This is a list of solved missing person cases in the 2020s.
Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
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12 January 2020 | Keane Mulready-Woods | 17 | Ireland | Mulready-Woods was an Irish teenager from Drogheda, County Louth who disappeared on January 12, 2020. His dismembered remains were found in separate locations, including a burning car, over the course of several weeks beginning January 13. [1] | Murdered | 1 day |
31 January 2020 | Mark Frerichs | 57 | Afghanistan | Frerichs is an American civil engineer who was kidnapped by the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network on January 31, 2020. His status remained unknown for two years until April 1, 2022, when a video released by the Taliban showed Frerichs pleading for help. On September 19, 2022, Frerichs was released by the Taliban-led government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in exchange for Bashir Noorzai. [2] | Found alive | 2 years 7 months |
February 2020 | Megan Khung Yu Wai | 4 | Singapore | Four-year-old Megan Khung Yu Wai was reported missing by her maternal grandmother on July 20, 2020. The police managed to establish that the girl had died in February 2020 and her body was burned three months later in May 2020. Three suspects, consisting of the girl's birth mother, the mother's boyfriend and a friend of the couple, were charged with murder and disposal of Khung's corpse. [3] [4] [5] | Murdered | 5 months |
6 February 2020 | Chen Qiushi | 34 | China | Qiushi, a lawyer and citizen journalist, was abducted by Chinese government officials on February 6, 2020, due to his coverage of the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protests and the mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. In September 2020, a government agency reported that he was under strict surveillance at his parents' home. [6] | Found alive | 7 months |
23 February 2020 | Mazen al-Hamada | 47 | Syria | Mazen al-Hamada, an activist from Deir ez-Zor, was a victim of enforced disappearance when he was kidnapped by Syrian security officials on 23 February 2020. His body was found in Sednaya Prison on 9 December 2024. [7] He is believed to have been executed a seven days before his body was discovered. [8] | Murdered | 4 years and 10 months |
26 February 2020 | Li Zehua | 24–25 | China | Chinese journalist and rapper who was detained by government officials while attempting to locate journalist Chen Qiushi. Two months later, he posted a video saying that he had been temporarily arrested by police and later released. [9] | Found alive | 2 months |
20 March 2020 | Gretchen Anthony | 51 | United States | 51-year-old Gretchen Stoughton Anthony was an American woman from Jupiter, Florida, who was last seen alive on March 20, 2020. Her estranged husband, David Ethan Anthony, was arrested a week later and charged with her murder and kidnapping. In exchange for having his charges reduced, David admitted to entering Gretchen's home in Abacoa, Florida, and stabbing her to death in her garage. David also disclosed the location of Gretchen's remains, which were found in a wooded area near her home on December 21, 2020. [10] | Murdered | 9 months |
26 March 2020 | Soumaïla Cissé | 71 | Mali | Malian Minister of Finance from 1993 to 2000 and president for the Union for the Republic and Democracy who was abducted by Jama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin jihadists on March 26, 2020. There was no news of his condition, until his release on October 6, 2020. [11] | Found alive | 6 months |
22 April 2020 | Vanessa Guillén | 20 | United States | Guillén was a 20-year-old woman who was serving in the United States Army at the time of her disappearance. She had told her family and close friends that she was being sexually harassed by a fellow soldier, but never made an official complaint to her chain of command. Guillén was last seen on April 22, 2020, at approximately 1:00 pm in the parking lot of her unit on Fort Hood, Texas. On June 30, 2020, authorities discovered human remains along the Leon River, in Belton, which after examination indicated that they were indeed Guillén's. The autopsy revealed the cause of death was due to bludgeoning. [12] [13] | Murdered | 2 months 8 days |
30 April 2020 | Facundo Astudillo Castro | 22–23 | Argentina | Castro was an Argentine man who disappeared on April 30, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic after he was stopped by the police [14] [15] in Mayor Buratovich, Buenos Aires. Castro was found dead on August 15, 2020. [16] Castro's death was revealed to be caused by drowning. | Drowned | 107 days |
15 May 2020 | Luis Espinoza | 31 | Argentina | Espinoza was an Argentinian citizen who was shot and killed by police officers on May 15, 2020, who suspected that he participated in an illegal horse race. His body was then dumped in a ravine, and later located after his family members inquired about his disappearance. Several police officers have been charged with his murder. [17] | Murdered | 1 week |
