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A clue to the whereabouts of these missing people might be in these infamous videos. Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re examining our picks for the times people were spotted on CCTV and security footage before mysteriously disappearing, with their whereabouts still unknown today.
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00:00It just looked like a guy with a couple friends out having a good time to me.
00:05Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're examining our picks for the times people were spotted on CCTV and security footage before mysteriously disappearing,
00:13with their whereabouts still unknown today.
00:16We'll explore who they were, and what happened on that fateful day.
00:2034 seconds later, a male was seen walking in the same direction.
00:26Tiffany Witton.
00:27As a child, Witton aimed to be a veterinarian.
00:30However, that dream evaporated after she dropped out of school and had two children.
00:35The young mother was last here at this Walmart, then after that it was like she simply disappeared into thin air.
00:42Later, Witton began thieving to fund her substance use.
00:45After a stint in jail and rehab, she met Ashley Cottle and began taking drugs again.
00:51In 2013, the couple was at Walmart in Marietta, Georgia in the early hours.
00:56After an argument and Cottle paid for some goods, a seemingly intoxicated Witton was stopped by security for shoplifting.
01:03However, she left her handbag and flip-flops with the employees as she sprinted from the store, past Cottle and into the night.
01:10I've done more work on this case than any other case that I've ever worked on.
01:14Beyond a suspicious phone call to her half-brother in 2014, Witton has not been seen since, and her social media accounts stopped posting.
01:23It makes me angry because I can't imagine if I knew something about somebody's child who was missing,
01:31there's nothing, fear or anything else that would stop me from coming forward and telling what I know.
01:38Timothy Pitson. In 2011, James Pitson dropped off his son at a kindergarten in Aurora, Illinois.
01:44You dropped Timothy off 745.
01:46Yeah.
01:47Did he say anything when he jumped out of the car?
01:48Love you, Dad. See you later.
01:50Shortly after, his mom, Amy Frye Pitson, signed him out of school and took him to several resorts and leisure facilities.
01:57The following day, Pitson and Frye Pitson were spotted on CCTV at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin.
02:04This was the last time the child was seen.
02:06The security video on Friday at 10.10 a.m. shows Amy and Timothy leaving the Kalahari Resort.
02:13Timothy was wearing sneakers with flashing lights.
02:16The next day, Frye Pitson called various relatives to let them know they were OK.
02:20They could hear Pitson in the background.
02:22After being spotted by herself on security cameras, Frye Pitson took her own life at an inn in Rockford, Illinois.
02:29She left a note stating that her son would never be found, but was safe with people.
02:34Do you envision the reunion?
02:37Always. I've had since he was about this big.
02:41Just run it up and give me a hug.
02:43And I would shake his hand.
02:45Emma Philippoff
02:47In the days leading up to her disappearance in 2012, Philippoff called her mom several times,
02:52changing her mind about whether to come home.
02:54I just thought my instincts have been telling me right from day one that this is not just a momentary lapse of strength.
03:03I said there's something really, really wrong here.
03:05Regardless, Shelley Philippoff got a flight and arrived at the women's shelter in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, where her daughter was staying.
03:12However, Philippoff had vanished hours before.
03:15She was seen walking barefoot outside a hotel, sparking the police to speak to her.
03:20They asked her some fairly pointed questions about her well-being.
03:25You know, are you feeling depressed or sad? And she said no, she wasn't.
03:29This was the last footage of Philippoff. Her vehicle, filled with her belongings, was soon located.
03:35In 2014, an unidentified man was seen destroying reward posters for Philippoff,
03:41claiming she was his girlfriend who ran away from her parents.
03:44However, known as Green Shirt Man, the police are still looking for him.
03:48I, you know, immediately had chills. I was so nervous and excited and I thought, this is it.
03:57You know, this is somebody who knows where Emma is.
04:01Andrew Gosden. Living in Doncaster, England, Gosden was a gifted academic who won awards for his intellect and was expected to go far in life.
04:10You kind of feel like, well, I've lost almost everything and every single day feels like a battle.
04:16With a 100% attendance, in 2007, the young teenager uncharacteristically skipped school.
04:23Instead, Gosden emptied his bank account and bought a one-way train ticket to London, refusing to get a return.
04:29He was seen exiting King's Cross station on security footage.
04:33These, the last known images of Andrew Gosden on the day he disappeared in 2007.
04:39Gosden had previously gone to London to visit relatives who lived in the city.
04:43However, this time, that wasn't the case.
04:46If you give up hoping, it feels like the same as saying, I've just stopped loving you and I don't care anymore.
04:53In 2021, the police arrested two men in connection with the teenager's disappearance.
04:59In 2023, after examining the suspect's devices, the men were released from investigation after the police determined they weren't involved.
05:09Born in India and raised in New York, Philip was early into her medical career and married fellow Dr. Ron Lieberman in 2000.
05:17The occasion proved to be beautifully unique as well, as both families incorporated aspects to their Jewish and Indian Christian heritages.
05:25A year later, living in Manhattan, she went on a shopping trip, which was captured on CCTV.
05:31However, this was Philip's last sighting.
05:34The following day, the attack on September 11th took place.
05:37Due to the devastation, it took a while for the police to investigate Philip's disappearance.
05:42However, it was criticized by Lieberman and Philip's relatives for inaccuracies and possible fabrication.
