List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1970s

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This is a list of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1970s or whose deaths or exact circumstances thereof are not substantiated. Many people who disappear end up declared presumed dead and some of these people were possibly subjected to forced disappearance.

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This list is a general catch-all; for specialty lists, see Lists of people who disappeared.

1970

DatePerson(s)Age when disappearedMissing fromCircumstancesRefs.
Early 1970 Akpan Utuk Unknown Lagos, NigeriaAkpan Utuk was a colonel in the Biafran Army. He was last seen at a party in Lagos in early 1970 and is thought to be dead. [1]
12 January 1970 Cheryl Grimmer 3 Wollongong, AustraliaGrimmer went missing from a beachside shower block. Initially, she had refused to leave the shower block, causing one of her brothers to go collect their mother to persuade Cheryl to come out. In the moments between his leaving the shower block and returning with his mother, Cheryl disappeared. Witnesses claim they saw a man in an orange swimsuit carrying a blonde-haired child wrapped up in a towel. On 23 March 2017, a man was arrested and charged with Grimmer's abduction and murder. However, the judge at the Supreme Court of New South Wales declared some of the evidence inadmissible in the case, and the charges against the suspect were dropped in February 2019. [2]
6 April 1970 Sean Flynn 28 Cambodia Sean Flynn, the son of actor Errol Flynn and Lili Damita, and his colleague Dana Stone, disappeared on 6 April 1970 while working as freelance photojournalists for Time. Neither man's remains were ever found and they are generally assumed to have been killed by Khmer Rouge guerrillas. After a decade-long search financed by his mother, Flynn was officially declared dead in 1984. In 2010, a British team uncovered the remains of a Western hostage in the Cambodian jungle, but DNA comparisons with samples from the Flynn family were negative. [3] [4]
Dana Stone 30
15 May 1970 Edward Andrews 61–62 Chicago, Illinois, U.S.Edward Andrews and his wife Stephania disappeared after leaving a party in the Chicago Loop on 15 May 1970. Police theorized that the couple accidentally drove into the Chicago River, but multiple searches over a period of years failed to locate them or their vehicle. [5] [6]
Stephania Andrews 61–62
18 June 1970 Muhammad Bassiri 28 El Aauin, Spanish SaharaBassiri, a Sahrawi nationalist leader and anti-colonialist activist, was detained and presumably executed by the Spanish Legion on 18 June 1970. [7]
20 August 1970 Flag Boshielo 49–50 Caprivi Strip, South West Africa Flag Marutle Boshielo was a South African anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist, and communist who disappeared in the Caprivi Strip on 20 August 1970 during an unsuccessful MK operation after his contingent was ambushed. Boshielo had started serving as political commissar of the MK in 1969. [8]
16 September 1970 Mauro De Mauro 49 Palermo, ItalyDe Mauro, an Italian investigative journalist, disappeared on 16 September 1970 and has not been seen since. [9]
13 October 1970 Helen Claire Frost 17 Prince George, British Columbia, CanadaFrost was reported missing by her sister on 15 October 1970, having failed to return home from a walk in Prince George, British Columbia two days earlier. Frost has not been seen since. [10]
15 November 1970 Robin Graham 18 Los Angeles, California, U.S.After running out of gas on the Hollywood Freeway, Graham was last seen by California Highway Patrol officers on 15 November 1970. The officer directed her to a callbox and later saw her speaking with a man beside her car. The circumstances of her disappearance resulted in CHP policies being changed to ensure the safety of stranded female motorists. [11]

