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The following is a compilation of people who have mysteriously disappeared, whose death is not substantiated, whose remains have not been recovered, whose current whereabouts are unknown, and (except for the most recent cases) people who may be presumed deceased.

711

900s

1174

  • Madoc - semi-mythological Welsh prince.

1463

1483

1499

1501

1502

  • Miguel Corte-Real - Portuguese explorer. Disappeared while searching for his brother Gaspar.

1611

1694

1788

  • La Pérouse and his scientific expedition (two ships, La Boussole and l'Astrolabe, 220 crew members including 40 scientists) vanished near the island of Vanikoro in the Pacific Ocean.

1809

1826

1872

1890 and 1891

  • Ottie Cline Powell disappeared from his schoolhouse and was found seven miles away the following spring; no explanation has been given as to how or why this happened.

1888

1894

  • Boston Corbett- Army sergeant who fatally shot the escaping John Wilkes Booth. Believed to have perished in a forest fire, although his remains were never found.

1896

1900

1909

1910

1913

1914

1917

1918

1925

1927

  • Charles Nungesser - French aviator who disappeared on May 8,1927 while attempting an east-to-west flight to North America, only two weeks before Lindbergh's successful flight from New York to Paris

1928

1930

1934

  • Wallace D. Fard, founder of the Nation of Islam. In 1934, after conferring leadership of the Nation of Islam to his protegé Elijah Muhammad, he left Detroit, where he had been living, and disappeared without a trace while in the custody of the Chicago police department. The Nation of Islam maintained that he had returned to Mecca, but rumors persisted that he had been murdered by the Chicago police or by Elijah Muhammad.

1936

  • Joseph Rodriguez - 4-year-old child and resident of Spanish Harlem, New York City who disappeared in 1936 while playing with friends. Although Rodriguez' aunt received a telegram informing her that her nephew had been injured and would return home shortly, Joseph never appeared. There was never any further communication from the writer and to this day there was no trace of him nor his body.

1937

1938

1939

1944

1945

1948

The 29 passengers and three crew of the Airborne Transport DC-3 airliner, known as NC16002, which vanished on December 28, 1948 near the end of a scheduled flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico to Miami, Florida.

1950

1953

1955

1956

1959

  • Camilo Cienfuegos was a Cuban revolutionary born in Calabazar de Sagua, Las Villas Cuba. He disappeared and presumably died on October 28, 1959, in a Cessna accident due to bad weather while flying over the sea. However, neither his plane nor his body were ever recovered despite the Cuban government efforts.

1960s

1961

1966

1967

1970

1971

1972

1974

1975

1976

  • Bradford Bishop - bludgeoned his spouse, three children and mother to death in 1976. He was indicted for the murders and is still at large.

1978

  • John Brisker - former ABA and NBA player, disappeared after flying to Uganda.
  • Mel Lyman - cult leader - 1978. Claimed to have died 1978 by cult members, but no body, death certificate, or other proof ever produced, date of death and burial place unknown ouside the "Lyman Family".
  • Frederick Valentich disappeared after a mutual UFO-encounter

1979

  • Etan Patz - schoolboy, disappeared while walking to New York City bus stop.
  • Tommy Anthony DeSimone- A New York mobster
  • Louis Cafora- An armed robber from New York
  • Joanna Cafora- The wife of armed robber Louis Cafora

1980

1982

1983

1985

1987

1989

1991

1993

1995

1998

  • Mikelle Biggs - child from Mesa, Arizona.
  • Arlene Fraser - Scottish woman whose body was never found but is suspected to have been murdered by her husband Nat Fraser. The story has been covered extensively in the Scottish press since her disappearance.

1999

2000

  • Trevor Deely - bank official who disappeared in Dublin, Ireland. After his disappearance he became a household name following a blanket poster campaign.

2001

  • Peter Falconio.
  • Persons missing after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
  • Niqui McCown disappeared after telling her mother she was going to do her laundry on July 22.

2002

2004

2005

No year stated

See also

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