala	Guatemalan economist, politician and founding member of the Social Democratic Party who served as Minister of Public Finance in the 1960s. He was briefly kidnapped by a FAR rebel on February 27, 1970, but released without harm shortly after.	Found alive	Unknown
1970	Harvey Crewe	28	New Zealand	Harvey and Jeannette Crewe, a New Zealand farming couple, were reported missing from their bloodstained farmhouse at Pukekawa, Lower Waikato on June 22, 1970, where their unharmed 18-month-old daughter was found in her cot. Jeannette Crewe's body was found, wrapped in a duvet and bound with copper wire, in the Waikato River on August 16, 1970, and her husband's body was retrieved upriver on September 16, 1970. The initial indications from the crime scene pointed to foul play, occurring between June 17 and 22, but it was not until the bodies were recovered that it was established that both had been shot to death.	Murdered	86 days
	Jeannette Crewe	30	New Zealand			55 days
1970	Pierre Laporte	49	Canada	Laporte, a Canadian politician and deputy premier of Quebec, was kidnapped by members of the terrorist Front de libération du Québec group on October 10, 1970, and held for ransom. A week later, when the government refused the group's demands, they killed him, with Laporte's body later found in the trunk of Paul Rose's car.	Murdered	1 week
1970	Donna Lass	25	United States	Lass, a nurse who worked at Sahara Tahoe Casino, disappeared on September 6, 1970, from Stateline, Nevada. Her disappearance has been associated with the Zodiac Killer case, despite the lack of evidence. In December 2023, South Lake Tahoe Police Department announced that human remains found in 1986 near California State Route 20 in Placer County was positively identified to be belonging to Lass. The department did not reveal a reason of death or an indication of foul play.	No	53 years
1970	Jeffrey Konen	18	United States	The first of twenty-eight known victims of serial killer Dean Corll. Konen was last seen hitchhiking from the University of Texas to his parents' home on the evening of September 25, 1970. His body was buried at High Island Beach. Corll's accomplice, David Owen Brooks, led police to Konen's body on August 10, 1973.	Murdered	35 months
1970	Barbara Mayo	24	United Kingdom	Mayo was an English schoolteacher who vanished while hitchhiking on the M1 motorway near Catterick, North Yorkshire on October 12, 1970. Days later, her partially clothed body was found in the woods, and was later linked to the murder of Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb committed months prior. It is often wrongly reported that the two murders were confirmed to be linked by DNA in 1990; DNA was only ever extracted in Mayo's case, and not until 1997.	Murdered	4 days
1970	Ronald Hughes	35	United States of America	Ronald Hughes was an American attorney who represented Manson family member Leslie Van Houten and disappeared in November 1970 during a camping trip. On March 29, 1971, his body was found by two fishermen in Ventura County wedged between two boulders in a gorge.	No	5 months

1971

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1971	Theo Albrecht	49	West Germany	German entrepreneur who was the co-founder of the Aldi supermarket chain. In 1971, he was kidnapped by lawyer Heinz-Joachim Ollenburg and Paul Kron, who demanded seven million German marks in exchange for his return. He was later released and his kidnappers arrested, but as a result, the Albrechts became reclusive and avoid publicity.	Found alive	17 days
1971	Shelagh McDonald	24	United Kingdom	Shelagh McDonald, a Scottish folk singer and songwriter, who vanished in 1971. Following the reissue of two of her albums on CD in the mid-2000s, articles were written about her work and disappearance. In 2005, McDonald read one of these articles and contacted the press to explain that following an LSD trip, which had left her with long-term severe flashbacks and disorientation, she had returned to her family who kept her isolated while she recovered.	Found alive	34 years
1971	Rubens Paiva	42	Brazil	Brazilian civil engineer, politician and congressman for the Chamber of Deputies who was arrested by police on January 20, 1971, for opposing the military dictatorship. He was then tortured and killed, and his body was never located.	Murdered	Never found
1971	Philip Kovolick	63	United States of America	New York mobster and associate of Lepke Buchalter who disappeared on April 8, 1971, in Miami, while expecting extradition to his home state on various charges. His body was later found sealed in a steel drum at the bottom of a rock pit in Hallandale Beach. His killer, John Alvin Baxter, was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder, but it was later reduced to life imprisonment.	Murdered	21 days
1971	Carol Denise Spinks	13	United States of America	Spinks was the first known victim of an unidentified serial killer known as the Freeway Phantom. Spinks was abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered while walking home from a grocery store; her body was found six days later on an embankment behind Southeast Washington, D.C. alongside I-295.	Murdered	6 days
1971	Colette Anise Wilson	13	United States of America	13-year-old Colette Anise Wilson disappeared from the Alvin Bus Stop on County Road 99 and Highway 6 in Alvin, Texas after she was dropped off by her band director on June 17, 1971. Wilson's body was found five months later on November 26, 1971, near the Addicks Reservoir. She had been shot in the head.	Murdered	5 months
1971	Darlenia Denise Johnson	16	United States of America	The second known victim of the Freeway Phantom. Johnson was abducted was abducted while en route to her summer job at a recreation center. Her body was discovered on July 19 just 15 feet (4.6 meters) from where victim Carol Spinks had been discovered two months previously.	Murdered	11 days
1971	Joyce Margaret LePage	21	United States of America	Last seen in the grounds of Washington State University. Her skeletal remains were found wrapped in two blankets and discarded in a ravine south of Pullman, Washington, on April 16, 1972. Serial killer Ted Bundy is considered a suspect in LePage's murder, although he denied any culpability in this case. Her murder remains unsolved.	Murdered	9 months
1971	Rhonda Johnson	13	United States of America	Rhonda Renee Johnson and Sharon Lynn Shaw were two teenage girls who disappeared in Harris County, Texas, on the afternoon of August 4, 1971. In early 1972, skeletal remains of both girls were discovered in and around Clear Lake near Galveston Bay. A local man, Michael Lloyd Self, was charged with their murders in 1972 and convicted of Shaw's murder in 1975. Controversy arose in 1998 when serial killer Edward Harold Bell confessed to the murders. Bell's confession—and corroborating statements from both law enforcement and prosecutors that Self had been coerced into a false confession—led many to believe that Self had been wrongfully convicted. Self died in prison of cancer in 2000.	Murdered	~6 months
	Sharon Shaw	14	United States of America
1971	Wayne Joseph Dukette	30	United States of America	A Sunset Beach bartender and first suspected victim of serial killer Randy Kraft. Dukette's nude and putrefied body was discovered at the bottom of a ravine close to the Ortega Highway. His cause of death was undetermined, although his high blood alcohol content indicated alcohol poisoning as a likely cause of death.	Murdered	15 days
1971	Gloria Ann Gonzales	19	United States of America	19-year-old Gloria Ann Gonzales was last seen alive near her apartment in Houston, Texas on October 28, 1971. On November 23, 1971, Gonzales's skeletal remains were found near Addicks Reservoir in the area where the body of 13-year-old Colette Anise Wilson was also found. Gonzales had died from blunt force trauma to the head.	Murdered	3 weeks
1971	Allison Anne Craven	12	United States of America	12-year-old Allison Anne Craven was reported missing by her mother on November 9, 1971, when she returned home to their apartment in Houston, Texas near Interstate 45 after completing shopping errands for one hour. Three months later, police found partial remains in a nearby field – two hands along with bones from an arm and some teeth. On February 25, 1972, the rest of Craven's skeleton was found in a Pearland, Texas field, also near Interstate 45 and ten miles from where she was last seen.	Murdered	3 months

1972

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1972	Timothy McCoy	16	United States of America	An American teenager who disappeared in Chicago, Illinois on January 2, 1972, after encountering a man named John Wayne Gacy. A few hours later, in the early hours of January 3, 1972, McCoy was stabbed to death by Gacy and was buried in the crawl space of his home. Gacy would go on to become a serial killer, murdering, raping and torturing at least 32 more victims between 1974 and 1978. McCoy's corpse was not found for nearly seven years until December 1978, where his body along with several others were recovered and was conclusively identified on May 9, 1986, via dental records, 14 years after his death.	Murdered	14 years
1972	Barbara Ann Derry	18	United States of America	A Vancouver, Washington hitchhiker last seen alive on February 11, 1972. Derry is suspected of being a victim of serial killer Warren Forrest. Her stabbed body was discovered within a gristmill silo in Woodland on March 29 and was identified on April 3.	Murdered	7 weeks
1972	Michael Blassie	24	South Vietnam	Blassie was an American Air Force officer and pilot from the 8th Special Operations Squadron, who was dispatched to South Vietnam in 1972. During the Battle of An Lộc, his A-37B Dragonfly was shot down, killing him instantly. His remains were found, but could not be identified and were interred at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. He was finally identified via DNA testing in 1998.	Killed in action	26 years
1972	Oberdan Sallustro	56–57	Argentina	Oberdan Sallustro was an Italian-Paraguayan Director General of FIAT Concord in Argentina as well as an entrepreneur who was kidnapped by six people on March 21, 1972 and found dead on April 10, 1972, after being murdered.	Murdered	more than 20 days
1972	Barbara Storm	20	West Germany	Barbara Storm was a young German woman from Schüttorf who disappeared on 13 May 1972 was found dead on 17 May 1972 in a forest that was close to Schöppingen after being beaten and strangled. She is believed to have murdered by the "Münsterland Killer".	Murdered	4 days
1972	Kerry May-Hardy	22	United States of America	Abducted while hitchhiking from Capitol Hill, near Seattle in June 1972. Her skeletal remains were discovered by construction workers buried close to a golf course in Roslyn on September 6, 2010. May-Hardy's murder has been linked to serial killer Ted Bundy, although he never confessed to her murder.	Murdered	38 years
1972	Dolores Della Penna	17	United States of America	Dolores Della Penna was a schoolgirl from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania who went missing on July 11, 1972. Her limbs and torso were later found in different parts of New Jersey a week later, but her head was never found. She had allegedly been abducted by a gang of drug dealers who accused her of stealing from them.	Murdered	7 days
1972	Steven Kent Sickman	17	United States of America	Steven Kent Sickman was a 17-year-old teenager who was murdered by serial killer Dean Corll on July 19, 1972. He was not identified until 2011.	Murdered	41 years
1972	Jeannette DePalma	16	United States of America	Jeannette DePalma was a girl who disappeared on August 7, 1972, after telling her mother she was going to visit a friend. Her body was discovered on September 19, 1972, and it is believed she was killed some time around August 7 in Springfield Township, New Jersey.	Murdered	43 days
1972	Susan Carol Place	17	United States of America	17-year-old Susan Carol Place and 16-year-old Georgia Marie Jessup both disappeared on September 27, 1972, after encountering Gerard John Schaefer at an adult education center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Place and Jessup told the former's mother that they wanted to go to the beach with Schaefer. The girls were reported missing after not returning home within four days. On April 1, 1973, the remains of Place and Jessup were discovered in Port St. Lucie; they were formally identified via dental records on April 5. On May 18, Schaefer was formally charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of Place and Jessup. He was found guilty and sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment.	Murdered	6 months
	Georgia Marie Jessup	16	United States of America
1972	Mary Alice Briscolina	14	United States of America	14-year-old Mary Alice Briscolina and 13-year-old Elsie Lina Farmer both disappeared while hitchhiking to a Commercial Boulevard restaurant from a Lauderdale-by-the-Sea motel on October 26, 1972. Their bodies were discovered separately in undergrowth close to Sunrise Boulevard in January and February of the following year. Both girls had been bludgeoned to death and likely raped. Briscolina and Farmer may have been victims of Gerard John Schaefer, a serial killer active in Florida.	Murdered	3 months
	Elsie Lina Farmer	13	United States of America			4 months
1972	Steven Stayner	7	United States of America	Steven Stayner was abducted from the Central California city and county of Merced, California on December 4, 1972, by a man named Kenneth Parnell. He escaped on March 1, 1980, with Timothy White who was also abducted by Parnell.	Found alive	7 years

1973

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1973	Malika Oufkir	20	Morocco	Daughter of General Mohamed Oufkir who was detained along with most of her family under arrest from 1973 to 1991, due to her father's actions against in the 1972 coup d'état attempt. A few years after her release, she emigrated to France and became a writer.	Found alive	18 years
1973	Paul Martin Andrews	14	United States of America	Andrews was kidnapped from his family home in Portsmouth, Virginia on January 11, 1973, by pedophile Richard Ausley, who stuffed him in a wooden box and only brought him out when he wanted to assault him. On the eight-day, Ausley left Andrews unattended, giving him enough time to call for help, drawing the attention of two hunters who rescued him. Ausley later turned himself in and was sentenced to 48 years' imprisonment, while Andrews later became an advocate for rape survivors.	Found alive	8 days
1973	Dawn Magyar	20	United States of America	Dawn Magyar was abducted while she was grocery shopping in Owosso, Michigan in Shiawassee County on January 27, 1973, and her body was discovered in a wooded area in Saginaw County, Michigan on March 4, 1973. The case was resolved 28 years after her body was found when a DNA match was made of her killer.	Murdered	36 days
1973	Joseph Allen Lyles	17	United States of America	Lyles was abducted and murdered by serial killer Dean Corll on February 1, 1973. His body was buried on a stretch of beach in Jefferson County, Texas, although his remains were only discovered in 1983. Lyles's body was identified in November 2009, although as several bones were never recovered, his actual cause of death was never established.	Murdered	36 years
1973	Lynda Gough	19	United Kingdom	Gloucester woman who disappeared in April 1973. She had been a lodger of a couple called Fred and Rose West. Following her disappearance, Gough's mother travelled to the home of the Wests to enquire as to her daughter's whereabouts, only to find Rose wearing her daughter's clothes and slippers. In 1994, Gough's body was found buried at the home during investigations into the disappearance of the couple's daughter. Fred and Rose West were found to have murdered 12 young women between them and buried most at the home.	Murdered	21 years
1973	Marlies Hemmers	18	West Germany	Marlies Hemmers was a female German high school student who disappeared in from Nordhorn, Hemmers on 6 August 1973 and her remains were found on 22 December 1973 across from a horse breeding ground in a small wood. Since her body had decayed it could not be determined what her death cause was. It is believed though that she may have been murdered by the "Münsterland Killer".	Died (undetermined cause)	Less than six months
1973	John Paul Getty III	16	Italy	A grandson of American oil tycoon J. Paul Getty. Getty was kidnapped within the Piazza Farnese in July 1973 in Rome and held captive for five months. A $17 million ransom was demanded for his safe release. When Getty's grandfather refused to pay this sum (stating his fear that if he did so all 13 of his grandchildren might become kidnapping targets), his captors severed one of his ears, which they posted to a local newspaper. Following a $2.2 million ransom payment, Getty was released by his captors in December. He later suffered from drug- and alcohol-related issues caused in part by the trauma of his ordeal; becoming a partially blind quadriplegic by 1981. He died in 2011.	Found alive	Five months
1973	Peter Wilson	21	United Kingdom	Peter Wilson was an Irish man who was abducted on August 1, 1973, and killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. After receiving reliable information his remains were found on November 2, 2010, buried at a beach in Waterfoot, County Antrim.	Murdered	37 years
1973	Kim Dae-jung	49	Japan	South Korean dissident leader who was kidnapped by the KCIA on August 8, 1973, during a conference in Tokyo, Japan. Dae-jung was drugged and moved from Japan to South Korea, but was eventually rescued by the Japanese authorities.	Found alive	5 days
1973	Brian McDermott	10	United Kingdom	Young Northern Irish child who disappeared from Belfast on 2 September 1973. His body was found a week after he went missing in a sack in the River Lagan. His murder remains unsolved but his brother is the prime suspect in the case.	Murdered	7 days
1973	Carol Ann Cooper	15	United Kingdom	Cooper was a child that was staying at a Worcester children's home. On 10 November 1973, she was allowed to travel to visit her grandmother but disappeared after boarding a bus back to the home. Extensive police enquiries failed to locate her. In 1994, her body was found in the cellar of notorious serial killers Fred and Rose West. She had been abducted by them during her journey and murdered.	Murdered	21 years
1973	Thomas Niedermayer	45	United Kingdom	German industrialist and managing director of a Grundig factory in Belfast, Northern Ireland who was kidnapped and subsequently killed by the Provisional IRA on December 27, 1973. His body was located by the Royal Ulster Constabulary in March 1980.	Murdered	7 years
1973	Lisa Ann French	9	United States of America	Kidnapped, sexually assaulted and ultimately murdered by her neighbor, Gerald Miles Turner Jr., while out trick-or-treating on Halloween. French's body was later found stuffed in a garbage bag in a field near Taycheedah, Wisconsin.	Murdered	4 days
1973	Svante Grände	26	Chile	Swedish aid worker who disappeared in Southern Chile following the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. He later resurfaced in Argentina, as part of a guerilla group fighting against the regime of Augusto Pinochet.	Found alive	Unknown
1973	Maurício Grabois	61	Brazil	Brazilian politician and founder of the Communist Party of Brazil who later started recruiting guerilla fighters to fight against the government. According to military reports, he was killed in Tocantins on December 25, 1973, but his body was never recovered.	Murdered	Never found
1973	Lucy Partington	21	United Kingdom	21-year-old University of Exeter student Lucy Partington, cousin of writer Martin Amis, disappeared from a bus stop on the night of December 27, 1973. At 9am on March 6, 1994, her remains were found buried under the cellar at 25 Cromwell Street Gloucester, the home of notorious serial killers Fred and Rose West. It is believed she had been tortured, sexually abused and then murdered around January 2, 1974, as Fred West checked himself into Gloucester Hospital with a serious wound to his right hand that needed several stitches at 12.25am on January 3, 1974 that was probably received while he dismembered her body. Seventy-two of her bones had been removed by West.	Murdered	20 years

1974

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1974	Hernán Valdés	40	Chile	Hernán Valdés was a Chilean writer kidnapped by civilian agents in a case of mistaken identity following Augusto Pinochet's coup d'état in February 1974. After spending more than a month in prison, where he was tortured by the guards, he was released and fled to Europe, where he would later write a book on the Chilean dictatorship.	Found alive	1 month
1974	Carol Platt Valenzuela	20	United States of America	Carol Platt Valenzuela disappeared on August 4, 1974, during a hitchhiking journey from Camas, Washington to Vancouver. A married woman and mother to two young children, she had no known involvement in prostitution or any documented criminal history. A hunter found her skeletal remains in the Dole Valley, just outside Vancouver, on October 12, 1974. Interestingly, her remains were located in close proximity to those of Morrison.	Died (unknown cause)	2 months and 8 days
1974	Carla Walker	17	United States of America	Student who was kidnapped from her boyfriend's car in Fort Worth on February 17, 1974. Her body, showing signs of rape, torture and strangulation, was found in a drainage ditch three days later. Her killer, Glen Samuel McCurley, was identified via DNA in 2020 and sentenced to life imprisonment.	Murdered	3 days
1974	Therese Siegenthaler	21	United Kingdom	Woman who disappeared while hitchhiking from London to Ireland during Easter 1974. A police investigation that lasted a number of years failed to find her. In 1994 her body was found in the Gloucester home of serial killers Fred and Rose West. They had abducted and murdered her, along with 11 other women.	Murdered	20 years
1974	Lynda Ann Healy	21	United States of America	Victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. Healy was beaten unconscious, and Bundy dressed her in her blue jeans, a white blouse, and boots; and was carried away by him. She was then decapitated and dismembered post-mortem and her mandible was recovered at Taylor Mountain, Washington site in 1975 and was matched through dental records.	Murdered	Body found in 1975
1974	Donna Gail Manson	19	United States of America	Victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. Manson was abducted while she was walking to a concert at Evergreen State College and her body was left (according to Bundy) at Taylor Mountain site and she was never found.	Murdered	15 years
1974	Susan Elaine Rancourt	18	United States of America	Victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. Rancourt disappeared after attending an evening advisors' meeting at Central Washington State College; her skull and mandible were recovered at Taylor Mountain site in 1975.	Murdered	Rediscovered in 1975
1974	Quek Lee Eng	53	Singapore	On 9 May 1974, 53-year-old Quek Lee Eng mysteriously disappeared after she last departed her home to go to her sister-in-law's house, and she was reported missing by her family. Two days later, a severed pair of legs belonging to Quek were discovered at a disused toilet in a mosque at Aljunied, and the police arrested 44-year-old Sim Joo Keow, Quek's sister-in-law who was the last person together with Quek before she went missing. Sim later confessed that she strangled Quek after they argued over a S$2,000 debt which Sim owed to Quek. Quek's upper and lower torso were both found hidden in the earthen jars placed in Sim's house, and a parcel containing Quek's severed head and arms was also found alongside Kallang River. Originally charged with murder, Sim pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter and concealing evidence, and sentenced to ten years in jail on 27 January 1975.	Murdered	2 days
1974	Gloria Nadine Knutson	19	United States of America	A student who disappeared while walking home from a Vancouver, Washington nightclub on May 31, 1974. Her body was discovered close to Lacamas Lake in May 1978. She is strongly believed to have been murdered by suspected serial killer Warren Forrest.	Murdered	4 years
1974	John Hely-Hutchinson, 7th Earl of Donoughmore	71	Ireland	Lord Donoughmore was a former Member of Parliament (MP). He and his wife were kidnapped from Knocklofty House, Clonmel in the Republic of Ireland in June 1974 by the IRA. The objective behind their kidnapping was to add pressure on both the British and Irish Governments to address the demands of IRA prisoners on hunger strike in British prisons. Both were held captive for five days before being released unharmed by their captors.	Found alive	5 days
1974	David Kraiselburd	62	Argentina	Argentine journalist who condemned the actions of both right and left-wing paramilitary organizations during the Dirty War in 1974. On June 25, 1974, he was kidnapped by the Montoneros, a left-wing paramilitary organization, and later killed by them when police raided their hideout.	Murdered	Less than 1 month
1974	Denise Marie Naslund	19	United States of America	Victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. Naslund was abducted four hours after Ott from Lake Sammamish State Park in Issaquah; her skeletal remains were recovered at the Issaquah site in 1974.	Murdered	Body found in 1974
1974	Ruth Marie Terry	37	United States of America	On July 26, 1974, the decomposing body of a woman was found by a 12-year-old girl in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The woman, who is believed to have died from a blow to the head, was missing both hands, a forearm, and several teeth. The body was exhumed in 1980, 2000, and 2013 in unsuccessful efforts to identify the woman. On October 31, 2022, the FBI announced the identification of the decedent as 37-year-old Ruth Marie Terry, who had been reported missing by her husband in the summer of 1974. Terry's murder remains unsolved.	Murdered	48 years
1974	Inshirah Moussa	36–37	Egypt	Moussa and her partner, Ibrahim Shaheen, were an Egyptian couple who, from June 1967, worked for the Israeli intelligence service Mossad. Both were arrested by Egyptian Intelligence Services in August 1974; each was tried and sentenced to death by hanging. Shaheen was executed in 1977, whereas Moussa was pardoned following an appeal to Anwar Sadat by Israeli authorities the same year. Moussa subsequently disappeared and then relocated to Israel with her three children. She later converted to Judaism.	Released	3 years
1974	Linda Pagano	17	United States of America	Pagano was a teenager who disappeared from Akron, Ohio on September 1, 1974, following a fight with her stepfather, Byron Claflin, the previous night. Initially, law enforcement thought Pagano had run away. On February 5, 1975, an unidentified partial skeleton was found in Strongsville, Ohio. The skeleton belonged to a young white female, and the cause of death had been a gunshot to the head. The case was never connected with Pagano, and due to a clerical error, the unidentified body was never added to NamUs or other databases of unidentified. In 2016, the skeleton was rediscovered by an amateur genealogist looking through records of the cemetery where the young woman was buried. In 2018, forensic DNA analysis confirmed the remains found in 1975 as belonging to Pagano. The key suspect in her case has since died.	Murdered	44 years
1974	The Cowden family	Various	United States of America	On September 1, 1974, the Cowden family mysteriously vanished from a campground in Copper, Oregon. Their bodies were found Carberry Creek, with the adults shot in the head, one of the children bludgeoned and the other dead from an unknown cause. Convicted murderer Dwaine Little is the prime suspect in the murders, but has never been charged.	Murdered	7 months
1974	Martha Morrison	17	United States of America	Martha Morrison disappeared some time in September 1974. On October 12, 1974, the remains of two women were found in Dole Valley near Vancouver, Washington. One victim was quickly identified as Carol Platt Valenzuela, who had been reported missing, but the other set remained unidentified. In 2015 Martha Morrison's remains were identified by means of DNA profiling after they were found to have been mislabeled by the police as Carol Platt Valenzuela.	Murdered	40 years
1974	Brooks Bracewell	12	United States of America	12-year-old Brooks Bracewell and 14-year-old Georgia Caroline Geer were both last seen at the UtoteM convenience store off of Interstate 45 on September 6, 1974. Though some remains were discovered by police in Alvin, Texas in 1976, they remained unidentified until April 1981.	Murdered	6 years
	Georgia Caroline Geer	14	United States of America
1974	Arlis Kay Perry	19	United States of America	A 19-year-old American newlywed who was murdered inside Stanford Memorial Church, within the grounds of Stanford University in California, on October 12, 1974. Her body was discovered displayed in a ritualistic and degrading position close to the altar of the church the following day. Her alleged murderer was identified via DNA profiling in 2018, but died by suicide before he was apprehended.	Murdered	1 day
1974	Melissa Anne Smith	17	United States of America	Victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. Smith vanished from Midvale, Utah and her body was found nine days later on a hillside in Summit Park. She was beaten, raped, sodomized, and strangled with nylon stockings. Bundy shampooed Smith's hair and applied makeup to her post-mortem.	Murdered	Body found on October 27, 1974
1974	Laura Ann Aime	17	United States of America	Victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. Aime disappeared from Lehi, Utah, her body discovered by hikers in American Fork Canyon roughly a month later. She was beaten, raped, sodomized, and strangled with nylon stockings. Bundy shampooed Aime's hair and applied makeup to her post-mortem.	Murdered	Body found on November 28, 1974
1974	Shirley Hubbard	15	United Kingdom	Girl who disappeared from Worcester, England on 14 November 1974 while walking home from work. Police investigations failed to find any trace of her. In 1994 her body was found buried at the home of notorious Gloucester serial killers Fred and Rose West, who in total killed 12 women. Hubbard had been abducted by them in their car and murdered.	Murdered	20 years
1974	Mohamed Azad Mohamed Hussein	29	Singapore	Mohamed Azad went missing in Singapore on 16 November 1974, after he last went to his fiancée's house to meet his future father-in-law. Five days later, his body was discovered inside a gunny sack washed up the shore of Kallang Basin, with severe open wounds on his head, indicating that he had been murdered. Nadarajah Govindasamy, a businessman and father of Mohamed Azad's fiancée, was charged with the murder, and later sentenced in August 1975 to execution by hanging at Changi Prison on 28 January 1977.	Murdered	Five days
1974	Betty Van Patter	45	United States of America	Van Patter was a bookkeeper for the Black Panther Party who disappeared on December 13, 1974, and her body later found on a beach in the San Francisco Bay. It's believed she was murdered by party members when she threatened to reveal that they had major tax problems, but nobody has been charged in her murder to this day.	Murdered	5 weeks
1974	Janet Lesley Stewart	15	United Kingdom	British schoolgirl who went missing from Manchester on New Year's Eve, 1974. Two years later police found the dismembered body of a woman on waste ground in the Newton Heath area of the city, which was identified as Stewart's. She and two other women in Manchester had been killed by serial killer Trevor Hardy.	Murdered	2 years

