List of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1970

For other lists of disappeared persons see List of people who disappeared

This is a list of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1970 and of people whose current whereabouts are unknown or whose deaths are not substantiated. Many people who disappear are eventually declared dead in absentia. Some of these people were possibly subjected to forced disappearance, but there is insufficient information on their subsequent fates.

Before 1800

Date Person(s) Age Circumstances
53 BC Ambiorix Ambiorix was, together with Catuvolcus, prince of the Eburones, leader of a Belgic tribe of northeastern Gaul (Gallia Belgica), where modern Belgium is located. According to the writer Florus (iii.10.8), Ambiorix and his men managed to cross the Rhine and disappeared without a trace.[1]
Catuvolcus
30 BC Alexander Helios circa 10 Alexander Helios and Ptolemy Philadelphus, sons of Cleopatra and Mark Antony and the younger half-brothers of Caesarion, left Egypt for Rome, after which their fates are unknown.[2]
Ptolemy Philadelphus 6
108–164 Legio IX Hispana (Ninth Spanish Legion) The Roman legion stationed in Roman Britain, following the Roman conquest of Britain in AD 43, disappears from surviving records without explanation in the second century. There are multiple conjectures regarding what happened to it and why no record of its fate has been found. Many references to the legion have been made in subsequent works of fiction.[3]
c. 834 Muhammad ibn Qasim (al-Alawi) The Alawite imam who led a rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate. He was eventually defeated and detained but was able to escape. After fleeing he was never heard from again.[4]
1021 Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah 36 The sixth Fatimid caliph and 16th Ismaili imam rode his donkey to the Mokattam hills, outside Cairo, for one of his regular nocturnal meditation outings and failed to return. A search found only the donkey and his bloodstained garments.[5]
1071 Hereward the Wake 36–37 A formerly exiled Anglo-Danish minor noble rebel, Hereward the Wake led a huge revolt in the marshy region of Ely in England against the rule of William the Conqueror. He was eventually betrayed by fearful local monks who led the Norman troops through secret trackways. Many rebels were mutilated or executed but Hereward escaped, never to be heard of again.[6][7]
c. 1291 Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi Genoese sailors and explorers were lost while attempting the first oceanic journey from Europe to Asia. Their two galleys sailed out of the Mediterranean Sea and into the Atlantic Ocean but were never heard from again.[8]
1398 Gearóid Iarla 63 Gerald FitzMaurice FitzGerald, also known by the Irish Gaelic Gearóid Iarla (Earl Gerald), was the 3rd Earl of Desmond, lord of Munster, and Norman-Gaelic poet, disappeared in 1398.[9]
1412 Owain Glyndŵr 56 The last native Welsh person to hold the title Prince of Wales, Owain instigated the Welsh Revolt against the rule of Henry IV of England in 1400. Although initially successful, the uprising was eventually defeated but Glyndŵr disappeared and no one knows what became of him after that.[10]
1453 Constantine XI Palaiologos 48 The last Byzantine emperor during the final hours of the Siege of Constantinople. Constantine XI Palaiologos disappeared during the fighting and was never seen after that.[11]
1483 Edward V of England 12 The Princes in the Tower, Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, sons of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville, were placed in the Tower of London (which at that time served as a fortress and a royal palace as well as a prison) by their uncle Richard III of England.[12] Neither was ever seen in public again and their fate remains unknown. The remains of four children which have been found could be the princes, but they have not been subjected to DNA analysis to positively identify them.[13]
Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York 9
1487 Lord Lovell 31 Lord Lovell, a rebel Yorkist knight, was last seen alive fleeing from the Battle of Stoke Field after defeat by the Lancastrians. In 1488 he was granted safe conduct in Scotland by King James IV but there is no evidence he was ever in the country. (A skeleton found at one of his mansions at Minster Lovell, Oxfordshire, in 1708 was believed without evidence to be his.)[14]
1499 John Cabot circa 49 John Cabot, an Italian explorer, disappeared along with his five ships during an expedition to find a western route from Europe to Asia.[15]
1501 Gaspar Corte-Real 51 Portuguese explorer Gaspar Corte-Real disappeared on an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage from Europe to Asia. Two of his ships returned to Lisbon but the third, with Gaspar on board, was lost and never heard from again.[16]
1502 Miguel Corte-Real circa 54 Miguel Corte-Real, a Portuguese explorer, disappeared while searching for his brother Gaspar. Like his brother he took three ships and, just like his brother, the ship with Miguel on board was lost and never heard from again.[17]
1526 Francisco de Hoces Francisco de Hoces was the commander of the San Lesmes which was one of the seven ships of the Loaísa expedition under García Jofre de Loaísa. It has been speculated that the San Lesmes, last seen in the Pacific Ocean in late May, may have reached Easter Island, the Polynesian archipelagos or even New Zealand.[18]
1579 Ikegusuku Antō [Note 1] A bureaucrat of Ryukyu Kingdom, Ikegusuku Antō was sent by ship to China to ask for postponement, but his ship was caught in a storm and disappeared at sea in 1579 and was never seen again.[19]
c. 1590 Roanoke colonists The Roanoke colonists, including Virginia Dare age 2 or 3, the first English child born in a New World English overseas possession, disappeared becoming known as the Lost Colony. On 18 August 1590, their settlement was found abandoned. The settlement was located on Roanoke Island, currently part of Dare County, North Carolina.[20]
1611 Henry Hudson Hudson went on multiple expeditions of present-day Canada and parts of the northeastern United States, searching for the Northwest Passage. In 1611, after wintering on the shore of James Bay, Hudson wanted to press on to the west, but most of his crew mutinied. The mutineers cast Hudson, his teenage son, and seven others adrift; the Hudsons and their companions were never seen again.[21]
1628 David Thompson The founder of the New Hampshire colony in 1623, Thompson moved his family to an island in Boston Harbor (today called Thompson Island in his honor) in 1626 becoming the first European settlers of Boston, Massachusetts. He disappeared in 1628 and was never heard from again. Some historians theorize he was the victim of foul play while others suggest he accidentally drowned in Boston Harbor.[22]
1638 Urasoe Chōri A member of Sanshikan, Urasoe Chōri went on a boat trip to Satsuma but his ship was caught in a storm and disappeared in the sea. He is believed to have drowned.[23]
1661 René Menard 56 A French Jesuit missionary, Fr. René Menard disappeared while traveling by canoe with a Native guide from the area of present-day L'Anse, Michigan, on Lake Superior, to minister to a Huron village deep in the Wisconsin interior. After encountering a series of rapids Menard and his guide agreed that he would walk downstream on shore while his more skilled companion brought the boat through. The latter passed the rapids successfully but Menard was never seen again. Years later, his cassock and breviary were discovered in a Dakota village far from the scene.[24]
1671 Roche Braziliano 40–41 A Dutch pirate born in the town of Groningen, Roche Braziliano, whose career lasted from 1654 until 1671, when he disappeared during that year, and was never seen again.[25]
1696 Henry Every (sometimes spelled 'Avery') 37 Henry Every, an English pirate, vanished after perpetrating one of the most profitable pirate raids in history. Despite a worldwide manhunt and an enormous bounty on his head Every was never heard from again.[26] In March, Every had led his ship, the Fancy, to the island of New Providence. He and his crew spent months living there and soon lost their ship. By June, Every and his crew were forced to flee the island. The crew then split up, with Every possibly setting sail toward Ireland. A manhunt for Every lasted for at least a decade. There were several unconfirmed sightings of him and contradictory reports of his death during the 18th century. Most of them are considered unreliable, however, and his actual fate is unknown.[27]
1704 Laurens de Graaf 51 Laurens de Graaf was last known to be near Louisiana where he was to help set up a French colony near present-day Biloxi, Mississippi. Some sources claim he died there while others claim he died at different locations in Alabama.[28]
1769/70 Henry Vansittart 37 Henry Vansittart, MP and director of the East India Company, Luke Scrafton and Francis Forde formed a delegation to investigate corruption and reform the British government in India and were last seen embarking at Cape Town en route to India on 27 December 1769. Their ship disappeared with all hands, apparently in a storm, the captain having decided to sail the Mozambique Channel despite adverse weather.[29]
Luke Scrafton
Francis Forde 51
1788 Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse and his expedition The French expedition of Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de Lapérouse disappeared after their last stop at Botany Bay (now Sydney) after meeting ships of Britain's First Fleet bringing convicts to establish the new settlement that became Australia. The wrecks of the expedition's two ships, the Boussole and Astrolabe), were subsequently discovered at Vanikoro, an island in the Santa Cruz group (part of the Solomon Islands) where the survivors may have set up camp.[30][31]
1792 James Harrod 46 An early explorer of the areas west of the Appalachian Mountains prior to their settlement by European-Americans, James Harrod never returned from a trip to western Kentucky from Harrodsburg. Theories about his fate range from murder at the hands of his companions or Native Americans in the area, to accidental death or a desire to abandon his wife and family.[32]

