| Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Leann Marion Whitlock | 19 | United States of America | 19-year-old Leann Whitlock, a sophomore student of James Madison University, was abducted by two men outside a shopping mall in Harrisonburg, Virginia, before she was murdered inside a wooded area in Augusta County, Virginia. Whitlock's body was found eight days later, and within six months, the two kidnappers, Tommy David Strickler and Ronald Lee Henderson, were arrested and charged with murdering Whitlock. Strickler was sentenced to death and consequently executed on July 21, 1999, while Henderson was sentenced to life imprisonment. [1] [2] | Murdered | 8 days |
| 1990 | Lise Roy | 30 | Canada | In April 1990, she became the first victim of serial killer Camille Cléroux, her husband. [3] Her body was found in 2011 buried in the yard of their former home at 1535 Heatherington Road in the Heron Gate neighbourhood of Ottawa. [4] | Murdered | 21 years |
| 1990 | Raymond Lamont Smith | 32 | United States of America | Raymond Lamont Smith, a male sex worker at a Milwaukee tavern, was lured into the apartment of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who drugged him and strangled him to death. Smith's skull was found more than a year after he was killed, when Dahmer was arrested in July 1991. Dahmer, who confessed to murdering Smith and 16 other men, was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. [5] | Murdered | 1 year and 2 months |
| 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. [6] | Murdered | 6 months |
| 1990 | Edward Warren Smith | 32 | United States of America | Edward Warren Smith was lured into the apartment of his co-worker Jeffrey Dahmer, who drugged him and strangled him to death. Smith's skeleton was acidified and his skull was accidentally destroyed by Dahmer, who placed it in the oven to dry it. Although no remains were ever recovered, Dahmer confessed to the murder of Smith along with 16 others after his arrest in July 1991. As a result of these killings, Dahmer was sentenced to life without parole. [7] | Murdered | 1 year and 1 month |
| 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. [8] | 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. [9] | 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. [10] [11] [12] | 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. [13] | 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. [14] | 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. [15] [16] | 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. [17] | Murdered | c. 6 months |
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. [18] The case became Scotland's biggest missing persons enquiry. [18] 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. [18] Tobin was convicted of Hamilton's murder, as well as the murder of Kluk and Dinah McNicol, and given a whole-life order. [19] | Murdered | 16 years |
| 1991 | Curtis Durrell Straughter | 17 | United States of America | On February 18, 1991, 17-year-old Curtis Straughter was lured into the apartment of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who drugged, handcuffed and strangled him before dismembering his body in the bathtub. Straughter remained missing until his remains were found in Dahmer's apartment after the arrest of Dahmer in July 1991. Dahmer, who confessed to a total of 17 murders in both Wisconsin and Ohio, was convicted of murdering Straughter and 15 other men, and sentenced to 16 consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole. [20] | Murdered | 5 months |
| 1991 | Errol Lindsey | 19 | United States of America | In April 1991, 19-year-old Errol Lindsey was lured into the apartment of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who drugged him and drilled a hole into Lindsey's skull before he injected hydrochloric acid through the hole. After that, Lindsey regained consciousness for a while before Dahmer once again drugged him and later strangled him. Lindsey remained missing until his remains were found in Dahmer's apartment after the arrest of Dahmer in July 1991. For the murders of Lindsey and 15 other men, Dahmer was sentenced to 16 consecutive terms of life without parole. [20] | Murdered | 3 months |
| 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. [21] | Murdered | 1 year |
| 1991 | Rachel McLean | 19 | United Kingdom | Rachel McLean, a British student at the University of Oxford, 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. [22] | 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. [23] | 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. [24] | 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. [25] 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. [26] | Died (undetermined cause) | 1 year |
| 1991 | Tony Anthony Hughes | 31 | United States of America | The twelfth victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Hughes was murdered via a fatal injection of hydrochloric acid into his brain. His skull was found two months later when Dahmer was arrested for the attempted murder of a 18th victim (who survived). Dahmer was sentenced to life without parole for murdering Hughes and 15 other men. [20] | Murdered | 2 months |
| 1991 | Konerak Sinthasomphone | 14 | United States of America | The thirteenth victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer; Sinthasomphone was coincidentally the younger brother of a boy whom Dahmer molested back in 1988. Sinthasomphone was murdered via a fatal injection of hydrochloric acid into his brain. Sinthasomphone's remains were found two months later when Dahmer was arrested. Dahmer was sentenced to life without parole for murdering Sinthasomphone and 15 other boys and men. [20] [27] | Murdered | 2 months |
| 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. [28] | 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 | Christina Burgin | 19 | United States | Christina Burgin was a teenage woman student at McNeese State University in Iowa who disappeared on June 20, 1991 and was found dead two weeks later after being murdered. [29] | Murdered | 2 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. [30] | 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, [31] and her body was found weeks later on September 24 in a stormwater drain. [32] | Murdered | 3 months |