05:48Lieberman protests the conclusion of his wife's investigation by the NYPD and argues she should remain an official victim of the 9-11 tragedy.
05:56In 2008, after a petition by her husband and relatives, Philip was officially declared a victim of the attack,
06:03with the theory that she may have tried helping people before losing her life.
06:08When it came down to it, she loved people and wanted to lend her talents to keeping more people healthy and alive.
06:16After working as a journalist, Kosher was struggling to find long-term employment as the recession hit in 2009.
06:22It would have taken a lot, in my personal opinion, for him to have planned all this out to disappear and without a trace.
06:31One day, he left his home in St. George, Utah and went on a road trip for an unknown reason.
06:37Kosher was recorded on a property security camera leaving his car in a retirement community in Henderson, Nevada.
06:43Minutes later, at the strike of noon, Stephen walks in and out of view.
06:48Where he is now is a mystery.
06:50He then returned to his vehicle to collect an unidentified object, speculated to be a file, before walking away again and vanishing.
06:58For two days after, Kosher's cell phone pinged nearby towers before stopping.
07:03It was theorized by relatives of Susan Powell, who had gone missing a week before Kosher, that the two may have run away together.
07:11However, there is no evidence to support this.
07:14If you're watching, there's always a spot here in this family for you.
07:18And it has never closed and never will close.
07:22After growing up in Chester, England, in 2010, Coriam landed a job as a crew member on the Disney Wonder Cruise ship.
07:29In 2011, she returned to the vessel in Los Angeles, California after going home following her grandfather's passing.
07:36But when Coriam failed to appear for her shift, an investigation began.
07:40The Coriams went aboard, where they were shown the security camera footage of Rebecca on the morning she vanished.
07:47CCTV footage found her talking on the ship's internal phone, seemingly upset about something.
07:53After briefly telling another person she was fine, Coriam composed herself before walking away.
07:58No other recorded sighting of her has arisen.
08:06While it's theorized that Coriam fell overboard,
08:09there have been criticisms of Disney and the Bahamian police's investigation, leading to speculation that something criminal happened.
08:17People want everyone to believe that a youth counselor can disappear.
08:23And they want you to believe, well, that was just the location of the ship that didn't have a closed-circuit television camera.
08:28It's preposterous.
08:30In 2016, Coriam's family settled a lawsuit with Disney.
08:34Trevor Dealey, out on the town in Dublin, Ireland, to enjoy the office Christmas party in 2000.
08:40In the early hours, Dealey returned to the Bank of Ireland Asset Management property, where he worked in the IT department.
08:47He briefly spoke to an unknown man dressed in black outside before he went in.
08:51Trevor didn't make it home that night.
08:54After making a note about tasks he needed to do, Dealey left.
08:57He was last seen walking past another bank.
09:00While the men in black appeared to follow him,
09:02it was determined by the police speaking to him that it wasn't the same person outside Dealey's workplace.
09:08They are still working through this process with the technology used to clean up the CCTV footage,
09:13which has been shown today as one example of the kind of approach we were hoping for.
09:17In 2017, a gang informant claimed Dealey was the victim of a fatal attack.
09:23However, no evidence was found.
09:25The search took six weeks, but unfortunately yielded no results.
09:30And the case remains a mystery.
09:33Brian Schaefer.
09:34In 2006, Schaefer had dinner with his father, Randy, at a restaurant a month after his mother passed away.
09:40So he went out that night and walked from his apartment with Clint over to a bar called The Ugly Tuna.
09:47That night, he and his friends at Ohio State University went out to celebrate spring break by bar hopping.
09:53Yet during the night, the medical student couldn't be located.
09:56So the question is, how does a body leave a building
10:00when you have so many surveillance cameras surrounding the place?
10:04After missing phone calls and not arriving for a flight to Miami with his girlfriend,
10:08the police were called.
10:09CCTV footage showed Schaefer arriving at a bar with his friends.
10:13When you actually see the video of him going up that escalator,
10:18nothing seemed out of the ordinary for him.
10:21Shortly after, he was outside the building talking to two women before walking away.
10:26This is the last confirmed recording of him.
10:29Sadly, in 2008, Randy perished in a storm before uncovering the truth about his son.
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10:51Lars Mittank
10:52In 2014, Mittank and his friends went on vacation at a resort in Varna, Bulgaria.
10:57Everything appeared to be going as planned.
11:00That is until one of his many vacations took a turn for the worse.
11:05After a week, they were due to travel home to Germany.
11:08However, an injured Mittank couldn't fly.
11:11He claimed he was beaten up the night before, but he encouraged the others to go.
11:15Left alone, paranoia seemingly took over as he showed strange behavior at the hotel.
11:20He goes on about something being wrong with the hotel,
11:23but doesn't go into further detail, acting as if his room was wiretapped
11:27and someone is recording his every move.
11:29Mittank was given antibiotics that can cause paranoia and hallucinations.
11:33However, the doctor later stated Mittank hadn't taken any.
11:37The day after, he went to the airport and met with a doctor to clear him for travel.
11:41During the meeting, they were interrupted, and a panicked Mittank ran away.
11:45Lars bolts from the medical clinic, flees the terminal, and runs away from the airport.
11:51He was last seen running through the airport and into a nearby forest.
11:55What other cases did we miss?
11:57Lauren Spearer, Luke Durbin, Marilyn Bergeron, or someone else?
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