1800 to 1899

Date Person(s) Age Circumstances
1802 James Derham 44–45 The first African American to formally practice medicine in the United States disappeared after 1802.[33]
1803 George Bass 32 The British explorer of Australia set sail from Sydney for South America and was never heard from again.[34]
1809 Benjamin Bathurst 25 British diplomat, disappeared from an inn in Perleberg.[35]
1812 Theodosia Burr Alston 29 The daughter of U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr, and sometimes called the most educated American woman of her day, sailed from Georgetown, South Carolina, aboard the Patriot, which was never seen again.[36]
1821 Obed Hendricks, William Bond and Joseph West Sailors on the whaler Essex, which sank in the Pacific on 20 November 1820 after being struck by a sperm whale. Their whaleboat was separated on the open sea from their fellow crewmen on 28 January 1821, it was never seen again. Years later, a boat with three skeletons inside was discovered washed up on Ducie Island.[37][38]
1826 William Morgan 52 The resident of Batavia, New York, disappeared just before his book critical of Freemasonry was published. A year after he had disappeared a badly decomposed body was found that was thought to be his but it was proven not to be.[39]
1829 John Lansing, Jr. 75 American politician and chief justice of the New York State Supreme Court Lansing left his Manhattan hotel to mail a letter at a New York City dock and was never seen again.[40]
1837 Joseph Gellibrand 48–49 The first Attorney-General of Van Diemen's Land disappeared while attempting to ride inland from Geelong, Victoria, to Melbourne, Victoria in 1837.[41]
1839 Henry Bryan 18 Bryan, who accompanied explorer Charles Sturt, Governor George Gawler, and others on an expedition from the Murray River to the Burra area of South Australia, disappeared and is believed to have died in 1839 during a dust storm on the return trip.[42] Searchers later found his saddle and some tracks which stopped abruptly. His body was never found, however his horse returned to Adelaide after several months.[43]
1842 Charles Christian Dutton Charles Christian Dutton and four other men disappeared without trace while droving cattle from Port Lincoln, South Australia to Adelaide.[44]
1843 Sequoyah circa 73 The creator of Cherokee syllabary, Sequoyah disappeared during a trip to Mexico to locate isolated tribes of Cherokees who had moved there during the time of Indian Removal in the U.S. His body has never been found, although at least three different burial sites have been reported.[45]
1845 Franklin's lost expedition The expedition, with 129 seamen, made last contact with a whaling ship before entering Victoria Strait in search of the Northwest Passage. The remains of some individuals, written messages and the wrecks of the ships HMS Erebus (in 2014) and HMS Terror (in 2016) were later discovered. However, the majority of the crew, including Franklin himself, were never found with the crew having probably died from a combination of lead poisoning, starvation, and exposure.[46]
1848 Khachatur Abovian 38 The Armenian writer and national public figure of the early 19th century, credited as creator of modern Armenian literature, left his house early one morning and was never heard from again.[47]
1848 Ludwig Leichhardt 34 A Prussian explorer and naturalist, Ludwig disappeared during his third major expedition to explore parts of northern and central Australia. He was last seen on 3 April at McPherson's Station on the Darling Downs, en route from the Condamine River to the Swan River in Western Australia. Although investigated by many, his fate after leaving the settled areas remains a mystery.
1849 Sándor Petőfi 26 Sándor Petőfi, Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary, was one of the key figures of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. Petőfi was last seen in Transylvania during the Battle of Segesvár. He is thought to have been killed in battle, but since his body was never found, his true fate remains unknown.[48]
1856 Matias Perez Perez, a Cuban balloonist of Portuguese descent, disappeared with his balloon "Ville de Paris" during a flight in Cuba on 29 June.[49]
1857 Solomon Northup 48–49 Solomon Northup, an American author, who was most notable for his book Twelve Years a Slave in which he details his kidnapping and subsequent sale into slavery. Northup did not return to his family from his book-promoting tour.[50] No contemporary evidence documents Northup after 1857.
1857 Nana Sahib 33 An Indian aristocrat and a leader of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 Nana Sahib disappeared after the East India Company's forces retook his city of Kanpur. Rumors that he had died of an illness or fled to exile in Nepal or another part of India were never proven.[51]
1865 Captain James William Boyd 43 Boyd, a Confederate States of America military officer, vanished after his release as a prisoner of war in February 1865 after he failed to show up for a rendezvous with his son to go to Mexico at the end of the American Civil War. Boyd's disappearance is the subject of a conspiracy theory that he was killed after being mistaken for John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln.[52]
1869 Agoston Haraszthy 56 Haraszthy, who was a founder of Californian wine industry, disappeared in a river while organizing a liquor business in Nicaragua.[53]
1872 Captain Benjamin Briggs 37 Captain Briggs, his wife Sarah Elizabeth (31), their daughter Sophia Matilda (2) and all seven crew members were missing when the Mary Celeste was found adrift in choppy seas some 400 miles (640 km) east of the Azores. Their unexplained disappearances are at the core of "one of the most durable mysteries in nautical history".[54]
1874 Charley Ross 4 Ross, a resident of Philadelphia, was enticed along with his brother Walter into a horse-drawn carriage while playing in their front yard on 1 July. Walter got out at a fireworks shop, and the carriage drove on without him. The family received ransom notes and worked with police, but all to no avail.[55][56]
1880s William Cantelo Cantelo, inventor of an early machine gun, never returned to his Southampton home after one of his frequent and lengthy sales trips. His sons speculated years later that he may have re-emerged as Hiram Maxim, another machine-gun pioneer, who he strongly resembled.[57]
1880 Lamont Young 28–29 Lamont Young, government geologist inspecting new gold fields on behalf of the New South Wales Mines Department, together with his assistant Max Schneider, boat owner Thomas Towers and two other men disappeared after leaving Bermagui, New South Wales, Australia in a small boat. The nearby location where the abandoned wreck of their boat was discovered was subsequently named Mystery Bay.[58][59]
1882 Jesse Evans An American outlaw, gunman of the Old West, leader of the Jesse Evans Gang, and veteran of the Lincoln County War disappeared from the record shortly after his release from prison. He was never seen or heard from again.[60] Despite an unsubstantiated claimant in 1948 (who also claimed that other Lincoln County veterans, including the renowned Billy the Kid, were still alive), Evans's fate remains unknown.
1884 Resolven The merchant ship Resolven was found abandoned off the coast of Labrador on 29 August. A lifeboat was missing and it was assumed that all 11 on board had evacuated in the face of nearby icebergs but neither they nor the lifeboat were ever found.[61]
1888 Boston Corbett 56 Boston Corbett, the Union Army soldier who fatally shot John Wilkes Booth, later went insane and was incarcerated in a mental asylum in 1887. He escaped from the facility a year later and was never seen again, though some historians suspect he may have perished in the Great Hinckley Fire of 1 September 1894.[62][63]
1888 Henry Boynton Clitz 64 Clitz, a career U.S. Army officer who had served with distinction in the Mexican and Civil wars before being named superintendent of the United States Military Academy, was last seen in Niagara Falls, New York, on 30 October. Family members said his mental state had been deteriorating over the previous months; he was presumed to have drowned although no body was ever found.[64]
1890 Louis Le Prince 48 Le Prince, a motion picture pioneer, disappeared after boarding a Paris-bound train at Dijon, France.[65]
1892 Hermann Fol 46 Hermann Fol, a Swiss zoologist regarded as the father of modern cell biology, disappeared with several crew members of his yacht shortly after leaving Bénodet, France.[66]
1896 Albert Jennings Fountain 57 Former Texas state senator and lieutenant governor Albert Jennings Fountain disappeared near Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States, along with his son Henry (8) on 1 February 1896. Evidence found along their route strongly suggests they were murdered but no bodies were ever found.[67]