| 1991 | Matt Cleveland Turner | 20 | United States of America | Matthew Turner was killed inside the apartment of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, after the latter invited him from a Chicago bus stop to his Milwaukee apartment for photo shoots. Turner was drugged, strangled, and then dismembered in the bathtub. The body parts of Turner was found after Dahmer was arrested a month later, and Dahmer was sentenced to life without parole for the murders of Turner and 15 other men. [20] | Murdered | 3 weeks |
| 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. [33] | Died (undetermined cause) | 2–3 months |
| 1991 | Jeremiah Benjamin Weinberger | 23 | United States of America | Weinberger was approached by serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer at a gay bar in Chicago, and he was invited to Dahmer's apartment in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Dahmer drugged Weinberger before drilling a hole into Weinberger's skull and injected boiling water into the cavity. Weinberger died two days later while in a comatose state (caused by Dahmer's actions of drilling and injecting boiling water into his skull). Weinberger's remains were discovered after Dahmer's arrest on July 22, and subsequently, Dahmer, who confessed to 17 murders between 1978 and 1991, was sentenced to 16 consecutive life terms for the murders of Weinberger and 15 other men. [20] | Murdered | 17 days |
| 1991 | Oliver Joseph Lacy | 24 | United States of America | The penultimate victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer enticed Lacy to his apartment with the promise of money for posing for photographs. He was drugged and strangled with a leather strap before being decapitated, with his head and heart placed in the refrigerator. [34] | Murdered | Seven days |
| 1991 | Joseph Arthur Bradehoft | 25 | United States of America | The 17th and final victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Bradehoft, a father of three children from Minnesota who was looking for work in Milwaukee, was lured into the apartment of Dahmer, who strangled him and decapitated his body. The dismembered body parts of Bradehoft were discovered three days later, when Dahmer was arrested for the attempted murder of Tracy Edwards, who nearly became Dahmer's 18th victim before he survived. Dahmer was found guilty of murdering Bradehoft and 15 of his other victims and sentenced to 16 consecutive life sentences with no chance of parole. [34] [20] | Murdered | Seven days |
| 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. [35] [36] | 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. [37] 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. [37] A large amount of money was then suspiciously withdrawn from her bank account in Hampshire and Sussex. [37] 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. [19] Tobin was given a whole-life tariff in 2009. [19] | 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 [38] after being murdered. | Murdered | 10 days |
| 1991 | Luigina Giumento | 57 | Italy | 57-year-old woman who went missing along with her 10-year-old niece in September 1991. [39] Serial killer Elvino Gargiulo and his son/grandson Mario Gargiulo were convicted. [40] | Murdered | Never found |
| Valentina Paladini | 10 | |||||
| 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. [41] | Murdered | 3 days |
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | James Howard Conklin | 42 | United States of America | The man, formerly known as Kane County John Doe, was found in 1994. The body was identified as James Howard Conklin in 2024. [42] Conklin disappeared in Utah in 1992 and is thought to have been murdered. [43] | Murdered | 2 years |
| 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. [44] 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. [45] | 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. [46] | Murdered | 2 days |
| 1992 | Eva Taysup | 27 | Canada | A victim of serial killer John Martin Crawford. Taysup was an Indigenous Canadian sex worker whom Crawford encountered in a hotel foyer on the evening of September 20, 1992. According to Crawford, Taysup was murdered the following morning after the two had argued over the price he should pay for her company and services. Her strangled body was discovered in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, in October 1994. [47] | Murdered | 2 years |
| 1992 | Calinda Waterhen | 22 | Canada | Another victim of serial killer John Martin Crawford. Waterhen was an Indigenous Canadian woman of Cree heritage who worked as a sex worker. She was murdered by strangulation on or about September 22 and her body discarded beneath a pile of leaves in Saskatchewan. Her body was discovered in October 1994. [47] | Murdered | 2 years |
| 1992 | Shelley Gail Napope | 16 | Canada | A victim of serial killer John Martin Crawford. Napope was an Indigenous Canadian woman, originally from Duck Lake, Saskatchewan, who worked as a sex worker. She was murdered by strangulation on or about September 29. Her body was discovered in a stand of trees near a golf course in October 1994. [47] | Murdered | 2 years |
| 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. [48] | 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. [49] [50] | Murdered | 21 years |
| 1992 | Miriam Iborra | 14 | Spain | The Alcasser Girls were three teenage girls from Alcasser, Spain, who disappeared on November 13, 1992, [51] 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. [52] [53] | 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. [54] | 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. [55] | 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. [56] | 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. [57] [58] [59] [60] | 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. [61] | 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. [62] [63] | 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, [64] 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, [65] 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 |
