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In 1988, Schenck, an Assembly of God minister took a long-distance walk to help people in Mexico who live and work in garbage dumps. While he visited Mexico City in 1982, he became aware of the plight of the "dump people". Schenck took a 2,000-mile (3,200 km) walk from Buffalo, NY, through eight states and crossed the border at Laredo, Texas.
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On July 26, 1974, the decomposing body of a woman was found by a 12-year-old girl in Provincetown, Massachusetts. The woman, who is believed to have died from a blow to the head, was missing both hands, a forearm, and several teeth. The body was exhumed in 1980, 2000, and 2013 in unsuccessful efforts to identify the woman.
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.
Family of serial killers who killed at least 11 people in Labette County, Kansas from 1871 to 1873. Shortly before the discovery of their crimes, they fled south and were never captured. Over the years, several people were arrested because police thought they might be a member of the Bender family, but none were definitely confirmed. [15] 1875
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 ...
Person(s) Age when disappeared Missing from Circumstances Refs. Early 1970 Akpan Utuk: Unknown Lagos, Nigeria Akpan Utuk was a colonel in the Biafran Army. He was last seen at a party in Lagos in early 1970 and is thought to be dead. [289] 12 January 1970 Cheryl Grimmer: 3 Wollongong, Australia Grimmer went missing from a beachside shower block.
Pregnant woman who went missing on January 28, 1896, ostensibly to visit a friend in Indianapolis, but her decapitated corpse was later found in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. Her lover, dental student Scott Jackson, and his roommate, Alonzo Walling, were later arrested, convicted and executed for the murder. [40] Murdered 4 days 1898 Adolf Böcking: 47