1975

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1975	Lesley Whittle	17	United Kingdom	Whittle was a British heiress who was kidnapped and held for ransom at a drainage reservoir at Bathpool Park by serial killer Donald Neilson on January 14, 1975. She was killed on the same day, but her body was found months later. Neilson would later be convicted of her and another three murders, receiving four life sentences.	Murdered	2 months
1975	Marcia Trimble	9	United States of America	Girl Scout who was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and finally strangled while delivering cookies in Nashville, Tennessee on February 25, 1975. Her body was found on Easter Sunday, but her murder remained unsolved until 2008, when Jerome Sidney Barrett was convicted and sentenced to 44 years' imprisonment for her murder.	Murdered	33 days
1975	Caryn Eileen Campbell	23	United States of America	Victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. On January 12, a registered nurse named Caryn Eileen Campbell disappeared while walking down a well-lit hallway between the elevator and her room at the Wildwood Inn (now the Wildwood Lodge) in Snowmass Village, 400 miles (640 km) southeast of Salt Lake City. Her nude body was found a month later next to a dirt road just outside the resort. She had been killed by blows to her head from a blunt instrument that left distinctive linear grooved depressions on her skull; her body also bore deep cuts from a sharp weapon.	Murdered	36 days later
1975	Julie Cunningham	26	United States of America	Victim of serial killer Ted Bundy. On March 15, 100 miles (160 km) northeast of Snowmass, Vail ski instructor Julie Cunningham, disappeared while walking from her apartment to a dinner date with a friend. Bundy later told Colorado investigators that he approached Cunningham on crutches and asked her to help carry his ski boots to his car, where he clubbed and handcuffed her before sexually assaulting and strangling her at a secondary site near Rifle, 90 miles (140 km) west of Vail. Weeks later, he made the six-hour drive from Salt Lake City to revisit her remains.	Murdered	15 years
1975	Katherine Lyon	10	United States of America	Katherine and Sheila Lyon disappeared on March 25, 1975 while walking home from a nearby mall in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. In 2014 Lloyd Lee Welch, a criminal serving time in a Delaware prison for molesting a child in that state, became a person of interest after cold-case investigators in Montgomery County, Maryland followed up on an interview he gave to a detective at the time of the girls' disappearance. In 2015 Welch was formally indicted and in September 2017, he pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree murder "for the abduction and killing of Katherine and Shelia Lyon in 1975". Police said he had burned their bodies.	Murdered	40 years
	Sheila Lyon	12	United States of America			40 years
1975	Sharron Prior	16	Canada	Sharron Prior was Canadian teenage girl who was abducted on March 29, 1975 from the Pointe-Saint-Charles area in Montreal, Quebec. and was found dead three days later after being murdered.	Murdered	3 days
1975	Melanie Suzanne Cooley	18	United States of America	A high school student who vanished after leaving Nederland High School in Nederland, Colorado on April 15, 1975. Her body was discovered in Coal Creek Canyon on May 2. She had been bludgeoned with a large rock and strangled. Cooley's murder has been tentatively linked to Ted Bundy, although her murder remains an open case.	Murdered	17 days
1975	Priscilla Ann Blevins	27	United States of America	Priscilla Ann Blevins was a 27-year-old woman who was last seen alive at her home in Charlotte, North Carolina on July 7, 1975. Her remains were discovered nearly a decade later along Interstate 40 in Waynesville, North Carolina on March 29, 1985. Blevins remained unidentified for an additional 27 years; her identity was determined via DNA and dental records in 2012.	Murdered	37 years
1975	John Butkovich	18	United States of America	A PDM Contractors employee who vanished without a trace in July 1975. The day before his disappearance, Butkovich confronted John Wayne Gacy about overdue wages. Gacy strangled Butkovich to death on July 31, 1975, and buried him under the concrete floor of the tool room extension of his garage. Butkovich's remains were recovered on December 22, 1978; his body was conclusively identified on December 29, 1978.	Murdered	3 years
1975	Helen Bailey	8	United Kingdom	British child Helen Bailey disappeared while playing near her home in Great Barr, Birmingham, on 10 August 1975. The next day her body was found on a farm, her throat had been cut. An inquest in 1976 concluded she may have died as a result of an "accident or practical joke gone wrong", but it has since come to light that she was strangled before her throat was cut and her case has been reclassified as murder. No one has been convicted of her murder as of 2021, despite a prisoner making a plausible confession in 1979.	Murdered	1 day
1975	Margaret Fetterolf	16	United States of America	Student and frequent runaway who vanished from her home in Alexandria, Virginia in the summer of 1975. Her body was found on September 11, 1976, in Woodlawn, Maryland, showing signs of sexual assault and strangulation, but her killer(s) have not been arrested. She was not immediately identified, and was known as "Woodlawn Jane Doe" until her positive identification in 2021.	Murdered	45 years
1975	Linda Kay Harmon	17	United States of America	Harmon was the first victim of serial killer Larry Ralston; she disappeared on her way to school. Her skeletal remains were discovered one month later.	Murdered	1 month
1975	Pat Lowther	40	Canada	Pat Lowther was a Canadian poet from Vancouver, British Columbia who disappeared on September 24, 1975. Her body was found three weeks later in a creek near Squamish, British Columbia and her husband was convicted in 1977 of killing her.	Murdered	3 weeks
1975	Tiede Herrema	54	Ireland	Dutch businessman who ran a factory in Limerick, Ireland, who was abducted by the Provisional IRA near his home in Castletroy on October 3, 1975. He was held in a house in Monasterevin during a two-week standoff between his kidnappers and the police, but was eventually released without incident.	Found alive	2 weeks
1975	Lesley Molseed	11	United Kingdom	Molseed was an English girl who was kidnapped from her home in Rochdale, and subsequently sexually assaulted and murdered by her abductor. Molseed's body was found three days later, and a mentally ill man was erroneously convicted of her murder but later exonerated in 1992. Molseed's actual killer, Ronald Castree, was identified via DNA evidence in 2006, and sentenced to life imprisonment.	Murdered	3 days
1975	Anna Mae Aquash	30	United States of America	The body of Native American civil rights activist Anna Mae Aquash was found at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota on February 24, 1976. She had been missing for two months.	Murdered	2 months
1975	Stephen Menheniott	18	United Kingdom	Menheniott, a British teenager with severe learning difficulties, disappeared from his home on the Isles of Scilly on Christmas Day 1975. His parents claimed he had gone to the mainland to visit a girlfriend, but his dentist had been troubled by the injuries he had seen on Menheniott and reported his concerns to the police. His body was found on 1 March 1977, crudely buried in the local graveyard. He had been murdered by his abusive parents, most likely in the first weeks of 1976. The case gained notoriety because it was a rare example of murder on the islands.	Murdered	2 years
1975	Terry Peder Rasmussen	32	United States of America	Terry Peder Rasmussen was last seen by his family in Christmas of 1975 or 1976 with an unidentified woman. Rasmussen, under multiple aliases, would go on to commit numerous crimes, including the Bear Brook murders and the murder of his wife Eunsoon Jun. While serving a 15 years to life in prison for Jun's murder, Rasmussen died in 2010 under a pseudonym. His name would not be tied to the Bear Brook murders until 2017, and his real name would also not be revealed until later that year through the use of Y-DNA testing.	Died in prison	42 years

1976

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1976	Deborah Diane Smith	17	United States of America	17-year-old Deborah Diane Smith disappeared in Salt Lake City, Utah in early February 1976. Her body was discovered by a Utah Power and Light worker checking on poles in an open pasture near Salt Lake City International Airport on April 1, 1976. Serial killer Ted Bundy is believed by some to be responsible for Smith's homicide, though he was never convicted of this murder.	Murdered	2 months
1976	Franz Jalics	49	Argentina	Hungarian Jesuit priest kidnapped by a death squad in Argentina during the Dirty War. He and another hostage, Orlando Yorio, were held captive for five months before being released by their captors.	Found alive	5 months
1976	P. Rajan	Unknown	India	Student at the National Institute of Technology Calicut who was abducted and tortured by Indian police on March 1, 1976, succumbing to his injuries. His remains were never retrieved, despite repeated inquiries from his family which brought the case to national attention.	Murdered	Never found
1976	Guillermo Vargas Aignasse	33	Argentina	Argentine Peronist politician who served as the Provincial Senator for the Tucumán Province until the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, when he was abducted by security forces. He has never been found, but two officers were later convicted of his suspected murder and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2008.	Murdered	Never found
1976	Darrell Samson	18	United States of America	Darrell Samson was last seen alive on April 6, 1976, in Chicago, Illinois. That same day, he was kidnapped and murdered by John Wayne Gacy. Gacy buried him underneath his dining room, with cloth lodged in his throat.	Murdered	3 years
1976	John Roselli	71	United States of America	A mobster in the Chicago Outfit, on April 23, 1976, Roselli was called before the committee to testify about a conspiracy to kill President John F. Kennedy. Three months after his first round of testimony, the Committee wanted to recall Roselli, only to learn he had been missing since July 28, 1976. On August 3, Senator Howard Baker, a member of the new SSCIA, requested that the FBI investigate Roselli's disappearance. On August 9, 1976, Roselli's decomposing body was found by a fisherman in a 55-gallon steel fuel drum floating in Dumfoundling Bay near Miami, Florida.	Murdered	12 days
1976	Randall Reffett	15	United States of America	On May 14, 1976, Randall Reffett disappeared in Chicago, Illinois, shortly after returning home from a dental appointment. Just hours after Reffett was last seen alive, Samuel Stapleton also vanished without a trace as he walked home from his sister's apartment; the two teenagers were close acquaintaces with each other. They were both murdered by John Wayne Gacy in the same evening and buried underneath his crawl space.	Murdered	2 years
	Samuel Stapleton	14				3 years
1976	Margarita Trlin	21	Argentina	Argentine architect who was kidnapped in August 1976 during the Dirty War and held in various detention centers, where she was physically and mentally tortured by military officers. She was later released following an Executive Decree.	Found alive	7 months
1976	Nancy Lourie Grigsby	22	United States of America	A victim of serial killer Larry Ralston. Grigsby is believed to have been abducted while hitchhiking in Clifton, Ohio on May 4, 1976. Her skeletal remains were discovered in woodland in Clermont County six months later. Grigsby's murderer is known to have become acquainted with her through drinking at a tavern frequented by both in the year prior to her disappearance.	Murdered	6 months
1976	Michael Bonnin	17	United States of America	On June 3, 1976, Michael Bonnin disappeared while traveling from Chicago to Waukegan. He was killed by John Wayne Gacy, who strangled with him a ligature and buried him underneath his spare bedroom.	Murdered	2 years
1976	David Stack	18	United States of America	Stack was a hitchhiker who was killed on June 9, 1976, by unknown assailants while travelling from Colorado to Utah, with his body found one day later in rural Tooele County. His body remained unidentified until 2015, and his killers remain unknown.	Murdered	39 years
1976	William Carroll Jr.	16	United States of America	On June 13, 1976, John Wayne Gacy lured teenager William Carroll Jr. to his home; he was never seen alive again. Gacy shortly thereafter murdered him. Carroll was buried in a common grave in Gacy's crawl space.	Murdered	2 years
1976	Dora Bloch	74–75	Uganda	Bloch was an Israeli-British citizen who was held hostage during the hijacking of Air France Flight 139 on June 27, 1976. She suffered an illness during the process and the plane was landed in Kampala, Uganda for treatment, but an indeterminate amount of time later, Bloch's body was found in a sugar plantation. It was determined that she had been killed on orders of then-President Idi Amin.	Murdered	Unknown
1976	Carol Ann Park	30	United Kingdom	British woman who went missing from her Cumbria home on 17 July 1976. Her husband, Gordon Park, did not report her disappearance for six weeks, claiming she had gone to live with another man. In 1997 amateur divers found her body in Coniston Water, where Park was known to sail, and her case became known as the "Lady in the Lake". Gordon Park was convicted of her murder.	Murdered	21 years
1976	Cecelia Genatiempo	17	United States of America	High school student abducted, raped and murdered by serial killer John W. Hopkins. Her body was buried in a shallow grave, and was discovered by hunters three months later.	Murdered	3 months
1976	James Haakenson	16	United States of America	On August 5, 1976, James Haakenson was last heard phoning his family, possibly from John Wayne Gacy's home shortly before his murder. Haakenson died of suffocation. He remained unidentified for four whole decades, before his identification on July 19, 2017.	Murdered	40 years
1976	Rick Johnston	17	United States of America	On August 6, 1976, just 24 hours after the murder of James Haakenson, Rick Johnston was also murdered by John Wayne Gacy. His body was buried in Gacy's crawl space on top of Haakenson's body.	Murdered	2 years
1976	Kenneth Parker	16	United States of America	On October 24, 1976, teenage friends Kenneth Parker and Michael Marino disappeared after last being seen on Clark Street in Chicago, Illinois. They were abducted and killed by John Wayne Gacy.	Murdered	3 years
	Michael Marino	14
1976	William Bundy	19	United States of America	On October 26, 1976, two days after the deaths of Kenneth Parker and Michael Marino, construction worker William Bundy also disappeared after informing his family he was to attend a party. He was suffocated by John Wayne Gacy. He remained identified for 35 years before his November 2011 identification.	Murdered	35 years
1976	Renee MacRae	36	United Kingdom	Scottish woman Renee MacRae and her son Andrew were last seen on 12 November 1976. Their bodies have never been found. In September 2022, William MacDowell was found guilty of the murder of MacRae and her son and sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison.	Murdered	Not found
	Andrew MacRae	3	United Kingdom
1976	Francis Alexander	21	United States of America	Sometime around c. December 1, 1976, Francis Alexander was murdered by John Wayne Gacy. His last contact with his family was a phone call to his mother sometime in November and his family did not report him missing as they believed he had moved to California shortly thereafter and started afresh. He remained unidentified for 44 years before having his identity confirmed on October 25, 2021.	Murdered	44 years
1976	George Seitz	81	United States of America	George Seitz was an American military veteran of World War I who disappeared on December 10, 1976, in Jamaica in New York City after he was murdered. Some of his remains were discovered and identified in 2019. Martin Motta pleaded guilty to his murder in October 2022, and received a 20-year sentence.	Murdered	43 years
1976	Gregory Godzik	17	United States of America	In December 1976, Gregory Godzik disappeared. He was last seen alive by his girlfriend outside her house. Godzik had started working for John Wayne Gacy less than three weeks before his disappearance; he was later murdered by Gacy on December 12, 1976. Godzik's car was later found abandoned and his family had contacted Gacy about Godzik's disappearance, with Gacy claiming that Godzik had expressed desire to run away from home; he also claimed to have received an answering machine message from Godzik shortly after he had disappeared. When asked if he could play the message for Godzik's parents, Gacy said he had erased it.	Murdered	2 years
1976	Evelyn Colon	15	United States of America	The dismembered remains of Colon, a pregnant teenager from New Jersey, were found stuffed in several suitcases in White Haven, Pennsylvania in 1976. She remained unidentified for over four decades, known only as "Beth Doe". In 2021, she was officially identified, and in response, authorities arrested her then-boyfriend, Luis Sierra, and charged him with the murder. He is now awaiting trial for the murder.	Murdered	45 years