1900s

Date Person(s) Age Circumstances
1900 Thomas Marshall 24 Lighthouse keepers at the Flannan Isles Lighthouse who mysteriously vanished from their posts during a fierce storm on 26 December 1900 and were never seen again.[68]
James Ducat 48
Donald MacArthur
1902 Yda Hillis Addis 45 A translator of ancient Mexican narratives, Addis escaped from an insane asylum in California where her husband had her confined during their divorce and was not seen again.[69][70]
1908 Belle Gunness 48 The Norwegian-American serial killer vanished on 28 April 1908 after a house fire (suspected arson) and withdrawing huge amounts of money from her bank accounts.[71]
1908 Eduardo Newbery 30 The Argentine aviator disappeared while attempting to break the night flight record on the aerostat Pampero in Buenos Aires, Argentina.[72]
1908 Robert Leroy Parker
(aka Butch Cassidy)		 42 The outlaws were supposedly killed in a shootout with the Bolivian police around 7–8 November, although the authorities were unable to positively identify the bodies.
Harry Alonzo Longabaugh (aka The Sundance Kid) 40 or 41
1909 Joshua Slocum 65 Slocum, a Canadian-American sailor and first man to sail single-handedly around the world (1895–1898), disappeared after setting sail from Vineyard Haven on Martha's Vineyard alone, bound for South America, aboard the same 36 ft 9 in (11.20 m) sloop Spray he had used for his circumnavigation.[73]

1910s

Date Person(s) Age Circumstances
1910 Dorothy Arnold 24 Manhattan socialite and perfume heiress Dorothy Arnold vanished after buying a book in New York City. She intended to walk through Central Park and was never seen again.[74]
1912 Alexander Kuchin Russian oceanographer and Arctic explorer Alexander Kuchin disappeared in 1912 and was never heard from again.[75]
1912 Bobby Dunbar 4 Bobby disappeared during a fishing trip in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. A child found in the custody of William Cantwell Walters of Mississippi eight months later was ruled to be Bobby Dunbar by a court-appointed arbiter, and Walters was found guilty of kidnapping. The child grew up as Bobby Dunbar, had four children of his own, and died in 1966. In 2004, DNA tests proved that the child found was not related to Bobby Dunbar's brother, Alonzo.[76]
1912 Sebastiano DiGaetano 50 DiGaetano, a capo di tutti capi of the Bonanno crime family, disappeared from Brooklyn, New York, shortly after being forced out of that position. It is believed he and his wife returned to Italy but it is not known for certain.[77]
1914 František Gellner 33 The Czech poet, short story writer, artist and anarchist disappeared in September 1914; on 13 September he was claimed missing and was never found.[78]
1914 Ambrose Bierce 71 American writer known for "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and The Devil's Dictionary was last heard from in a letter of December 1913 bearing a Chihuahua postmark to his secretary and companion, Carrie Christiansen. Although alternative theories are plentiful, he may have perished in war-torn Mexico, possibly at the Battle of Ojinaga on 10 February or perhaps was executed as a spy in the municipal cemetery of Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, where a gravestone bearing his name was erected in 2004.[79][80][81]
1914 F. Lewis Clark 52 Clark, a businessman from the U.S. state of Idaho disappeared while visiting Santa Barbara, California, and after getting on a train he was never seen again.[82]
1914 Alejandro Bello Silva 27 A lieutenant in the Chilean Army, Silva disappeared during a qualifying examination flight over central Chile which was to be his final flight. At some point during the flight, Bello became lost in the clouds and he was never seen again. Although search efforts commenced within hours, no trace of him or his aircraft was ever found.[83]
1915 Frederick Mors 24 The Austrian-American serial killer Frederick Mors (born as Carl Menarik) murdered at least eight people in an Odd Fellows' home, where he was employed as a porter. Mors was declared to be criminally insane and was committed to an insane asylum. In May 1915 he escaped from the asylum grounds and was never seen again.[84]
1916 Béla Kiss 39 Kiss was a Hungarian serial killer and murderer of 24 young women prior to his enrollment in the Austro-Hungarian Army in the First World War. Upon the discovery of his crimes he was traced to a Serbian military hospital but escaped a few days before investigators arrived. Although there were several reported sightings of the killer (notably in New York in 1932), his true fate remains a mystery.[85]
1918 Knud Andersen 51 Danish mammalogist Knud Andersen mysteriously disappeared in 1918. His colleague Oldfield Thomas submitted his final manuscript on his behalf, stating that Andersen expected "to be absent from his scientific work for some time."[86]
1919 Mansell Richard James 25 Canadian flying ace Mansell Richard James was last seen in western Massachusetts on 2 June just days after a record-setting flight between Atlantic City and Boston, Massachusetts.[87]
1919 Ambrose Small 56 The Canadian millionaire disappeared from his office. He was last seen at 5:30 pm on 2 December 1919 at the Grand Opera House in Toronto, Ontario.[88]