17 May 2020 | Shad Gaspard | 39 | United States | On May 17, 2020, former WWE wrestler Shad Gaspard and his 10-year-old son went swimming at the Marina Del Rey Beach in California. Both Gaspard and his son were caught in a rip current. Gaspard directed life guards to save his son first. His son was saved, but Gaspard had submerged underwater. Lifeguards at the beach, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Los Angeles Fire Department were searching for Gaspard until 7:30 pm that evening, when the search was called off. Three days later, on May 20, 2020, Gaspard's body was found on the beach and identified by the Los Angeles County coroner's office. [18] [19] | Drowned | 3 days |
6 June 2020 | Bibaa Henry | 46 | United Kingdom | Two British women who disappeared while walking home from a party in north-west London on June 6, 2020. Although reported missing, the police allegedly showed little interest in searching for them; their family found their bodies in Fryent Country Park the next day. They had been murdered by a man as a result of a "satanic pact". The case gained notoriety after it emerged that the police officers who found the bodies took selfies with them. [20] | Murdered | 1 day |
Nicole Smallman | 27 | |||||
9 June 2020 | Oluwatoyin Salau | 19 | United States | Oluwatoyin Salau was a community activist from Tallahassee, Florida who was reported missing on June 9, 2020, and was found dead four days later after being murdered. [21] | Murdered | 4 days |
8 July 2020 | Naya Rivera | 33 | United States | Rivera, an American actress best known for her role on Glee , was declared missing after she went swimming with her 4-year-old son in Lake Piru, California, on July 8, 2020, and never returned. She was declared presumed dead in a drowning incident the next day, [22] and her body was recovered on July 13, 2020. [23] It is suspected that she and her son got caught in a current; she pushed her son onto their boat, but could not get up herself. [24] [25] | Drowned | 5 days |
9 July 2020 | Park Won-soon | 64 | South Korea | Park was a South Korean politician, lawyer, and activist, and was the longest-serving mayor of Seoul. [26] He disappeared on July 9, 2020, and was found dead a day later; it was revealed that he died by suicide. [27] [28] | Suicide | 1 day |
2020 | İpek Er | 18 | Turkey | İpek Er was an 18-year-old Kurdish student from Batman who died on August 18, 2020, following a suicide attempt resulting from her kidnapping and repeated rape over a 20-day period of confinement the previous month. [29] | Suicide | 20 days |
18 July 2020 | Bernadette Walker | 17 | United Kingdom | Walker was a 17-year-old student at Peterborough College who disappeared on 18 July 2020. Her stepfather, Scott Walker was convicted of murdering her [30] and has since died in prison. | Murdered | 1 year |
12 November 2020 | Melissa Caddick | 49 | Australia | Australian financial advisor who vanished on November 12, 2020, amid allegations that she was running a Ponzi scheme. Her partial human remains were found floating in the ocean in February 2021, but cause of death is yet to be established. [31] | Unknown | 4 months |
November 2020 | Esther Dingley | 37 | France | Dingley was an English hiker and blogger who disappeared while going on a solo trip through the Pyrenees. Partial remains were found in July 2021, and later confirmed to be Dingley's following a DNA examination. [32] She had possibly died from slipping off a cliff. | Unknown | 8 months |
Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
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January 2021 | Ali Sadpara | 45 | Pakistan | Ali Sadpara, John Snorri Sigurjónsson, and Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto were mountaineers who disappeared while ascending K2 in the mountain range of Karakoram. The three were last seen alive at the K2 Bottleneck. Their bodies were discovered by a Madison Mountaineering Sherpa Team on July 26, 2021. [33] | Misadventure | 171 days |
Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto | 33 | |||||
John Snorri Sigurjónsson | 47 | |||||
4 January 2021 | Peter Neumair | 68 | Italy | On January 4, 2021, an elderly couple Peter Neumair and Laura Perselli were reported missing from their home in South Tyrol, Italy. [34] They were later found murdered by their son Benno Neumair. [35] | Murdered | 4 months |
Laura Perselli | 63 | 1 month | ||||
February 2021 | Ahmadullah | 13–17 | Pakistan | The four boys were last seen hunting for wild hare in the area of Janikhel, Pakistan, in early February 2021. On March 21, 2021, their mutilated remains were found in a mass grave by a shepherd's dog: one had been beheaded, another shot and the final two stoned to death. Their deaths remain under investigation, and have sparked a nationwide protest from family, relatives and locals, who are demanding tighter security against militants operating in the area and the capture of the boys' killers. [36] | Various | 3 weeks |
Atifullah | ||||||
Mohammad Rahim | ||||||
Razamullah | ||||||