1977

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1977	Elaina Marie Bear	15	United States of America	Bear was the fourth victim of serial killer Larry Ralston; she disappeared while hitchhiking home. Her nude, frozen remains were discovered in a Clinton County creek bed six weeks later.	Murdered	Six weeks
1977	John Szyc	19	United States of America	On January 20, 1977, John Syzc was never seen alive again after being lured into John Wayne Gacy's car on the pretext of buying Syzc's Plymouth Satellite. Gacy later confessed to strangling the youth in his spare bedroom, as well as selling Szyc's car to an employee.	Murdered	1 year
1977	Dagmar Hagelin	17	Argentina	Swedish-Argentine teenager who was kidnapped, tortured and later killed by Argentine military officers during the Dirty War on January 27, 1977. Her death is believed to be a result of mistaken identity.	Murdered	Never found
1977	Adriana Calvo	30	Argentina	Physicist, university professor and researcher who was kidnapped and detained by the Argentine military dictatorship on February 4, 1977. She was released together with her newborn daughter on April 28, and was the first witness to testify at the later Trial of the Juntas in 1985.	Found alive	2 months
1977	Jon Prestidge	20	United States of America	On March 15, 1977, Jon Prestidge disappeared and was last seen alive exiting a Near North Side restaurant in Chicago. John Wayne Gacy likely murdered him in the hours that followed. Shortly before his disappearance, Prestidge had mentioned he had obtained work with a local contractor.	Murdered	1 year
1977	Guido De Martino	34	Italy	Italian politician and member of the Socialist Party who was kidnapped and held hostage by the Camorra, but was released after the ransom of one billion lire was paid.	Found alive	6 weeks
1977	Gordon Sanderson	26	Canada	Gordon Sanderson was a migrant worked whose body was found in a septic tank in Lindbrook, Canada on April 13, 1977. He had been shot to death, possibly up to a year before his body was found. Until his identification in 2021, he was referred to as "Septic Tank Sam".	Murdered	44 years
1977	Pilar Calveiro	24	Argentina	Argentine political scientist by a member of the Air Force on May 7, 1977, and held in detention by the military dictatorship. After her release, she went into exile in Mexico, where she has continued work to this day.	Found alive	1 year and a half
1977	Robert Nairac	28	United Kingdom	Nairac was a British Army officer in 14 Intelligence Company who was abducted from a pub in Dromintee, County Armagh, during an undercover operation on May 15, 1977, during his fourth tour of duty in Northern Ireland as a Military Intelligence Liaison Officer. It was later revealed that Nairac was killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Although several individuals were convicted of Nairac's murder, his body has never been found. He is one of three individuals murdered by the IRA whose graves have never been revealed.	Murdered	6 months
1977	Javier Ybarra Bergé	64	Spain	Spanish industrialist and writer who was kidnapped by ETA separatists from his home in Bilbao on May 20, 1977. While he was initially held for ransom, Ybarra was later killed by his captors and his body dumped in a farmhouse, where he was located by authorities. His killers have never been apprehended.	Murdered	1 month
1977	Matthew Bowman	19	United States of America	On July 5, 1977, Matthew Bowman disappeared after his mother last saw him at a suburban train station; he had intended to travel to Harwood Heights, Illinois for a court appointment. Shortly after vanishing, he was killed by John Wayne Gacy.	Murdered	1 year
1977	Elizabeth Roberts	17	United States of America	Elizabeth Roberts, formerly known as "Precious Jane Doe", was a teenage girl who went missing on July 25, 1977 from Roseburg, Oregon and was found dead in Everett, Washington on 14 August 1977 after being murdered. She was not identified until 43 years later.	Murdered	Less than one month
1977	Emanuel Jaques	12	Canada	A 12-year-old Canadian boy of Portuguese ancestry who worked as a shoeshine boy in an impoverished district of Toronto. Jaques was abducted, sexually assaulted and murdered by three men on July 28, 1977. He was murdered approximately twelve hours after his abduction. Three men were ultimately convicted of Jacques' murder, while a fourth was acquitted.	Murdered	4 days
1977	Hanns Martin Schleyer	62	West Germany	German business executive and industry representative with SS ties who was kidnapped by RAF guerillas on September 5, 1977. His kidnappers demanded that the Germans free several of their members, but after learning that they had died in prison, they drove towards Brussels, executing Schleyer near Mulhouse, France, on October 18.	Murdered	1 month
1977	Robert Gilroy Jr.	18	United States of America	18-year-old Robert Gilroy Jr., the son of a Chicago police sergeant, was last seen alive on September 15, 1976. He was murdered by John Wayne Gacy and lived four blocks from Gacy's house. He was buried in Gacy's crawl space.	Murdered	1 year
1977	John Mowery	19	United States of America	On September 25, 1977, former U.S. Marine John Mowery disappeared after leaving his mother's house. John Wayne Gacy strangled Mowery and buried his body beneath his master bedroom.	Murdered	1 year
1977	Russell Nelson	21	United States of America	On October 17, 1977, Russell Nelson disappeared after last being seen outside a bar in Chicago, Illinois, looking for contracting work. He was never seen alive again. He was murdered by John Wayne Gacy and buried his body underneath his guest bedroom.	Murdered	1 year
1977	Evelyn Jane King	28	United States of America	The fourth victim of the Hillside Stranglers. King was lured from a bus stop into her murderers' vehicle. Her body was discovered near the Los Feliz Boulevard off-ramp of the Golden State Freeway.	Murdered	14 days
1977	Usharani Ganaison	7	Singapore	A seven-year-old schoolgirl who went missing after she went out running an errand for her father late in the night. Her family searched for her but to no avail, and they subsequently reported Usharani missing. The next day in the morning, Usharani was found dead nearby her home in Toa Payoh. An autopsy revealed the child had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death. Her uncle, Kalidass Sinnathamby Narayanasamy, was arrested two days later and due to sufficient evidence linking him to the crime, Kalidass was sentenced to death for his niece's murder.	Murdered	12 hours
1977	Robert Winch	16	United States of America	On November 10, 1977, Robert Winch vanished without a trace and was murdered by John Wayne Gacy. He was buried in Gacy's crawl space.	Murdered	1 year
1977	Dolores Cepeda	12	United States of America	Two school friends abducted by the Hillside Stranglers while returning home from the Eagle Rock Plaza on Colorado Boulevard in Southern California on November 13, 1977. Their strangled bodies were discovered close to the Dodger Stadium on November 20.	Murdered	7 days
	Sonja Johnson	14	United States of America
1977	Tommy Boling	20	United States of America	On November 18, 1977, 20-year-old Tommy Boling disappeared after leaving a bar in Chicago, Illinois. He was killed by John Wayne Gacy.	Murdered	1 year
1977	Cheng Geok Ha	10	Singapore	Cheng Geok Ha was a ten-year-old schoolgirl abducted from a car park close to her home at Chai Chee, Singapore, on 25 November 1977. Her body was discovered beneath a manhole on 7 December. An autopsy revealed the child had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death. Her neighbour, Quek Kee Siong, was later sentenced to death for Cheng's murder.	Murdered	12 days
1977	David Talsma	19	United States of America	On December 9, 1977, U.S. Marine David Talsma disappeared after telling his mother he was to attend a rock concert in Hammond, Indiana. He was lured by John Wayne Gacy to enter his house and died by cause of ligature strangulation. He was buried in Gacy's crawl space.	Murdered	1 year

1978

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1978	Doina Bumbea	28	North Korea	Romanian painter who was kidnapped by North Korean agents while doing a supposed art exhibition in Pyongyang, North Korea. She was later forcefully married to American defector James Joseph Dresnok, with whom she had two children. She died of cancer in January 1997, having never returned to her homeland.	Detained until her death	19 years
1978	Nicholas Scibetta	22	United States of America	Scibetta was a New York mobster who was killed by his brother-in-law, Sammy Gravano and disappeared on New Years Day 1978. Part of the motive for the murder was that Scibetta was suspected of being gay. Scibetta was dismembered and except for an arm, his body was never found.	Murdered	Body not found
1978	Brian Glenfeldt	17	United States of America	Brian Glenfeldt and Belinda Worsley were both last seen leaving for a Youth-for-Christ meeting and they never turned up at an ice cream parlor, where they were supposed to meet some friends. The two youths were found dead with gunshot wounds in nearby forests. John Errol Ferguson, the serial killer who had killed another six people at least, was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death. Ferguson was executed in 2013.	Murdered	2 days
	Belinda Worley	17
1978	Roberto Herrera Ibarguen	57	Guatemala	Guatemalan politician and member of the National Liberation Movement who was kidnapped and held hostage by a leftist militant group who accused him of organizing the murders of guerilla leaders and repressing teachers' strikes. He was released without incident after a ransom and a commander of theirs was released.	Found alive	27 days
1978	Harry Domela	78	Unknown	Latvian-German impostor who pretended to be a deposed crown prince, for which he would be put on trial, but later acquitted. After experiencing a short term burst of popularity, he disappeared from public view until 1933, when it was learned through Dutch author Jef Last that he was living in the Netherlands under the pseudonym "Victor Zsajka". After Domela was last seen alive in 1978 it has now been clarified that according to research done by Jens Kirsten who is a Weimar-based scholar that Domela had died in Maracaibo on October 4, 1979.	No	1 year
1978	Shin Sang-ok	26 (both)	British Hong Kong	Shin, a South Korean film director, and Choi, an actress and his wife, were both abducted six months apart by North Korean agents on orders from Kim Jong-il. After spending three years in prison, the pair were reunited and ordered to direct movies to boost the North Korean film industry, which they did until their escape in 1986.	Found alive	8 years
	Choi Eun-hee		British Hong Kong
1978	Manon Dubé	10	Canada	Canadian girl from Quebec who disappeared from her native village of Massawippi on January 27, 1978. Her body was found on March 24, but the cause of death was never ascertained. Some theories suggest that she had been kidnapped and murdered.	Died (undetermined cause)	2 months
1978	Édouard-Jean Empain	41	France	French-Belgian industrialist and the CEO of the Schneider-Empain industrial holding company, Empain was kidnapped and held captive by a group of men, who demanded ransom in exchange for his release. Empain would eventually be rescued and most of his abductors arrested, but would be left permanently traumatized by the event.	Found alive	More than 2 months
1978	William Kindred	19	United States of America	On February 16, 1978, John Wayne Gacy killed 19-year-old William Kindred, who disappeared after telling his fiancée, who knew Gacy, that he was going to a bar. He would be the final victim to be buried in Gacy's crawl space.	Murdered	1 year
1978	Giovanna Amati	18	Italy	Amati was kidnapped by a trio of French gangsters, led by Jean Daniel Nieto, and held for ransom, during which she was allegedly raped by the ringleader. She was released on April 27, 1978, after the ransom of 800 million lire was paid, but the kidnappers were all later caught, including Nieto, with whom Amati had fallen in love. She later became a professional racing driver and the most recent female driver to enter the Formula One World Championship.	Found alive	More than 2 months
1978	Charles Hattula	25	United States of America	On May 23, 1978, Charles Hattula was found deceased in the Pecatonica River near Freeport, Illinois. He had been missing since May 13. Des Plaines authorities had suspected that Hattula may have possibly been murdered by John Wayne Gacy; Hattula was known to have conflicts with Gacy. At the time of his death, Gacy had murdered at least 29 young men and boys and had disposed of many of the bodies in his crawl space. As no more bodies could fit in the crawl space, it left the possibility that he may have disposed of Hattula's body in the Pecatonica River. However, Des Plaines authorities were told Hattula had fallen to his death from a bridge, and his death was ruled as asphyxia by drowning.	Died by drowning	10 days
1978	Timothy O'Rourke	20	United States of America	Sometime between June 16–23, 1978, Timothy O'Rourke disappeared after last being known to have left his apartment to purchase cigarettes. Shortly before his disappearance, O'Rourke had told his roommate a contractor on the Northwest Side of Chicago, Illinois, had offered him a job. He was murdered by John Wayne Gacy and his body was dumped into the Des Plaines River, as Gacy had no more space for bodies in his crawl space.	Murdered	6 months
1978	Steven Hicks	18	United States of America	On June 18, 1978, Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer picked up a hitchhiker named Steven Mark Hicks, who was almost 19. Dahmer lured the youth to his house on the pretext of drinking. Hicks, who had been hitchhiking to a rock concert at Chippewa Lake Park, Ohio, agreed to accompany Dahmer to his house upon the promise of "a few beers" with Dahmer as he had the house to himself. According to Dahmer, the sight of the bare-chested Hicks standing at the roadside stirred his sexual feelings, although when Hicks began talking about girls, he knew any sexual passes he made would be rebuffed. After several hours of talking, drinking and listening to music, Hicks "wanted to leave and I didn't want him to leave." Dahmer bludgeoned Hicks with a 10-pound (4.5 kg) dumbbell. He later stated he struck Hicks twice from behind with the dumbbell as Hicks sat upon a chair. When Hicks fell unconscious, Dahmer strangled him to death with the bar of the dumbbell, then stripped the clothes from Hicks' body before exploring his chest with his hands, then masturbating as he stood above the corpse. Hours later, Dahmer dragged the body to the basement. The following day, Dahmer dissected Hicks' body in his basement. He later buried the remains in a shallow grave in his back yard. Several weeks later, he unearthed the remains and pared the flesh from the bones. He dissolved the flesh in acid before flushing the solution down the toilet. He crushed the bones with a sledgehammer and scattered them in the woodland behind the family home.	Murdered	More than 3 weeks
1978	Kaoru Hasuike	20	Japan	Kaoru Hasuike and his then-girlfriend, Yukiko Okudo, were abducted by North Korean agents from Kashiwazaki, Niigata on July 31, 1978. The two eventually married in North Korea and gave birth to two kids before the family was repatriated to Japan in October 2002.	Found alive	24 years
1978	Hitomi Soga	19	Japan	Hitomi Soga and her mother, Miyoshi, was abducted by North Korean agents from their home island of Sado on August 12, 1978. Hitomi was able to return to Japan in October 2002, and her American husband Charles Jenkins as well as their two daughters came to Japan in July 2004. Miyoshi, however, still has not returned to Japan.	Found alive	24 years
1978	Marilee Bruszer	33	United States of America	Marilee Bruszer went missing on August 22, 1978, from Long Beach, California. In August 2015, a body that had been discovered in Utah in September 1978 was identified as hers.	Murdered	37 years
1978	John Dawson Dewhirst	26	Democratic Kampuchea	John Dawson Dewhirst was a British teacher and amateur yachtsman. He disappeared after being captured and detained as a suspected spy by the Khmer Rouge August 13, 1978. It is known that he was killed some time after October 13, 1978. No remains were found, and it was speculated that the body may have been burned.	Executed	body never found
1978	Marlyse Honeychurch	24	United States of America	Marylese Honeychurch and her two daughters, Sarah McWaters, and Marie Vaughn were last seen in November 1978 with a man claiming to be Bob Evans, who would later be identified as serial killer Terry Peder Rasmussen. The bodies of Honeychurch and Vaughn were found in a metal drum near a burned down store in the Bear Brook State Park in Allenstown, New Hampshire in 1985, while McWaters' body was found nearby in 2000 together with a still-unidentified body of a little girl, whose DNA analysis showed that she was the daughter of Rasmussen. The identity of the three other victims would not be identified until 2019, and it is believed the four victims were murdered some time between 1977 and 1981.	Murdered	3 to 7 years
	Marie Vaughn	7
	Sarah McWaters	11 months				18 to 22 years
1978	Theresa Allore	19	Canada	Theresa Allore was a Canadian college student who disappeared on November 3, 1978, from Champlain College Lennoxville in the Eastern Townships of Quebec and was found dead five months later.	Murdered	5 months
1978	Frank Landingin	19	United States of America	On November 4, 1978, Frank Landingin was last seen alive by his father walking along Foster Avenue in Chicago, Illinois; he was killed by John Wayne Gacy later that day. Eight days after his disappearance, his naked body was found close to an inlet in the Des Plaines River by two duck hunters on November 12. He was identified on November 14; he was the first victim of Gacy's to be identified.	Murdered	10 days
1978	James Mazzara	20	United States of America	On November 24, 1978, James Mazzara disappeared after Thanksgiving dinner with his family; he was last seen walking in the direction of Bughouse Square. Mazzara had informed his sister the day before his disappearance that he was working in construction. He was killed by John Wayne Gacy and his body was discarded in the Des Plaines River.	Murdered	1 month
1978	Robert Piest	15	United States of America	In the late hours of December 11, 1978, teenager Robert Piest was working at the Nisson Pharmacy. He was approached by John Wayne Gacy, who mentioned that his firm often hired teenage boys almost double the pay Piest earned at the pharmacy. He lured the 15-year-old youth to his house and suffocated him. Gacy stated that Piest was "crying, scared", while also admitting to having received a phone call from a business acquaintance as Piest lay dying. He was dumped in the Des Plaines River. On April 9, 1979, a man walking along a Grundy County towpath discovered a decomposed body tangled in roots on the edge of the Des Plaines River. The body was identified via dental records as being that of Robert Piest the same evening.	Murdered	3 months
1978	Elena Holmberg	47	Argentina	Argentine diplomat and official of the military dictatorship who vanished on December 20, 1978. Her decomposed body was found over a month later, and positively identified by her cousin. It's believed that she had been assassinated by military officers on orders from Emilio Eduardo Massera, who believed that she had information that would reveal his connections to the Montoneros.	Murdered	1 month
1978	Kerry Graham	15	United States of America	Friends Kerry Graham and Francine Trimble disappeared on December 16, 1978, after leaving their homes in Forestville, California to visit a shopping mall in Santa Rosa. Their remains were discovered on July 8, 1979, approximately 80 miles north of Forestville, but they were not identified. In November 2015 their identities were confirmed via the use of DNA profiling.	Murdered	37 years
	Francine Trimble	14				37 years
1978	Stephen Dean Holmes	14	United Kingdom	The first victim of serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Holmes was an Irish teenager whom Nilsen lured to his Cricklewood home upon the promise of drinking alcohol on the evening of December 29, 1978; he was strangled to death the following morning and his body later incinerated upon a bonfire. Holmes' identity was established in November 2006.	Murdered	28 years

1979

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1979	Tammy Alexander	15	United States of America	Tammy Alexander disappeared some time in early 1979 after it is believed she ran away from her home in Hernando County, Florida. She was found dead, shot to death in a field, in the town of Caledonia, New York on November 10, 1979. She was not identified until 2015, over 35 years later, by a DNA match after an old school friend tried to locate her and a missing persons report was filed.	Murdered	35 years
1979	Diann Joyce Remington	22	United States of America	Remington was a Spokane Community College student who disappeared from her mother's home in Richland, Washington on January 4, 1979. She was last seen in a brown sedan. Her body was found by goose hunters in a field near Benton City on December 29.	Murdered	11 months
1979	Marcia Moore	50	United States of America	Marcia Moore was an American writer, astrologer and yoga teacher who disappeared on January 14 in the winter of 1979. Her remains were found two years later in the woods near her Washington home.	Murdered	2 years
1979	Gerard Evans	24	Ireland	Gerard Evans disappeared in County Monaghan, Republic of Ireland in March 1979 and his remains were found in October 2010 in the townland of Carrickrobin, near Hackballscross, County Louth.	Murdered	31 years
1979	Harriet Simmons	40	United States of America	A victim of serial killer Terry Hyatt. Simmons was mother of seven and a night manager at a Raleigh restaurant. Simmons disappeared while travelling to her boyfriend's home on April 15, 1979. Her skeletal remains were discovered in the Pisgah National Forest on March 23, 1980.	Murdered	11 months
1979	Etan Patz	6	United States of America	Etan Patz disappeared while on his way to school in lower Manhattan on May 25, 1979, and by 2001 he was considered legally dead. He was the first missing child featured on a milk carton. In May 2012, authorities re-opened the case. Pedro Hernandez, a former bodega stock clerk, was convicted in February 2017 of kidnapping and murdering the boy, based solely on his own confession. Neither Patz's body, which Hernandez said he put in the trash, nor any other relevant physical evidence was ever identified.	Murdered	body never found
1979	Lucinda Lynn Schaefer	16	United States of America	Lucinda Lynn Schaefer who disappeared on June 24, 1979 from Redondo Beach after being murdered. Even though she was known to have been murdered by Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris her body was never found.	Murdered	2 years
1979	Sally Ann McGrath	22	United Kingdom	British woman last seen in Cathedral Square, Peterborough at 2:45pm on 11 July 1979, after telling friends that she was heading to the nearby unemployment office. Her body was found in a shallow grave in a forest at Castor Hanglands, Cambridgeshire, in March 1980. It would not be until 2012 that sex offender Paul Taylor would be convicted of her murder.	Murdered	8 months
1979	Alison Chambers	16	United Kingdom	16-year-old British child who lived in a children's home in Gloucester. She was a frequent visitor to the home of Fred and Rose West who lived in the city. Her disappearance in August 1979 was reported to the Missing Persons Bureau and initially to the police as an absconder from care. Her body was found in the home of the Wests in 1994. Along with 11 other women, she had been murdered by the couple.	Murdered	15 years
1979	Gwenn Story	19	United States of America	A young Ohio native discovered stabbed to death in a Las Vegas, Nevada, parking lot on August 14, 1979. She had died hours prior to her discovery, but remained unidentified until December 2023. Her murder remains unsolved.	Murdered	44 years
1979	Maya Fukushima	5	Japan	5-year-old Maya Fukushima went missing from a shrine near her home in Ashikaga, Tochigi. Her body was found naked and stuffed in a backpack on the banks of the Watarase River. Fukushima's case is considered the first of the North Kanto Serial Young Girl Kidnapping and Murder Case, a series of unsolved kidnapping and murder cases of young girls in the Northern Kanto Region.	Murdered	6 days
1979	Dori Ghezzi	33	Italy	Italian singer and the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest of 1975 who was kidnapped on August 27, 1979, and held for ransom together with fellow singer Fabrizio De André. Both were held in the Supramonte mountains, but released after a ransom of 500 million lire was paid to the abductors.	Found alive	4 months
1979	Jean Seberg	40	France	Jean Seberg was an American actress who lived in France, and disappeared on August 30, 1979. Her body was found on September 8, 1979, wrapped in a blanket in the back seat of her Renault which was parked near her Paris apartment.	Suicide	9 days
1979	Kenneth Ockenden	23	United Kingdom	Kenneth Ockenden, a Canadian student on a tour of the UK, was last seen in London on December 3, 1979. In 1983, investigators discovered that he had become a victim of the serial killer Dennis Nilsen, who had invited him to his house and strangled him with a headphone cord. Ockenden was one of the few victims of Nilsen who was widely reported as a missing person.	Murdered	4 years
1979	Michelle Busha	18	United States of America	Michelle Busha left her home in December 1979 after an argument with her father in Bay City, Texas. Busha was murdered in May 1980 while hitchhiking in Blue Earth, Minnesota and remained unidentified until 2015.	Murdered	35 years