1920s

Date Person(s) Age Circumstances
1920 Homer Lemay 6 Homer disappeared in 1920, and on 8 March 1921 the body of an unidentified boy was found murdered in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and nicknamed Little Lord Fauntleroy. Many years later authorities said that the body might have been that of Lemay.[89]
1920 Clayton Kratz 21–22 The Mennonite relief worker from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania left the U.S. on 1 September 1920 to travel to Russia. He did not return from the trip and was never heard from again.[90]
1920 Victor Grayson 39 The British former Member of parliament was not seen again after 28 September 1920 after telling friends he was going to the Queen's Hotel in Leicester Square, London, and would be back, but did not return. He was also seen the same day by an artist who knew him entering a house in Thames Ditton belonging to Maundy Gregory, corrupt honours dealer, who is alleged to have murdered Grayson who had been investigating his activities.[91]
1921 Carroll A. Deering The captain and ten crewmen of the schooner Carroll A. Deering were missing after the schooner was found run aground off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, on 31 January 1921. A mutiny is suspected but without any idea of the crew's later whereabouts nothing can be proven.[92]
1921 Charles Whittlesey 37 The American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient who led the "Lost Battalion" in World War I was last seen on the evening of 26 November 1921 on a passenger ship bound from New York City to Havana. It is presumed he committed suicide by jumping overboard.
1922 Edward F. Sands 27 Sands was a suspect in the murder of Hollywood director William Desmond Taylor on 1 February 1922, disappeared shortly after that, and was never seen again.[93]
1922 Alejandro Carrascosa 21 Carrascosa, an Argentine poet, writer and student, disappeared on 22 September and left hints that he was not going to be seen again,[94] and indeed was not.
1924 Andrew Irvine 22 The English mountaineer, who took part in the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, was last seen high on the mountain's northeast ridge on 8 June 1924 and his body has not been found.[95]
1924 Artur de Sacadura Cabral 43 Portuguese aviation pioneer, Artur de Sacadura Cabral, disappeared flying over the English Channel on 24 November and is believed to have died, since parts of the plane were found, although he was not.[96]
1924 Liu Menggeng Menggeng, a politician and physician of the Republic of China and Manchukuo, left office in 1924 and was never seen again.[97]
1925 Sidney Reilly 47–48 British spy Sidney Reilly set off for the Soviet Union in an attempt to overthrow the Bolshevik regime and was said to have been captured and shot on 5 November 1925 but it is not known for sure since no location of his body is known. The photo of him seen dead was said to be alleged and it was even speculated that he might have still been alive since there were later sightings of him.[98][99]
1925 Percy Fawcett 58 Fawcett, a British archaeologist and explorer, together with his eldest son Jack and friend Raleigh Rimell, was last seen traveling into the jungle of Mato Grosso in Brazil to search for a hidden city called the Lost City of Z. Several unconfirmed sightings and many conflicting reports and theories explaining their disappearance followed, but despite more than a dozen follow-up expeditions and the recovery of some of Fawcett's belongings, their fate remains a mystery.[100]
1925 Frederick McDonald 53–54 An Australian politician, McDonald set off from Martin Place, Sydney, for a meeting with Jack Lang two blocks away but failed to arrive. He was possibly murdered by his political rival Thomas Ley. In 1947, Ley was convicted at the Old Bailey of the "Chalkpit Murder", that of a barman in England, and sentenced to hang but was then declared insane and sent to Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital, where he died of a cerebral hemorrhage two months later.[101]
1925 Alice Corbett 19 An American college student, Corbett was last seen leaving her residence on the campus of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts on the morning of November 13. Extensive searches of urban and wilderness areas across Western Massachusetts failed to yield any evidence of her fate. Her case received wide publicity though regional newspapers and national wire services. Her disappearance has the distinction of being the oldest active missing person case in the United States.[102]
1926 Marvin Clark 75 A retired American sheriff, Clark disappeared in Portland, Oregon, en route to visit his daughter by stagecoach during the Halloween weekend.[103]
1927 Charles Nungesser 35 Both French aviators disappeared with their aircraft L'Oiseau Blanc on 8 May 1927 while attempting a transatlantic flight.[104]
François Coli 44
1927 Włodzimierz Zagórski 45 An Austro-Hungarian military intelligence officer, Polish brigadier general, staff officer and aviator disappeared on 6 August 1927 never to be seen again.[105]
1927 Paul Redfern 25 An American musician and a pilot from Columbia, South Carolina, who became known during the summer of 1927 for attempting to fly from Brunswick, Georgia to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He disappeared after 25 August 1927 and was never seen again.[106]
1928 Walter Collins 9 Walter disappeared from his home in Los Angeles, California, in 1928. He was later determined to have been murdered by Gordon Stewart Northcott in what was known as the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders. His disappearance and the attempt by the Los Angeles police department to convince his mother that a different boy was her son formed the basis of the 2008 film Changeling.[107][108][109]
1928 Roald Amundsen 55 Amundsen disappeared with five crew members on 18 June 1928 while flying on a rescue mission in the Arctic. The search for Amundsen and team was called off in September 1928 by the Norwegian Government. No bodies were ever found.[110]
1928 Glen Hyde 29 The American newlyweds Glen and Bessie Hyde were last seen 18 November 1928 and disappeared while attempting to raft the Colorado River rapids of the Grand Canyon.[111]
Bessie Hyde 22