24 February 2021 | Louis Nix | 29 | United States | Louis Nix was an American professional football player who went missing on 24 February 2021, in Jacksonville, Florida, and was found dead three days later on 27 February. [37] [38] | Drowned | 3 days |
3 March 2021 | Sarah Everard | 33 | United Kingdom | On the evening of March 3, 2021, Everard, a marketing executive living in Brixton Hill, disappeared after leaving a friend's house. Six days after her disappearance, 48-year-old Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping Everard and was later rearrested on March 10 on suspicion of her murder when human remains were found near Ashford, Kent. [39] [40] The remains were confirmed to be Everard's on March 12 and Couzens was charged with her kidnap and murder later the same day. [41] [42] On June 8, 2021, Couzens pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping her. [43] On July 9, 2021, he pleaded guilty to murdering her. [44] | Murdered | 7 days |
27 April 2021 | Olivia Zimmermann de Zárate | 6 | Spain | Kidnapped along with her sister, Anna, by their biological father Tomás Antonio Gimeno Casañas on the island of Tenerife, Spain on April 27, 2021. He allegedly murdered both girls at his house in Igueste de Candelaria, and then dumped both bodies in the ocean, where Olivia's was found off the coast of Santa Cruz de Tenerife on June 10. Her sister's body has still not been found. [45] | Murdered | 45 days |
5 May 2021 | James Dean | 35 | United Kingdom | Dean, an English footballer who played as a forward for several teams since beginning his career in 2003, was reported missing on May 6, 2021, after he was last seen the day prior. Three days later, his body was located by police in Oswaldtwistle. Foul play was ruled out in his death. [46] | Unknown | 4 days |
8 May 2021 | Skilyr Hicks | 23 | United States | American singer and songwriter, best noted for her appearance on the eighth season of America's Got Talent . A repeat runaway with possible mental health issues, she went missing from her home in North Augusta, South Carolina, on May 8, 2021, only to be found unharmed days later. [47] She died later the same year. | Found alive | 5 days |
9 May 2021 | Tristyn Bailey | 13 | United States | On the morning of 9 May 2021, 13-year-old cheerleader Tristyn Bailey from St. Johns County, Florida, was reported missing by her family. Later that day, Bailey's stabbed body was found by a resident in a wooded area. Her classmate Aiden Fucci was arrested for her murder and sentenced to life in prison. [48] | Murdered | 1 day |
15 May 2021 | Ken Kadokura | 47 | Japan | Japanese professional baseball pitcher Ken Kadokura was reportedly missing since May 15, 2021. On June 6, 2021, his wife reported that he returned to his home. [49] [50] | Found alive | 22 days |
28 May 2021 | Esther Brown | 67 | United Kingdom | Scottish pensioner who was reported missing on May 28, 2021. She was found dead in her flat in Glasgow four days later. A week after her body was discovered, paroled sex offender Jason Graham was arrested and subsequently confessed to her rape and murder. He has pleaded guilty, and awaits sentencing. [51] | Murdered | 3 days |
11 June 2021 | Mee Kuen Chong | 67 | United Kingdom | Chong was murdered by a neighbour, Jemma Mitchell, for financial gain, on June 11, 2021. The murder occurred at her North London address. Mitchell later attempted to forge Chong's will to make Mitchell the primary beneficiary. Her body was disposed of in Salcombe, Devon, and was discovered on 27 June. Mitchell was later sentenced to life imprisonment. [52] | Murdered | 16 days |
28 June 2021 | Lauren Cho | 30 | United States | Lauren Cho was last seen in the area between Morongo Valley and Yucca Valley, California walking away from her friend's converted bus after an argument on June 28, 2021. On October 9, 2021, investigators found unidentified human remains in the rugged terrain of the open desert of Yucca Valley, during their search for Cho. On October 28, 2021, investigators confirmed that the remains found on October 9 belonged to Cho. [53] [54] | Unknown | 3 months, 11 days |
18 July 2021 | Julius Ssekitoleko | 21 | Japan | Ugandan Olympic weightlifter who went missing while attending the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo on July 18, 2021. He was located in Nagoya two days later, explaining that he wished to start a new life. [55] | Found alive | 2 days |
13 August 2021 | Kylen Schulte | 24 | United States | Married couple who were shot to death by an unidentified offender while camping in Moab, Utah, on August 13, 2021, and were later declared missing. In December 2022, the case was closed and Adam Pinkusiewicz was cited as the murderer. [56] | Murdered | 5 days |
Crystal Turner | 38 | |||||