1980s

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1980	Marcia King	21	United States of America	Marcia King left home in Little Rock, Arkansas, on an unknown date in 1980. She traveled across the United States and was murdered in Troy, Ohio, in April 1981 at the age of 21. King's body was identified in 2018.	Murdered	37 years
1980	Bryon McCane II	4	United States of America	American boy who would become the rapper known as Bizzy Bone. He was abducted by his mother's boyfriend at an early age, together with his two sisters. For the next three years, the trio was moved around various homes across Oklahoma, with McCane being tortured and sexually assaulted. He was finally rescued after a babysitter realized that he was a missing person and contacted the authorities, who subsequently rescued him.	Found alive	3 years
1980	Timothy White	5	United States of America	Timothy White disappeared in California on February 13, 1980, and it was later revealed that he was abducted by a man named Kenneth Parnell. He escaped on March 1, 1980, with the help of Steven Stayner, who had been abducted by Parnell almost eight years earlier (see above).	Found alive	15 days
1980	Michael Rosenblum	25	United States of America	Michael Rosenblum was last seen alive on February 14, 1980, angrily driving his girlfriend's car away from a West Homestead, Pennsylvania, gas station; it was found an hour later abandoned and severely damaged along a road in nearby Baldwin, whose police department did not make public that it had the car for over three months. That, and other circumstantial evidence suggesting that the Baldwin police knew more about Rosenblum's disappearance than they claimed, accumulated over the next several years and led to the police chief being fired and reinstated in 1987. A skull fragment found in 1992 in woods near where the car was found was matched to Rosenblum; how he died is still unknown.	Died (unknown cause)	12 years 2 months
1980	Sherri Jarvis	14	United States of America	Sherri Jarvis ran away from her juvenile detention hearing at the Washington County Courthouse shortly after her 14th birthday in March 1980. She traveled with 2 unidentified sisters to Green Bay, Wisconsin. The sisters decided to return home, but Sherri refused and walked away from them. In August 1980, Sherri wrote a letter to her family from Denver, Colorado stating that she was upset over being incarcerated and that they wouldn't hear from her until she was "at least 18 or 21". Sherri's body was discovered on the morning of November 1, 1980, in Huntsville, Texas, but remained unidentified until November 2021.	Murdered	eight months, and remained unidentified for 41 years
1980	Cynthia Gastelle	18	United States of America	Cynthia Gastelle disappeared on April 3, 1980, while going to a job interview in Takoma Park, Maryland. Her skeletal remains were found on February 12, 1982, in a secluded wooded area on Bull Run Mountain in Haymarket, Virginia, but remained unidentified for 30 years.	Murdered	30 years
1980	Jessie Earl	22	United Kingdom	Earl disappeared from Eastbourne in May 1980, with her body only discovered in 1989 near Beachy Head. As of November 2020, the investigation into her murder is ongoing. Police have investigated links between Earl's murder and serial killer Peter Tobin, who lived in the area at the time of her murder.	Murdered	9 years
1980	Mary Stauffer	36	United States of America	Mary and daughter Bethy Stauffer were kidnapped on May 16, 1980, by Mary's former ninth-grade student and stalker, Ming Sen Shiue in Roseville, Minnesota, after mother and daughter were leaving a beauty salon before the family's move to the Philippines for missionary work. Alongside kidnapping the Stauffers, Shiue would also kidnap and later murder six-year-old Jason Wilkman, who had noticed Shiue's stopped vehicle by sheer coincidence. On July 7, 1980, Shiue left the house for work, allowing Mary and Beth to escape by Mary pulling one of the hinge pins on the door and call the police. Shiue would later be arrested, attack Mary at his second trial hearing, and be sentenced to life imprisonment under federal charges, 40 years under Minnesota.	Found alive	53 days
	Bethy Stauffer	8	United States of America
1980	Dorothy Jane Scott	32	United States of America	Dorothy Jane Scott disappeared while getting her car on May 28, 1980, in Anaheim, California, after she had taken two co-workers to the hospital. On August 6, 1984, a construction worker discovered dog and human bones, side by side, about 30 feet (10 m) from Santa Ana Canyon Road. The human bones were later identified as being Scott's. The identity and motive of her killer or killers remains unknown.	Murdered	4 years
1980	Patsy Morris	14	United Kingdom	Morris was a schoolgirl who disappeared from her school in west London, England, during her lunch break on 16 June 1980. Police and members of the community spent two days searching for her until her fully-clothed body was found on Hounslow Heath, having been strangled. Her murder remains unsolved although in 2008 it was revealed that she was the childhood girlfriend of west London serial killer Levi Bellfield and that he had allegedly confessed to the crime in prison.	Murdered	2 days
1980	Shirley Soosay	35	United States of America	A Canadian native of Cree ancestry. Soosay's body was discovered in Delano, California, on 14 July 1980. She had been raped and stabbed thirty-nine times. Her body remained unidentified until February 2020. Her murderer, Wilson Chouest, was convicted of her rape and murder prior to her identification.	Murdered	40 years
1980	Brenda Gerow	20	United States of America	Brenda Gerow was an American woman who disappeared on July 20, 1980, after leaving home with her boyfriend at the time. She was found dead in the desert at Pima County, Arizona, on April 8, 1981, but remained unidentified for 34 years.	Murdered	34 years
1980	Azaria Chamberlain	nine weeks old	Australia	An Australian baby girl who disappeared on the night of August 17, 1980, during a family camping trip in Uluru. Although her remains have never been found her mother insisted that a dingo had taken her from her camping tent. In a trial sensationalized by the media her mother was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison. 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, concluded that a dingo had taken and killed her.	Killed in animal attack	6 years
1980	Tammy Terrell	17	United States of America	Terrell was an American teenager who was last seen in the company of an unknown couple at the Roswell State Fair in Roswell, New Mexico on October 4, 1980. Her body was found in Henderson, Nevada on the following day, but remained unidentified until December 2021. Her murder remains unsolved.	Murdered	1 day
1980	Giorgio Giamonna	25	Italy	Giamonna and Galatola were gay males. Missing since October 17, 1980, the bodies of both were discovered in the town of Giarre on October 31, 1980. Both had been shot in the head and were discovered holding hands. The perpetrator of the murders was never identified, but is believed to have been the 13-year-old nephew of one of the victims. Their deaths led to the widespread recognition of homophobia among the Italian public and the strengthening and recognition of Italian gay rights movements.	Murdered	14 days
	Antonio Galatola	15
1980	Harold "Dean" Clouse Jr.	21	United States of America	Young couple Dean and Tina Clouse and their infant daughter Holly Marie Clouse went missing from their home in Lewisville, Texas, where they had moved recently from New Smyrna Beach, Florida. The murdered remains of Dean and Tina would be discovered outside of Houston on January 12, 1981, but would not be identified until 2021. After losing contact with their families in October 1980, Dean, Tina, and Holly Marie were reported missing by family back in Florida; however, no concerted efforts were made by law enforcement to locate them. Dean and Tina were identified through forensic genealogy in 2021, but Holly Marie remained unlocated until 2022, when she was found alive in Oklahoma.	Murdered	40 years
	Tina Linn Clouse	17	United States of America		Murdered	40 years
	Holly Marie Clouse	1	United States of America		Found alive	41 years
1980	Marlene Oakes	25	United States of America	Marlene Oakes was an American woman who was murdered by her husband on October 11, 1980, in Verona, Kentucky, and half of her skull was found near her house on November 29, 1981. In 2001, it was identified as being hers.	Murdered	Over 1 year, and not identified until 2001
1981	Tina Louise Sharp	12	United States of America	Sharp was one of four murder victims killed in the resort town of Keddie, California, in April 1981. The other three victims—her mother, 15-year-old brother and his 17-year-old friend—were discovered at the crime scene, whereas Sharp's body was discovered in Butte County three years later. All four murders remain unsolved.	Murdered	3 years
1981	Colleen Marian Bridgette Daignault	13	Canada	One of several victims of serial child killer Clifford Olson. Daignault—a Surrey, British Columbia, schoolgirl—disappeared while returning to her parents' home following a sleepover at a friend's home on April 16, 1981; her skeletal remains were discovered on September 17 the same year.	Murdered	5 months
1981	Daryn Todd Johnsrude	16	Canada	A further victim of serial child killer Clifford Olson. Johnsrude was Olson's third-known victim; his body was found in woodland on May 2, 1981—ten days after his April 22 disappearance. Johnsrude had died of skull fractures.	Murdered	10 days
1981	Ciro Cirillo	60	Italy	Italian Christian Democratic politician who was kidnapped by members of the Red Brigades in Naples on April 27, 1981. He was held for ransom, but later released after a controversial deal was made with the Red Brigades, paying them one and a half million lire, which was provided with the help of Camorra crime boss Raffaele Cutolo.	Found alive	Almost 3 months
1981	Al Indelicato	50	United States of America	On May 5, 1981, infighting within the Bonanno crime family, led to Dominic Trinchera, Philip Giaccone, and Al Indelicato, being murdered by a rival faction of the family in Brooklyn, New York. Their bodies were buried in a lot in Lindenwood, Queens. On May 28, authorities discovered Indelicato's body and removed it. More than two decades later, in October 2004, after some children reported finding a body in the lot, FBI agents excavated the property and discovered the bodies of Trinchera and Giaccone. In December 2004, the bodies were positively identified as Giaccone and Trinchera.	Murdered	23 days
	Philip Giaccone	48	United States of America			24 years
	Dominick Trinchera	44	United States of America			24 years
1981	Sandra Lynn Wolfsteiner	16	Canada	The fourth-known victim of serial child killer Clifford Olson. Wolfsteiner was lured into Osen's vehicle while hitchhiking home from her boyfriend's apartment. Her remains were later discovered in Fraser Valley, fifty miles east of Vancouver.	Murdered	2 months
1981	Karen Price	15	United Kingdom	Karen Price was a girl from Wales who was last seen on July 2, 1981. Police later concluded that Price had run away from home, then turned to sex work. Her remains were found on December 7, 1989, when workmen unearthed a rolled carpet while installing a garden behind a house. She was identified by her DNA in what is cited as one of the first instances in which DNA technology was used in this way in the UK.	Murdered	8 years
1981	Suzanne Bombardier	14	United States of America	Suzanne Bombardier was a teenager who disappeared on June 22, 1980 after being kidnapped, A fisherman discovered Bombardier's body in the San Joaquin River on June 27, 1980, just five days later as her body was seen floating.	Murdered	5 days
1981	Judy Elizabeth Kozma	14	Canada	A further victim of serial child killer Clifford Olson. Kozma was last seen alive in New Westminster on July 9, 1981; her body was discovered on July 25. She had been stabbed to death.	Murdered	2 weeks
1981	Mary Louise Day	13	United States of America	Teenage girl who ran away from her parents' home in Seaside, California on July 15, 1981. She remained missing until 2003, when a woman in the Phoenix area was identified via DNA as Day.	Found alive	22 years
1981	Adam Walsh	6	United States of America	Adam Walsh was an American boy who was abducted from the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida, on July 27, 1981. His severed head was found two weeks later in a drainage canal alongside Florida's Turnpike in rural St. Lucie County, Florida. Drifter Otis Toole confessed to Walsh's murder, but due to poor handling by the Hollywood Police he was never convicted of the crime.	Murdered	2 weeks
1981	Vishal Mehrotra	8	United Kingdom	Mehrotra was an 8-year-old boy who disappeared on July 29, 1981, from Putney, London. On February 25, 1982, some of Mehrotra's remains were found in Sussex on an isolated Farm.	Murdered	212 days
1981	Jennifer Cardy	9	United Kingdom	Nine-year-old Cardy disappeared from Ballinderry, County Antrim on 12 August 1981. She had left her home to cycle a short distance away to meet a friend, but her bicycle was later found thrown over a hedge close to her home. Six days later her body was found in Hillsborough. She had been abducted and murdered by paedophile Robert Black, although he wasn't convicted for it until 2011. Before he died, Black was about to be charged in relation to the very similar case of the disappearance of Genette Tate near Exeter in 1978. She disappeared while delivering newspapers on her bicycle and was never found.	Murdered	6 days
1981	Charles Armstrong	55	Crossmaglen, Northern Ireland	A labourer abducted and murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in August 1981; his body was discovered in County Monaghan on 29 July 2010.	Murdered	28 years 11 months
1981	Dominick Napolitano	51	United States of America	Organized crime leaders ordered the murder of Dominick Napolitano. Responding to a summons, on August 17, 1981, he went to a meeting, knowing that he would be killed. On August 12, 1982, a body was found at South Avenue and Bridge Street in Arlington, Staten Island which proved to be Napolitano.	Murdered	11 years
1981	Ursula Herrmann	10	West Germany	Ursula Herrmann was kidnapped in West Germany on September 15, 1981, and held captive by an unidentified assailant who called her family to demand ransom. Despite the family gathering the sum, no further instructions were given, and Ursula's body was found two weeks later, buried in the woods. A neighbor of the Herrmanns, Werner Mazurek, was later found guilty of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment.	Murdered	2 weeks
1981	Kalingam Mariappan	45	Singapore	On 22 September 1981, 45-year-old boilerman Kalingam Mariappan was reported missing after he failed to return home for the past two days. According to a witness, he saw Kalingam leaving on a lorry with two young men after having drinks with them. Thereafter, the two men - 16-year-old Rathakrishnan Ramasamy and 22-year-old Ramu Annadavascan - were arrested, and one of them, Rathakrishnan, confessed to the police that Kalingam was dead, and led them to East Coast Parkway where Kalingam's burnt body was found. After the confirmation of the victim's death, the two men were charged with murder, and it ended with Ramu being sentenced to death while Rathakrishnan was imprisoned indefinitely as he was still a minor when killing Kalingam.	Murdered	Five days
1981	Tina Harmon	12	United States of America	Tina Harmon was an American girl who was abducted, raped, and murdered on October 29, 1981, by Robert Anthony Buell. After being dropped off at a convenience store in Lodi, Ohio, by her father's girlfriend. Her body was found in a nearby town five days after her abduction.	Murdered	5 days
1981	Julio Iglesias Sr.	66	Spain	Iglesias Sr. was a Spanish gynecologist and father of singer–songwriter Julio Iglesias who was kidnapped and held hostage by ETA separatists in December 1981. He was held for two weeks before being rescued by a police anti-terrorism unit.	Found alive	2 weeks
1981	Dana Bradley	14	Canada	Bradley disappeared while hitchhiking along the Topsail Road in St. John's, Newfoundland, with her body found four days later. Her skull had been crushed with a blunt instrument and she had been sexually assaulted. Despite extensive news coverage and rigorous investigation, the case remains unsolved.	Murdered	4 days
1982	Lynette Dawson	33	Australia	Lynette Dawson was the wife of Australian teacher and rugby league player Chris Dawson. She disappeared on 9 January 1982; her remains have never been found. Her disappearance was the subject of intense public interest due to her husband's extramarital affair with a student of his who then was only 16. On 5 December 2018, Chris Dawson was charged with the murder of Lynette, but pleaded not guilty in June 2019. In February 2020, he was committed to stand trial for the murder of Lynette. On 30 August 2022, Chris Dawson was found guilty on Lynette's murder, and sentenced on 2 December to 24 years in jail with a non-parole period of 18 years.	Murdered	Not found
1982	Lori Anne Razpotnik	15 or 16	United States of America	One of forty-nine known victims of serial killer Gary Ridgway. Razpotnik was last seen by her family in 1982 at age 15. She is believed to have been murdered by Ridgway in the spring or summer of the following year. Razpotnik remained unidentified until December 2023, when her body was identified vi DNA analysis.	Murdered	41 years
1982	Kathleen McCormack Durst	29	United States of America	A medical student, Durst disappeared on 31 January 1982 after leaving the house of a friend to return to the South Salem, New York, residence that she shared with her husband. She has not been seen since and was declared legally dead in 2001. Since her marriage was deteriorating, police strongly suspected that her husband, Robert Durst, had murdered her, citing inconsistencies in statements he gave them. He is suspected in two other disappearances and served three years in prison for evidence-tampering in the death of a third person. On 17 September 2021, he was convicted of Kathleen's murder.	Murdered	39 years
1982	Tulasa Thapa	13	Nepal	Tulasa Thapa was a Nepali girl who was kidnapped and sold into prostitution in India, where she was systematically abused and raped by her abductors. She was eventually released, admitted to a hospital and saved, but suffered permanent psychological and health issues which led to her premature death in 1995.	Found alive	10 months
1982	Carolyn Eaton	17	United States of America	Carolyn Eaton was a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered along Interstate 40 in Williams, Arizona, on February 14, 1982; she had last been seen alive in the company of an older male on February 4 at the Monte Carlo Truck Stop near Ash Fork, Arizona. Her body was identified via genetic genealogy on February 22, 2021.	Murdered	39 years
1982	Nava Elimelech	11	Israel	Elimelech disappeared while going to a friend's house in Bat Yam, Israel on March 20, 1982. A search party later found her severed head wrapped in a plastic bag, along with the rest of her remains. Her murder is unsolved.	Murdered	10 days
1982	Michelle Garvey	14	United States of America	Michelle Garvey was an American girl who ran away in Connecticut on June 3, 1982, and was found murdered in Texas almost one month later on July 1. The body was not identified as hers until more than three decades later, in 2014.	Murdered	28 days
1982	Christelle Bancourt	12	France	Abducted while going to an appointed meeting with her dentist in Marseille, France, on June 10, 1982, Bancourt's kidnapper, an acquaintance named Christian Marletta, later raped and strangled her before dismembering the body, which was found a month later.	Murdered	1 month
1982	Dawn Olanick	17	United States of America	Dawn Olanick, who was formerly known as "Princess Doe", was a teenage girl from West Babylon, New York who went missing on June 24, 1982, and was found dead on July 15, 1982, in Cedar Ridge Cemetery in Blairstown, New Jersey after being murdered.	Murdered	Less than one month
1982	Zechariah Baumel	22	Lebanon	IDF soldier who was declared missing in action on June 11, 1982, during the Battle of Sultan Yacoub in the 1982 Lebanon War. In 2019, President of Russia Vladimir Putin announced that the Russian Army, in coordination with the Syrian military, had found Baumel's remains in the old Martyrs' Cemetery in the Yarmouk refugee camp south of Damascus, Syria.	Killed in action	37 years
1982	Hezi Shai	28	Lebanon	IDF tank commander who was declared missing in action on June 11, 1982, during the 1982 Lebanon War. Shai, who had been captured by PFLP-GC militants, was later released as part of a prisoner exchange in 1985.	Found alive	3 years
1982	Krista Harrison	11	United States of America	Krista Harrison was murdered on July 17, 1982, in Marshallville, Ohio. Her body was found 6 days later. The case remained unsolved for two years, until Robert Anthony Buell was convicted of her murder.	Murdered	6 days
1982	Susan Maxwell	11	United Kingdom	11-year-old Maxwell vanished after last being seen walking alone in the English village of Cornhill-on-Tweed on July 30, 1982. 13 days later her body was found 264 miles away in Staffordshire. She had been abducted and murdered by paedophile and serial killer Robert Black.	Murdered	13 days
1982	Rachael Runyan	3	United States of America	Rachael Runyan was an American female child from Sunset, Utah who was kidnapped on 26 August 1982 and was found dead in a creek bed in nearby Morgan County three weeks later.	Murdered	3 weeks
1982	Carole Pappas	42	United States of America	Carole Pappas, the wife of former Major League Baseball pitcher Milt Pappas disappeared after leaving the couple's home in Wheaton, Illinois. In 1987, workers drained a pond four blocks from the Pappas' house and found the car with Carole's body inside. It is theorized that she mistook a driveway near the pond for one leading to her neighborhood, and that she may have been drinking.	Died by drowning	5 years
1982	Lisa Ann Millican	13	United States of America	The first of two victims of Alvin and Judith Neelley. Millican was abducted from the Riverbend Mall in Rome, Georgia, on 25 September 1982. She was sexually assaulted by both individuals before she was shot to death on 28 September. Her body was discovered three days later.	Murdered	3 days
1982	Don Kemp	34–35	United States of America	Kemp was a New York advertising executive who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Wyoming, where he had planned to begin a new life. His remains were discovered in 1986, but the circumstances surrounding his death, and whether it is homicidal in nature or not, remain unclear.	No	4 years
