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Lists of people who disappeared include those whose current whereabouts are unknown, or whose deaths are unsubstantiated: Many people who disappear are eventually declared dead in absentia . Some of these people were possibly subjected to enforced disappearance , but there is insufficient information on their subsequent fates.
Per a 2017 report, the U.S. states of Oregon, Arizona, and Alaska have the highest numbers of missing-person cases per 100,000 people. [6] In Canada—with a population a little more than one tenth that of the United States—the number of missing-person cases is smaller, but the rate per capita is higher, with an estimated 71,000 reported in ...
Derrick James Engebretson (July 5, 1990—disappeared December 5, 1998) [1] is an American child who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in the Winema National Forest near Rocky Point, Oregon. On the evening of December 5, 1998, Engebretson vanished while searching for a Christmas tree with his father and grandfather, who realized they ...
A 23-year-old hiker who survived 13 days lost in the Australian wilderness after stumbling on two granola bars has thanked his rescuers for enduring “tough conditions” to find him.
Griffin, an Irish postman, disappeared from the village of Stradbally, County Waterford on Christmas Day 1929. He is alleged to have been murdered in a drunken altercation and his body disposed of to conceal the fact that the pub was illegally serving alcohol on Christmas Day, a fact which would have threatened the livelihoods of both the ...
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The Department of Justice’s National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) database reports 24,271 open missing persons and 14,662 unidentified persons cases across 55 states and ...
A bandage found in an abandoned cabin was tested, since the child had a similar one when he vanished. A ransom note for $500 (equivalent to $10,823 in 2023) was sent to the parents after Alfred had been missing for five months, [10] however police determined it to be a hoax. [11]