27 August 2021 | Gabby Petito | 22 | United States | Gabby Petito was last seen with her fiancé Brian Laundrie on August 27, 2021, at a Tex-Mex-style restaurant in Jackson, Wyoming. [57] She had told her mother a few days earlier that they were in the vicinity of Grand Teton National Park. On September 11 Petito was declared missing, and on September 19 she was found dead in the Bridger–Teton National Forest. [58] [59] An autopsy found that she had been killed by strangulation. [60] Laundrie was reported missing on September 17, a few days after he left his parents home in North Port, Florida. His remains were found on October 20 in Myakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park, and it was later found that he had committed suicide. [61] | Murdered | 23 days |
17 September 2021 | Brian Laundrie | 23 | Suicide | 1 month | ||
9 September 2021 | Tanya Fear | 31 | United States | British actress and comedian who was reported missing from her Los Angeles apartment on September 9, 2021. She was later found unharmed, having received treatment at a local hospital for an undisclosed reason. [62] | Found alive | 4 days |
5 October 2021 | Cleo Smith | 4 | Australia | Australian toddler who disappeared from a campsite in Gascoyne, Western Australia, whilst camping with her family on October 5, 2021. [63] She was found in a house in Carnarvon, Western Australia. [64] | Found alive | 18 days |
November 2021 | Peng Shuai | 35 | China | Chinese professional tennis player who vanished off social media in November 2021, shortly after accusing a high-ranking Chinese politician of sexual assault. She reappeared two weeks later, claiming that her post had been misunderstood and that she had never actually accused anyone. [65] | Found alive | 2 weeks |
2 December 2021 | Hanifa Abubakar | 5 | Nigeria | Hanifa Abubakar, a girl from Nassarawa, Kano State, Nigeria, was kidnapped on December 2, 2021, [66] and found dead on January 20, 2022. | Murdered | 49 days |
12 December 2021 | Kamarie Holland | 5 | United States | Holland was a five-year-old child abducted from her Columbus, Georgia, home on December 12, 2021, by Jeremy Williams. She was sexually assaulted and murdered by strangulation in Phenix City, Alabama, on December 13. The abduction and sexual assault was committed upon the agreement Holland's mother, Kristy Siple—who staged a child abduction scenario—would be paid $1,300 by Williams to engage in sex with Holland. Siple was ultimately sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment; Williams was found guilty of four counts of capital murder. He is currently incarcerated on death row. [67] | Murdered | 3 days |
Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
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2022 | Hans-Joachim Lohre | Unknown | Mali | German Roman Catholic priest and missionary who was kidnapped by unknown assailants in Mali. [68] | Released | 1 year |
6 January 2022 | Shane O'Connor | 17 | Ireland | Shane O'Connor, the teenage son of Irish musician Sinéad O'Connor, had disappeared from Newbridge, County Kildare on January 6, 2022, and was found dead just two days later. [69] | Suicide | 2 days |
13 January 2022 | Charlise Mutten | 9 | Australia | Charlise Mutten was an Australian girl who disappeared while visiting the estate of her mother's fiancé, Justin Stein, in Mount Wilson. Her body was found a few days later, and Stein has subsequently been charged in her death. [70] | Murdered | 4 days |
February 2022 | Rebecca Contois | 24 | Canada | Contois was an Indigenous Canadian woman allegedly murdered by Jeremy Skibicki. She was last seen alive in the first week of February 2022. Her remains were found discarded in a garbage bin near an apartment complex in North Kildonan, Winnipeg, on May 16. [71] | Murdered | 3 months |
13 February 2022 | Lindsey Pearlman | 43 | United States | American actress, voice actress and animal rights activist. Pearlman was reported missing to the Los Angeles Police Department on February 13, 2022; her body was discovered in her car on February 18. The cause of her death was determined to be suicide via intentional overdose of sodium nitrite. [72] | Suicide | 5 days |
26 February 2022 | Oluwabamise Ayanwole | 22 | Nigeria | Ayanwole was a Nigerian woman who was abducted after boarding a BRT in Lagos, Nigeria. Her nude body was found nine days later, close to Carter Bridge on Lagos Island. The driver of the bus, Andrew Nice Omininikoron, was later arrested on suspicion of her rape and murder. [73] | Murdered | 9 days |
12 March 2022 | Naomi Irion | 19 | United States | Irion was abducted from a parking lot in Fernley, Nevada, by 41-year-old Troy Driver on March 12, 2022. Her body was discovered in Churchill County on March 29. Irion had been shot to death. Driver committed suicide while in custody prior to his trial for her murder. [74] | Murdered | 17 days |
13 March 2022 | Maksim Yevhenovych Levin | 40 | Ukraine | Levin was a Ukrainian photographer killed by Russian armed forces during a mission to document the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in Kyiv Oblast. He is believed to have died on March 13; his body was found near a village on April 1, 2022. [75] | Murdered | 19 days |