1982	Alisha Heinrich	1	United States of America	Alisha Heinrich and her mother, Gwendolyn Clemons, were last seen around November 24, 1982, in Kansas City, Missouri. Heinrich's body was recovered in Moss Point, Mississippi after nearly two weeks; she was a victim of homicide. She remained an unidentified decedent until 2020. Clemons' remains have never been recovered.	Murdered	2 weeks
1983	Ervin Dwayne Gibson	16	United States of America	Gibson was an Uptown teenager abducted and murdered by serial killer Larry Eyler on 24 January 1983. He was murdered in Lake County. Gibson's body was discovered on 15 April, but remained unidentified until November 1983.	Murdered	10 months
1983	Richard Edward Bruce Jr.	25	United States of America	Bruce was the fifteenth known victim of serial killer Larry Eyler. He was murdered on 18 May 1983 and his body was thrown from a bridge into a creek in Effingham, Illinois. Bruce's body was discovered by a trapper on 5 December, but remained unidentified until August 1994.	Murdered	11 years
1983	John Brandenburg Jr.	19	United States of America	Brandenburg was a Kentucky native murdered in Newton County, Indiana by serial killer Larry Eyler on or about May 29, 1983. According to Eyler, Brandenburg's murder was one of five of the twenty-two murders to which he posthumously confessed which he committed with his alleged accomplice Robert David Little. Brandenburg's body was found on October 19, 1983; his body was identified in April 2021.	Murdered	38 years
1983	Caroline Hogg	5	United Kingdom	5-year-old child Caroline Hogg disappeared while playing outside her home in the Edinburgh suburb of Portobello on 8 July 1983. A boy later revealed he had seen her walking away with an unknown man. The case received widespread media coverage across the UK. Her body was found many miles away in Leicestershire 10 days later. She had been abducted and murdered by paedophile and serial killer Robert Black.	Murdered	10 days
1983	Keith Bibbs	16	United States of America	Bibbs was a Chicago teenager murdered in Newton County, Indiana by serial killer Larry Eyler on or about Monday July 11, 1983. He was abducted while hitchhiking from Indiana to Illinois upon Indiana State Road 63 and driven to an abandoned farmhouse where he was duped into allowing himself to be bound to a wooden post, then blindfolded and gagged before he was stabbed multiple times in his upper and lower torso. His body was found on October 18, 1983, and identified in July 2023.	Murdered	40 years
1983	Andrea Scherpf	24	Canada	German tourists who vanished while hitchhiking near Chetwynd, Canada on October 3, 1983. Their bodies were found three days later, and both had been shot to death. A man was convicted of their murders in 1991, but later exonerated via DNA evidence in 2013.	Murdered	3 days
	Bernd Göricke	27	Canada
1983	Heide Marie Villarreal-Fye	25	United States of America	25-year-old cocktail waitress Heide Marie Villarreal-Fye was last seen alive at a convenience store located off of West Main Street and Hobbs in League City, Texas on October 10, 1983. On April 4, 1984, Heidi's remains were discovered after a dog brought her skull to a nearby house in Calder Field on the 3000 block of Calder Road near League City. The medical examiner determined that Heidi had broken ribs and had been beaten with a club; she is believed to have died from blunt force trauma to the head.	Murdered	6 months
1983	Colette Aram	16	United Kingdom	British trainee hairdresser who was abducted while walking towards her boyfriend's home in Keyworth on October 30, 1983. Her body was found a day later, showing signs that she had been raped and strangled. Despite and extensive manhunt, her killer, Paul Stewart Hutchinson, was identified with the help of DNA evidence only in 2009. He was later sentenced to life imprisonment.	Murdered	1 day
1983	Freddy Heineken	60	Netherlands	The Dutch businessman and chairman of Heineken N.V. was kidnapped together with his driver and held for ransom by a group of men. After paying the ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders, Heineken and his driver were released, and all of the kidnappers were eventually captured and served prison sentences for the crime.	Found alive	21 days
1983	Danny Katz	14	Israel	Israeli boy who was abducted by five Arab assailants while waking to a friend's house in Haifa on December 8, 1983. His body was found three days later, having been sexually assaulted, tortured and strangled. The five men were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, but there are allegations that they had been tortured into confessing.	Murdered	3 days
1984	Katsuhisa Ezaki	42	Japan	The president of the Ezaki Glico company was kidnapped by two masked men and then held for a ransom of 1 billion yen and 100 kg of gold bullion. However, Ezaki managed to escape three days later from the warehouse in Ibaraki.	Found alive	3 days
1984	Kassim Ouma	6	Uganda	Kidnapped as a child to serve in the National Resistance Army. After leaving the army, Ouma took up boxing and is now a professional boxer, holding the IBF light middleweight title from 2004 to 2005.	Found alive	5 years
1984	Hassan Jangju	16–17	Iraq	Iranian Basij operative who became the subject of a famous photograph taken by photographer Alfred Yaghobzadeh. He was killed during Operation Kheibar circa February 1984, and his remains were discovered and returned to Iran in 2017.	Killed in action	33 years
1984	George Crooks	28	United States of America	On March 26, 1984, in the U.S. state of Georgia, 28-year-old lawyer George Grant Crooks was murdered by his homosexual lover Robert Dale Conklin, who stabbed him to death with a screwdriver and dismembered the body, and the body parts were discovered two days after the killing (as well as a day after Crooks was reported missing). Conklin was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to death. 21 years after the murder, Conklin was executed on July 12, 2005.	Murdered	Two days
1984	Benjamin Weir	61	Lebanon	American Presbyterian missionary who was abducted by Islamic Jihad militants from his Beirut, Lebanon home in May 1984. He was later released during the Iran-Contra affair in exchange for anti-tank weapons.	Found alive	16 months
1984	Mark Tildesley	7	United Kingdom	Mark Tildesley disappeared while visiting a funfair in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, on the evening of June 1, 1984. He was lured away from the fair and his bicycle was found chained to railings nearby. In 1990 it emerged that Tildesley had been abducted, drugged, tortured, raped and murdered by a London-based paedophile gang on the night he disappeared.	Murdered	Never found
1984	Luis de Lión	44	Guatemala	Guatemalan writer and leader of the Guatemalan Party of Labour who was abducted by Guatemalan Army soldiers from Guatemala City on May 15, 1984. His fate remained unknown until 1999, when his name and photograph appeared in an unsealed military document, indicating that he had been killed three weeks after his arrest.	Murdered	Never found
1984	Ruth Waymire	24	United States of America	On June 20, 1984, the dismembered torso of a female murder victim was discovered in the Spokane River in Spokane, Washington. Nearly 14 years later, on April 19, 1998, the decedent's skull was discovered in a vacant lot in Spokane. On March 29, 2023, the decedent was identified by Othram as 24-year-old Ruth Waymire, whose murder remains unsolved.	Murdered	38 years
1984	Jonathan Wright	Unknown	Lebanon	British journalist for Reuters who was kidnapped by a Palestinian splinter group in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. His kidnappers planned to trade him in exchange for three members who attempted to assassinate Israeli diplomat Shlomo Argov, but Wright managed to escape on September 16 through a ventilation hole. He was later picked up by a militia patrol and returned to Beirut.	Found alive	More than 2 weeks
1984	Laura Lynn Miller	16	United States of America	16-year-old Laura Lynn Miller was last seen alive on September 10, 1984, using a payphone to call her boyfriend at the same convenience store in League City, Texas where 25-year-old Heide Marie Villarreal-Fye was last seen a year earlier. Miller's remains were found on February 2, 1986, 60 feet from where police discovered Villarreal-Fye's remains.	Murdered	1 year
1984	Lisa Nichols	28	United States of America	The body of 28-year-old Lisa Nichols, a resident of West Virginia, was discovered along Interstate 40 near West Memphis, Arkansas on September 16, 1984. Her identity remained unknown until she was identified nine months later, in June 1985, through the use of fingerprints. Nichols is believed to be one of the first victims of the unsolved Redhead murders.	Murdered	9 months
1984	Vicki Lynne Hoskinson	8	United States of America	Vicki Lynne Hoskinson was a girl from Flowing Wells, Arizona, who disappeared on September 17, 1984, while riding her bike to mail a birthday card to her aunt. Her remains were found on April 12, 1985.	Murdered	7 months
1984	Christine Jessop	9	Canada	Jessop went missing on 3 October 1984, and her body was found two months later, with signs of being raped and murdered. Jessop's next-door neighbour, Guy Paul Morin, was wrongfully convicted of the crime and his charges were all cleared after post-conviction DNA tests revealed that Morin was not the killer. A 2020 DNA testing would identify another man as the real murderer based on DNA extracted from Jessop's underwear but the suspect, Calvin Hoover, died in 2015 due to suicide.	Murdered	2 months
1984	Yumi Hasebe	5	Japan	5-year-old Yumi Hasebe went missing from a pachinko parlor in Ashikaga, Tochigi. Her skeletized remains were found about a mile (1.7 km) from her home. Fukushima's case is considered to be one of the cases that make up the North Kanto Serial Young Girl Kidnapping and Murder Case.	Murdered	3 months
1984	Jonelle Matthews	12	United States of America	Jonelle Matthews disappeared from Greeley, Colorado on December 20, 1984. Her remains were discovered on July 23, 2019, located about 15 mi (24 km) southeast of Jonelle's home.	Died from gunshot wound	33 years
1984	Elizabeth Lamotte	17	United States of America	Elizabeth Lamotte disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire on April 6, 1984. Her body was discovered in Tennessee a year later, but was not identified until 2018. Lamotte was possibly a victim of an unidentified serial killer.	Murdered	34 years
1985	Lawrence Jenco	51	Lebanon	American Catholic priest who was kidnapped by Islamist extremists in Beirut, Lebanon while working as a director of the Catholic Relief Services. After numerous negotiations, he was released and repatriated back to the U.S.	Found alive	18 months
1985	Kiki Camarena	37	Mexico	37-year-old Kiki Camarena, an American intelligence officer, was abducted by corrupt Mexican officials working for the major drug traffickers in Mexico on February 7, 1985. Camarena was subsequently taken to a residence in Guadalajara, owned by Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, where he was tortured over a 30-hour period and murdered. Camarena's body was found wrapped in plastic in a rural area outside the small town of La Angostura on March 5, 1985.	Murdered	26 days
1985	Terry A. Anderson	38	Lebanon	American journalist for the Associated Press who was abducted by Islamic Jihad militants on March 16, 1985, from a street in Beirut, Lebanon. He was held hostage during the Lebanon hostage crisis, but was eventually released without harm on December 4, 1991.	Found alive	6 years
ca. 1985	Espy Pilgrim	33	United States of America	Espy Pilgrim of North Carolina lost contact with her family sometime in the early to mid 1980s. Her body was discovered on April 1, 1985, in Kentucky, but her body remained unidentified until 2018.	Murdered	33 years
1985	Rima Danette Traxler	8	United States of America	Traxler was an eight-year-old schoolgirl who disappeared while walking home from St. Helen's Elementary School to her Longview home on 15 May 1985. She was declared legally dead in 1988. Her murderer, Joseph Kondro, confessed to Traxler's murder in a plea bargain to avoid the death penalty in 1999. Traxler's body has never been found.	Murdered	Never found
1985	Pebco Three	Various	South Africa	South African anti-Apartheid activists who were, tortured and subsequently killed by members of the Bureau of State Security on May 8, 1985. Their fate remained unclear until November 11, 1997, when former Police Col. Gideon Nieuwoudt confessed that he and several others were responsible for their deaths.	Murdered	12 years
1985	Thomas Sutherland	52	Lebanon	Scottish-American academic who was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad militants from his home in Beirut, Lebanon on June 9, 1985, who had mistaken him for Calvin Plimpton. He was released years later, together with English author Terry Waite.	Found alive	6 years
1985	Carole Packman	40	United Kingdom	A British woman who disappeared from her home in Bournemouth, England in July 1985. Although her body has never been found, her husband, Russell Causley, was found guilty of her murder at a 2004 retrial.	Murdered	Never found
1985	Ellen Rae Simpson Beason	29	League City, Texas, U.S.	29-year-old Ellen Rae Simpson Beason was last seen with friends on July 29, 1985, at the Texas Moon Club in League City, Texas, where she met local construction worker Clyde Hedrick. Later that evening she told her friends that she and Hedrick had made plans to go swimming. Beason's decomposed remains were discovered underneath a sofa in a wooded area beside Old Causeway Road in Galveston County, Texas. Though the medical examiner was initially unable to determine the cause of death, upon the exhumation of Beason's remains in 2012, it was ruled that she had suffered several severe skull fractures.	Murdered	Unknown
1985	Jeanine Sigala	17	United States of America	Jeanine Sigala, female American teenager who was not seen for five days was found dead in Scotts Valley in late August 1985 after being murdered by serial killer Terry Childs.	Murdered	5 days
1985	Michele Avila	17	United States of America	On October 2, 1985, Avila left her Los Angeles home to meet with a friend from high school, Laura Doyle. She never returned, and three days later, her body was found along a stream in Angeles National Forest. The case went unsolved until July 1988, when her two friends, Karen Severson and Laura Doyle, were arrested and convicted for her murder. According to the prosecutors, the two girls suspected that Avila had slept with their boyfriends, and so, they lured her to the creek and drowned her there.	Murdered	3 days
1985	Alison Day	19	United Kingdom	British woman Alison Day went missing on her way to visit her boyfriend who worked next to Hackney Wick station. She was last seen getting off at the station, using a telephone box and then walking towards the nearby canal. Three weeks later her body was found in the canal. She had been raped and murdered by "The Railway Killers" John Duffy and David Mulcahy, who would go on to murder two more women near stations in or around London in the following months.	Murdered	3 weeks
1986	Anita Cobby	26	Australia	Cobby, a registered nurse and beauty pageant contestant, was kidnapped from Blacktown railway station after dinner at Sydney Hospital in Surry Hills, Australia. Her body was found two days later on a rural farm in Prospect, showing signs of being sexually assaulted prior to her death. Five men would later be convicted of her murder, each sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.	Murdered	2 days
1986	Sarah Harper	10	United Kingdom	10-year-old child Sarah Harper disappeared from the Leeds suburb of Morley while walking to a shop 100 yards from her home to buy bread. The owner of the shop confirmed she had bought the bread, just before a "balding man" had entered the shop. A white Ford Transit van was seen in the area where she disappeared from. 24 days later her body was found 71 miles away in the River Trent near Nottingham. She had been abducted and murdered by paedophile serial killer Robert Black.	Murdered	24 days
1986	Bambi Woods	30 or 31	United States of America	An American former pornographic actress and exotic dancer best known for her appearance as the title character in the 1978 film Debbie Does Dallas. Woods disappeared in 1986, and rumors soon emerged she had died of a drug overdose. She was discovered alive and well in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2005, having severed all connections to her previous occupations and lifestyle.	Found alive	19 years
1986	Jennifer Guinness	49	Ireland	Irish socialite and member of the Guinness family who was kidnapped and held for ransom in Dublin by career criminal John Cunningham, aided by his brother and two associates. She was later rescued, and her kidnappers were sentenced to various sentences.	Found alive	8 days
1986	Brian Keenan	36	United Kingdom	Northern Irish writer who was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad militants in Beirut, Lebanon on April 11, 1986. After being held in detention for 4 years, he was released following negotiations with the Irish government, and later wrote a book about his experience as a hostage.	Found alive	4 years
1986	Wanda Jean Mays	26	United States of America	Wanda Jean Mays disappeared after midnight on May 12, 1986, while staying with her aunt and uncle's home near Guntersville Lake, Alabama. In the morning, her aunt and uncle discovered her room empty and the window broken from the inside. In 2008, the FBI confirmed that remains found at the foot of a cliff 2 miles (3.2 km) from her relatives' home were Mays', and her death was ruled an accident.	Died in accidental fall	32 years
1986	Shelley Kathleen Sikes	19	Galveston, Texas, U.S.	19-year-old Shelley Kathleen Sikes was last seen leaving her job as a waitress at Gaido's Seafood Restaurant on the beachfront in Galveston, Texas just before 12:00 a.m. on May 24, 1986. Sikes's car was found the next day, stuck in mud, blood-stained, and abandoned on the side of an Interstate 45 access road, south of the Galveston causeway. Though Sikes has never been found, Gerald Zwarst was convicted of aggravated kidnapping in connection with her disappearance and sentenced to life in prison.	Murdered	Body never found
1986	Anne Lock	29	United Kingdom	29-year-old British woman Anne Lock caught the train home from work to Brookmans Park railway station and was never seen alive again. Lock was the third woman in 8 months to disappear near a railway station within a 25-mile radius of London. 9 weeks later her body was found on an embankment near Brookmans Park station. She and the other two women had been abducted and murdered by serial killers John Duffy and David Mulcahy, also known as "The Railway Killers".	Murdered	9 weeks
1986	Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro	48	United States of America	American mobsters and brothers Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro and Michael Spilotro had disappeared on June 14, 1986, from their Oak Park home. On June 22, 1986, both their bodies were found with only their undershorts on after being buried in a cornfield in the Willow Slough preserve near Enos, Indiana.	Murdered	8 days
	Michael Spilotro	41	United States of America
1986	Liliane Barrard	37–38	Pakistan	Married French couple Lilian and Maurice Barrard were famous climbers. They successfully climbed K2 in June 1986, but disappeared during the descent. One month later Liliane's body was found in a snow field at 17,500 ft, while Maurice's body was not on the mountain found until 1998.	Died in mountaineering accident	1 month
	Maurice Barrard	44–45	Pakistan			12 years
1986	Tanya Moore	31	United States of America	Moore and Rodriguez were two transgender friends working as prostitutes on Philadelphia's thirteenth street in 1986. The pair disappeared on June 30, 1986, after getting into the car of a couple of clients. On July 3, 1986, their mutilated and dismembered bodies were found burning at a baseball diamond in Middletown. Their murder remains unsolved.	Murdered	4 days
	Tina Rodriguez	27	United States of America
1986	Sherry Ann Duncan	16	Thailand	Thai-American high school student who was abducted and killed after leaving her school in Bangkok on July 22, 1986, who was found a few days later in some wetlands. Four men were erroneously arrested and sentenced to death for her murder, but were acquitted in 1995, some of them posthumously. Duncan's real killer(s) has/have not been found.	Murdered	A few days
1986	Alison Parrott	11	Canada	Alison Parrott, a Canadian female child from Toronto, Ontario who disappeared from her home after having received a phone call from a stranger was found dead two days later in a nearby woods on July 25, 1986 after being murdered.	Murdered	2 days
1986	Dawn Ashworth	15	United Kingdom	15-year-old Dawn Ashworth did not return home after visiting a friends house in Narborough, Leicestershire, on 31 July 1986. Two days later her body was found nearby on a footpath called Ten Pound Lane. Her murder was not solved until 1988, when Colin Pitchfork, who was also found to have killed another 15-year-old in the same village in 1983, was convicted of her murder in what was the first time someone was convicted as a result of DNA profiling in the UK.	Murdered	2 days
1986	Samantha Knight	9	Australia	Samantha Knight was an Australian girl from Bondi who missing on August 19, 1986, and was never found. It was later discovered that she had been killed.	Murdered	Never found
1986	Kimberly Maria McLean	17	United States of America	The future Lori Erica Ruff, McLean went missing after running away from her parents' home in the suburban area of Philadelphia in the fall of 1986. Over the following years of her life, she acquired the false identity of the deceased Becky Sue Turner, legally changed her name to Lori Erica Kennedy, and married into a wealthy family in Texas. But frequent quarrels over her mental instability, erratic behavior, and secretive past, led to her suicide in 2010. Her true identity went undiscovered until 2016, when she was identified following a DNA test.	Found alive	30 years
1986	Nicola Fellows	9	United Kingdom	Two nine-year-old girls who were reported missing from Brighton, England, on October 9, 1986. The next day they were found dead in Wild Park in what became known as the "Babes in the Wood" murders. The girls' murderer, pedophile Russell Bishop, would only be convicted after 32 years and two trials in 2018, but not before he would abduct and attempt to kill another local girl in 1990.	Murdered	1 day
	Karen Hadaway	9	United Kingdom
1986	Helle Crafts	39	United States of America	Danish flight attendant who was murdered by her husband Richard at their home in Newtown, Connecticut, on November 19, 1986. Her body was supposedly destroyed, but the overwhelming evidence eventually led to the state's first murder conviction without a body.	Murdered	2 months