1971

DatePerson(s)Age when disappearedMissing fromCircumstancesRefs.
Early 1971 Sada Abe 65-66 Chiba Prefecture, JapanSada Abe was a former geisha and prostitute infamous for the murder of her lover in the 1930s. Abe left a note behind at the hotel she worked at stating that "I'm just a no use girl" some time in 1971 and has since been unaccounted for. [12] [13]
5 May 1971 A. B. M. Abdur Rahim 35 Pakistan A. B. M. Abdur Rahim was a labour legal consultant, general secretary of the Pakistan Labour Federation, and manager of the Ujala Match Factory, who was abducted from the factory by Pakistani armed forces on 5 May 1971 and has been missing since. [14]
12 May 1971 Rakhal Chandra Das 38 Pakistan Rakhal Chandra Das was a Bangladeshi physician who was kidnapped on 12 May 1971 by a Pakistan Army in a hospital where he was working during the Bangladesh Liberation War and was never seen again. He is believed to have been killed. [15]
14 October 1971 Jean Virginia Sampare 18 Gitsegukla, British Columbia, CanadaSampare was last seen by her cousin on the Highway of Tears outside Gitsegukla on 14 October 1971. He left her alone when he went home to get a jacket or his bike, and she was gone when he returned. [16]
6 December 1971 Peter Christy 33–34Near Jamnagar, IndiaChristy, a PAF bomber pilot and navigator, was tasked with destroying an air station belonging to the Indian Air Force, but was presumably shot down by a Surface-to-air missile. [17]
7 December 1971 Jamie Rochelle Grissim 16 Vancouver, Washington, U.S.A student at the Fort Vancouver High School who went missing while walking home from school. Initially considered a runaway by authorities, foul play was suspected when her identification, purse, and other personal possessions were discovered approximately 20 miles from where she was last seen alive. She is suspected of being a victim of serial killer Warren Forrest. [18]
8 December 1971 A. K. M. Miraj Uddin 23 Dhaka, BangladeshA. K. M. Miraj Uddin was a Bangladeshi athlete, freedom fighter, and politician who disappeared after being released from the Dhaka Central Jail and taken in a jeep on 8 December 1971, and has not been seen since. [19]
10 December 1971 Lynne Schulze 17 Middlebury, Vermont, U.S.Schulze was a student at Middlebury College and was last seen by one of her college friends when she abruptly turned back on the way to a literature exam, claiming she had left her favorite pen in her dorm room. Her wallet, checkbook, and other belongings were found at the dorm. A subsequent report said that she was seen a short time later outside a health-food store co-owned and operated at that time by Robert Durst and his wife Kathleen, who herself disappeared a decade later. Schulze had also been seen buying prunes from the same store earlier in the day. [20]
14 December 1971 Shahidullah Kaiser 44 Dhaka, BangladeshKaiser, a Bangladeshi writer and novelist who was awarded multiple awards during different decades, disappeared on 14 December 1971 and is believed to have been killed. [21] [22] [23]

1972

DatePerson(s)Age when disappearedMissing fromCircumstancesRefs.
1972 Brendan Simbwaye 47–48 Caprivi, NamibiaBrendan Simbwaye was an anti-apartheid Namibian activist and high ranking politician, who mysteriously disappeared in Caprivi in 1972. It has been claimed that the South African security forces had murdered Simbwaye, but this has never been proven to be true. [24] [25]
4 January 1972 Belinda Hutchens 22 Wilton Manors, Florida A cocktail waitress who disappeared and was never seen again. [26]
30 January 1972 Zahir Raihan 36 Bangladesh Zahir Raihan, a Bangladeshi novelist, writer, and filmmaker and the brother of Shahidullah Kaiser, disappeared on 30 January 1972, while looking for his brother, who had been abducted by Pakistani forces. [27] [21]
29 February 1972 Debora Sue Lowe 13 Broward County, Florida A schoolgirl who disappeared and was never seen again. [28]
19 March 1972 Bonnie Taylor 20 Wilton Manors, Florida Bonnie Taylor disappeared after a speeding violation and was never seen again. [29]
12 June 1972 Adrien McNaughton 5 Arnprior, Ontario, CanadaMcNaughton wandered away from his family during a fishing trip on 12 June 1972 and has not been seen since. [30] [31]
21 June 1972 Boanerges de Souza Massa 34 Formosa, BrazilThe Brazilian physician and field surgeon for the ALN was captured, tortured and likely murdered by Brazilian authorities. His body has never been recovered. [32]
August 31, 1972 Elizabeth Renée Wilt 22 Florida An Arkansas native last known to have travelled to Florida to attend the 1972 Republican National Convention. Her body has never been found. [33]
August 1972 Joseph Lynskey 40 Belfast A veteran IRA member who disappeared amid an internal IRA feud in August 1972 and has not been seen since. [34]
29 October 1972 Jamal Al-Gashey 18–19 Libya One of three surviving perpetrators of the Munich massacre, Al-Gashey was released in a prisoner exchange and given refuge in Libya. Although Al-Gashey provided an interview on condition of anonymity as to his whereabouts in 1999, his current whereabouts are unknown. [35]