April 2022 | Gonzalo Lira | 53 | Ukraine | Gonzalo Lira was a male Chilean-American filmmaker, novelist and commentator who disappeared for a short time in April 2022 after he claimed that he had been detained by the Security Service of Ukraine, [76] after he had resurfaced. | Found alive | Unknown |
24 April 2022 | Lily Peters | 10 | United States | Lily Peters was an American girl from Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, who after not arriving home on April 24, 2022, was reported missing by her father and was found dead the next day after being killed. [77] | Murdered | 1 day |
25 April 2022 | Aguil Chut-Deng | 55 | Australia | Aguil Chut-Deng, who was also known as Aguil Chut-Deng and Aguil de'Chut Deng, a South Sudanese activist and revolutionary, was found dead on 26 April 2022 in a wooded area in Brisbane after being reported missing a day earlier. [78] | Undetermined | 1 day |
26 May 2022 | Emmeril Kahn Mumtadz | 22 | Switzerland | Emmeril Kahn Mumtadz, the son of West Java Governor Ridwan Kamil, disappeared after being swept away at the Aare River's current in Bern, Switzerland on May 26, 2022. He was presumed dead eight days later by his family. His body was found on June 9 at the Engehalde Dam. [79] [80] | Drowned | 2 weeks |
5 June 2022 | Dom Phillips | 57 | Brazil | Dom Phillips was a British journalist who went missing in Brazil in June 2022, along with his guide, Bruno Pereira. Phillips had been writing a book on the Amazon rainforest and had travelled to Brazil to meet locals. The disappearance of Phillips and Pereira was first reported on June 5, when their boat failed to arrive at an expected meeting point near the border with Peru. On June 16, eleven days after the disappearance was reported, a Brazilian man later named as Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira admitted to murdering both Phillips and Pereira, and led police to the site where he had buried the bodies. Following the discovery, police arrested Oliveira and his brother Oseney. One day later, on June 17, officials confirmed that Phillips' body had been identified through dental records. [81] Pereira's body was identified the following day on June 18, and a third suspect named Jeferson da Silva Lima (also known as Pelado da Dinha) was arrested after turning himself in to a police station in Atalaia do Norte. Officials later stated that Phillips and Pereira had been shot with hunting ammunition. [82] | Murdered | 12 days |
Bruno Pereira | 41 | Murdered | 13 days | |||
10 June 2022 | Ezra Miller | 29 | United States | Miller, an American actor, and Iron Eyes—a Native American activist—disappeared on 10 June 2022. Both were located in August. [83] | Found alive | 2 months |
Tokata Iron Eyes | 18–19 | |||||
24 July 2022 | Dawn Dumont | 48 | Canada | A Canadian writer and former lawyer and journalist who staged her own disappearance and death on July 24, 2022. Dumont and her child were found alive in Oregon on August 5. [84] | Found alive | 12 days |
20 August 2022 | Luke Bell | 32 | United States | Luke Bell was an American country singer-songwriter and musician who disappeared on August 20, 2022, in Tucson, Arizona, and was found dead nine days later. [85] In September, it was revealed that he had died from a fentanyl overdose on August 26. [86] | Drug overdose | 9 days |
16 September 2022 | Tom Marsh | 60 | Atacama Desert, Chile | 60-year-old astronomer and astrophysicist Tom Marsh disappeared while visiting the La Silla Observatory in Chile on 16 September 2022. His body was discovered in the Atacama Desert on 10 November 2022. [87] | Undetermined | 55 days |
15 October 2022 | Theophilus London | 35 | United States | Theophilus London, a Trinidadian-born American rapper, was reported missing by his family in December 2022. London had been last contacted that July, stopped updating his social media accounts the same month, and was last seen in Los Angeles on October 15. [88] London was located by his family on January 4, 2023. [89] | Found alive | 2 months, 21 days |
27 November 2022 | Hamish Kilgour | 65 | New Zealand | Hamish Kilgour was the drummer and co-founder of The Clean, an influential New Zealand indie rock band. [90] Kilgour was last seen at a shopping plaza in Christchurch on November 27, 2022, and was reported missing by his family on December 1. [91] Kilgour's death was announced by Christchurch police on December 6. [92] | Undetermined | 10 days |
Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
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2023 | Jeff Machado | 44 | Brazil | Jeff Machado was a Brazilian actor and journalist who went missing in January 2023 in Rio de Janeiro in the neighborhood of Campo Grande. He was found dead on May 22, 2023 [93] after being found buried in a trunk after being murdered by unknown people. | Murdered | 5 months |
2023 | Nicola Bulley | 45 | United Kingdom | Nicola Bulley was reported missing on the morning of January 27, 2023. She had taken her dog for a walk near the River Wyre, and her dog and mobile phone—still connected to a work Microsoft Teams call—were found but there was no trace of Bulley. Police hypothesised that she had fallen into the river; her body was recovered approximately one mile (1.6 km) downstream on February 19. [94] | Drowned | 23 days |