1986	Cara Knott	20	United States of America	Cara Knott, a young American woman who disappeared from San Diego County, California on December 27, 1986, and was found dead the next day after being killed.	Murdered	1 day
1987	Brahim Dahane	22	Western Sahara	Sahrawi human rights activists who were detained by Moroccan security forces in 1987 for protesting against the MINURSO referendum. They were kept in various detention centers until their release in 1991, and have continued their activism since.	Found alive	4 years
	Aminatou Haidar	21	Western Sahara
1987	Roger Auque	31	Lebanon	French journalist, diplomat and war correspondent who was arrested by Hezbollah militants in Lebanon in January 1987, for spying on behalf of Israel. He was detained together with another French journalist, until both men were released in November of that year.	Found alive	10 months
1987	Terry Waite	47	Lebanon	English humanitarian who was kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad Organization on January 12, 1987, while he was working as a hostage negotiator in Beirut, Lebanon. He was held in solitary confinement until November 18, 1991, when he was released without incident.	Found alive	4 years
1987	Kandy Janell Kirtland	9	United States of America	9-year-old Kandy Janell Kirtland was last seen alive in Huntsville, Texas, on the afternoon of May 12, 1987. Kirtland was spotted talking to a man who had parked in her house's driveway after she was dropped off by bus. On May 22, an arrest warrant was issued for 44-year-old James Otto Earhart, who had visited Kirtland's home prior to her abduction. Earhart was arrested on May 26; Kirtland's remains were discovered later that day and identified as hers on May 28. Earhart was charged with and convicted of Kirtland's murder and sentenced to death; he was executed by lethal injection on August 11, 1999.	Murdered	16 days
1987	Cam Lyman	54–55	United States of America	Lyman was a multimillionaire dog breeder from Westwood, Massachusetts who disappeared in the summer of 1987. His body was found in a septic tank on his estate in Hopkinton, Rhode Island by the new owners of the house in December 1997.	No	11 years
1987	Heather West	16	United Kingdom	16-year-old Gloucester girl Heather West was never seen again after 1987. Although she was never reported missing by her parents, police began to investigate her disappearance after rumours were heard of there being a "family joke" at her family's home that the couple's daughter was "under the patio". The police were given a search warrant in 1994 to search the family home and found her body, before finding many other bodies buried at the property. Heather, and the other victims, had been killed by her parents, the notorious serial killers Fred and Rose West.	Murdered	7 years
1987	Jermaine Allan Mann	1	Canada	Mann was a Canadian citizen kidnapped by his father, Allan Mann, on 24 June 1987, when he was 21 months old. He and his father lived under assumed identities in the United States. His true identity was revealed in 2018.	Found alive	31 years
1987	Teresa Cormack	6	New Zealand	New Zealand schoolgirl who was abducted, raped and killed while wandering around Napier on 19 June 1987. Her body was found under a tree more than a week later. Her killer, teenage sex offender Jules Mikus, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment decades after her death.	Murdered	8 days
1987	Larry Wayne Pearson	20	United States of America	The final victim of serial killer Robert Berdella. Abducted on 23 June 1987, Pearson was killed on 5 August after enduring six weeks of captivity. His severed head was recovered from Berdella's property in April 1988.	Murdered	10 months
1987	Tomoko Oosawa	8	Japan	8-year-old Tomoko Oosawa was last seen leaving her home in Ojima, Gunma (now Ota, Gunma) on 15 September 1987. Her partial remains would not be found on the banks of Tone River until November 27 of the following year. Oosawa's case is considered to be one of the cases that make up the North Kanto Serial Young Girl Kidnapping and Murder Case.	Murdered	1 year 2 months
1987	Shirley Banks	29	United Kingdom	British woman Shirley Banks mysteriously disappeared while shopping in Bristol on 8 October 1987. Three weeks later her Mini car was discovered, painted blue, in the garage of known rapist John Cannan, and her body was found on 3 April 1988 in "Dead Woman's Ditch" in the Quantock Hills. Cannan was convicted of her murder and of various other abductions, attempted abductions and rapes. Cannan is also the prime suspect in the much wider-known case of the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh from Fulham, 28 July 1986, three days after he was released from prison in the same area. When Bank's car was discovered in Cannan's garage, it had been fitted with the false number plate "SLP 386S", believed to refer to Suzy Lamplugh and 1986, the year of her disappearance.	Murdered	6 months
1987	Steven Tuomi	25	United States of America	The second victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. A native of Ontonagon, Michigan, Tuomi was murdered in the Ambassador Hotel in Milwaukee. His body was dismembered within Dahmer's grandmother's West Allis residence. Dahmer confessed to Tuomi's murder shortly after his 1991 arrest.	Murdered	4 years
1987	Kathy Bonney	19	United States of America	Kathy Bonney was a 19-year-old Norfolk, Virginia, student murdered by her own father on November 21, 1987, in what he alleged was an argument within his vehicle. Her father shot her twenty-seven times and discarded her body close to a canal in North Carolina.	Murdered	1 day
1987	Deanna Criswell	16	United States of America	Deanna Criswell disappeared on November 23, 1987, from Spokane, Washington. A body was found on November 25 two days later in Pima County, Arizona, but it was not identified as hers until February 11, 2015.	Murdered	27 years
1987	Sian Kingi	12	Australia	Sian Kingi, an Australian-born New Zealander schoolgirl, was abducted on November 27, 1987, from Noosa, Australia, by married couple Barrie John Watts and Valmae Faye Beck, who subsequently raped and killed her. Kingi's body would later be discovered on December 3 near the Tinbeerweh Mountain State Forest. Both Watts and Beck were later convicted in a much-publicized trial, Watts was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Beck to 14+1⁄2 years' mprisonment.	Murdered	A week
1987	Heidi Härö	19	Finland	19-year-old Heidi Härö disappeared in Mäntsälä in December 1987 after leaving a local bar and possibly hitching a ride. Her decomposed body was found five months later in a forest area in Pukkila with some of her clothes missing. Härö may have been a victim of the Hausjärvi Gravel Pit Murders.	Murdered	5 months
1987	Isabelle Laville	17	France	Isabelle Laville did not return home from college on December 11, 1987. In 2004, Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier of Saint-Cyr-les-Colons, France, confessed that they had kidnapped Laville as she walked in the direction of her Saint-Georges-sur-Baulche home and brought her to their house where she was raped and killed before her body was dumped in a well in Bussy-en-Othe. Her remains were recovered from the well in July 2006.	Murdered	181⁄2 years
1988	James Edward Doxtator	14	United States of America	The third victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and the first victim who, according to Dahmer, he murdered with malice aforethought. He was murdered at Dahmer's grandmother's West Allis residence and much of his body was subsequently disposed of in the trash. No remains were ever found. Dahmer confessed to murdering Doxtator following his 1991 arrest.	Murdered	3 years
1988	Andrés Pastrana Arango	34	Colombia	Colombian politician and then-Senator who was abducted on January 18, 1988, by the Medellín Cartel, who demanded that the government prevent the extradition of Pablo Escobar to the United States. Pastrana was rescued a week later, and continued with his political career.	Found alive	1 week
1988	Helen McCourt	22	United Kingdom	Insurance clerk who disappeared in Billinge, England, on February 9, 1988. While her body has never been recovered, local pub owner Ian Simms was convicted via DNA profiling, making it one of the few cases where a conviction has occurred without a body.	Murdered	1 year
1988	William R. Higgins	43	Lebanon	American USMC corporal who was abducted by a Hezbollah-linked terrorist group on February 17, 1988, while on a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. Higgins was supposedly executed a few months after his capture, but his remains went unrecovered until 1991.	Murdered	3 years
1988	Lisa Marie Kimmell	18	United States of America	Kimmell disappeared while travelling to her parents home in Billings, Montana, with her body later found near the North Platte River in Casper, Wyoming. She had been bludgeoned and stabbed to death there. The case remained unsolved until 2002, when the perpetrator's DNA was matched to Dale Wayne Eaton. He was subsequently convicted of the murder and sentenced to death, but following a new trial is now awaiting resentencing.	Murdered	8 days
1988	Farida Hammiche	30	France	The wife of a bank robber, Farida Hammiche went missing from her home in Vitry-sur-Seine in April 1988. Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier confessed to having kidnapped and killed Hammiche to steal loot that Fourniret had hidden in Hammiche's home. Hammiche's body has not been found. In 2018, Fourniret was convicted of the murder of Hammiche, while Olivier was convicted of complicity.	Murdered	16 years
1988	Michael Henley	9	New Mexico	Michael Henley was an American child from New Mexico who disappeared in 1988 and was found dead in the Zuñi Mountains, in June 1990. His death cause is unknown.	Over 2 years	Died (undetermined cause)
1988	Marie Wilks	22	United Kingdom	British woman who suddenly disappeared in sight of traffic while using an emergency phone on the hard shoulder of the M50 near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. While on the line to the operator she mysteriously stopped speaking and the operator could then only hear the sound of passing cars. Later, police found the phone dangling on its cord next to her broken down car. Two days later her body was found at the bottom of the Eastbound carriageway embankment three miles from her car. Although a man was convicted of her murder, he was later released on appeal. Her murder remains unsolved.	Murdered	2 days
1988	Marie-Angèle Domèce	18	France	Marie-Angèle Domèce, an 18-year-old disabled women, disappeared in Auxerre on 8 July 1988. In February 2018, French serial killer Michel Fourniret confessed to Domèce's murder. However, her body has yet to be located.	Murdered	Never found
1988	Janine Balding	21	Australia	Balding was abducted near Sutherland railway station in Sydney, Australia on September 8, 1988, by a gang of five homeless people who hijacked her car and drove to the M4 Motorway near Michinbury, where three of them raped her at knifepoint. She was then bound, gagged and carried off to a nearby paddock, where the three main culprits drowned her. Her body was found the same day, and the culprits arrested and sentenced to long imprisonment terms.	Murdered	Same day
1988	Jaclyn Dowaliby	7	United States of America	Jaclyn Dowaliby was taken from her home in Midlothian, Illinois, on September 10, 1988, and found dead five days later.	Murdered	5 days
1988	Unnamed 14-year-old Native American girl	14	United States	In October 1988, serial rapist-kidnapper John Jamelske abducted his first victim, a 14-year-old Native American girl, whom he held her captive for over two years. Jamelske compelled her to his will by threatening violence against her younger brother. The victim was 17 by the time Jamelske released her; she made no attempt to report to authorities after she was released.	Released	3 years
1988	Richard Evelyn Byrd III	68	United States of America	Richard Evelyn Byrd III was an Antarctic explorer and a United States naval officer who had gone missing on September 13, 1988, in Baltimore, Maryland, and was found dead on October 3, 1988.	Died from Alzheimer's disease and starvation	Less than one month
1988	Brenda Schaefer	36	United States of America	Schaefer was kidnapped on September 23, 1988, by her boyfriend Mel Ignatow and his ex-girlfriend Mary Ann Shore, who held her at the latter's house in Louisville, Kentucky. There, she was raped, tortured and finally killed by both abductors, who then buried her in Shore's backyard. More than a year later, the body was located, but Ignatow would be acquitted in a controversial trial.	Murdered	1 year
1988	Junko Furuta	17	Japan	Japanese high school student who was abducted in Misato, Saitama, Japan, by a gang of teenage boys while riding her bike home on November 25, 1988. Furuta was then repeatedly raped, tortured and finally murdered by her captors, who encased her body in concrete, with police finding it on March 29, 1989.	Murdered	4 months
1988	Stacy Lyn Chahorski	19	United States of America	The body of 19-year-old Stacy Lyn Chahorski was discovered along the east side of northbound I-59 near Rising Fawn in Dade County, Georgia, on December 16, 1988. Chahorski was not officially reported missing until January 1989; she had been last heard four months earlier via telephone, informing her mother that she planned to hitchhike back to her home in Michigan. Chahorski remained unidentified until March 2022. On September 6, 2022, Charhoski's killer was identified as Henry Frederick Wise, a truck driver and stunt driver who died in a car accident in South Carolina in 1999.	Murdered	33 years
1988	Kenyatta Odom	5	United States	The decomposed remains of five-year-old Kenyatta "KeKe" Odom were discovered in Millwood, Georgia, on December 21, 1988, though remained unidentified until November 2023, when Odom's mother, Evelyn, and Evelyn's boyfriend, Ulyster Sanders were indicted on multiple charges in connection with Odom's death, including felony murder.	Killed	34 years
1988	Venus Xtravaganza	23	United States of America	The body of transgender performer Venus Xtravaganza was found under a bed in a New York hotel on December 25, 1988, after going missing four days earlier. Xtravaganza had been strangled.	Murdered	4 days
1988	Stompie Seipei	14–15	South Africa	UDF activist kidnapped along with three other boys by a group of Winnie Mandela's bodyguards on December 29, 1988, after being accused of being a police informant. One of the men later killed him, slashing his throat.	Murdered	3 days
1989	Paul Vanden Boeynants	70	Belgium	Belgian politician who served two separate terms as the country's prime minister. On January 14, 1989, he was kidnapped by members of Patrick Haemers's gang, who demanded a ransom in exchange for the safe return of Boeynants. The ransom was paid, but all the members were later captured.	Found alive	1 month
1989	Avi Sasportas	20	Israel	Israeli soldier who was abducted and subsequently killed by the newly founded Hamas on February 16, 1989. His murder, coupled with that of Ilan Saadon, caused a stir in Israel and subsequent manhunt and apprehension for the militants responsible.	Murdered	More than 2 months
1989	Kelly Ann Tinyes	13	United States of America	Tinyes was a thirteen-year-old Valley Stream, New York schoolgirl who was strangled, stabbed, and sexually mutilated in the home of a neighbor. Her killer, 21-year-old neighbor Robert Golub, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.	Murdered	1 day
1989	Aundria Bowman	14	United States of America	Bowman disappeared under mysterious circumstances from her adoptive family's home in Hamilton, Michigan on March 11, 1989. Her adoptive father, Dennis Bowman, claimed that she had stolen money and then fled, and was thus classified as a runaway. More than three decades later, after Dennis was arrested for an unrelated murder in Virginia, he confessed that he had killed Aundria because she tried to escape being molested by him. He revealed the burial site in Monterey Township, near the family home, and Aundria's remains were subsequently recovered. The elder Bowman is due to stand trial for both murders he is accused of.	Murdered	31 years
1989	Helén Nilsson	10	Sweden	Abducted while she was out to meet some friends in Hörby, Sweden on March 20, 1989. She was kept alive for a few days before her captor killed her and dumped her body in the woods. The killer, Ulf Olsson, was identified and convicted of her killing in the early 2000s after his DNA linked him to the crime scene.	Murdered	6 days
1989	Jeanne-Marie Desramault	21	France	Jeanne-Marie Desramault was dropped off at the gare de Charleville-Mézières on the morning of March 18, 1989, by a nun whose convent she was staying at, with plans to travel to Béthune to visit her parents. She never boarded the train and was not seen alive again. In 2004, Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier confessed to kidnapping and killing Desramault, whose remains were found on July 3 that year, buried in the garden of a Donchery chateau formerly owned by the Fourniret couple.	Murdered	15 years
1989	Urban Höglin	23	New Zealand	Urban Höglin and Heidi Paakkonen disappeared while tramping on the Coromandel Peninsula of New Zealand in April 1989. Fugitive offender David Wayne Tamihere was convicted of their murders in December 1990. Höglin's body was discovered in October 1991, while Paakkonen's body has not been found.	Murdered	21⁄2 years
	Heidi Paakkonen	21	New Zealand			not found
1989	Ilan Saadon	Unknown	Israel	Israeli soldier who vanished mysteriously while hitchhiking back home on May 3, 1989. Large searches were organized to locate his remains, which were found on August 11, 1996. It was determined that Saadon had been killed by the then-newly formed Hamas, and his murder, coupled with that of Avi Sasportas, caused a stir in Israel and subsequent manhunt and apprehension for the militants responsible.	Murdered	7 years
1989	Jackie Mann	75	Lebanon	British RAF fighter pilot who was abducted in Beirut, Lebanon on May 13, 1989, by a Hezbollah-linked insurgent cell. Mann was held in detention for two years, as his kidnappers demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners, until he was released without incident on September 24, 1991.	Found alive	2 years
1989	Cindy James	44	Canada	James, a Vancouver, British Columbia nurse with a history of mental illness, had reported being stalked and harassed for seven years, sometimes to the point of vandalism of her home and physical assault. Police were unable to find any evidence that someone else had been involved during that time, despite spending almost C$1.5 million. On May 25, 1989, she disappeared after a shopping trip at a local grocery. Her tied-up body was found in the backyard of an abandoned house in Richmond, with what an autopsy later found was excessive amounts of morphine, diazepam and other drugs in her system. A lengthy inquest concluded that while the drug overdoses had caused her death, the manner—suicide, homicide or accident—could not be determined.	Died (undetermined cause)	14 days
1989	Peter Dixon	51	United Kingdom	Couple Peter and Gwenda Dixon failed to return home after going on one last walk on the Pembrokeshire coast on June 29, 1989 whilst on holiday. Ten days later their bodies were found in undergrowth next to the nearby cliff path. They had been robbed and then shot dead at point-blank range with a shotgun by psychopathic Pembrokeshire burglar and serial killer John Cooper.	Murdered	10 days
	Gwenda Dixon	52	United Kingdom
1989	Donna Sue Nelton	28	United States of America	The body of 28-year-old Donna Sue Nelton was found eight miles west of Decatur, Arkansas off of Highway 102 in Rogers, Arkansas on May 7, 1990. She had been shot, set on fire, and possibly run over with a vehicle. Nelton remained unidentified until October 25, 2022; she had last been seen alive in the fall of 1989. Her boyfriend, George Alvin Bruton, was suspected in her murder; Bruton died in prison in 2008.	Murdered	33 years
1989	Liang Shan Shan	17	Singapore	A Malaysian teenager who went missing after leaving her school on October 2, 1989. Her body was discovered on October 14 in Yishun Industrial Park. Although no official cause of death was determined, her death was classified as murder. The prime suspect in her murder, Oh Laye Koh, was initially acquitted of her murder, but eventually found guilty following a retrial. Oh was sentenced to death and hanged at Changi Prison in May 1995.	Murdered	12 days
1989	Jacob Wetterling	11	United States of America	Jacob Wetterling was abducted on October 22, 1989, by a masked gunman while cycling home in the dark with his brother and a friend after going to rent a video from a convenience store in St. Joseph, Minnesota. His remains were found on September 1, 2016, when Danny Heinrich, already serving time on child pornography charges, led police to them.	Murdered	~29 years
1989	Amy Mihaljevic	10	United States of America	Amy Mihaljevic, an American elementary school student, was kidnapped and murdered in Bay Village, Ohio, on October 27, 1989. Her body was found on February 8, 1990, in a field off a rural road in Ashland County.	Murdered	3 months
1989	Patricia Candace Walsh	23	United States of America	Walsh and Zyskowski, a married couple from Seattle, Washington, disappeared shortly after leaving the city in November 1989. Zyskowski's remains were discovered in January 1990 in Ozona, Texas; Walsh's body was discovered by deer hunters in Millard County, Utah, on October 26, 1990.	Murdered	11 months
	Douglas Scott Zyskowski	26				2 months
1989	Tsutsumi Sakamoto	33	Japan	Tsutsumi Sakamoto, a lawyer working on a lawsuit against the cult Aum Shinrikyo, was kidnapped and murdered by members of the cult along with his wife and 14-month-old son on November 5, 1989. Their bodies were dumped in three different areas of Japan in order for police to not link their cases. Their disappearance was not linked to the cult at first, but was uncovered following the cult's attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, and their bodies were found in September 1995.	Murdered	5 years 10 months
	Satoko Sakamoto	29	Japan
	Tatsuhiko Sakamoto	1	Japan
1989	Elisabeth Brichet	12	Belgium	Elisabeth Brichet left her friend's house in Namur, Belgium, on the evening of December 20, 1989, and did not arrive home. In 1996, her mother helped organise the White March in honour of Belgium's missing and murdered children following the arrest of Marc Dutroux. On July 3, 2004, the girl's remains were found buried in the garden of a Donchery chateau which formerly belonged to Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier.	Murdered	141⁄2 years