1930s

Date Person(s) Age Circumstances
1930 Mary Agnes Moroney 2 Mary Agnes went missing after her mother, a struggling 17-year-old mother of two, gave her to a stranger calling herself "Julia Otis" in exchange for $2 on 15 May 1930 on the understanding that the woman would take care of the girl in California for a short time and then return her to the Moroneys' Chicago home when things were better. She never did, and the ensuing investigation attracted national media attention. The girl was never located, and the case remains the oldest unsolved missing-persons case of this nature in the files of the Chicago Missing Persons Bureau.[112] A California woman's belief that she was Mary Agnes has subsequently been disproven by DNA testing.[113]
1930 Joseph Force Crater 41 An associate justice of the New York Supreme Court, Crater was last seen on 6 August after eating a meal at a restaurant. Judge Crater was never seen or heard from again. (His mistress, Sally Lou Ritz, 22, was falsely said to have disappeared a few weeks later, but was interviewed by police as late as July 1937.[114]) Crater's disappearance, which prompted one of the most sensational manhunts of the 20th century,[115] was the subject of widespread media attention and a grand jury investigation. Crater was declared legally dead in 1939 and his missing persons file was officially closed in 1979; however, cold case squad detectives have investigated new leads as recently as 2005.[116] To "pull a Crater" became slang for a person vanishing.
1931 Joseph Ardizzone 46 Los Angeles crime family boss, vanished while driving from his home to pick up a relative 15 October 1931; declared legally dead 7 years later, no trace of him was ever found.
1932 Jack Black c. 61 Author Jack Black is believed to have committed suicide in 1932 by drowning after as he reportedly told his friends that if life got too grim, he would row out into New York Harbor and, with weights tied to his feet, drop overboard.
1933 Julien Torma 30 A French Dadaist writer, Julien Torma never returned from a 17 February trip into the Austrian Tyrol.[117]
1933 C. B. Johnston c.38 Johnston, American college athlete and coach, sent a postcard to his wife from Zanesville, Ohio, saying he was on his way to Chicago to publish a book after being fired as head football coach of what is now Appalachian State University. No one heard from him after that.[118]
1934 Wallace Fard Muhammad 43 Founder of the Nation of Islam, Muhammad left Detroit and was never heard from again.[119]
1934 Everett Ruess 20 Everett Ruess, a young American artist, disappeared while traveling through the deserts of Utah and was never seen again.[120][121]
1934 Etta Riel 20 Riel was an American woman who vanished from Worcester, Massachusetts on the day of a scheduled paternity hearing against her former boyfriend. The case was complicated by anonymous telephone calls placed to a local train station the night of her disappearance and a telegram sent to her attorney weeks later from an unknown individual impersonating her. Extensive police searches across Central Massachusetts failed to locate her and the case was never solved.[122]
1935 Charles Kingsford Smith 38 Australian pioneer aviator Charles Kingsford Smith and co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge disappeared during an overnight flight from Allahabad, India, to Singapore while attempting to break the England–Australia speed record. Eighteen months later, Burmese fishermen found an undercarriage leg and wheel (with its tire still inflated) on the shoreline of Aye Island in the Andaman Sea, 3 km (2 mi) off the southeast coastline of Burma, which Lockheed confirmed to be from their Lockheed Altair, the Lady Southern Cross. Botanists who examined the weeds clinging to it estimated that the aircraft itself lies not far from the island at a depth of approximately 15 fathoms (90 ft; 27 m).[123] A filmmaker claimed to have located Lady Southern Cross on the seabed in February 2009.[124]
Tommy Pethybridge
1935 Li Yuan Li Yuan was a politician of the Republic of China (and later Manchukuo) who disappeared in 1935. The circumstances of his later life and death are unknown.[125]
1936 Jean Mermoz 35 French air pilot Jean Mermoz went missing on 7 December 1936 while flying his Latécoère 300 Croix-du-Sud near Aubenton, Aisne. It is assumed that the plane crashed in the sea, but it is unconfirmed since his body was never recovered.[126]
1937 Juliet Stuart Poyntz 50 An American communist and intelligence agent for the Soviet Union Juliet Poyntz disappeared on 3 June 1937. A police investigation turned up no clues to her fate, and her belongings, all of her clothing and hand luggage in her room appeared to be untouched.[127][128]
1937 Amelia Earhart 39 The famous American aviator Amelia Earhart was the first woman to try a circumnavigational flight of the globe. During the attempt she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared over the central Pacific in the vicinity of Howland Island on 2 July 1937.[129]
Fred Noonan 44
1937 Sigizmund Levanevsky 35 Sigizmund Levanevsky, a famous Soviet aviator, with his crew of five and their Bolkhovitinov DB-A aircraft disappeared in the vicinity of the North Pole. They had reported a loss of power from one of their four Mikulin AM-34 engines while attempting to prove a transpolar route between Asia and North America commercially viable.[130]
1938 Ettore Majorana 32 An Italian physicist, Majorana disappeared in unknown circumstances during a boat trip from Palermo to Naples on 25 March 1938. There is some evidence that he was alive in South America in 1959 and that his disappearance was voluntary.[131]
1938 Willie McLean 34 A Scottish-born American soccer player, Willie McLean disappeared without a trace in the summer of 1938,[132]
1939 Barbara Newhall Follett 25 Barbara Follett was an American child prodigy novelist. Her first novel, The House Without Windows, was drafted when she was eight and completed and published in 1927 when she was twelve years old. Her next novel, The Voyage of the Norman D., received critical acclaim when she was fourteen. She continued to write as an adult including travelogues and a romance called Lost Island. In 1939 at aged 25, and despondent over her husband's unfaithfulness, she walked out of her apartment with thirty dollars ($528 in 2017) and was never seen again.[133]
1939 Lloyd L. Gaines 28 Lloyd L. Gaines was a central figure in the legal case Missouri ex rel. Gaines v. Canada, which was an early success for the U.S. civil rights movement. One evening, he left his Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity house in Chicago, having told the housekeeper he was going to buy some stamps, and was never seen or heard from again. Some accounts suggest he was living in New York or Mexico City in the late 1940s.[134]
1939 Richard Halliburton 39 Halliburton vanished on 20 March, while attempting to sail the Sea Dragon, a Chinese junk, across the Pacific Ocean. In 1945 wreckage identified as a rudder, and believed to belong to the Sea Dragon, washed ashore in San Diego.
1939 Rita Gorgonowa 38 Rita Gorgonowa, a governess who was convicted of murdering a child in her care, disappeared after being released from prison on 3 September 1939 and was not seen again.[135]