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. [66] | 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. [67] Security camera footage showed that he had been led out of the shopping centre by two young boys. [67] His mutilated body was found on a railway track 2 miles away two days later. [67] The boys, later found to be Jon Venables and Robert Thompson and who were only 10 years old, had abducted, tortured and murdered Bulger. [68] | 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. [69] [70] [71] Roshdi was subsequently executed by hanging on April 10, 2025, after he lost his appeals against the second death sentence. [72] | Murdered | 3 days |
| 1993 | Anabel Segura | 22 | Spain | On 12 April 1993, Anabel Segura, a 22-year-old university student, was kidnapped and murdered by two men, Emilio Muñoz Guadix and Candido Ortiz Aon, who were not caught until two years later in 1995. Segura's body was found buried on the grounds of an abandoned factory two years later, and the cause of death was strangulation. Both Muñoz and Ortiz were sentenced to 43 years in prison in 1999 for murdering Segura. [73] [74] | Murdered | 2 years |
| 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. [75] | 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. [76] | 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. [10] [11] [12] | Murdered | 1 day |
| 1993 | Derrick Joseph Robie | 4 | United States of America | A four-year-old boy murdered in Steuben County, New York. Robie's murder received national attention due to his killer, Eric Smith, being thirteen years old. Smith was arrested on August 8; he was convicted of second-degree murder the following year. He was released from prison in February 2022. [77] | 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. [78] Piirainen's remains were found by hunters in Brimfield on October 23, 1993. [79] | Murdered | 79 days |
| 1993 | Allen Lee Livingston | 27 | United States of America | Livingston disappeared on 6 August 1993 and his remains were found in 1996. Livingston, who was killed by serial killer Herb Baumeister, was identified in 2023 through DNA testing after 27 years since the discovery of his remains. [80] | Murdered | 3 years |
| 1993 | Sara Anne Wood | 12 | United States of America | Sara Anne Wood was an American schoolgirl who disappeared on the afternoon of 18 August 1993 in Sauquoit, New York. It has now been revealed that she was murdered. [81] | Murdered | Not found |
| 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. [82] | Murdered | 19 years |
| 1993 | Kori Lamaster | 17 | United States of America | Lamaster, an American female murder victim who went missing in 1993, [83] was found on January 29, 1994, and was not identified until 2013. [84] | Murdered | 19 years |
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. [85] | 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. [86] | 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. [87] [88] | 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. [89] | 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. [90] | 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. [91] 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. [92] | 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. [93] | 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. [94] 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, [95] and died in prison while on death row in January 2023. [96] | 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. [97] Suspected to have been abducted by paedophiles, his case was solved in part due to appeals on the Crimewatch television programme. [97] 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. [97] | 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. [98] Her body was discovered in the Rochdale Canal five months later. [98] In 2016 police announced they had a DNA profile of the murderer, but no one has yet been convicted of her murder. [98] | Murdered | 5 months |
| 1994 | Luca Amorese | 14 | Italy | An Italian boy went missing in Rome on 13 November 1994. He was never found but serial killer Elvino Gargiulo was convicted. [99] | Murdered | Never found |
| 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. [100] [101] | Murdered | 23 years |
| 1994 | Elba Soccarras | 61 | United States of America | A woman was found at the Woodbridge Township Center mall in New Jersey with no identification and suffering from the effects of Alzheimer's disease. She was not reported missing and was suspected to have been abandoned. It would be nearly 15 years before she was identified. [102] | Found alive | 14 years, 5 months |
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. [103] | 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. [104] | 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. [105] | 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. [106] 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." [106] He was never heard from again, which led to an extensive search for his vehicle. [106] On May 29, 1999, Kramer's body was discovered by hikers inside his wrecked minivan at the bottom of a canyon in Malibu, California. [107] | 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 [108] who disappeared on February 18, 1995 [109] 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. [110] | 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. [111] | 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. [112] Her cause of death remains unknown. [113] | 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. [114] 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. [115] | 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. [116] | 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. [117] [118] [119] [120] | 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. [121] | 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. [122] | 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, [123] and was found dead in 2001. [124] | 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. [125] | 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. [126] | 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. [127] | 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. [128] | 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. [129] | Murdered | 2 years |