1990s

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1990	Mami Matsuda	4	Japan	Mami Matsuda went missing from a pachinko parlor in Ashikaga, Tochigi on May 12, 1990. Her nude remains were found the following day along the Watarase River. A kindergarten bus driver, Toshikazu Sugaya, was arrested and tried for her kidnapping and murder; but a reexamination of DNA evidences revealed Sugaya's innocence, and was subsequently released following a retrial. Matsuda's case, which is considered part of the North Kanto Serial Young Girl Kidnapping and Murder Case, has since gone cold.	Murdered	1 day
1990	Susan Poupart	29	United States of America	Susan Poupart, a Native-American woman from Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin, disappeared on May 20, 1990. Her body was found six months later in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest.	Murdered	6 months
1990	Diana Turbay	39	Colombia	Colombian journalist who was abducted on August 30, 1990, by members of the Los Priscos, who deceived her into believing that she was going to interview guerilla leader Manuel Pérez. She was detained in Copacabana, where she would later be killed during a botched rescue attempt.	Murdered	5 months
1990	David Courtney Thomas	22	United States of America	The ninth victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Thomas was a 22-year-old father of two whom Dahmer encountered at the Grand Avenue Mall on September 24, 1990. Thomas was drugged strangled and dismembered. Dahmer confessed to his murder following his 1991 arrest.	Murdered	1 year
1990	Tan Hui Ngin	30	Singapore	Tan Hui Ngin, a Singaporean, was last seen on October 12, 1990 to be heading to her brother-in-law's house to babysit her three nephews and nieces before she failed to return home as usual, resulting in her family filing a police report to report her missing. Four days later, Tan's half-naked corpse was discovered at an abandoned egg hatchery located 300 m away from her kampong house in Punggol, and there were signs of her being raped before her death. Tan's childhood friend and former lover, 30-year-old Lim Lye Hock, was found responsible for the killing, and he was sentenced to death on 1 December 1993.	Murdered	4 days
1990	James Bernardo	12	United States of America	Bernardo was abducted from a Pittsfield, Massachusetts theater by convicted child killer Lewis Stephen Lent Jr. on October 22, 1990. He was strangled to death in an area of woodland in Newfane, New York, the following morning. Bernardo's body was found by a hunter on November 21.	Murdered	Four weeks
1990	Lazaro Figueroa	3	United States of America	Figueroa was a three-year-old boy murdered by his mother, Ana Maria Cardona, and her lover, Olivia Gonzalez, on October 31, 1990, following an extensive period of physical and psychological abuse. His body was discovered in Miami Beach on November 2. Cardona was later sentenced to life in prison; Gonzalez was released after 14 years' imprisonment.	Murdered	Two days
1990	Fusako Sano	9	Japan	Sano was kidnapped by a 28-year-old man in 1990 after watching a baseball game in Sanjō, Niigata. She was held captive in his Kashiwazaki home for nearly a decade when police were summoned to the home after the kidnapper caused a disturbance with public health center officials that had visited his home.	Found alive	9 years
1990	Barbara Kaye Williams	30	United States of America	Williams' decomposed body was found in Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 22, 1991. She had died of a gunshot wound, and had been missing since the previous year. Her body remained unidentified until March 1999. Her husband, Howell Williams, was later convicted of her murder.	Murdered	c. 6 months
1991	Vicky Hamilton	15	United Kingdom	15-year-old Vicky Hamilton was last seen waiting for a bus in Bathgate, West Lothian, in February 1991 as she travelled home after a night out. The case became Scotland's biggest missing persons enquiry. On November 14, 2007, the body of Hamilton was discovered buried at the Margate home of Peter Tobin, who was already being investigated for the murder of Angelika Kluk in Glasgow in 2006. Tobin was convicted of Hamilton's murder, as well as the murder of Kluk and Dinah McNicol, and given a whole-life order.	Murdered	16 years
1991	Karmein Chan	13	Australia	Karmein Chan, an Australian girl who was abducted from her home at night on April 13, 1991, in the Melbourne suburb of Templestowe; her body was found on April 9, 1992, in Edgars Creek, Thomastown.	Murdered	1 year
1991	Rachel McLean	19	United Kingdom	British student at the University of Oxford Rachel McLean disappeared on April 14, 1991. Her boyfriend John Tanner, known to be controlling and abusive, made public appeals for her return, but 17 days later police found her body hidden in a gap under the stairs at their home. Tanner was convicted of her murder and was released in 2003. In 2018 he was jailed again for assaulting his partner.	Murdered	17 days
1991	Tuula Lukkarinen	28	Kellokoski, Finland	28-year-old Tuula Lukkarinen disappeared on the morning of April 17, 1991 after leaving a Kellokoski psychiatrist hospital where she had been staying as an inpatient, planning to travel to Hyrylä to attend a meeting about her son's custody case. The following day, Lukkarinen's multilated body was discovered by a landowner in Hikiä. Police also recovered her handbag and a possible murder weapon at the scene.	Murdered	1 day
1991	Ailton Fonseca	10	Brazil	A victim of the Altamira child emasculations. Fonesca disappeared on May 5, 1991; his body was discovered on June 20.	Murdered	46 days
1991	Timothy Wiltsey	5	United States of America	Wiltsey's mother told the police that he went missing from a local carnival in South Amboy, New Jersey on May 25, 1991. Almost a year later, his remains were discovered in nearby Edison. A quarter-century later, his mother was convicted of his murder; five years after that the New Jersey Supreme Court vacated that conviction for insufficient evidence.	No	1 year
1991	Jaycee Dugard	11	United States of America	Dugard was abducted on June 10, 1991, and was found alive on August 26, 2009, when her abductor brought her to a Concord, California parole office.	Found alive	18 years
1991	Leslie Mahaffy	14	Canada	Leslie Mahaffy was a female Canadian teenager who disappeared on June 16, 1991, from Burlington, Ontario. Mahaffy's body was discovered in Lake Gibson on June 29, 1991. She was the second Canadian murder victim of killers Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.	Murdered	Less than two weeks
1991	Margaret Perry	26	United Kingdom	Margaret Perry was from Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland; she disappeared on June 21, 1991. After a tip from the IRA, her body was found buried across the border in a field in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland, on June 30, 1992. She had been beaten to death. Her murder has never been solved.	Murdered	1 year
1991	Sheree Beasley	6	Australia	Beasley, an Australian schoolgirl from Rosebud was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by a man named Robert Lowe on June 29, 1991, and her body was found weeks later on September 24 in a stormwater drain.	Murdered	3 months
1991	Donna Marie Prudhomme	34	United States of America	Donna Marie Prudhomme disappeared from Nassau Bay, Texas in July 1991 and was found dead on September 8, 1991.	Died (undetermined cause)	2–3 months
1991	Anjelica Castillo	4	United States of America	Castillo, an American girl from New York City who disappeared on July 18, 1991, and was found dead on July 23, 1991. Her body was not identified until 2013. After her identification, Castillo's paternal cousin, Conrado Juarez, confessed to murdering the girl.	Murdered	22 years
1991	Dinah McNicol	18	United Kingdom	Dinah McNicol disappeared after she and a male friend accepted a lift from a man while hitchhiking after a music festival in Hampshire in August 1991. Her friend was dropped off by the M25 motorway near Reigate, while she continued her journey alone with the man, but was never seen again. A large amount of money was then suspiciously withdrawn from her bank account in Hampshire and Sussex. In 2007, McNicol's body was found alongside Vicky Hamilton's, a girl who also vanished in 1991, in the Margate home of Peter Tobin, who was already being investigated for a murder. Tobin was given a whole-life tariff in 2009.	Murdered	16 years
1991	Mandy Lemaire	11	United States of America	Mandy Lemaire was a young girl who went missing on August 22, 1991, in Tazlina, Alaska and was found dead then days later after being murdered.	Murdered	10 days
1991	Leanne Holland	12	Australia	Went missing under unclear circumstances from her home in Goodna, Queensland, Australia, on September 23, 1991, and her mutilated body was found days later in Redbank Plains. Her sister's live-in boyfriend, Graham Stafford, was erroneously convicted of her murder before his conviction was quashed in 2009.	Murdered	3 days
1992	John D'Amato	Unknown	United States of America	D'Amato was a New Jersey mobster who was suspected of homosexual activity. He disappeared in January 1992 after Anthony Capo and the other two hitmen entered D'Amato's car to drive to lunch. Sitting in the back seat, Capo shot D'Amato four times, killing him. Capo and Rotundo left the body at a safe house, where other mobsters disposed of it. D'Amato's body was never recovered. In 2006, Abramo, Schifilliti and Vitabile were sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder.	Murdered	Never found
1992	Shanda Sharer	12	United States of America	Sharer was abducted, tortured and then burned alive by a group of teenage girls in Madison, Indiana on January 11, 1992. The case gained notoriety due to the perpetrators' age, and has served as inspiration for several fictional true crime shows.	Murdered	1 day
1992	Kristen French	15	Canada	French, a Canadian school girl from Ontario who disappeared on April 16, 1992, was held captive for three days and then was killed and was found dead on April 30, 1992. She was murdered by Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo.	Murdered	2 weeks
1992	Ebony Simpson	9	Australia	Ebony Simpson was an Australian girl who disappeared on August 19, 1992, in New South Wales. Simpson was later found dead just two days later on August 21, when Simpson's body was discovered by the police near her home at a wildlife sanctuary in a dam.	Murdered	2 days
1992	Nikki Allan	7	United Kingdom	A seven-year-old English girl bludgeoned to death in a derelict building in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England. Her body was discovered the following day, although her murderer, David Boyd, was only convicted of her death in 2023.	Murdered	1 day
1992	James Donald Lusher	16	United States of America	16-year-old James Donald Lusher disappeared near his home in Westfield, Massachusetts on November 6, 1992. In 2013, Lewis Stephen Lent Jr., a man convicted of kidnapping and murdering both James Joseph Bernardo of Pittsfield, Massachusetts and Sara Anne Wood of Frankfort, New York, confessed to Lusher's abduction and murder, claiming to have discarded his body in Becket, Massachusetts. Despite Lent's confession, Lusher's remains have yet to be found.	Murdered	21 years
1992	Miriam Iborra	14	Spain	The Alcasser Girls were three teenage girls from Alcasser, Spain, who disappeared on November 13, 1992, and were found dead on January 27, 1993, and it was revealed that they had been kidnapped, raped, beaten, and tortured after they were abducted.	Murdered	24 days
	Antonia Rodríguez	15	Spain
	Desirée Folch	14	Spain
1992	Suzanne Capper	16	United Kingdom	Kidnapped, tortured and ultimately killed by four people who lured her to their house in Greater Manchester on December 8, 1992. Capper later died at hospital from severe burns from being lit on fire. All four of the perpetrators were later given long prison sentences.	Murdered	6 days
1992	Gail Shollar	35	United States of America	Shollar was a 35-year-old Piscataway, New Jersey carjacking victim who was raped and murdered after her vehicle was commandeered from the Middlesex Shopping Mall in South Plainfield, New Jersey. Shollar's body was discovered in a drainage ditch four days later. Her murderer, 23-year-old Scott Johnson, was found guilty of her rape and murder in 1995.	Murdered	4 days
1992	Eugenio Berríos	45	Uruguay	Berríos, a Chilean biochemist who worked for the DINA intelligence agency, was captured in 1992 while in hiding in Uruguay and disappeared. His corpse was found in 1995 near Montevideo and identified by dental records and DNA.	Murdered	3 years
1992	Tan Heng Hong	32	Singapore	On 29 November 1992, 32-year-old Tan Heng Hong was last seen leaving his home, and he never came back. Four days later, his charred body was discovered inside his burnt car abandoned at Mandai. Two suspects, Maniam Rathinswamy and S. S. Asokan, who were both security guards, were arrested and later executed by hanging in 1995.	Murdered	4 days
1992	Arnold Archambeau	20	United States of America	Archambeau and Bruguier left her cousin behind in a car that overturned following a predawn accident outside Lake Andes, South Dakota; neither is known for certain to have been seen alive again although there were sightings reported to police later postdating the accident. Almost three months later, their bodies were found in a ditch near the accident site despite not having been seen there since the accident; while autopsies ruled the cause of death to be exposure there is evidence in addition to the sightings that has led local enforcement to believe that they died somewhere else and were moved to where they were found. An FBI investigation was inconclusive.	Died from hypothermia	3 months
	Ruby Bruguier	18	United States of America
1992	Katie Beers	10	United States of America	Beers disappeared on December 28, 1992, during a shopping trip with neighbor John Esposito and was found in a secret room underneath Esposito's home on January 13, 1993. Esposito had been considered a family friend. Prior to the kidnapping she had been the subject of a lengthy custody battle between her mother and godmother and had suffered material deprivation, sexual abuse and hardship.	Found alive	16 days
1992	Angela Toler	23	United States of America	After moving from Princeton, North Carolina to Richmond, Virginia with her boyfriend in late 1992, Toler lost contact with her family. The boyfriend later returned to Princeton without her, and no explanation for her whereabouts. Toler's body was discovered without identification near railroad tracks in Richmond in November 1992, having died of hypothermia. Toler was identified in 2012 after a cousin of her mother recognized a reconstruction of her.	Accidental death by hypothermia	Less than 3 months
1993	David Glenn Lewis	39	United States of America	Lewis disappeared from his home near Amarillo, Texas, following unusual behavior over the Super Bowl weekend of January 29 – February 1, 1993. Late the latter night, he was struck by an unidentified vehicle and killed on a state highway in the town of Moxee, Washington, just outside Yakima. His body was unidentified for 11 years; the reason for his presence over 1,600 mi (2,600 km) from his home has never been determined.	Died in vehicle collision	11 years
1993	James Bulger	2	United Kingdom	Two-year-old James Bulger disappeared on February 12, 1993, while shopping with his mother at the Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, Liverpool. Security camera footage showed that he had been led out of the shopping centre by two young boys. His mutilated body was found on a railway track 2 miles away two days later. The boys, later found to be Jon Venables and Robert Thompson and who were only 10 years old, had abducted, tortured and murdered Bulger.	Murdered	2 days
1993	Rajab Mohamed	35	Singapore	On March 8, 1993, Inspector Rajab Mohamed of the Central Narcotics Bureau (CNB) went missing after he last phoned his colleagues to prepare themselves for an upcoming drug bust. Before this last phone call, Inspector Rajab was last seen alive by his wife, who saw him responding to a pager call at his home and was told that her husband wanted to go and meet his informant. A day after his disappearance, Inspector Rajab's 32-year-old wife reported her husband missing, and as part of their investigations, the police arrested the inspector's 34-year-old informant Roshdi Abdullah Altway, who confessed that he murdered Inspector Rajab during a fight over an unsettled monetary debt, and three days after Inspector Rajab's disappearance, Roshdi led the police to Inspector Rajab's abandoned car in a Tampines carpark, where the decomposing corpse of Inspector Rajab's body was found in the backseat. Originally convicted and sentenced to death for murder, Roshdi's appeal in 1994 led to him serving ten years' jail instead for manslaughter, after an appeal court accepted that Roshdi acted in self-defence while killing Inspector Rajab. Although Roshdi escaped the gallows for killing the inspector, he was once again sentenced to death 26 years later in 2020 for drug trafficking.	Murdered	3 days
1993	Jayne Furlong	17	New Zealand	Furlong, a sex worker, was a New Zealander, who disappeared from a street in Auckland on May 26, 1993. Her remains were found at a beach in 2012 after being exposed by erosion of a sandbank. She had been abducted and murdered.	Murdered	19 years
1993	Jennifer Ertman	14	United States of America	Two teenage girls who were abducted, raped and strangled to death by six gang members in Houston, Texas on June 24, 1993, with their bodies found four days later.	Murdered	4 days
	Elizabeth Peña	16	United States of America
1993	Sim Ah Lek	50	Singapore	Sim Ah Lek, a Singaporean contractor and moneylender, was last seen on 14 July 1993, going out for an appointment. Sim was reported missing the next day by his family after he failed to return home for the night. Four hours after the report was made, Sim was found dead with his neck slashed and his body stuffed inside a gunny sack, which was first discovered by a passer-by at a carpark outside Jurong Swimming Complex. After 39 hours of police investigations, 36-year-old Phua Soy Boon, who admitted to killing Sim after the victim refused to lend him S$10,000, was arrested and charged with murder. Phua was found guilty and sentenced to death on 6 May 1994, and after the rejection of his appeal, Phua was hanged in Changi Prison on 16 June 1995.	Murdered	1 day
1993	Holly Piirainen	10	United States of America	Piirainen, an American girl from Grafton, Massachusetts, disappeared on August 5, 1993. She and her brother had been visiting their grandparents in Sturbridge, Massachusetts when Holly was murdered. Piirainen's remains were found by hunters in Brimfield on October 23, 1993.	Murdered	79 days
1993	Mansour Rashid El-Kikhia	62	Egypt	Libyan politician and human rights activist known for his opposition to Muammar Gaddafi's regime. On December 10, 1993, he was kidnapped while on a diplomatic visit to Cairo, Egypt, allegedly by Mukhabarat operatives. His fate remained unclear until October 2012, when his body was found in a refrigerator in Tripoli, indicating that he had likely died while in custody.	Murdered	19 years
1993	Kori Lamaster	17	United States of America	Lamaster, an American female murder victim who went missing in 1993, was found on January 29, 1994, and was not identified until 2013.	Murdered	19 years
1994	Peggy Johnson	18	United States of America	A homeless medical student from McHenry, Illinois, Johnson accepted work as a housekeeper for nurse Linda La Roche sometime in 1994. During her stay there, La Roche physically and sexually abused her for years before eventually killing her in 1999 and dumping her body in Raymond, Wisconsin. The body was unidentified until 2019, and La Roche was arrested and charged with the murder soon after.	Murdered	5 years
1994	Tina Susman	Unknown	Somalia	Susman was an American journalist who travelled around the world, covering the various current events with a primary focus on Africa. In 1994, while she was on another visit to Somalia, she was kidnapped in Mogadishu and held captive for 20 days. She later released without harm, and continued to cover stories for the Associated Press.	Found alive	20 days
1994	Vickie Deblieux	37	United States	On February 21, 1994, 37-year-old Vickie Deblieux was abducted, tortured and murdered in Alabama by a group of four youths (aged 16 to 19) while she was hitchhiking from Tennessee to her mother's house in Louisiana. Deblieux's body was discovered four days later, and the police managed to arrest the youths responsible for her abduction and death. Three of the offenders were sentenced to life in prison, while the fourth and final member, Carey Dale Grayson, was sentenced to death.	Murdered	Four days
1994	Mohamed Hassaïne	49	Algeria	Journalist for Alger républicain who was kidnapped and murdered by armed militants after being abducted from his house in Larbatache on February 28, 1994. His beheaded body was later found in a neighboring area.	Murdered	Several days
1994	Monyane Moleleki	43	Lesotho	Lesotho politician and then-Minister of Natural Resources, who was kidnapped together with three other ministers by soldiers on April 14, 1994. During this incident, Deputy Prime Minister Selometsi Baholo was killed. Moleleki was eventually released and returned to politics.	Found alive	More than 1 year
1994	Mehdi Dibaj	58–59	Iran	Mehdi Dibaj was an Iranian former Muslim who later became a Christian pastor. On July 5, 1994, Dibaj's was body was discovered west Tehran in a park. after he had been murdered by unknown members of Iran's regime.	Murdered	Less than two weeks
1994	Rosie Palmer	3	United Kingdom	British child Rosie Palmer disappeared after buying an ice cream from an ice cream van outside her home in Hartlepool on June 30, 1994. Her body was discovered after police searched the home of local man Shaun Armstrong on July 3. Armstrong had abducted her after she had bought the ice cream and murdered her.	Murdered	3 days
1994	Lounès Matoub	38	Algeria	Algerian Kabylian singer, poet and intellectual who was abducted by the Islamist militant group Armed Islamic Group of Algeria on September 25, 1994. He was held in a stronghold and threatened with execution, but eventually released after a large gathering of protestors warned that they would attack if Matoub was killed.	Found alive	2 weeks
1994	Michael Anthony Hughes	6	United States of America	Michael Hughes was abducted at gunpoint from school on September 12, 1994, by his step father, Franklin Delano Floyd. No trace of the boy has ever been found. Floyd is considered a suspect in the hit-and-run death of his wife, whom he had abducted as a child and raised as his daughter. In a 2015 interview with the FBI, Floyd admitted to killing Hughes the same day of the kidnapping, and died in prison while on death row in January 2023.	Murdered	21 years
1994	Daniel Handley	9	United Kingdom	Handley was a British child who went missing from a street in Beckton, London while fixing a chain on his bicycle. Suspected to have been abducted by paedophiles, his case was solved in part due to appeals on the Crimewatch television programme. His skull and then body were found buried in a field in Bristol 5 months later, and known paedophiles and homosexual couple Timothy Morss and Brett Taylor were found to have abducted Handley in their car before sexually assaulting and killing him in Hungerford.	Murdered	5 months
1994	Lindsay Rimer	13	United Kingdom	A British schoolgirl who disappeared from Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire, on the evening of 7 November 1994 while returning home from buying cornflakes from a local shop. Her body was discovered in the Rochdale Canal five months later. In 2016 police announced they had a DNA profile of the murderer, but no one has yet been convicted of her murder.	Murdered	5 months
1994	Randi Boothe-Wilson	33	United States of America	Randi Boothe-Wilson disappeared from New York when planning to meet family members. Her remains were discovered in December 1995 in North Carolina and were not identified until January 2019.	Murdered	23 years
1995	Henning Wehn	21	Spain	Henning Wehn was listed by Interpol as a missing person after disappearing while on holiday in Spain in 1995, while sending mysterious postcards to a friend in Germany. He reappeared in Spain after having traveled to Morocco for three weeks with a man he met on a train.	Found alive	3 weeks
1995	Scott Sherrin	23	United Kingdom	English child star who went missing in 1995, with his body found in the River Thames in March 1996. His death was determined to be the result of drowning, while he was under the influence of drugs.	Died from drowning	1 year
1995	Melanie Carpenter	23	Canada	The 23-year-old Carpenter was abducted from her workplace in Surrey, Canada on January 6, 1995. Her body was found on January 15 near the town of Hope, where it had been dumped in a crevice and covered with a blanket. On that same day, Fernand Auger, the prime suspect in the case as he had been observed withdrawing money from her bank account, committed suicide at his home.	Murdered	9 days
1995	Philip Taylor Kramer	42	United States of America	Kramer, a computer engineer and former bass guitarist for the rock band Iron Butterfly, disappeared on February 12, 1995, before he was to meet a business partner at the Los Angeles International Airport; he changed his plans and asked his guest to meet him at a nearby hotel instead, but failed to appear. During his travel to and from the airport, Kramer made a flurry of cell phone calls, including to his wife, his Iron Butterfly bandmate Ron Bushy and finally to the police. In the latter call, Kramer said, "I'm going to kill myself." He was never heard from again, which led to an extensive search for his vehicle. On May 29, 1999, Kramer's body was discovered by hikers inside his wrecked minivan at the bottom of a canyon in Malibu, California.	Died by suicide	4 years
1995	Tracie McBride	19	United States of America	McBride was a woman who was a United States Army soldier from Centerville, Minnesota who disappeared on February 18, 1995 after being kidnapped, raped and murdered. She was found dead on March 1, 1995.	Murdered	2 weeks
1995	Unnamed 14-year-old Latina girl	14	United States	A victim of serial rapist and kidnapper John Jamelske. Jamelske abducted this individual on an unknown date in March 1995. She was held captive for fifteen months in his Syracuse, New York, home before being released in the summer of 1996.	Released	15 months
1995	Deanna Cremin	17	United States of America	Deanna J. Cremin was a teenage American girl from Somerville, Massachusetts who disappeared on March 30, 1995, and was found dead four days later after being murdered.	Murdered	4 days
1995	Carl Isaacs Jr.	20	United States of America	Isaacs walked away from the Walworth County Jail in Elkhorn, Wisconsin in April 1995. His skeletal remains were discovered on November 26, 1995, alongside Turtle Creek in Bradford, near Clinton, Rock County, Wisconsin, but he remained unidentified until June 14, 2022.	Died from natural causes; possibly hypothermia	27 years
1995	Sonja Engelbrecht	19	Germany	Sonja Engelbrecht was a young teenage woman who went missing on the night of 1995 April 10–11 in Munich, Germany and whose remains were discovered on November 23, 2021. Her cause of death remains unknown.	Died (unknown cause)	26 years
1995	Kiplyn Davis	15	United States of America	Davis, a high school student, was reported missing on May 2, 1995, in Spanish Fork, Utah. She is a featured child of the Polly Klaas Foundation. Several people have been arrested in connection with her murder, although her death has not been confirmed by the discovery of a body. On February 11, 2011, Timmy Brent Olson pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He claimed he saw another individual hit Davis in the head with a rock and helped him move her body, but declined to name the other individual.	Murdered	Not found
1995	Julie Lejeune	8	Belgium	Eight-year-old friends Julie Lejeune and Mélissa Russo were reported missing by their families on June 24, 1995, after they left the Russo family home in Grâce-Hollogne, Belgium, and did not return. Their bodies were found buried in the garden of a house in Sars-la-Buissière on August 17, 1996. After being kidnapped, they had been held in Marc Dutroux's house in Marcinelle for between five and nine months. Locked in the basement, the girls starved to death, Dutroux's wife having neglected them while her husband was in police custody between December 1995 and March 1996.	Homicide caused by neglect	2 years
	Mélissa Russo	8	Belgium
1995	Jason Callahan	19	United States of America	Callahan made no contact with friends or family after June 1995. The body of a passenger that was found in the wreck of a car on June 26, 1995, was identified as his on December 9, 2015, after his mother formally reported him missing.	Died in automobile accident	20 years
1995	Yolanda Panek	21	United States of America	Panek was an American woman who vanished from the Capri Motel in Portland, Oregon. Even though her body was never found, there is physical evidence exists to indicate she was murdered in the hotel room and her body transported from the residence in her vehicle. Panek's common-law husband, Abdur Rashid Al-Wadud, was charged and convicted of her murder in March 1996.	Murdered	10 months
1995	Eefje Lambrecks	19	Belgium	Eefje Lambrecks and An Marchal, from Hasselt, Belgium, were on holiday on the Flemish coast with a group of friends when they disappeared on the night of August 22–23, 1995. The pair took a tram to Blankenberge where they attended a hypnosis show, and did not return to their holiday home in Westende. On September 3, 1996, their bodies were found buried in the garden of a house in Jumet. Marc Dutroux and his accomplice Michel Lelièvre had kidnapped the teenagers and brought them to Dutroux's house in Marcinelle. After being kidnapped, Lambrecks and Marchal had been buried alive.	Murdered	1 year
	An Marchal	17	Belgium
1995	Madalyn Murray O'Hair	76	United States of America	Madalyn Murray O'Hair, an American activist, founder of American Atheists, and the organization's president from 1963 to 1986, disappeared on August 27, 1995, and was found dead in 2001.	Murdered	6 years
1995	Avdo Palić	37	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Bosnian military officer who was detained by Bosnian Serb Army soldiers on September 5, 1995, and promptly disappeared. His remains were first located in a mass grave in November 2001, but were not positively identified until late July 2009.	Murdered	14 years
1995	Jaswant Singh Khalra	43	India	Khalra was an Indian Sikh human rights activist who received global acclaim for his research into approximately 27,000 illegal killings perpetrated by the Punjabi police during the 1990s. In response to his investigation, he was kidnapped by seven officials on September 6, 1995, and detained at the police station in Jhabal, where he was presumably killed.	Murdered	Body never found
1995	Jimmy Ryce	9	United States of America	Ryce, a child who was abducted on September 11, 1995, and was raped and killed by Juan Carlos Chavez in Redland, Florida, and his body was found three months later near Chavez's trailer.	Murdered	3 months
1995	Nicole van den Hurk	15	Netherlands	Nicole van den Hurk disappeared on her way to work in Eindhoven, in the Dutch province of North Brabant on October 6, 1995, and was found dead on November 22, 1995, in the woods between the towns of Mierlo and Lierop.	Manslaughter	7 weeks
1995	Bernard Weinstein	43	Belgium	Weinstein, a Frenchman living in Belgium, was last seen alive in mid-November 1995. His body was found buried in the garden of a house in Sars-la-Buissière on August 17, 1996. Weinstein had been sought by police since he and Marc Dutroux kidnapped three people, one of whom had escaped and alerted the police. To stop Weinstein from informing on him, Dutroux kidnapped Weinstein and killed him by burying him alive.	Murdered	2 years
1995	Barbara Barnes	13	United States of America	Barnes, an American schoolgirl, was kidnapped on December 7, 1995, while walking to school, and her body was found on February 22, 1996, in Pennsylvania. People have speculated that her uncle may have been responsible for her death, but others believe that the crime was committed by someone local.	Murdered	3 months
1995	Céline Figard	19	United Kingdom	Figard was a French woman who, while visiting the United Kingdom, disappeared on December 19, 1995. She was found dead on December 29, 1995.	Murdered	10 days