1940s

Date Person(s) Age Circumstances
1940 Elroy Guckert 40 An American football and basketball coach who is said to have died in 1940 when he disappeared from ship but his body was never recovered and he was never seen, so his fate remains unknown.[136]
1941 Thomas C. Latimore 51 American naval officer Thomas C. Latimore, who was captain of the USS Dobbin and the 24th (22nd unique) Governor of American Samoa, disappeared in Hawaii believed to be in July 1941[137]
1941 Jaan Tõnisson 72 As one of the foremost Estonian political leaders, Tõnisson was arrested during the Soviet occupation and was thought to have been shot but his exact whereabouts after that remains unknown.[138]
1941 Alter Rotmann 25–26 Rotmann, a Romanian, Moldovan and Soviet poet, was last seen in August 1941 in Odessa, Ukrainian SSR and is believed to have died after that.[139]
1942 Lt. Ernest Cody On 16 August, U.S. Navy blimp L-8 drifted inland from its route doing antisubmarine patrol off the coast of California near San Francisco several hours after its crew, Lt. Ernest Cody and Ens. Charles Adams, radioed in that they were going to take a closer look at an oil slick. When the ship eventually crashed in Daly City, neither man was aboard. A massive search failed to find any trace of them; they were both declared dead a year later.[140]
Ens. Charles Adams
1942 James Litterick 41 Litterick was the first member of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) elected to the Manitoba provincial parliament. By the time that the CPC was banned in 1940 and Litterick formally expelled from the legislature he had already gone into hiding and become the subject of a Royal Canadian Mounted Police manhunt.[141][142] Litterick surrendered to the RCMP during 1942 and was held at the Don Jail in Toronto.[143] The following year he was reported to be working at a garment factory in Toronto but nothing further appears to be known about him.[142]
1943 Dan Billany 30 An English novelist, Billany was last heard from in 1943. He was last seen 20 November 1943 in Capistrello, Italy.[144]
1943 Abraham Gancwajch 41–42 Abraham Gancwajch, a prominent Nazi collaborator in the Warsaw Ghetto during the occupation of Poland in World War II and a Jewish "kingpin" of the ghetto underworld, was last seen in 1943 and is rumored to have been killed.[145][146]
1943 Endre Rudnyánszky 57–58 A Hungarian lawyer, military officer, and communist Rudnyánszky was last seen in Russia in 1943. It is believed that he may have died that year.[147]
1943 Moriz Seeler Moriz Seeler, a German poet, writer and film producer, disappeared in 1943 when he was said to have been deported by the Nazis to Latvia. He went missing from the capital city of Riga and is believed to have been murdered.[148]
1944 Herschel Grynszpan 22 Herschel Grynszpan was the Jewish exile from Germany whose 1938 assassination of diplomat Ernst vom Rath in Paris, France was the trigger for Kristallnacht in Germany. For various reasons, largely legal delays, a planned trial was never held in either France or (after 1940) Germany during which Grynszpan was held in various prisons and concentration camps. Adolf Eichmann testified at his 1961 trial in Jerusalem that he had interrogated Grynszpan in Magdeburg in either late 1943 or early 1944 but after that there is no record of his whereabouts or ultimate fate. The West German government had him declared legally dead in 1960.[149]
1944 Rocco Perri 56 An organized crime figure in Ontario, Perri was last seen alive in Hamilton, Ontario on 23 April 1944. His body has never been found and there was speculation that he was murdered by being thrown into Hamilton Harbour after he was fitted with cement shoes.[150]
1944 USS Robalo crewmen Although the U.S. Navy claimed the submarine USS Robalo was lost with all hands after failing to report while on a July 1944 patrol in the Philippines, Lt. Cmdr. Manning Kimmel (31) and three other crewmen are known to have survived. A note recovered by an Army prisoner of war claimed the four had been arrested as spies after reaching Palawan Island following the Robalo's 26 July collision with a Japanese mine just offshore. Another witness account says they were massacred following an air raid later that year but Japanese records do not indicate they were being held at the camp in question at that time. It is believed that they were killed in captivity but officially their fate is still unknown.[151]
1944 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 44 French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, who disappeared over the Mediterranean on a reconnaissance mission during July 1944, is believed to have died at that time.[152] In August, an unidentifiable body, wearing French uniform, was found in the sea near Carqueiranne and was buried there. In 2000, the wreckage of the aircraft flown by Saint-Exupéry was found on the seabed near Marseille.
1944 Sheila Fox 6 Sheila Fox disappeared in Farnworth, Bolton, Lancashire, England on 18 August 1944. Witnesses claim they saw Sheila riding on the handlebars of a bike being pedalled by a 25–30-year-old man. In 2001 a witness came forward claiming he saw a local resident digging a hole in the area where Sheila disappeared on his property. The property owner was revealed to have been convicted of rape and child molestation but Sheila's remains weren't found.[153]
1944 Ina Benita 32 Ina Benita, a Polish actress of the interwar period, was last seen during the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944. She allegedly went down into a sewage canal and drowned but this is not known for sure since her body was never recovered.[154]
1944 Johan Pitka 72 Johan Pitka, a famous Estonian military commander from the Estonian War of Independence until World War II, disappeared in September 1944, and is believed to have been killed.[155]
1944 Gertrude Tompkins Silver 33 Gertrude Tompkins Silver is the only Women Airforce Service Pilots member to go missing during World War II.[156] She departed from Mines Field (Los Angeles International Airport) for Palm Springs, on 26 October 1944, flying a P-51D Mustang destined for New Jersey. She never arrived at Palm Springs and due to reporting errors, a search for her was not started until three days later. Despite an extensive ground and water search no trace of Gertrude or the aircraft were found.[157]
1944 Glenn Miller 40 An American big band leader and recording artist, Miller disappeared on the night of 15 December 1944 in a US Army UC-64 Norseman aircraft that vanished over the English Channel while en route from UK to Paris, France. Miller was on the flight to make arrangements for his band to entertain Allied servicemen.[158][159]
1944 Erna Petermann 31–32 Erna Petermann was a high-ranking female overseer at two Nazi concentration camps during the closing of World War II. She was last seen in 1944 and was never heard from again.[160]
1944 Karla Mayer 35–36 Karla Mayer was a German guard at three Nazi death camps during the World War II. She disappeared in 1944 and her fate remains a mystery.[161]
1945 Szilveszter Matuska 52–53 A Hungarian mass murderer and mechanical engineer who reportedly escaped from jail in Vác in 1944.[162] In 1945, according to some reports, he served as an explosives expert during the latter stages of World War II but he was never recaptured and his fate is unknown.
1945 Heinrich Müller 45 Müller, a Nazi Gestapo chief, was last seen in the Führerbunker on the evening of 1 May 1945. While there he had stated that his intention was to avoid being taken into custody by the Soviet forces advancing on Berlin. His CIA file and related documents state that while the record is "...inconclusive on Müller's ultimate fate... [he] most likely died in Berlin in early May 1945."[163] Other theories have suggested that he either escaped to South America like many other fugitive Nazis and lived out his life there (the Israelis continued to investigate his whereabouts into the 1960s) or was protected by U.S. or Soviet intelligence under a new identity. He is the most senior Nazi official whose fate is unknown.
1945 Constanze Manziarly 25 A cook and dietitian for Adolf Hitler, Constanze Manziarly disappeared on 2 May 1945 while escaping Berlin following the Soviet invasion and fall of Nazi Germany. She was believed to have been raped and shot by Soviet soldiers in an U-Bahn subway tunnel.[164]
1945 Hildegard Neumann 26 Neumann, a chief overseer at several Nazi concentration camps, transition camps and detention camps, disappeared in May 1945 after she left the Ravensbrück concentration camp. It is claimed that she died in 2010.[165]
1945 Supriyadi 22 Supriyadi was disappeared after the failed PETA revolt against Japanese occupation on 14 February 1945. Later that year, he was named Minister for People's Security in the first cabinet formed by the newly declaring-independence Indonesia. However, he failed to appear and was replaced on 20 October 1945 by ad interim minister Muhammad Soeljoadikusuma. To this day his fate remains unknown.[166][167]
1945 Genrikh Lyushkov 45 Genrikh Lyushkov was high-level Soviet defector and former Far East NKVD chief. A participant in the Great Purge he fled, to avoid what he believed would be arrest and execution, into the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo. After his defection he became a military consultant and analyst for the Imperial Japanese Army. He disappeared during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and was reported as being last seen in a crowded train station in Dairen (Dalian) in August 1945. Several theories exist about his fate, but he is presumed to have died in 1945, killed by either Soviet or Japanese forces.[168]
1945 Alfred Partikel 57 A German painter Partikel disappeared while picking mushrooms in the woods near Ahrenshoop on 20 October 1945 and was never seen again.[169]
1945 Sodder children Five of the nine Sodder children, aged 5 through 14, who lived in their parents' home outside Fayetteville, West Virginia, were presumed to have died in a Christmas Eve fire that destroyed the house. However, no remains were found in the ashes the morning after the fire and some small bone fragments found during subsequent investigations turned out to have been planted. Later reported sightings of some of the children and suspicions that the fire had been arson rather than an accident led the family to believe that the children were still alive. The family kept a billboard offering a reward for information on their fate up at the house site until the late 1980s.[170]
1945 Johnny Jebsen 28 Johnny Jebsen was an anti-Nazi German intelligence officer and British double agent (code name Artist) during the Second World War. Jebsen recruited Dušan Popov (who became the British agent Tricycle) to the Abwehr and through him later joined the Allied cause. Kidnapped from Lisbon by the Germans shortly before D-Day, Jebsen was tortured in prison and spent time in a concentration camp before disappearing, presumed killed, at the end of the war.[171]
1946 Paula Jean Welden 18 The Bennington College sophomore disappeared while walking on the Long Trail near Glastenbury Mountain, Vermont, US.[172][173]
1947 Daniel S. Voorhees 33–34 Voorhees, a transient restaurant porter who confessed to the murder of Elizabeth Short, checked out of a hotel in Los Angeles, California, on the morning of 16 January 1947 and was never seen again.[174]
1947 Joan Gay Croft 4 In the aftermath of the Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes on 9 April 1947 4-year-old Joan Gay Croft and her sister Jerri were among refugees taking shelter in a basement hallway of the Woodward hospital. As officials sent the injured to different hospitals in the area, two men took Joan away saying they were taking her to Oklahoma City. She was never seen again and, over the years, several women have come forth saying they suspect they might be Joan. None of their claims have been verified.[175][176]
1947 Raoul Wallenberg 32 A Swedish diplomat credited with saving the lives of at least 20,000 Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, Raoul Wallenberg was arrested on espionage charges in Budapest following the arrival of the Soviet army. His fate remains a mystery despite hundreds of purported sightings in Soviet prisons, some as recent as the 1980s. In 2001, after 10 years of research, a Swedish-Russian panel concluded that Wallenberg probably died or was executed in Soviet custody on 17 July 1947 but to date no hard evidence has been found to confirm this.[177] In 2010, evidence from Russian archives surfaced suggesting he was alive after the presumed execution date.[178]
1947 Lai Teck 45–46 Lai Teck, a leader of the Communist Party of Malaya and Malayan People's Anti-Japanese Army, disappeared in 1947 and is believed to have been killed.[179]
1948 Sir Arthur Coningham 53 A retired RAF Air Marshal, Sir Arthur Coningham disappeared when a Avro Tudor IV G-AHNP Star Tiger went missing over the western Atlantic.[180] He was one of 25 passengers, together with six crewmen, who were lost when the flight from Santa Maria Airport in the Azores failed to reach its destination of Kindley Field, Bermuda.[181] Star Tiger's sister aircraft G-AGRE Star Ariel also disappeared over the western Atlantic, with the loss of all seven crewmen and 13 passengers, while flying from Bermuda to Kingston Airport, Jamaica, the following year.[182]
1949 Dorothy Forstein 40 American housewife Dorothy Forstein disappeared in Pennsylvania on 18 October 1949. Her two children reported that they witnessed an unknown man carrying Dorothy over his shoulder downstairs and she was never seen again.[183][184]
1949 Jean Spangler 26 Jean Spangler went missing on 7 October 1949 from Los Angeles, California, under mysterious circumstances. Spangler left her home in Los Angeles after telling her sister-in-law that she was going to meet with her ex-husband before going to work as an extra on a film set. She was last seen at a grocery store several blocks from her home at approximately 6:00 p.m. Two days later Spangler's tattered purse was discovered in a remote area of Griffith Park approximately 5.5 miles (8.9 km) from her home.[185]
1949 Francis Hong Yong-ho 43 Francis Hong Yong-ho, a Roman Catholic prelate, was imprisoned by the communist regime of Kim Il-sung in 1949. He disappeared and was never seen again.[186]