| 1995 | Roxanne Ellis | 53 | United States of America | A lesbian couple who were murdered in Medford, Oregon by Robert Acremant. [130] | Murdered | 4 days |
| Michelle Abdill | 42 | |||||
| 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. [131] People have speculated that her uncle may have been responsible for her death, but others believe that the crime was committed by someone local. [132] | 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. [133] | 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. [134] Morales' body has not been found. | Murdered | 2 years |
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. [135] | 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. [136] | 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. [137] | 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. [138] | 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. [139] | 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. [140] | 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. [141] [142] 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. [143] | 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. [144] | Murdered | 2 years |
| 1996 | Death Valley Germans | 34 (Egbert Rimkus) | 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 |
| 27 (Cornelia Meyer) | ||||||
| 11 (Georg Weber) | ||||||
| 4 (Max Weber) | ||||||
| 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. [137] | 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. [145] | 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. [146] | 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. [147] | 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. [148] | 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. [149] | 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. [150] | 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. [151] | 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. [152] 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. [153] | Murdered | 2 days |
| 1996 | Juli Busken | 21 | United States of America | 21-year-old Juli Busken, a University of Oklahoma dance student and resident of Benton, Arkansas, was abducted from her apartment's parking lot and subsequently raped and shot to death by an unknown assailant. The case remained unsolved for eight years before Anthony Castillo Sanchez, a 25-year-old convicted burglar, was arrested after the DNA profile of the killer was matched to his DNA. Sanchez was convicted and sentenced to death for murdering Busken, and executed on 21 September 2023. [154] | Murdered | 1 day |
| 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. [155] | Released/Died in captivity | Various |
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. [156] | 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. [157] | 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. [158] | 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. [159] | Murdered | 17 days |
| 1997 | Gregory Malnory | 25 | United States | A young couple murdered at South Florida Sod Farm in Charlotte County, Florida. Their killer was sentenced to death in 1999, and was executed on February 13, 2025 at the Florida State Prison. | Murdered | 1 day |
| Kimberly Malnory | 26 | |||||
| 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. [160] | 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. [161] | 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. [162] | Murdered | 1 day |
| 1997 | Zephany Nurse | 2 days | 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. [163] | 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. [164] | 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. [165] | 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. [166] | Murdered | 18 years |
| 1997 | Harold Pugh | 41 | United States of America | A father and son shot to death in the Cane Creek Canyon Nature Preserve by bank robbers on July 20, 1997. Their bodies were found later in the day at the creek. Two of the Pughs' murderers were sentenced to death, whereas two others were sentenced to life imprisonment. [167] | Murdered | 1 day |
| Joey Pugh | 11 | |||||
| 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. [166] | 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. [168] | Murdered | 2 days |
| Jacqueline Chiong | Philippines | Not found | ||||
| 1997 | Silvia Olivetti | 21 | Italy | Two sisters and their friend went missing on an excursion at Montagne del Morrone, in Abruzzo. [169] They were attacked and shot by a Macedonian shepherd Halivebi Hasani. [170] | Survived | 1 day |
| Diana Olivetti | 23 | Murdered | ||||
| Tamara Gobbo | 23 | |||||
| 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. [171] | 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. [172] | Died (open verdict) | 6 days |
| 1997 | Maryann Measles | 13 | United States | A 13-year old from New Milford, Connecticut, was abducted from the parking lot of a local shopping center on October 19, 1997 while waiting in the car for her mother. The abductor brought Measles to a secluded area along the Housatonic River, where a group of eight former friends proceeded to beat, gang-rape, and murder the young girl. Her body was wrapped in a blanket and chains before being dumped into the river. Maryann was missing for nearly nine months until the following spring, when her remains were found floating near a boat launch at Lake Lillinonah. [173] | Murdered | 8 months and 3 weeks |
| 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. [174] | Found alive | 1 week |
