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Some people vanish without a trace, leaving behind only questions, theories, and chilling mysteries. Join us as we count down some of history's most unsettling disappearances, spanning over a century of baffling cases that have captivated the world and stumped investigators. From kidnappings to mysterious vanishings, these stories will leave you searching for answers.
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00:00Do you believe that one tip is still there?
00:02I believe it is.
00:03Someone knows something.
00:05Somebody knows something.
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're looking at a chronology of some of the most unsettling human disappearances from the
00:12early 20th century to present day.
00:14For this list, we're creating a timeline of some of the most notorious stories surrounding people who have gone missing,
00:20including everything from mysterious kidnappings to people vanishing without a trace.
00:24Now, the children, after he passed by, the children walked across the road.
00:35The story of Bobby Dunbar is a bizarre one.
00:38The speculation was that he was taken.
00:42They assumed he was kidnapped.
00:44Bobby disappeared on a family fishing trip on August 23, 1912.
00:48Authorities then found a boy matching his description with a man named William Walters.
00:53Walters insisted that the kid was actually named Bruce Anderson, which was corroborated by Anderson's mother, Julia,
00:59who claimed that she allowed her son to go on a trip with him.
01:02The case went to trial, and Anderson was eventually handed to the Dunbars, with whom he lived the rest of
01:08his life.
01:09Unable to afford a lawyer, Julia lost her case and had her reputation soiled in the media.
01:14However, a future DNA test proved that the kid was, in fact, not Dunbar, lending further credence to Julia's story.
01:29The story of George Mallory and Andrew Irvin captures the horror of mountain climbing and the endless allure of Everest.
01:36Both men took part in the ill-fated British Mount Everest expedition of 1924, hoping to be the first people
01:42to reach the top.
01:43They were last spotted about 800 feet from the summit, but promptly disappeared.
01:48The men were soon presumed dead, and publicly mourned as heroes of Britain.
01:53Their whereabouts remained a mystery for the next 75 years,
01:57until the Mallory and Irvin Research Expedition located Mallory's preserved corpse in 1999.
02:03I heard out of my radio, which was in my downed suit, I just heard hobnail boot, quickly unzipped it
02:08and said, what?
02:09It was found with a puncture wound in the forehead, suggesting that he had fallen and accidentally struck himself with
02:15his ice axe.
02:16This guy was a really talented climber.
02:19It took a great degree of skill and confidence to go with that limited amount of gear to that distance.
02:27It wasn't until 2024 that partial remains of Irvine's body were found.
02:351937, Amelia Earhart.
02:38Earhart was a popular and renowned aviator and the first woman to fly solo over the Atlantic.
02:43The magnificent thing about Amelia is that in the eyes of the world, she never died.
02:48Her fear never witnessed, her failure never recorded.
02:52In 1937, she and navigator Fred Noonan attempted to circumnavigate the globe.
02:57However, they disappeared over the Pacific near Hawaii and were never heard from again.
03:02This grainy film records the last time Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan are ever seen alive.
03:08Countless theories have been put forth regarding their ultimate fate, but no consensus has ever been made.
03:14Not a trace of wreckage was found floating.
03:17There was no mayday call. There was no distress call.
03:19For 70 years, investigators have been trying to solve the Earhart enigma.
03:24It's most likely that Earhart and Noonan ran out of fuel and crashed into the Pacific while desperately looking for
03:30Howland Island.
03:30It's a boring answer, but the most realistic often are.
03:361938, Marjorie West.
03:39Called The Great Unsolved Mystery of the Missing by The Guardian, the story of Marjorie West is a fascinating one.
03:46West was picnicking with her family on May 8, 1938 when she went missing.
03:51The story goes that West's sister Dorothea left her unattended to, but upon her return, the child was gone.
03:57A massive search was undertaken involving thousands of people, but the effort was unsuccessful.
04:02Then-Police Commissioner P.W. Foote believed that West had been playing hide-and-seek when she got lost.
04:08However, a man named Harold Beck later wrote a book positing that West was kidnapped and grew up with her
04:14captors as Sylvia London.
04:16Beck claimed that London eventually confessed to being West, but she passed away in 2009.
04:241945, The Sodders.
04:27A devastating fire erupted in the Sodder household on Christmas Eve, 1945.
04:31The Sodder parents and four of their nine children escaped, but the other five weren't so lucky.
04:37The easy theory is that the children died in the fire, but the story contains many twists that cast some
04:44doubt.
04:46April 1953, Ronald Taman.
04:50Ronald Taman, a 19-year-old sophomore at Miami University in Ohio, vanished mysteriously on the night of April 19,
04:571953.
04:58He walked out of his dorm room around, I think, 8 p.m. and was never seen again.
05:02In an open textbook, the radio was still playing.
05:06All of his personal effects, including his wallet and car keys, were still in the room.
05:09The last person who saw him was his residence hall manager who gave him new bedsheets around 8 p.m.
05:15after someone placed a fish in his bed as a prank.
05:17By 10.30 p.m., when his roommate returned, Taman was gone, leaving behind his coat, wallet, and car keys.
05:23Although his roommate reported the disappearance the next day, school authorities delayed taking action for several days.
05:30One woman in a nearby town claimed that on that night, a disoriented, dirty man resembling Taman knocked on her
05:35door asking for directions.
05:37She didn't alert police until she saw Taman's picture in a local newspaper and the story about his disappearance.
05:44This, alongside other reported sightings, still has not helped authorities figure out what happened to Ronald Taman.
05:52October 1953, Evelyn Hartley
05:56Teenager Evelyn Hartley was tasked with babysitting the daughter of Viggo Rasmussen, one of her parents' colleagues.
