The Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is an urban legend focused on a loosely defined region in the western part of the North Atlantic Ocean where a number of aircraft and ships are said to have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. The idea of the area as uniquely prone to disappearances arose in the mid-20th century, but most reputable sources dismiss the idea that there is any mystery.
Etan Kalil Patz was an American boy who was six years old on May 25, 1979, when he disappeared on his way to his school bus stop in the SoHo neighborhood of Lower Manhattan. His disappearance helped launch the missing children movement, which included new legislation and new methods for tracking down missing children. Several years after he disappeared, Patz was one of the first children to be profiled on the "photo on a milk carton" campaigns of the early 1980s. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan designated May 25—the anniversary of Etan's disappearance—as National Missing Children's Day in the United States.
Holly Kristen Piirainen was a 10-year-old American murder victim from Grafton, Massachusetts. She and her brother had been visiting their grandparents in Sturbridge, Massachusetts when Holly was murdered. Her murder remains unsolved.
Lauren Spierer is an American woman who disappeared on June 3, 2011, following an evening at Kilroy's Sports Bar in Bloomington, Indiana. At the time, Spierer was a 20-year-old student at Indiana University. Though her disappearance generated national press coverage, Spierer is presumed dead and her case remains unsolved.
Susan Walsh was an American writer and freelance journalist who disappeared outside her home in Nutley, New Jersey, on July 16, 1996.
On March 13, 2000, Leah Roberts, left a restaurant in Bellingham, Washington, United States, where she had driven from her home in Durham, North Carolina over the previous four days. There have been no reported sightings of her since then. On March 18, her car was discovered wrecked and abandoned at the bottom of a hill off a road in nearby North Cascades National Park. Several years after Leah's disappearance, police examined the car's starter motor and found that it had been tampered with, indicating the vehicle may have been crashed intentionally.
Buckeye Gymnastics is an American women's artistic gymnastics academy, with two locations in Westerville and Powell. It was home to Olympic Champion Gabby Douglas during her 2016 Olympic comeback.
The disappearance of Charles Bothuell V was a controversial case of an American child in Detroit who disappeared and was found imprisoned in the basement of his family home in 2014. His father, Charles Bothuell IV, and step-mother, Monique Dillard-Bothuell, were charged with torture and child abuse. In 2016, Bothuell IV pleaded guilty to fourth-degree child abuse after accepting a plea deal.
The Signpost is the Wikimedia movement's online newspaper. Managed by the volunteer community, it is published online with contributions from Wikimedia editors. The newspaper's scope includes the Wikimedia community and events related to Wikipedia, including Arbitration Committee rulings, Wikimedia Foundation issues, and other Wikipedia-related projects. It was founded in January 2005 by Wikipedian Michael Snow, who continued as a contributor until his February 2008 appointment to the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees.
Websleuths is an internet community that is focused on crime and missing persons. The privately owned Websleuths LLC maintains a forum for registered users to discuss and classify information related to crimes, trials and unsolved cases, which they try to solve. Tricia Griffith purchased the site in 2004.
Kelly Dae Wilson was an American teenager who went missing on January 5, 1992, from Gilmer, Texas.
Marjorie West is a four year old American child who went missing from McKean County, Pennsylvania on May 8, 1938. Her disappearance was heavily covered by both local and national media, but her whereabouts have never been ascertained. In 2018, The Guardian, a British daily newspaper, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a nonprofit organization established by the United States Congress, referred to Marjorie West's disappearance as "the great unsolved mystery of the missing". A local publisher claims to have solved the mystery, but their solution has never been independently confirmed.
Paul Rosino is an American politician who has served in the Oklahoma Senate from the 45th district since 2017.
Esther Dingley was a British woman who disappeared in November 2020 while hiking in the Pyrenees. On 23 July 2021, part of Dingley's skull was found near a track by mountain runners. On 9 August of that same year, her partner Daniel Colegate found her other remains.
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In August 2021, 22-year-old American woman Gabrielle Venora Petito was killed by her fiancé Brian Christopher Laundrie while they were traveling together on a vanlife journey across the United States. The trip was planned to last for four months and began on July 2, 2021, but Petito disappeared on August 27.
Lauren "El" Cho was last seen on June 28, 2021, in the area between Morongo Valley, California, and Yucca Valley, California, United States. On October 28, 2021, investigators confirmed that the remains found on October 9 on the open desert at Yucca Valley belonged to Cho.
On August 18, 2021, the bodies of married American couple Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner were found in Moab, Utah, United States. Both victims had been murdered and died from gunshot wounds. They had last been seen alive five days earlier. In December 2022, the case was closed and Adam Pinkusiewicz was cited as the murderer.
Angela "Angie" Faye Toler was a formerly unidentified decedent who was found in Richmond, Virginia in November 1992, who was unidentified for 20 years. After moving from Princeton, North Carolina to Richmond with her boyfriend, Toler fell out of communication with her family. Toler's boyfriend soon moved back to Princeton alone, but Toler was not with him, and friends and family of Toler never heard from her again. In 2011, Nona Best, who was a cousin of Toler, was at a National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) academy in Atlanta when a presentation by a Maryland coroner included a picture of an unidentified woman found in Richmond who had died of hypothermia. Best recognized the woman as Angela Toler, and she reached out to Toler's mother and sister as well as Virginia medical examiner Lara Frame to procure DNA samples for comparison. In late July 2012, the unidentified woman was positively identified as Angela Faye Toler. In 2019, a North Carolina state law was passed after being sponsored by State Representative Allen McNeill that would require all law enforcement agencies in the state to enter missing person cases into NamUs after 30 days. McNeill has mentioned being inspired by the story of Best identifying Toler.
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