| 1997 | Stephanie Mahaney | 13 | United States | On October 15, 1997, Mahaney was kidnapped from her bed in Springfield, Missouri. Her body was found in a farm pond on November 18, 1997. [175] Serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells was suspected of the crime. [176] | Murdered | 1 month |
| 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. [177] | 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. [178] | Murdered | 2 years |
| 1997 | Yvette Sophia Mueller | 19 | United States of America | Mueller disappeared in Las Vegas on December 14, 1997. She was never found but serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells was found responsible. [179] | Murdered | Never found |
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Unnamed Japanese man | 69 | Japan | Unnamed Japanese man was a man who died in his home in 1998 in Japan from unknown reasons and was found dead in 2000 when people entered his home. [180] | Unknown | 3 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. [181] | 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. [182] | 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. [183] | Found alive | 8 years |
| 1998 | Patricia Lee Partin | 40 | 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 [184] | 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. [185] [186] | 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. [187] | 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. [188] | 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. [189] | 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. [190] | 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. [191] 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. [192] | Murdered | 7 months |
| 1998 | Kamiyah Mobley | 8 hours | 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. [193] | 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. [194] | 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. [195] 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. [196] | 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. [197] | 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. [178] | Murdered | 1 year |
| 1998 | Lynsey Quy | 21 | United Kingdom | 21-year-old Lynsey Quy disappeared from her home in Southport and her dismembered body was found buried at a local amusement park in June 2000. [198] Her husband Mitchell Quy was convicted of the murder. [199] | Murdered | 2 years and 6 months |
| 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. [200] 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 |
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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. [201] | 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. [202] | 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. [203] [204] | 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. [205] | 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. [206] | 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. [207] | 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. [208] | Murdered | 1 month |
| 1999 | Mary Beatrice Perez | 9 | United States of America | 9-year-old Mary Beatrice Perez was kidnapped from a market festival in San Antonio, Texas, driven to a stockyard, raped, and strangled to death with her T-shirt. [209] Her body was found in a creek ten days later and serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells was later found responsible. [210] | Murdered | 10 days |
| 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. [211] | Murdered | 1 day |
| 1999 | Debbie Griggs | 34 | 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. [212] | 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. [213] | 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. [214] | 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. [215] [216] | Murdered | 4 days |
| 1999 | Bobbie Lynn Wofford | 14 | United States | The 14-year-old girl went missing on July 5, 1999 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. On November 4, 1999 her body was found. [217] Serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells confessed to the crime. [218] | Murdered | 4 months |
| 1999 | J.B. Beasley | 17 | United States | Beasley and Hawlett were high school students from Dothan, Alabama, who disappeared after leaving their homes to celebrate Beasley's 17th birthday on July 31, 1999. Their bodies were discovered in the trunk of Beasley's car in Ozark, Alabama, the following day. Both had been shot in the head, with at least one girl having also been raped. Their murders remained unsolved for over twenty years, although a suspect was arrested in 2019; he would be convicted of both murders in April 2023 and sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. [219] | Murdered | 1 day |
| Tracie Hawlett | 17 | |||||
| 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. [220] [221] Girly Chew's husband Diazien Hossencofft and his girlfriend Linda Henning were convicted of her murder. [222] Girly's body has never been found. [221] [223] | 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. [224] | 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. [225] Though there are different theories to how he died, the true cause is not known. | Died (undetermined cause) | More than 3 years |
| 1999 | Godard family | 44 (Yves) | France | Yves Godard (44), 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. [226] | Died (unknown cause) | 1 year (Camille); 7 years (Yves); undiscovered (Marie-France & Marius) |
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| 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. [227] | 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. [228] | 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. [229] | Murdered | Never found |
| Ashley Freeman | 16 | United States of America | Murdered | |||
| 1999 | Xiana Fairchild | 7 | United States of America | Xiana Fairchild, American girl who was kidnapped in December 1999 from Vallejo, California and her skull was later found after she had been killed. [230] | Murdered | 1 year |
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