1973

DatePerson(s)Age when disappearedMissing fromCircumstancesRefs.
1973 Wladimir Chávez c. 33 Chile A Chilean primary school teacher and politician of the Communist Party. Chávez disappeared following a coup in 1973. His ultimate fate remains unknown. [36]
c. 1973 Renee Armbrust Unknown Golden, Colorado, U.S.Armbrust was the wife of a man whose body was found near Grant, Colorado; he was later identified as Anthony John Armbrust III. It is believed that Armbrust and her husband had signed a suicide pact, and authorities believe her to be deceased. [37]
14 January 1973 Norman Lamar Prater 16 Dallas, Texas, U.S.Prater was last seen by his mother in Dallas in the company of an adult male and two teenage youths with shoulder-length hair. He is believed to have been murdered by serial killer Dean Corll. [38]
24 March 1973 James Allen da Luz 34 Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, BrazilJames Allen da Luz was a Brazilian guerrilla who disappeared on 24 March 1973 from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil as he has not been seen since. He is believed to be dead. [39]
c. 25 April 1973 Ray Robinson 35 South Dakota, U.S.Robinson was an African-American civil rights activist who disappeared around 25 April 1973 during the Wounded Knee Protests on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. In 2014, the FBI said it had concluded from witness statements that Robinson was killed by American Indian Movement militants and he was "buried in the hills". His body has never been located. [40]
21 May 1973 Christine Markham 9 Scunthorpe, EnglandChristine Markham was an English girl who was last seen walking to school. Markham's body has never been found. Several individuals, including serial child killers Robert Black and Joseph Kappen, have been questioned about potential involvement in Markham's abduction, but her disappearance remains unsolved. [41]
9 June 1973 Jason Shannon 11 months Elizabeth West, South Australia, AustraliaAustralian baby Jason was abducted by his father Barry Shannon at his grandparents' home in Elizabeth West, Adelaide; Barry died in a vehicle collision shortly thereafter. He has not been seen since, and police believe that he was either murdered or given to a relative of Barry to be raised in secret. [42]
26 July 1973 Janice Kathryn Pockett 7 Tolland, Connecticut, U.S.Janice Kathryn Pockett was an American girl who disappeared after leaving her home in Tolland, Connecticut on 26 July 1973 and has not been seen since. [43]
25 August 1973 Joanne Ratcliffe 11 Adelaide, AustraliaRatcliffe and Gordon are two Australian girls who went missing while attending an Australian rules football match at the Adelaide Oval on 25 August 1973. [44]
Kirste Gordon 4