2023 | Abby Choi Tin-fung | 28 | Hong Kong | On February 24, 2023, three days after her disappearance, the headless corpse of 28-year-old Abby Choi Tin-fung, a media personality and influencer, was discovered at a Tai Po village in Hong Kong. Reportedly, some of her body parts were hidden inside a refrigerator and some of them were cooked. The police therefore classified the case as murder. [95] In total, seven suspects, including Choi's ex-husband, were arrested in connection to the murder. [96] [97] [98] | Murdered | 3 days |
2023 | Constance Marten | 35 | United Kingdom | A British couple went missing on January 5, 2023, when their car was found abandoned and on fire near Bolton. They were found on February 27, 2023, when they were arrested in Brighton. They went missing with their newborn baby, who was believed to have been born a couple days before they went missing, but were found without their baby (see below). [99] | Found alive | 53 days |
Mark Gordon | 48 | |||||
Baby A | 1–2 months | After the couple were found (see above) without their baby, an extensive search encompassing around 90 sq mi (230 km2) involving over 200 police officers took place. [100] [101] A baby's remains were found almost 48 hours after the search began, on March 1, 2023, having been wrapped in a plastic bag and hidden inside a shed on an allotment in Hollingbury, Brighton, near where the couple were arrested. [102] The couple were charged with multiple crimes in relation to the disappearance including causing or allowing the death of a child and manslaughter by gross negligence. [103] | Unknown | 55 days | ||
2023 | Stefán Arnar Gunnarsson | 45 | Iceland | An Icelandic handball coach and player. Gunnarsson was reported missing on March 2, 2023. His body was found washed ashore on a beach in Reykjanesbær on 2 April. He had died of drowning in an apparent suicide. [104] | Drowning | 1 month |
2023 | David Mitogo | 32 | Spain | A forward for the Equatorial Guinea national football team. Mitogo disappeared close to the river Minho. His body was recovered from the river Avia two weeks later. [105] | Unknown | 2 weeks |
2023 | Giulia Tramontano | 29 | Italy | A missing pregnant woman was reported missing in Milan on 28 May 2023. [106] Three days later her body was discovered and her boyfriend was found guilty of the murder. [107] | Murdered | 3 days |
2023 | Cecilia Strzyzowski | 28 | Argentina | Strzyzowski was a 28-year-old Argentine woman who was allegedly murdered in an act of femicide by up to six individuals including her partner, César Sena, on June 2, 2023. Crushed and charred bones believed to belong to Strzyzowski were later discovered in the Tragadero River, close to Sena's home, but could not be conclusively identified. However, extensive traces of blood discovered in Sena's house was determined on July 11 to source from her. [108] | Murdered | 1 month |
2023 | Paul-Henri Nargeolet | 77 | Atlantic Ocean | Five people perished on 18 June 2023 when the submersible Titan imploded near the wreck of the Titanic. On 22 June, following the discovery of a debris field approximately 490 metres (1,610 ft) from the bow of the Titanic, OceanGate confirmed the deaths of all five passengers. A subsequent United States Coast Guard conference attributed the implosion of the Titan to a catastrophic loss of the pressure hull. [109] | Misadventure | 4 days |
Shahzada Dawood | 48 | |||||
Hamish Harding | 58 | |||||
Suleman Dawood | 19 | |||||
Stockton Rush | 61 | |||||
2023 | Julian Sands | 65 | United States | Julian Sands was a British film and television actor. On January 13, 2023, just over a week after his 65th birthday, Sands went hiking in the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles. He was reported missing later that day after severe storms hit the area and he failed to return home. Sands' car was found five days later near the area he was reported missing from. On June 24, 2023, hikers reported finding a body in the area near where Sands disappeared, and the remains were confirmed as Sands' three days later on June 27. [110] | Undetermined | 5 months, 14 days |
2023 | Yanfei Bao | 44 | New Zealand | A real estate agent who disappeared from a suburb of Christchurch on 19 July 2023; her body was discovered in a shallow grave by police on rural farmland near Lincoln on 30 July 2024. [111] On 4 December 2024, Chinese national Tingjun Chao was convicted of Bao's murder. [112] | Murdered | 1 year |
2023 | Jonila Castro | 21 | Philippines | Two youth environmental activists disappeared in Orion, Bataan on 2 September 2023. [113] They resurfaced two weeks later. [114] | Found alive | 17 days |
Jhed Tamano | 22 | |||||
2023 | Lina Delsarte | 15 | France | Delsarte, a 15-year-old girl disappeared from her home in Saint-Blaise-la-Roche on 23 September 2023. [115] She was later discovered murdered when her remains were discovered on 16 October 2024 in woods near Nevers. [116] | Murdered | 13 months |