1950s

Date Person(s) Age Circumstances
1950 Richard Colvin Cox 21 A second-year military cadet, disappeared from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, after he met an unknown man, known as "George", three times over the course of a week. On the third occasion, Cox and "George" left the grounds of the Academy and were never seen again.[187][188]
1951 Vincent Mangano 63 A mafia crime boss of the future Gambino crime family, Vincent Mangano disappeared on the same day that his brother Philip Mangano was found murdered. He is believed to have been killed on the orders of Albert Anastasia as part of a coup.[189][190]
1951 Beverly Potts 10 Beverly Potts, an American schoolgirl from Cleveland, Ohio, disappeared while walking home from an entertainment event at Halloran Park.[191] She is believed by police to have been abducted and murdered, possibly by someone she knew and trusted as she was shy and fearful of strangers.[192]
1953 Rudolf Mildner 51 Rudolf Mildner was an Austrian-German SS-Standartenführer who served as the chief of the Gestapo at Katowice and also was the head of the political department at Auschwitz. After the war Mildner testified at the Nuremberg Trials and remained in custody until 1949. It is believed he died in 1953 but Adolf Eichmann claimed to have met Mildner in Argentina in 1958. However, his claim has not been verified.[193]
1953 Felix Moncla 27 Pilot First Lieutenant Felix Moncla along with Second Lieutenant Robert Wilson, radar operator, disappeared when their United States Air Force F-89 Scorpion was scrambled from Kincheloe Air Force Base, and subsequently went missing over Lake Superior, while intercepting an unknown aircraft in Canadian airspace close to the Canada–United States border. The USAF claimed the second aircraft was Royal Canadian Air Force C-47 Dakota VC-912, crossing Northern Lake Superior from west to east at 7,000 feet en route from Winnipeg, Manitoba, to Sudbury, Ontario.[194] The RCAF stated it had no record of such an incident.[195]
Robert Wilson 22
1953 Evelyn Hartley 15 Evelyn, a teenager from La Crosse, Wisconsin, disappeared on 24 October 1953 from a home while babysitting.[196][197]
1953 The five crew members of the Holchu The Holchu, a small cargo ship, was sighted adrift in the Indian Ocean on 7 February 1953, around 200 miles (320 km) south of the Nicobar Islands, by HMT Empire Windrush. She was later boarded by the crew of a British cargo ship, alerted by Windrush's radio warning. They found no trace of the crew and the Holchu was towed to Colombo. Holchu was carrying a cargo of rice and was in good condition, aside from a broken mast. Adequate supplies of food, water and fuel were found, and a meal had been prepared in the ship's galley.[198] The fate of the Holchu's crew remains unknown.
1953 Henry Borynski 42 Henry Borynski, a Polish Catholic priest and outspoken anti-Communist, disappeared on 13 July 1953 in Bradford, Yorkshire when he left his residence following a phone call.[199]
1955 Stanley Mathenge 36 Stanley Mathenge, a Mau Mau leader who disappeared in 1955, was later reported to be allegedly living in Ethiopia but has not been seen since.[200]
1955 Herman Schultheis 55 A Walt Disney Studios photographer and technician in the Special Effects Department, Herman Schultheis is best known for his work on Fantasia, Pinocchio, Dumbo and Bambi disappeared on 20 May 1955.[201] He is believed to have perished in a Guatemalan Jungle.[202]
1955 Weldon Kees 41 Weldon Kees was an American poet, painter, literary critic, novelist, playwright, jazz pianist, short story writer, and filmmaker who went missing. On 19 July 1955 a car owned by Weldon Kees was discovered on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge. While Kees had talked about jumping over the railing of the bridge, he stated that he was physically unable to accomplish the task.[203]
1955 Joyita On 10 November, the 69-foot (21 m) merchant vessel Joyita was found abandoned, partially submerged and listing heavily to port, north of the Pacific island of Vanua Levu, part of Fiji. No sign of the 25 passengers and crew who had been aboard when it was last seen on its departure from Apia, Samoa five weeks earlier. Extensive investigation has failed to find any trace of the passengers or crew.[204]
1956 Robert H. Hodgin 31 Three United States Air Force airmen, commander Captain Robert H. Hodgin, observer Captain Gordon M. Insley and pilot 2nd Lt. Ronald L. Kurtz disappeared when their B-47 failed to make contact with an aerial refueling tanker at 14,000 ft over the Mediterranean Sea.[205] While the unarmed aircraft was transporting two different capsules of nuclear weapons material in carrying cases a nuclear detonation was not possible.[206]
Gordon M. Insley 32
Ronald L. Kurtz 22
1956 Lionel "Buster" Crabb 46 Crabb, retired British Royal Navy frogman, disappeared 29 April 1956 during an MI6 mission to spy on the Soviet Sverdlov class cruiser Ordzhonikidze in Portsmouth Harbour. The coroner concluded that a body (missing its head and hands) in a frogman suit found floating in Chichester Harbour the following year was Crabb's but a positive identification was never made nor cause of death determined.[207]
1957 Maud Crawford 65 Maud Crawford was an American attorney in Camden, Arkansas, who disappeared without a trace on a Saturday night in the winter of 1957. Crawford was a partner in a law firm investigating Mafia influence over labor unions.[208]
1958 Martin family The Martin family disappeared on 7 December 1958 in Hood River County, Oregon, while on a drive. Six months later the bodies of the two youngest daughters were recovered on the Columbia River although the whereabouts of the mother, father and eldest daughter remains unsolved.[209]
1959 Camilo Cienfuegos 27 A Cuban revolutionary and friend of Fidel Castro, Camilo Cienfuegos disappeared when his Cessna 310 went missing over the ocean during a night flight from Camagüey to Havana.[210]