1974

DatePerson(s)Age when disappearedMissing fromCircumstancesRefs.
26 January and 19 November 1974 Guðmundur Einarsson 18 Hafnarfjörður, IcelandSix people were convicted of their alleged murders on the basis of confessions extracted by the police. On 27 September 2018, 44 years later, the Supreme Court of Iceland acquitted five of the six original suspects. [45]
Geirfinnur Einarsson 32 Keflavík, Iceland
5 March 1974 Amy Billig 17 Coconut Grove, Florida, U.S.17-year-old Amy Billig disappeared in Coconut Grove, a neighborhood in Miami, Florida, on 5 March 1974. She had been headed to her father's art gallery to borrow money before meeting a friend for lunch, though never arrived. Billig is believed to have been abducted, drugged, raped, and murdered by members of the Pagan's Motorcycle Club. [46]
5 May 1974 John Colonna 12 Puerto Rico The two child siblings disappeared in Puerto Rico on 5 May 1974 and were never seen again. Their ultimate fate is unknown. [47]
Gianinna Colonna 11
27 May 1974 Oscar Zeta Acosta 39 Mazatlán, MexicoAcosta was a Mexican-American attorney and friend of the American author Hunter S. Thompson. Acosta is referred to as "Dr Gonzo" in Thompson's 1971 roman à clef Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas . On 27 May 1974, Acosta disappeared while traveling in Mexico after telling his son Marco he was about to leave Mazatlán on a "boat full of white snow", presumably an allusion to cocaine. Marco later said that although his body was never found, he surmises that probably, knowing the people he was involved with, he ended up mouthing off, getting into a fight, and getting killed. [48]
29 May 1974 Diane Gilchrist 14 Vancouver, Washington, U.S.A Shumway Junior High School student. The circumstances surrounding her disappearance initially led police to suspect she had run away from home; her ultimate fate remains unclear, although investigators now suspect her of being a victim of serial killer Warren Forrest. [49]
11 June 1974 Georgann Hawkins 18 Seattle, Washington, U.S.Hawkins, a University of Washington student, vanished in an alleyway behind her sorority house. Notorious serial killer Ted Bundy admitted to her supposed murder and that her remains had been recovered along with those of other victims, but these claims have never been verified. [50]
24 June 1974 Margaret Ellen Fox 14 Burlington, New Jersey, U.S.Fox was a teenage girl who disappeared on 24 June 1974 from Burlington, New Jersey for unknown reasons and has not been seen since. It is believed by some people that she was kidnapped. [51]
22 July 1974 Pavlos Kouroupis 44–45 Kyrenia, Cyprus Kouroupis was an officer in the Hellenic Army. At the time of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, he was a lieutenant colonel and commanding officer of the 251st Battalion of the Cypriot National Guard, the unit closest to the Turkish landing site. With his unit, he opposed the Turkish army at the Battle of Pentemili beachhead, stalling its advance for two days. Kouroupis was last seen on 22 July 1974. Following the conclusion of the battle, the fate of Kouroupis is unknown. [52]
30 July 1974 Ofelio Lazo 43ChileA Chilean political dissident who disappeared on July 30, 1974. He is strongly believed to have been murdered. [53]
August 1974 Connie Converse 50 Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.Converse was a singer-songwriter who was active in the New York City folk-music scene of the 1950s. In 1974, two years after losing her job as managing editor of the Journal of Conflict Resolution , Converse wrote letters to friends and family expressing her intention to start a new life. In August 1974, she loaded her Volkswagen Beetle with her belongings, drove away, and was never heard from again. [54]
29 August 1974 Jimmy Taylor 12 Derby, Western Australia, AustraliaJimmy, a 12-year-old Australian boy, was last seen entering a dark-coloured vehicle near a local store in Derby, Western Australia. A coronial inquest named convicted murderer James Ryan O'Neill as a possible person of interest. [55] [56]
24 September 1974 Eduardo Aliste González 19 Santiago, Chile González was arrested by the National Intelligence Directorate as part of an operation targeting Socialist Party militants at age 19 on 24 September 1974. He has not been seen since. [57]
18 November 1974 Diana Arón 24 Villa Grimaldi, ChileArón was a Chilean journalist and left-wing activist who was kidnapped on 18 November 1974 by agents of the DINA (the Chilean secret police during Pinochet's military dictatorship) and taken to Villa Grimaldi, where she was tortured by Miguel Krassnoff and presumably murdered. Her body was never recovered. [58]
29 November 1974 Carmen Bueno 24Villa Grimaldi, ChileThe actress Bueno and the cinematographer Müller, both Chilean, were interrogated and tortured by DINA agents at Villa Grimaldi shortly before they were forcibly disappeared on 29 November 1974. [59]
Jorge Müller 27
4 December 1974 Laurie Lynn Partridge 17 Spokane, Washington Laurie Lynn Partridge disappeared after walking home from high school and was never seen again. [60]
23 December 1974 Rachel Trlica 17 Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.Trlica took her friends, Wilson and Moseley, on a Christmas shopping trip to Fort Worth's Seminary South Shopping Center. The girls' abandoned car was discovered in the Sears lot, but the three girls' whereabouts are unknown. [61]
Renee Wilson 14
Julie Ann Moseley 9