1995	Justina Morales	8	United States of America	Morales, an American girl from the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, New York, who was killed by her mother's boyfriend, Luis Santiago, on December 31, 1995. Her disappearance went unnoticed for 15 months. In 1997, Santiago was convicted for the murder. Morales' body has not been found.	Murdered	2 years
1996	Nancy Ann Mueller	28	United States	Three individuals murdered by Chevie Kehoe and Daniel Lewis Lee in the commission of a robbery at their Arkansas home on January 11, 1996. All three died of suffocation. Their bodies were discovered in Russellville in June 1996.	Murdered	5 months
	William Frederick Mueller	52	United States
	Sarah Elizabeth Powell	8	United States
1996	José Antonio Ortega Lara	38	Spain	Spanish prison officer who was kidnapped by ETA terrorists on January 17, 1996, while en route to his job. He was kept in detention and tortured in a dungeon up until he was rescued by the Spanish police forces. He later enrolled in politics, and now heads the Vox party.	Found alive	1 year
1996	Sabine Dardenne	12	Belgium	Dardenne was kidnapped in Tournai, Belgium, by Marc Dutroux and Michel Lelièvre as she cycled to school on May 28, 1996. When Dutroux and Lelièvre were arrested in August after kidnapping 14-year-old Laetitia Delhez, police raided Dutroux's home on August 15 and found both girls alive in the basement.	Found alive	3 months
1996	Tanya Nicole Kach	14	United States of America	Tanya Nicole Kach, a student at the Cornell Middle School in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, was kidnapped by school security guard Thomas Hose on February 10, 1996. In the time leading up to this event, Hose befriended Kach to earn her trust. Kach escaped on March 21, 2006, with the help of Joe Sparico, the owner of a grocery store in the neighborhood where Kach had been held captive.	Found alive	10 years
1996	Robert Wykel	65	United States of America	Sheet metal worker who was supposedly killed by associate Myron Wynn on February 23, 1996, while the pair were on a trip to buy a car in Yelm, Washington. Wykel's body was never found, but Wynn has been convicted and sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.	Murdered	Never found
1996	Nadezhda Chaikova	33	Russia	Correspondent for the Russian weekly newspaper Obshchaya Gazeta who frequently travelled to Chechnya to record events in the region. On March 20, 1996, she was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in Sernovodskoye, and her body found later in the Urus-Martanovsky District. She had been shot to death.	Murdered	3 weeks
1996	Kristin Smart	19	United States of America	Smart was a California Polytechnic State University student murdered on or about May 25, 1996 by Paul Flores. She was declared legally dead May 25, 2002. Her disappearance and the lack of effective initial response ultimately inspired the passing of a law requiring public colleges reporting cases involving any form of violence against students, or the possibility of such violence.	Murdered	Never found
1996	Melanie Hall	25	United Kingdom	Melanie Hall, a British hospital clerical officer from Bradford on Avon, who disappeared on June 9, 1996. On October 5, 2009, her partial remains were discovered, after a plastic bin bag containing human bones was located by a workman on the M5 motorway near Thornbury, South Gloucestershire. The bones, which included a pelvis, thigh bone, and human skull, were analyzed and identified as belonging to Hall.	Murdered	13 years
1996	Ulrike Everts	13	Germany	German Ulrike Everts was last seen in a pony-drawn carriage on June 11, 1996. In July 1998, Ronny Rieken, arrested for the murder of 11-year-old Christina Nytsch, confessed to killing Everts and directed police to the location where he had hidden her body.	Murdered	2 years
1996	Death Valley Germans	4–34	United States of America	A family of four German tourists (two adults and two children) disappeared July 23, 1996, in a remote area of Death Valley in California after their rental van broke down. Their remains were discovered in November 2009 by two off-duty search-and-rescue hikers who had been looking for them as a cold-case hobby.	Death by misadventure	13 years
1996	Laetitia Delhez	14	Belgium	Delhez was kidnapped by Marc Dutroux and Michel Lelièvre as she walked home from a swimming pool in Bertrix, Belgium, on August 9, 1996. An eyewitness who was present at the scene of the kidnapping was able to tell the police part of Dutroux's van's numberplate. After Dutroux and Lelièvre confessed to kidnapping Delhez, police raided Dutroux's home on August 15 and found Delhez and Sabine Dardenne alive in the basement.	Found alive	6 days
1996	Janet March	33	United States of America	March was an American children's book illustrator who vanished under mysterious circumstances from her in Forest Hills, Tennessee on August 15, 1996. Her family reported her missing two weeks later, and in the ensuing investigation, her husband was arrested, convicted and sentenced to 56 years' imprisonment for her murder. Despite this, March's body has never been found.	Murdered	10 years
1996	Sofia Silva	16	United States of America	Abducted from the porch of her home in Spotsylvania County, Virginia by serial killer Richard Evonitz. Her body was discovered in King George County one month later.	Murdered	1 month
1996	Tegan Lee Lane	2 days	Australia	Tegan was the daughter of former Australian water polo player and teacher Keli Lane, who was convicted of the child's murder approximately two days after giving birth to her. Tegan Lee's body has never been found.	Murdered	Never found
1996	Karyn Hearn Slover	23	United States of America	Slover disappeared on September 27, 1996, in Decatur, Illinois, shortly after leaving her job at the Decatur Herald & Review, and her dismembered body was discovered wrapped in plastic bags sealed with duct tape in Lake Shelbyville on October 1, 1996.	Murdered	4 days
1996	Angela Atim Lakor	14	Uganda	Ugandan students at the Saint Mary's College Aboke boarding school were among those abducted by members of the Lord's Resistance Army in October 1996. Lakor was kept as a sex slave and married off to a captor in Sudan, but was eventually rescued in 2012. She later became a community activist and founded an organization dedicated to helping fellow abductees.	Found alive	16 years (Lakor)/8 years (Nyanjura)
	Victoria Nyanjura	14	Uganda
1996	Jakub Fiszman	39	Germany	Fiszman, a millionaire German businessman from Frankfurt am Main, disappeared in Eschborn, Germany, on October 1, 1996, and his body was found on October 19, 1996, in the Taunus mountains, after a massive search operation involving some 500 police officers.	Murdered	18 days
1996	Heather Rich	16	United States of America	High school student who was sexually assaulted, raped and finally killed by a trio of students from her school on October 2, 1996. Her body was found on October 10, 1996. All three of them were later sentenced to life imprisonment.	Murdered	8 days
1996	April Lacy	14	United States of America	Lacy, a girl from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, disappeared on October 3, 1996, and was found dead on October 8, 1996, in Decatur, Texas. Her body was not identified until 1998.	Murdered	2 years
1996	Vera Holland	47	United Kingdom	Mother-of-three Holland vanished after leaving her home in Reading, Berkshire, England, on the evening of 14 November 1996 to make the three-minute walk to the nearby KFC restaurant. There was no sign of her on CCTV reaching her destination and it's believed that she never made it to the restaurant. Her body was discovered two days later after a fire was reported by motorists on a roadside three miles south of her home. Her body was found burning in the fire. As of 2021, her murder remains unsolved.	Murdered	2 days
1996	St. Mary's College students	Various	Uganda	The Aboke abductions refers to the abduction of 139 female students from a boarding school in Aboke, Uganda, perpetrated by the Lord's Resistance Army. While a number of the hostages died in captivity, the rest of them were released following negotiations, with the last one returning to her family in 2009.	Released/Died in captivity	Various
1997	Amber Creek	14	United States of America	Creek, a girl from Palatine, Illinois ran away from a youth shelter in January 1997, and was found dead on February 9, 1997, and was not identified until a year later.	Murdered	1 year
1997	Silvia Melis	Unknown	Ogliastra, Sardinia	Melis was the victim of a kidnapping for extortion which occurred on 19 February 1997 in Ogliastra, Sardinia. She was discovered alive close to Nuoro on November 11 the same year by two plainclothes agents, having endured 265 days of captivity. Although controversy remains regarding the circumstances of her release, Melis has always insisted she freed herself.	Rescued	265 days
1997	Ebrahim Zalzadeh	47–48	Iran	Ebrahim Zalzadeh was an Iranian editor and author who mysteriously disappeared on February 22, 1997, and was found dead on March 29, 1997, in Tehran.	Murdered	35 days
1997	Laura Smither	12	United States	12-year-old Laura Smither was last seen alive in Friendswood, Texas on April 3, 1997, jogging down her home street after telling her mother she was going on a 20-minute run. Seventeen days later, on April 20, 1997, Smither's body was found in a retention pond in Pasadena, Texas. In 1998, her parents established the Laura Recovery Center, a non-profit organization that aids the search for and recovery of kidnapping victims. In June 2022, William Lewis Reece was convicted of the murders of Laura Smither, Kelli Cox and Jessica Cain in June 2022.	Murdered	17 days
1997	Judy Smith	50	United States of America	Smith, a nurse, was last seen by her husband at a hotel in Philadelphia around April 10, 1997, but her bones were found nearly six months later in Pisgah National Forest. It is unclear how Smith reached North Carolina, and her killing remains unsolved.	Murdered	Almost 6 months
1997	Pai Hsiao-yen	16	Taiwan	Japanese-Taiwanese school student abducted from her school in Taipei on April 14, 1997, by a gang of criminals who later demanded $5 million in ransom. She was murdered a week after her abduction, with her mutilated body found two weeks later in an irrigation ditch.	Murdered	2 weeks
1997	Eva Blanco	16	Spain	Spanish high school student who disappeared while walking home on a detour from the town center in Algete on April 19, 1997. Her body, showing several stab wounds, was found by an elderly couple on the next day. The case remained unsolved until 2015, when DNA linked Moroccan-Spanish deliveryman Ahmed Chelh Gerj to the crime. Chelh committed suicide in the middle of trial proceedings.	Murdered	1 day
1997	Zephany Nurse	< 1	South Africa	Nurse, a South African female, was abducted on April 30, 1997, from a hospital two days after she was born and raised by her abductor. At age 17 she was, by coincidence, attending the same school as her younger sister, and their physical resemblance was noticed. DNA testing confirmed her identity.	Found alive	17 years
1997	Kerry Whelan	39	Australia	Whelan was last seen entering a Mitsubishi Pajero with her murderer, Bruce Burrell, on May 6, 1997. Burrell had been a friend and former employee of the Whelan family. Her murderer refused to disclose the location of her body, which has never been found.	Murdered	Not found
1997	Jeff Buckley	30	United States of America	Jeff Buckley, an American singer known for his only studio album, "Grace", which was released in 1994, including his hit song, a cover of Leonard Cohens "Hallelujah." On 29 May 1997, Buckley disappeared after going for a swim in Wolf River Harbour while fully clothed, accompanied by roadie named Keith Foti. Foti moved his boombox away from the edge of the water, and when he looked back up, he was unable to spot Buckley in the water. On June 4, passengers on the boat named "American Queen" spotted his body caught in some branches, upstream from where he had disappeared. His autopsy states that there was no drugs or alcohol in system, and his death was ruled an accidental drowning.	Accidental Drowning	6 days
1997	Gary DeVore	55	United States of America	DeVore, a Hollywood screenwriter best known for the movie Raw Deal, disappeared on June 28, 1997, and a year later he and his car was discovered submerged in the California Aqueduct in Palmdale, California with his hands removed.	Murdered	1 year
1997	Kelli Ann Cox	20	United States	20-year-old Kelli Ann Cox was last seen alive on July 15, 1997, at a Connoco gas station and convenience store in Denton, Texas after locking herself out of her car and making a call to her boyfriend for help using the station's outdoor payphone. Over 18 years later, on March 18, 2016, Kelli's remains were discovered after suspected serial killer William Lewis Reece directed investigators to search an area in Brazoria County, Texas. Reece confessed to and was convicted of the murders of Laura Smither, Kelli Cox, and Jessica Cain in June 2022.	Murdered	18 years
1997	Jessica Lee Cain	17	United States	17-year-old Jessica Lee Cain was last seen alive at the Bennigan's restaurant near Baybrook Mall in Clear Lake, Texas. She was reported missing on August 17, 1997, when her father found her truck abandoned along Interstate 45. On March 18, 2016, Cain's remains were discovered in a field near Hobby Airport after suspected serial killer William Lewis Reece directed investigators to the site. Reece confessed to and was convicted of the murders of Laura Smither, Kelli Cox, and Jessica Cain in June 2022.	Murdered	18 years
1997	Marijoy Chiong	Unknown	Philippines	Filipino sisters who were kidnapped, raped and ultimately murdered by a gang of seven men in Cebu City on July 16, 1997. Marijoy's body was supposedly found two days later, while Jacqueline's has never been located. Their killers were all arrested and served a variety of sentences for their respective roles.	Murdered	2 days
	Jacqueline Chiong		Philippines			Not found
1997	Unnamed 53-year-old Vietnamese woman	53	United States	A 53-year-old Vietnamese woman, a foreign refugee who spoke little English, was abducted by serial rapist-kidnapper John Jamelske on August 21, 1997. She was forced into Jamelske's car and taken to an abandoned house, where he raped her. Jamelske then tied the woman to a stack of flattened cardboard boxes and drove her to his house, where he held her captive, raped her daily, and forced her to fulfill various menial tasks for him. Jamelske released the woman on May 23, 1998, at a Greyhound bus station, with $50; she reported to the police that day. Jamelske later pleaded guilty to five counts of first-degree kidnapping, and in July 2003 was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison.	Released	9 months
1997	Ricky Reel	21	United Kingdom	A computer science student at Brunel University, Reel was last seen alive in the early morning of 15 October; his body was recovered from the River Thames six days later. Although the Metropolitan Police initially declared his death accidental, an open verdict was later returned. Speculation remains as to a possible racial motive behind his death.	Died (open verdict)	6 days
1997	Walter Kwok	47	Hong Kong	Hong Kong real estate developer who was kidnapped by gangster Cheung Tze-keung on September 30, 1997. Held for ransom of HK$600 million, Kwok was blindfolded and kept in a wooden container for half of his detention, he was later released after his wife paid the ransom. Kwok would sustain psychological trauma from the event, while Tze-keung would later be captured and executed in China the following year.	Found alive	1 week
1997	William Earl Moldt	40	United States of America	William Moldt somehow drove his car unnoticed into the canal in the Grand Isles neighbourhood of Lake Worth, Florida on November 7, 1997. His car was spotted by a man looking at a Google Earth image in late August 2019 and his remains were recovered from the canal on August 28 of that year.	Presumably drowned	22 years
1997	Reena Virk	14	Canada	Virk went missing on November 14, 1997, and was found dead on November 22, 1997, Warren Glowatski and Kelly Ellard were charged with murdering Virk and were found guilty.	Murdered	8 days
1997	Nicholas Wright	18	United Kingdom	18-year-old sailor in the Royal Navy Nicholas Wright disappeared from Portsmouth on 12 December 1997. He had last been seen in a nightclub with fellow Royal Navy sailor Allan Grimson, who has previously been known to have made unwanted advances towards Wright. Grimson was later arrested and led police to the body of Wright and another of his victims in December 1999. Grimson, a homosexual, had murdered Wright after taking him back to his flat and attempting to advance on him sexually before being rebuked, which enraged him (Wright was not homosexual). Grimson is the prime suspect in the disappearance of Simon Parkes in Gibraltar in 1986, in part because his known victims were killed on 12 December, and Parkes was also killed on this date when Grimson was known to have been in Gibraltar with the Royal Navy. Grimson is now eligible for parole and is currently being held in an open prison.	Murdered	2 years
1998	Jennifer Long	16	Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.	A teenager murdered by double murderer Wesley Ira Purkey. Long was lured into Purkey's vehicle and driven to his home where she was raped, then stabbed to death. Her body was dismembered, then incinerated. Purkey confessed to Long's murder in an effort to serve a life sentence in a federal prison as opposed to a state prison. He was later convicted of Long's murder and sentenced to death. Purkey was executed at United States Penitentiary, Terre Haute in July 2020.	Murdered	Not found
1998	Vincent Cochetel	Unknown	Russia	French UNHCR official who was kidnapped by three armed men on January 29, 1998, out of the organization's office in Vladikavkaz, Russia. While in captivity, he was kept in a cave and was regularly abused, until he was rescued by security forces in December 1998.	Found alive	10 months
1998	Natascha Kampusch	10	Austria	Natascha Kampusch, an Austrian girl, who was kidnapped on her way to school in March 1998, was locked in a cellar, and escaped on August 23, 2006.	Found alive	8 years
1998	Patricia Lee Partin	Unknown	United States of America	Partin was among four women who left Los Angeles, California and disappeared alongside Florinda Donner in 1998; her remains were found in the desert sands of Death Valley in 2003	Died (cause unknown)	5 years
1998	Lois Roberts	39	Australia	Roberts, a woman from Australia disappeared outside the Nimbin Police Station on July 31, 1998, and her dismembered remains were found in the Whian Whian Forest on the mid-NSW north coast in January 1999.	Murdered	5 months
1998	Natasha Ryan	14	Australia	Ryan, an Australian teenage girl who went missing in 1998, was found hiding in a wardrobe at her boyfriend's home in 2003.	Found alive	5 years
1998	Ben Smart	21	New Zealand	Ben Smart and Olivia Hope, New Zealand party goers last seen in the early hours of January 1, 1998, who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in the Marlborough Sounds. Scott Watson was arrested for and convicted of their murder, but the verdict remains controversial and no trace of Smart or Hope has ever been discovered.	Murdered	Never found
	Olivia Hope	17	New Zealand
1998	Rukhsana Naz	19	United Kingdom	Naz was a 19-year-old British Pakistani woman and mother-of-two from Normanton, Derby, who was murdered by family members in an honour killing on 26 March 1998. Her body was discovered in Denby Dale, West Yorkshire, five days after her murder.	Murdered	5 days
1998	Arlene Fraser	33	United Kingdom	Fraser disappeared from her home in Elgin, Scotland in April 1998. Her husband was known to have previously attempted to murder her. He was convicted of her murder in 2000, despite her body having not been found.	Murdered	Not found
1998	Dimitris Liantinis	55	Greece	Liantinis, a Greek philosopher and professor at the University of Athens who disappeared on June 1, 1998. In July 2005 human bones were found in the area of the mountain Taygetos; forensic examinations verified that it was the body of Liantinis. No lethal substances were found to determine the cause of death.	Died by suicide	7 years
1998	Christina Marie Williams	13	United States of America	Schoolgirl who was kidnapped on June 12, 1998, while walking her dog in Fort Ord. Her body was found months later, with authorities determining that she had been killed. In 2016, longtime suspect Charles Holifield was arrested, later charged and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole for her murder.	Murdered	7 months
1998	Kamiyah Mobley	< 1	United States of America	Mobley was abducted on July 10, 1998, from a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida shortly after her birth and was recovered 18 years later after having been raised by her alleged abductor.	Found alive	18 years
1998	Nicky Verstappen	11	Netherlands	On the morning of August 10, 1998, 11-year-old Nicky Verstappen disappeared from a summer camp he was attending in Brunssum, Limburg. His body was found on the evening of August 11, 1.2 kilometers (0.75 mi) away in Landgraaf, and a murder investigation was subsequently launched. Despite extensive investigation, the case remained unsolved for over twenty years.	Murdered	1 day
1998	Jhon Frank Pinchao	28	Colombia	Colombian policeman and Second Lieutenant who was one of the 60 people kidnapped and taken as hostage by FARC during their attack on Mitú on November 1, 1998. Pinchao managed to escape into the jungle on April 28, 2007, wandering for seventeen days until he was located by an indigenous tribe who escorted him to safety.	Found alive	9 years
1998	Mohammad-Ja'far Pouyandeh	44	Iran	Mohammad-Ja'far Pouyandeh was an Iranian, an activist, a writer, and also did translating. Pouyandeh disappeared in Shahriar County, which is located in Tehran after leaving his house on December 8, 1998, and was found dead just three days later on December 11.	Murdered	3 days
1998	Katarzyna Zowada	28	Poland	Katarzyna Zowada was a female student at the Jagiellonian University who disappeared from Nowa Huta on November 12, 1998, and on January 6, 1999, some of her remains were found in a river in Vistula. Eight days later some more of her remains were found.	Murdered	1 month and 3 weeks
1998	Sion Jenkins	20	United Kingdom	20-year-old Royal Navy sailor Sion Jenkins disappeared from the port of Portsmouth on December 12, 1998. He was last seen in a nightclub in the city. A suspect arrested by police, fellow Royal Navy sailor Allan Grimson, led officers to his body in December 1999. It emerged that Grimson, a homosexual, had taken the heavily intoxicated Jenkins back to his flat and forced him to have sex with him after threatening him (Jenkins was not a homosexual). The next morning Jenkins had asked to leave but Grimson beat him to death with a baseball bat. Grimson, described by his trial judge as "a serial killer in nature if not in number", had also killed another sailor in the city exactly one year earlier, and is the prime suspect in the disappearance of Simon Parkes from Gibraltar in 1986, as Grimson was known to be in the port with the navy at the time and Parkes also disappeared on 12 December. Grimson is now eligible for parole and is being held in open prison conditions with day release provisions.	Murdered	1 year
1998	Kirsty Bentley	15	New Zealand	Bentley, a teenage girl in Ashburton, New Zealand, disappeared on December 31, 1998, while walking her family dog in the afternoon. After an extensive search lasting two weeks, her body was found in dense scrub approximately 40 km away. Police consider the case to be a homicide, and it remains one of the highest-profile cold cases in New Zealand. Her killer has never been identified.	Murdered	2 weeks
1999	Tulay Goren	15	United Kingdom	Turkish-born teenager who was killed by her father on January 7, 1999, in an honor killing at the family home in Woodford Green. While her body was never found, her father, who was convicted in 2009, admitted that he had dismembered the corpse and placed the remains in garbage bags which were thrown away.	Murdered	10 years and 11 months
1999	Hae Min Lee	18	United States of America	Hae Min Lee was a Korean-American high school student who disappeared from Baltimore County, Maryland on January 13, 1999, and was found dead a month later in Leakin Park. It was revealed that she was strangled to death.	Murdered	1 month
1999	Marcella Davis	19	United Kingdom	Sex worker and mother Marcella Davis disappeared from the red light district of Wolverhampton on February 7, 1999. At 9.11pm that night she rang her babysitter and said that she would return to her home at 11 p.m., but the call was suddenly disconnected. In April a suspect arrested by police confessed and led police to the location where he had burned her body, and the remains were identified as belonging to her. She had been killed by serial killer Paul Brumfitt, who had previously been released from prison for killing two men.	Murdered	2 months
1999	Ingrid Washinawatok	41	Colombia	American Menominee human rights activist who was kidnapped together with two colleagues on February 25, 1999, while en route to help set up a school for the U'wa people in Arauca Department, Colombia. The trio's abductors, FARC guerillas, killed them and later dumped their bodies across the border in Venezuela.	Murdered	1 week
1999	William DaShawn Hamilton	6	United States	The remains of six-year-old William DaShawn Hamilton were discovered by a cemetery worker in a wooded area near a church cemetery in DeKalb County, Georgia, on February 26, 1999, though they remained unidentified until June 13, 2022, when it was also announced that Hamilton's mother, Teresa Ann Bailey Black, had been arrested in connection with his death. Black was charged with multiple counts, including felony murder, though was acquitted of all but one charge and sentenced to 10 years in prison in January 2024.	Found deceased	23 years
1999	Juan Manuel Corzo Román	38	Colombia	Colombian politician and member of the Chamber of Representatives who was kidnapped along with 39 other passengers on a flight between Bucaramanga and Cúcuta by ELN militants on April 12, 1999. He was held in captivity until his eventual release in September 2000.	Found alive	17 months
1999	Fan Man-yee	23	Hong Kong	Man-yee was a nightclub hostess who was abducted from a housing estate in Kwai Chung, Hong Kong, on March 17, 1999. She was tortured, raped and sexually humiliated by four individuals while confined in an apartment in Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon before succumbing to her injuries on or about April 14, 1999. Her body was later dismembered, with her head later sewn inside a Hello Kitty doll. The case is also known as the Hello Kitty murder case.	Murdered	1 month
1999	Marianne Vaatstra	16	Netherlands	Vaatstra was kidnapped while cycling to her parents' house in Kollum, Netherlands on April 30, 1999. The next day, her body was found in a field close to Veenklooster, with signs of sexual aggression and her throat slit. For a long time, the killing was pinned on asylum seekers, but with the help of DNA profiling, police identified the killer as local farmer Jasper Steringa, who was charged and subsequently convicted for the killing.	Murdered	1 day
1999	Debbie Griggs	35	United Kingdom	Griggs was a 34-year-old housewife who disappeared from her family home in Deal, Kent, on May 5, 1999. She was murdered by her husband, Andrew, shortly after discovering he had been grooming an underage girl and her body buried within a garden. Her remains were only discovered in 2022.	Murdered	23 years
1999	Fehmi Agani	67	FR Yugoslavia	Kosovar sociologist, politician and leading strategist for the Democratic League of Kosovo who was abducted by Yugoslav security forces while attempting to escape into Macedonia on May 6, 1999. His body was found in Lipljan several days later.	Murdered	Several days
1999	Haley Alison McHone	13	United States of America	A victim of serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells. McHone was kidnapped and dragged into a wooded area, where she was raped, then strangled to death with her own T-shirt. McHone had been playing upon a swing when Sells encountered her.	Murdered	10 days
1999	Yin Jianhua	35	Hefei, China	A victim of Chinese serial killers Fa Ziying and Lao Rongzhi. Jianhua was the general manager of an electronics company. He was murdered following a failed attempt by one of his abductors to collect a ransom from his wife.	Murdered	4 days
1999	Girly Chew Hossencofft	36	United States of America	Girly Chew Hossencofft, a Malaysian-born woman who disappeared on September 9, 1999, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The investigation into the murder of Girly Chew revealed a conspiracy theory involving reptilian queens, UFOs and reports of cannibalism. Girly Chew's husband Diazien Hossencofft and his girlfriend Linda Henning were convicted of her murder. Girly's body has never been found.	Murdered	3 years
1999	Jorge Velosa	50	Colombia	Colombian singer-songwriter and veterinary physician credited for creating the carranga folk music genre. On September 25, 1999, he and his bandmates' transport car was intercepted by EPL guerillas, who kept Velosa hostage. Following numerous protests around the country, he was released without harm the following month.	Found alive	19 days
1999	Jaryd Atadero	3	United States of America	Jaryd Atadero was an American boy who went missing on October 2, 1999, in Colorado in the Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forest. On May 6, 2003, some of his remains were discovered by two businessmen while they were hiking. Though there are different theories to how he died, the true cause is not known.	Died (undetermined cause)	More than 3 years
1999	Yves, Marie-France, Camille and Marius Godard	44 (Yves); 44 (Marie-France); 6 (Camille); 4 (Marius)	France	Yves Godard (43), was a French doctor who disappeared from a sailing boat with his two children in September 1999.In 2000, a skull fragment belonging to his daughter Camille was found while some bone fragments of Dr Godard were discovered six years later in the English Channel. No trace of his son or his wife (the latter did not go on the sailing trip and stayed at home) has ever been found, nor has any trace of the boat. However, investigators found traces of blood in the family home and in Godard's caravan, raising suspicion that Godard's wife was murdered. In 2012, the case was closed without charges. Prosecutors ruled out accidental death and believe that Dr Godard probably murdered his family before committing suicide at sea, but they also acknowledge that they are not certain of this.	Died (unknown cause)	1 year (Camille); 7 years (Yves)
1999	Rocío Wanninkhof	19	Spain	Spanish teenager who vanished while walking to a fair on October 9, 1999, with her nude body found three weeks later with nine stab wounds. Initially, her mother's girlfriend was wrongfully convicted for the murder, but was later exonerated after the DNA of convicted murderer Tony Alexander King was found on the body. King was convicted and sentenced to 19 years' imprisonment for the murder.	Murdered	3 weeks
1999	Jorge Matute Johns (es)	23	Chile	Jorge Matute, a Chilean forestry student who disappeared on November 20, 1999, in a discotheque near Concepción. In February 2004 human bones were found in the road to Santa Juana; forensic examinations verified that it was the remains of Matute.	Murdered	4 years
1999	Lauria Bible	16	United States of America	Bible and Freeman were American teenagers who disappeared between the evening of December 29 and the early morning hours of December 30, 1999, from Freeman's home in Welch, Oklahoma. The Freeman home was burned and Freeman's parents were found murdered; however, law enforcement was unable to find any trace of Bible or Freeman in the rubble of the home. On April 26, 2018, it was reported that Ronnie Dean Busick was being charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the killings of Bible and of the Freeman family. In 2020, Busick was convicted and sentenced.	Murdered	Never found
	Ashley Freeman	16	United States of America		Murdered

See also

• List of kidnappings
• List of murder convictions without a body
• List of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1910
• List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990
• List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1990–present
• List of unsolved deaths
• Lists of unsolved murders
• List of solved missing person cases: post-2000

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