2023 | Shani Louk | 22 | Israel | Louk was a 22-year-old German-Israeli abducted by Hamas militants during the October 7, 2023 Re'im music festival massacre. Footage of her abduction became one of the most viral videos of the Gaza war. On 30 October, the Israel Defense Forces informed Louk's relatives that a section of the petrous part of the temporal bone had been identified via DNA analysis as belonging to Louk, indicating she had likely died at the festival. Her remains were found on May 17, 2024, in the Gaza Strip. [117] | Murdered | 23 days |
2023 | Émile Soleil | 2 | France | Young boy who disappeared on July 8, 2023, during a stay at his grandparents house in the French commune of Le Vernet, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, bodily remains were later found in a nearby forest. | Undetermined | 266 days |
2023 | Ross McDonnell | 44 | United States | Ross McDonnell was a filmmaker and photographer. He was last seen riding a bicycle after he left his apartment in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on November 4, 2023. The bicycle was later found locked up at Fort Tilden Beach in Breezy Point, Queens. On November 17, 2023, a headless and armless body was found in Breezy Point. It was later confirmed that it was McDonnell. Foul play is not suspected. [118] | Undetermined | At least 13 days |
2023 | Giulia Cecchettin | 22 | Italy | An Italian college student murdered by her former boyfriend, Filippo Turetta, on November 11, 2023. Her body was discovered in the ski resort of Piancavallo on November 18. [119] | Murdered | 1 week |
2023 | Alexei Navalny | 47 | Russia | A Russian opposition leader, lawyer, and political prisoner who has organised anti-government demonstrations and campaigned against corruption in Russia. Navalny briefly disappeared on December 5, 2023; he was later discovered to be incarcerated in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. [120] | Found incarcerated | 3 weeks |
Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
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2024 | Hinako Ashihara | 50 | Japan | Hinako Ashihara, a mangaka, was reported missing on January 28. Two days before she went missing, she criticized Nippon TV on her blog for mishandling the live action adaptation of her manga, Sexy Tanaka-san, before deleting the blog post and apologizing. Her body was found in Nikko, Tochigi a day later on January 29. She is believed to have died by suicide. [121] [122] [123] [124] | Suicide | 1 day |
2024 | Audrii Cunningham | 11 | United States | Audrii Cunningham went missing from Livingston, Texas, on February 15, 2024, and was found dead five days later. [125] | Murdered | 5 days |
2024 | Alexandra Föderl-Schmid | 53 | Austria | The Austrian journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung disappeared on 8 February. One day later, she was found alive and hypothermic under a bridge over the Inn river in Braunau am Inn. [126] | Found alive | 1 day |
2024 | Jesse Baird | 26 | Australia | Jesse Baird was a television presenter and Australian rules football goal umpire. He was last seen with his partner Luke Davies, aged 29, on the evening of February 18, 2024. [127] On February 21, personal belongings of both men were found in a skip bin in Cronulla, and a subsequent police search of Baird's Paddington home found large quantities of blood and bullet casings from a police firearm. [128] On February 23, police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon was charged with murder, and on February 27, the bodies of Baird and Davies were found in Bungonia, near Goulburn. [129] [130] [131] | Murdered | 9 days |
2024 | Danka Ilić | 1 | Republic of Serbia | A young Serbian girl who disappeared on 26 March 2024. Ten days after her disappearance, two suspects were arrested for her alleged murder. Her body was never found. [132] | Murdered | 10 days |
2024 | Sade Robinson | 19 | United States | A college student who went missing in Wisconsin. [133] Her severed leg washed up on Lake Michigan the next day. [134] The other body parts were discovered later. [135] | Murdered | 1 day |
2024 | Benjamin Achimeir | 14 | Israel | Benjamin Achimeir, a teenage boy went missing on April 12, 2024, [136] after he left a farm located close to an Israeli settlement in the West Bank and was found dead a day later. | Murdered | 1 day |
2024 | Michael Mosley | 67 | Greece | British television journalist, producer and presenter who was reported missing by his wife while they were on holiday with their children on the Greek island of Symi on June 5, 2024. Mosley's wife alerted authorities after he failed to return to their hotel. A search and rescue team including local people, local police, fire crews, and police from Athens used drones, and extensively searched the tracks and paths he might have taken on foot, with the search extending the following day. [137] On June 9, 2024, Mosley's body was found near a fence on Agia Marina beach in Symi. [138] [139] | Natural causes | 5 days |