1975

DatePerson(s)Age when disappearedMissing fromCircumstancesRefs.
6 March 1975 Jim Sullivan 35 New Mexico, U.S.Sullivan, an American singer-songwriter, left Los Angeles on 4 March 1975 to drive to Nashville, Tennessee. His abandoned car was found at a remote ranch in New Mexico, and he was reportedly last seen walking away from it on 6 March. The car contained Sullivan's money, papers, guitar, clothes, and a box of his unsold records. [62]
31 May 1975 Mona Blades 18 North Island, New ZealandBlades disappeared on 31 May 1975 while hitchhiking on the North Island near Rotorua. She is believed to have been murdered, but no remains have ever been discovered. [63]
1 July 1975 Eamon Molloy 21 Belfast Molloy was abducted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army on 1 July 1975. The IRA accused Molloy of being an informant and his remains were recovered on 28 May 1999. [64]
2 July 1975 William Beausire 26 Santiago, ChileA British-Chilean abducted by DINA agents at Ministro Pistarini International Airport, Buenos Aires, in November 1974. Returned to Chile, Beausire was held in various DINA detention centres before his enforced disappearance in Santiago on 2 July 1975 at age 26. [65]
4 July 1975 Juanita Nielsen 38 Sydney, AustraliaNielsen, an Australian publisher, activist, and heiress, disappeared in Kings Cross, Sydney, on 4 July 1975. She was presumed murdered, but no one has been convicted of the crime, and her remains have never been found. [66]
30 July 1975 Jimmy Hoffa 62 Bloomfield Township, Michigan, U.S.Hoffa, a U.S. trade union leader and president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, disappeared on 30 July 1975 from the parking lot of a restaurant. It is believed he was to meet with the Mafia leaders Anthony Giacalone and Anthony Provenzano. [67]
October 1975 Fritz Stammberger 35 Tirich Mir, PakistanStammberger, a German mountaineer, disappeared in October 1975 while scouting an expedition of Tirich Mir. It is believed he may have joined the mujahideen and died in the early 1980s in Afghanistan. [68]
1 November 1975 Tish Pascual-Ladlad 25 Philippines Pascual-Ladlad, a UPLB student journalist and first female editor-in-chief of the Aggie Green and Gold, was abducted and presumably killed during the Marcos dictatorship. [69]
c. 1975–1976 Norodom Chantaraingsey 49–52 Cambodia Chantaraingsey, a member of the Cambodian royal family and a Cambodian nationalist, was initially a leader of the guerrilla resistance against the colonial French, but was presumably killed in 1975 or 1976 while fighting the Khmer Rouge. [70]

1976

DatePerson(s)Age when disappearedMissing fromCircumstancesRefs.
1976 Norodom Naradipo 30CambodiaNaradipo, a Cambodian prince, disappeared mysteriously in 1976. Many years later, however, there were rumors that he was still alive. Several people claimed to be the missing prince, but they were all later proven to be false. [71]
1976 Norodom Kantol 55–56CambodiaKantol, a former prime minister of Cambodia who was the first to rule for more than two years, disappeared in 1976, presumably killed by the Khmer Rouge. [72] [73]
12 January 1976 Eloise Worledge 8 Beaumaris, AustraliaWorledge disappeared from her home and is thought to have been abducted from her bedroom. [74]
29 February 1976 Willi Koeppen 46 Olinda, Victoria, AustraliaWilli Koeppen is a German Australian chef who disappeared on 29 February 1976 from Olinda, Victoria, Australia and has not been seen since. [75]
18 March 1976 Francisco Tenório Júnior 34 Buenos Aires, ArgentinaTenório Júnior, a Brazilian musician and composer, disappeared mysteriously while on tour in Argentina in March 1976. A decade after his disappearance, an Argentinian military colonel came forward and claimed that Tenório Júnior had been mistaken for a guerrilla, abducted, tortured and subsequently killed, yet this claim has never been confirmed. [76]
23 April 1976 Sandy Davidson 3 Irvine, ScotlandThe Scottish boy Sandy Davidson disappeared while he was playing in the back garden of his house in the Bourtreehill housing estate. [77]
26 May 1976 Juan Maino Unknown Ñuñoa, ChileMaino, a photographer, political activist and leader of the Popular Unitary Action Movement, was detained by DINA agents for opposing Augusto Pinochet's regime. He and several others were transported to a secret government facility, and have not been seen since. [78]
1 July 1976 Hanna Mikhail 41 Lebanon Prior to his disappearance on 1 July 1976, Mikhail was a Palestinian scholar and a Fatah member, and he was sent by Yasser Arafat to a refuge camp in Tripoli to investigate the conflicts that was ongoing then. The boat boarded by Mikhail, nine PLO members and two sailors went missing since its departure, and the 12 men, including Mikhail, were never found, although unconfirmed theories suggested that Mikhail was secretly detained by either Syrian or the Phalange forces, or that he was murdered by the Syrians. [79]
21 August 1976 Andy Puglisi 10 Lawrence, Massachusetts, U.S.Puglisi wandered away from a pool area near his home in Lawrence, Massachusetts and has not been seen since. [80] [81]
27 September 1976 María Emilia Islas 23 Buenos Aires, ArgentinaIslas, a Uruguayan political activist, disappeared together with her husband, after they were arrested for being suspected militants by Uruguayan intelligence services. Neither has been located, and both remain missing to this day. [82]
30 September 1976 Ana Teresa Diego 21–22 La Plata, ArgentinaDiego, an Argentine astronomy student, was kidnapped and presumably killed by the military dictatorship due to her Communist political leanings. [83]
15 December 1976 Jussi Kivimäki 91 Finland Jussi Kivimäki was a professional Greco-Roman light heavyweight wrestler who competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics. After disappearing on 15 December 1976, he was declared dead in absentia, with his date of death being recorded as sometime around 1 January 1976. [84]