1960s

Date Person(s) Age Circumstances
1960 Chen Tien The head of the Central Propaganda Department of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) Chen Tien disappeared four years after taking part in talks with government officials to try to reach a mutually agreeable solution in the Malayan Emergency. The talks broke down and Tien continued to take part in the insurrection until the Malayan government suppressed the MCP in 1960 and declared the emergency over.[211]
1960 James Squillante 41 Squillante, a caporegime in the Gambino crime family, disappeared after being indicted on extortion charges. He is believed to have been murdered and his body disposed of in a car crusher that was subsequently melted down in an open hearth furnace.[212][213] No physical evidence has ever been found to substantiate this claim and no one was ever charged for the crime.
1961 David Kenyon Webster 39 Webster was journalist for the Los Angeles Daily News, The Saturday Evening Post and a World War II veteran with "Easy" Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division (made famous in the book and miniseries Band of Brothers). He went out on a boat near the coast of Santa Monica and disappeared while shark fishing and is presumed to have drowned.[214]
1961 Masanobu Tsuji 59 The Japanese army officer and politician disappeared on a trip to Laos and was never heard from again.[215]
1961 Joan Risch 31 The Lincoln, Massachusetts, homemaker was last seen in her driveway by a neighbor on the afternoon of 24 October 1961 and several unconfirmed sightings were reported on local roads later that day. Evidence in her house at first suggested foul play, but that opinion was reassessed when a local newspaper found that she had checked out two dozen books about mysterious disappearances and unsolved murders from the library over the preceding summer.[216][217][218]
1961 Michael Rockefeller 23 Michael, the son of New York Governor and future Vice-President Nelson Rockefeller, disappeared during an expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern Netherlands New Guinea.[219][220]
1962 Archie E. Mitchell 44 Archie Mitchell, a minister, and Eleanor Vietti, a doctor, working with the Christian and Missionary Alliance were taken captive by the Viet Cong on 30 May 1962.[221][222] What became of them after that is unknown.
Eleanor Ardel Vietti 34
1962 Sam Sary 45 A Cambodian politician, Sam Sary disappeared in 1962 and may have been put to death.[223]
1962 Anthony Strollo 62 A caporegime in the Genovese crime family, Strollo was last seen leaving his residence in Fort Lee, New Jersey. He is believed to have been murdered on the orders of Vito Genovese in retaliation for having conspired to have Genovese imprisoned for drug trafficking. No one was ever charged in his disappearance.[224]
1962 Frank Morris 35 Frank Morris and brothers Clarence and John Anglin escaped from Alcatraz prison in the U.S. state of California and disappeared. Authorities presumed that they drowned but may have survived.[225]
Clarence Anglin 31
John Anglin 32
1964 Charles Clifford Ogle 41 Charles Ogle took off from Oakland International Airport, California, in his Cessna 210, a single-engine aircraft, and is believed to have been heading over the Sierra Nevada when he disappeared.[226][227]
1965 Mehdi Ben Barka 45 Moroccan politician Mehdi Ben Barka disappeared while in exile in Paris where he is believed to have been killed and buried.[228][229]
1965 Charles Rogers 43 The reclusive, unemployed seismologist in Houston, Texas, has remained at large since the "Icebox Murders" of his parents were discovered on 23 June, leading to a warrant for his detention as a material witness. He was declared legally dead in 1975.[230][231]
1966 Kim Bong-han c.50 The North Korean medical surgeon disappeared in 1966 and was never heard from again.[232]
1966 The Beaumont children The Beaumont children Jane Nartare (9), Arnna Kathleen (7) and Grant Ellis (4) disappeared from a beach near Adelaide, South Australia on 26 January 1966.[233][234]
1966 Wikana 51 Wikana, an Indonesian Communist Party leader, disappeared on 9 June and was never seen again.[235] He was allegedly murdered as part of the Indonesian mass killings of 1965–1966.
1966 Ann Miller 19 Ann Miller, Patricia Blough and Renee Bruhl, three young women from the Chicago suburbs, were last seen on 2 July 1966 after leaving their blanket and personal effects behind on a crowded beach at Indiana Dunes State Park to get on a boat in Lake Michigan.[236][237] Theories have ranged from an offshore illegal abortion gone wrong, resulting in the other two women being killed as witnesses,[238] to a hit ordered by Silas Jayne, a Chicago-area horse breeder implicated after his 1987 death in a number of unsolved murders related to a bitter feud with his brother.[239]
Patricia Blough 19
Renee Bruhl 21
1966 Chu Anping 56 Chinese scholar and liberal journalist Chu Anping disappeared in September 1966 and was never seen again.[240]
1967 Audrey Bruce Currier 33 American heiress Audrey Bruce Currier and her husband Stephen Currier, wealthy philanthropists described as one of the richest young couples in the world, vanished at sea sometime after 7:30 pm on the evening of 17 January 1967, on a routine 76-mile charter flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. Their plane, a Piper Apache piloted by John D. Watson (52) of Airplane Charters Inc., was last heard from when the pilot radioed at 7:30 pm for permission to overfly the US Naval base at Isla Culebra, which was denied. The plane was never seen or heard from again. Because the pilot had failed to file a flight plan, the search for the plane did not commence until 5 a.m., 9 hours after it failed to arrive in St. Thomas. Despite an extensive air-sea search by the US Coast Guard, no trace of the plane or its passengers was ever found. Audrey Currier was a granddaughter of the financier Andrew Mellon and the daughter of senior US diplomat David K. E. Bruce, while her husband Stephen was the son of socialite Mary Warburg. The Curriers had for the past ten years provided millions of dollars in financial support to the civil rights movement in the US through the Taconic Foundation and an umbrella group they founded, the Council for United Civil Rights Leadership.[241][242]
Stephen Currier 36
1967 John Lake 37 The sports editor of Newsweek John Lake mysteriously disappeared in December 1967.[243][244]
1967 Jim Thompson 61 Jim Thompson, a former U.S. military intelligence officer who once worked for the Office of Strategic Services (and later known as the "Thai Silk King" for his revival of the Thai silk industry), failed to return from an afternoon walk in the Cameron Highlands in Pahang, Malaysia, quickly prompting a massive manhunt. No trace of him has ever been found.[245][246]
1967 James P. Brady 59 James P. Brady, a Canadian Metis leader, and Cree friend Abraham Halkett disappeared while on a prospecting trip in northern Saskatchewan. An extensive land, air, and water search located their camp but failed to find any trace of either man.[247]
Abraham Halkett 40
1967 Harold Holt 59 Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming in heavy surf at a beach notorious for strong and dangerous rip currents. Despite one of the largest search-and-rescue operations ever mounted in Australia his body was never found.[248][249]
1968 Eugene DeBruin 34 Eugene DeBruin, a US Air Force staff sergeant and member of Air America, while serving in Laos during the Second Indochina War was captured when his plane was shot down in 1963. After that he was a POW at a Pathet Lao prison camp in Laos until 1968 when he and other prisoners attempted to escape. Following the escape attempt he disappeared and it is not known if he succeeded or what became of him.[250]
1969 April Fabb 13 April Fabb last seen near her home in Metton, Norfolk, United Kingdom on 8 April 1969 when her abandoned bicycle was found in a field. No trace of her has been found since then, although some theories have linked her case to known serial killers.[251][252]
1969 Dennis Martin 6 Dennis Martin vanished on 14 June 1969 in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee and hasn't been seen since.[253]
1969 Sharon Kinne 30 Sharon Kinne (known as "La Pistolera") was an American woman convicted of homicide in Mexico and was currently awaiting trial for the murder of her husband James Kinne when she escaped Ixtapalapan prison on 7 December 1969. Despite extensive manhunts in Mexico and the USA her whereabouts are unknown.[254]
1969 Patricia Spencer 16 Patricia Spencer and Pamela Hobley were last seen leaving a Halloween party in Oscoda, Michigan.[255][256] Police have continued to investigate and believe the two were murdered, and in 2013 they announced they had a person of interest in the case but did not have enough information to continue. Foul play is suspected.[257][258]
Pamela Hobley 15

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  1. ↑ Has to be cleared

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