2024 | Saulos Chilima | 51 | Malawi | Saulos Chilima, the Malawian Vice President and economist, and Patricia Shanil Muluzi, a teacher, Malawian politician and First Lady of Malawi from 1999 until 2004 who disappeared on June 10, 2024, while aboard an aircraft disappeared from radar in Chikangawa Forest Reserve in Mzimba District. The plane and their bodies were found a day later after it had crashed. [140] | Accident | 1 day |
Patricia Shanil Muluzi | 59 | |||||
2024 | Jacques Freitag | 42 | South Africa | South African high jumper Jacques Freitag went missing on July 1, 2024, from Pretoria West, and was found dead two weeks after being killed. [141] | Murdered | 2 weeks |
2024 | Geneva Lopez | 26 | Philippines | Lopez was a Filipino model; she and her Israeli partner, Cohen, were reported missing in Capas, Tarlac, on June 21. Their bodies were discovered in a quarry on July 6. Both had been shot to death. [142] | Murdered | 15 days |
Yitshak Cohen | 37 | |||||
2024 | Bryson Muir | 14 | United States | The son of NFL player Daniel Muir. Muir was last seen outside his grandmother's home in Cleveland, Ohio on June 16; he was found alive on July 3. Following his discovery, his father was arrested and charged with domestic battery and obstruction of justice. [143] | Found alive | 17 days |
2024 | Jay Slater | 19 | Tenerife | Slater was a 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from England who had flown to Tenerife on holiday. On June 17, after he had attended the NRG Festival near his accommodation in Los Cristianos, he travelled some 11 hours northwestward to the mountain village of Masca with two men. [144] He was last heard from at 08:50 WEST, after informing his friend that he would be attempting to walk back to his accommodation and was reported missing at 09:04 WEST. [145] 28 days later, his body was found after local authorities identified that he had likely died from an accidental fall. [146] | Likely accident | 28 days |
2024 | Mike Lynch | 59 | Italy | Mike Lynch disappeared on August 19, 2024, after the super yacht he was travelling in sank off the coast of Sicily, with Lynch and 21 others on board. The yacht was struck by a waterspout and subsequently capsized and sank. His body was found a day later on August 20. | Drowned | 1 day |
2024 | Humaira Asghar | 31 | Pakistan | Humaira Asghar, a Pakistani actress disappeared In October 2024. She was found deceased on 8 July 2025. [147] | Unknown | 9 months |
2024 | Hannah Kobayashi | 30 | United States | Hannah Kobayashi disappeared on 8 November 2024 after leaving Los Angeles International Airport. She was found unharmed in Tijuana, Mexico and returned to the United States on 16 December 2024. | Found alive | 38 days |
2024 | Zvi Kogan | 28 | United Arab Emirates | An Israeli-Moldovan rabbi residing in the United Arab Emirates. Kogan was an envoy of the Orthodox Jewish Hasidic organization Chabad. He was last seen at the kosher supermarket he managed in Dubai. Shortly thereafter, Kogan was abducted and killed. On 24 November 2024, a body was found and confirmed to be that of Kogan. [148] | Murdered | 3 days |
Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
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7 January 2025 | Eliza Huszti | 32 | United Kingdom | Eliza and Henrietta Huszti were two sisters from a set of triplets who went missing from Aberdeen in the north east of Scotland on 7 January 2025 and were both found dead on 31 January after their bodies were found in the River Dee. [149] | Found dead | Three weeks |
Henrietta Huszti | 32 | |||||
January 2025 | Mizuki Itagaki | 24 | Japan | Mizuki Itagaki, a 24-year-old male Japanese actor, was reported missing in late January 2025. He was later found dead in Tokyo approximately mid-March 2025. [150] | Found dead | c. Two months |
February 2025 | Sam Nordquist | 24 | United States | Sam Nordquist, an American man from Red Wing, Minnesota, was officially reported missing in February 2025 after losing contact with family in early January. [151] Sam had flown to New York from Minnesota in September of 2024 to meet his girlfriend. His remains were found on February 13, 2025. Authorities stated that he died in early February following more than a month of torture and abuse. Seven people have been charged with his murder. [152] | Murdered | Over a month |
April 2025 | Sam Ruddock | 36 | United States | Sam Ruddock, a Paralympic athlete disappeared in April 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, after going to see WrestleMania 41, has been found safe. [153] | Found alive | 12 days |
15 May 2025 | Pheobe Bishop | 17 | Australia | Pheobe Bishop, a 17-year-old Australian, was reported missing after she failed to board a flight. Her remains were found on 6 June and identified on 17 June. [154] | Found dead | 33 days |
30 May 2025 | Paityn Decker | 9 | United States | Three children went missing in Wenatchee, Washington and were later found dead. Their father Travis Caleb Decker is wanted by the FBI and is on the list of missing fugitives. [155] | Found dead | 3 days |
Evelyn Decker | 8 | |||||
Olivia Decker | 5 |