1977

DatePerson(s)Age when disappearedMissing fromCircumstancesRefs.
1977 Héctor Oesterheld 58 Buenos Aires, ArgentinaOesterheld, an Argentine journalist and writer of comics as well as graphic novels, also known simply as "HGO", disappeared in 1977 and is believed to have been kidnapped and has not been seen since. [85] [86]
17 February 1977 Helen Brach 65 Rochester, Minnesota, U.S.Brach, an heiress, disappeared on 17 February 1977, and was thought to have been murdered. A man named Richard Bailey was charged more than a decade later with killing Brach, but not convicted. He eventually received a long sentence after being convicted of defrauding her. [87]
18 March 1977 Mary Boyle 6 Ballyshannon, IrelandBoyle disappeared while walking back to her grandparents' house. The investigation into her death has been criticized by some parts of her family and former police officers have stated that they believe Boyle was killed. Boyle is Ireland's longest-running missing child case. [88]
15 July 1977 Donald Mackay 43 New South Wales, AustraliaAn Australian anti-drug campaigner, Mackay may have been murdered after providing information to police that resulted in what was then the biggest drug bust in Australian history. [89]
31 July 1977 Gerry Faustino 21 Makati, PhilippinesFilipino activists from the University of the Philippines Los Baños who were best known as some of the most prominent desaparecidos of the Marcos Martial Law era in the Philippines were abducted on 31 July 1977 and have not been seen since. [90]
Jessica Sales 25
Rizalina Ilagan 23
Cristina Catalla 26
19 September 1977 Yutaka Kume 52Ushitsu, Ishikawa Prefecture, JapanYutaka Kume disappeared from Ishikawa Prefecture in 1977. In 2003, the Japanese Government issued an arrest warrant for Kim Se-ho  [ ja ], a North Korean agent, for his role in the abduction. North Korea denies any involvement in his disappearance, nor his entry to the country ever happening. [91]
21 October 1977 Kyoko Matsumoto 29 Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, JapanMatsumoto left her home to go to a weaving class at around 8PM of 21 October 1977. Later that night she was seen talking with 2 suspicious men, who promptly punched the witness when they were asked what they were doing. Matsumoto was never seen again. She has been listed as one of the victims of North Korean abduction by the Japanese Government in 2006. [91] [92]
15 November 1977 Megumi Yokota 13 Niigata Prefecture, JapanYokota was reportedly abducted by a North Korean agent on 15 November 1977. She was thought to have been taken to a spy-training center. [91] [93] [94]
c. 1977 Don Taxay c. 43 India American numismatist and historian Taxay was last seen in 1977. [95] [96]

1978

DatePerson(s)Age when disappearedMissing fromCircumstancesRefs.
26 January 1978 Peter Winston 19 New York City, U.S.Winston, an American chess player, disappeared under mysterious circumstances on 26 January 1978. [97]
24 February 1978 Gary Mathias 25 Chico, California U.S.Mathias, of Yuba City, California, is the only one of a group of five men who disappeared after buying junk food and snacks at a Chico market on the night of 24 February 1978, but who has not been found. Their car was found several days later on a winding dirt road high in the Sierra Nevada; why they were there, well off their route home, and why they abandoned a car that was apparently in good working order, is not known. In June of that year, the remains of three were found in the woods where they had died of exposure; a fourth was found in a trailer 20 miles (32 km) from the car, where he had starved to death after suffering severe frostbite, despite the availability of food, heat, and warmer clothing. Mathias, too, is believed to have made it to that trailer, but left it at some point. [98]
2 March 1978 Mary Leah Rodermund 16 Morgan City, Louisiana, U.S.Mary Leah Rodermund disappeared on 2 March 1978 in Morgan City, Louisiana after going to a store and is known to have been abducted as her parents were called by both her abductor and her. She was never located. [99]
April 1978 John Brisker 30 Uganda Brisker, an American professional basketball player from Detroit, Michigan, disappeared in Uganda in April 1978. [100]
21 May 1978 Anocha Panjoy 22 Macau Panjoy was a Thai national who was abducted by North Korean agents from Macau on 21 May 1978. Her case only became known after the release of the American Charles Robert Jenkins and his Japanese family in 2004. [101] [102] [103]
1 June 1978 Yaeko Taguchi 22 Tokyo, JapanTaguchi, a Japanese citizen, is said to have been kidnapped by North Korea in June 1978 and has not been seen since. [91] [104]
6 June 1978 Minoru Tanaka 28 Narita Airport, JapanTanaka was a staff at a Chinese restaurant in Kobe who was taken to North Korea via Vienna and Moscow by North Korean agents, including the manager of the restaurant Tanaka worked at. [91] [105]
25 June 1978 Trudie Adams 19 Newport, AustraliaAdams disappeared from Newport Surf Life Saving Club in the early hours of 25 June 1978 after attending a dance, and has not been seen since. [106]
12 August 1978 Shuichi Ichikawa 23 Fukiage, Kagoshima, JapanIchikawa and Masumoto both went out to see the sunset at Fukiage Beach but were abducted at the beach. North Korea has claimed that the two had died within a few years after they were last seen in 1978, but the claim has not been substantiated. [91] [107]
Rumiko Masumoto24
12 August 1978 Miyoshi Soga 46 Sado Island, JapanMiyoshi Soga was abducted by North Korean agents with her daughter, Hitomi, on 12 August 1978. While Hitomi returned to Japan in 2002, Miyoshi remains unaccounted for, with North Korea denying Miyoshi ever entered North Korea. In spite of this, the Japanese Government has issued an arrest warrant for Kim Myong-Suk, a North Korean agent, for his involvement in their abduction. [91] [108]
19 August 1978 Genette Tate 13 Aylesbeare, EnglandTate, a teenage English girl, disappeared on 19 August 1978 while delivering newspapers. [109]
20 August 1978 Melvin "Ricky" Pittman 17 Newark, New Jersey, U.S.Collectively known as the "Clinton Avenue Five", they disappeared under unclear circumstances in 1978. In November 2008, Philander Hampton confessed that he and his cousin had killed them for supposedly stealing marijuana from his house, shooting them at gunpoint and then burning the bodies. Hampton was convicted and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, but his victims' remains have never been found. [110]
Ernest Taylor 17
Alvin Turner 16
Randy Johnson 16
Michael McDowell 16
20 August 1978 Diana Ng Kum Yim 24 Singapore The five women were social escorts who were invited to a party on a ship on the day of their disappearance. It is speculated that they could be victims of a transnational prostitution ring or human trafficking syndicate, or could be kidnapped by North Korean agents. [111] [112]
Yeng Yoke Fun 22
Yap Me Leng 22
Seetoh Tai Thim 19
Margaret Ong Guat Choo 19
31 August 1978 Musa al-Sadr 50 Libya Musa al-Sadr and two aides, Mohammed Yaaqoub and Abbas Badreddine(fr) disappeared six days after entering Libya on 31 August, during an official visit from Iranians from Lebanon at the invitation of the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. [113] [114]
Mohammed YaaqoubUnknown
Abbas BadreddineUnknown
30 September 1978 Andrew John Amato 4 Webster, Massachusetts, U.S.Andrew John Amato was an American boy who disappeared from the woods in Webster, Massachusetts while he was playing on 30 September 1978 and has not been seen since. [115]
21 October 1978 Frederick Valentich 20 Bass Strait, AustraliaFrederick Valentich disappeared on 21 October 1978 during a solo flight near Bass Strait after reporting to an air traffic controller that his plane was being circled by an unknown craft. [116]
14 December 1978 Christie Farni 6 Medford, Oregon, U.S.Farni disappeared en route to her elementary school after testifying against her father before a grand jury regarding physical-abuse allegations against him. Serial killer Henry Lee Lucas at one point implicated himself in Farni's disappearance and alleged murder, but her whereabouts remain unknown. [117]
31 December 1978 Danielle Judic 26 Belle-Île-en-Mer, FranceDanielle Judic, a pharmacist, disappeared after attending a New Year's Eve party along with her car. [118]
1978 Sattar Jabr Naser c. 20–28? Iraq Naser, an Iraqi writer, disappeared in 1978, and has not been seen since. [119]

1979

DatePerson(s)Age when disappearedMissing fromCircumstancesRefs.
c. 1979 Jim Robinson 54 Miami, Florida, U.S.Robinson, a former professional boxer notable for his bout with Cassius Clay (the future Muhammad Ali) in 1961, was last heard from in 1979, when he was living in the Overtown district of Miami, but has not been seen or heard from since. [120]
1979 J. C. P. Williams 47 London, EnglandWilliams, a New Zealand cardiologist who discovered Williams syndrome, went missing in London. He was declared "a missing person presumed to be dead from 1978" by the High Court of New Zealand. However, Williams renewed his passport in Geneva in September 1979. He had possibly gone into hiding, as reports of alleged and indirect contact with him were made as recently as 2000. [121] [122]
14 January 1979 Thomas DeSimone 28 New York, U.S.DeSimone, an American mobster and associate of Henry Hill and the Lucchese crime family, was reported missing by his wife, Angela, on 14 January 1979. She said she had last seen DeSimone a few weeks earlier when he borrowed $60 from her. He was broadly considered to have been murdered in retaliation for any number of murders that DeSimone himself was involved in. However, no trace of him has ever been found. [123]
28 April 1979 Christina White 12 Asotin, Washington, U.S.On 28 April 1979, Christina Lee White attended a parade with a friend, then later returned to the friend's home feeling sick. She called her mother who advised her to return home on her bike. White was not seen again. Authorities link her disappearance with the unsolved Lewis Clark Valley murders. [124]
5 November 1979 Martin Allen 15 London, EnglandAllen was last seen at King's Cross station at 3:50 pm on 5 November 1979, when he left his friends to go to his brother's house. A witness came forward to say that a 30-year-old male was seen at Gloucester Road tube station later that same afternoon in the company of a boy who looked like Allen. The man was heard to tell the boy not to try to run, and the witness stated that the boy looked scared. Theories exist that Allen fell prey to a paedophile gang operating in London and that he was murdered. [125] [126]
11 November 1979 Ali Murad Davudi 56–57 Tehran, IranDavudi, an Iranian Baháʼí professor and member of the Spiritual Assembly, is thought to have been kidnapped and executed by government agents as part of the ongoing persecution. [127]
17 December 1979 Nasser Al Saeed 56 Beirut, LebanonAl Saeed, a Saudi Arabian writer and founder of the Arabian Peninsula People's Union most known for criticizing the Saudi royal family, was abducted by Saudi agents while in Beirut to conduct interviews, and was never seen again. [128]

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