06:01Hartley arrived at the house as planned, but when she failed to check in later that evening, her father Richard
06:06gave her a call.
06:08There was no response, so he traveled to the Rasmussen house himself.
06:11He found a wild sight, as items were thrown everywhere and the furniture had been moved.
06:16There were also signs of a break-in, including a torn-off window screen, pry marks, footprints, and blood.
06:23The baby was found unharmed upstairs, but there was no sign of Hartley.
06:28A witness reported seeing two men driving away with a young girl, adding credence to the theory that Hartley was
06:34kidnapped in a break-in.
06:381966, The Beaumont Children
06:42It remains one of the most chilling mysteries in Australian history.
06:46On January 26, 1966, three siblings, Jane, Arna, and Grant Beaumont, left their home in Adelaide to visit the nearby
06:54Glenelg Beach alone.
06:55Nancy Beaumont thought her three children would be home by one o'clock.
07:00Increasingly panicked, she waited as bus after bus returned from the beach without them.
07:06Witnesses reported seeing them playing with a tall, thin, suntanned man, and later walking away with him.
07:12When the children failed to return home that afternoon, their alarmed parents contacted the authorities.
07:16But despite extensive searches in and around the beach, no trace of the kids was ever found.
07:22Over the decades, there have been countless suspects and theories surrounding their disappearance, but none have led to any concrete
07:28answers.
07:29Sadly, both parents passed away without ever knowing the fate of their three children.
07:33You know, the family have suffered considerably for a long, long time without any answers.
07:411967, Harold Holt
07:45In December 1967, Harold Holt was serving as the 17th Prime Minister of Australia.
07:52Holt was an avid outdoorsman, but nearly 60 years old.
07:55And his personal doctor had recently advised him against swimming.
07:59On the afternoon of December 17th, 1967, Holt went for a swim at Australia's Cheviot Beach, despite rough waters.
08:06He was quickly swept out to sea, and a massive search was undertaken in the area.
08:11Rescuers trundled their way to the search scene from surrounding communities.
08:15Police and military divers deployed to Cheviot Beach by helicopter.
08:19Crowds silently lined the roadway.
08:22Despite the country's best efforts, no one was able to find any trace of Holt.
08:27A governmental inquiry was never launched owing to the wishes of Holt's family.
08:31This detail, among other factors, has led to numerous conspiracy theories.
08:35In Washington, where secret servicemen keep the president under strict surveillance,
08:39there was surprise that a Prime Minister could be allowed to swim without being closely watched.
08:43Despite countless claims to the contrary, the official ruling stands that Holt died in a tragic drowning.
08:49He had been claimed by the sea he knew and loved.
08:551971, D.B. Cooper
08:59The story of D.B. Cooper is one of the most famous unsolved mysteries of all time.
09:03A story involving air theft, a cinematic escape, and an ambiguous outcome.
09:09The identity of D.B. Cooper has been a mystery since November 24th, 1971,
09:13when a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked and threatened to blow up a passenger jet flying from Portland to
09:20Seattle.
09:21Cooper is the pseudonym of a man who hijacked a Boeing 727 in 1971 and extorted $200,000 in ransom.
09:29After securing the money, Cooper opened the door mid-flight and jumped out into the cold, dark night, never to
09:35be seen again.
09:36Police believe he left the 727 in the flatlands of Oregon or Washington, but they are still looking in four
09:42states, even around the airport.
09:44The only trace of Cooper remains a small cache of ransom bills that was recovered in 1980.
09:49The portion of ransom money a family discovered buried in sand while camping along a sandbar, Tina Bar, in the
09:56Columbia River in 1980.
09:58The rest of the money, and D.B. himself, remain missing.
10:02Many FBI agents claim that Cooper likely died in the jump.
10:05But then again, they could just be trying to save face.
10:08While probability now points to D.B. Cooper's death,
10:13without hard evidence, many people today still believe that he survived.
10:21June 1974, Margaret Fox
10:25In 1974, Margaret Fox advertised her services as a babysitter, attracting the attention of one John Marshall.
10:33Marshall contacted Fox and told her to meet him in Mount Holly, New Jersey.
10:37The young girl traveled there on a bus and was never seen again.
10:41The authorities were immediately contacted and they traced Marshall's number to a supermarket payphone, which raised suspicions.
10:48The Fox family also received a phone call from a stranger, demanding $10,000 for their daughter's safe return.
10:54Unfortunately, this call could never be traced, and the man was never identified.
10:59Despite investigators' efforts, the case eventually fizzled out, with no one finding Fox or figuring out the identity of Marshall
11:07ever since.
11:08There's a likelihood that Margaret may be deceased.
11:11It is our mission that if this is the case, Margaret receives a proper burial.
11:19December 1974, the Fort Worth Missing Trio
11:23Rachel Trelisa, Renee Wilson, and Julianne Mosley were Christmas shopping in the Fort Worth, Texas Seminary South Shopping Center when
11:30they went missing.
11:31The girls failed to return to their respective homes, prompting their families to conduct a search.
11:38They found Trelisa's car in the parking lot, and it contained multiple gifts, indicating that the girls had returned to
11:44the vehicle at some point.
11:46Nevertheless, the trio was nowhere to be seen.
11:49Trelisa's husband later received a letter presumably written by her, stating that they were, quote,
11:54going to Houston to, quote, get away, and they'd be back in about a week.
11:58But they never showed up, and have remained missing ever since.
12:02The families have since cast doubt on the letter's authenticity.
12:06My goal is, I would love closure before my mother dies.
12:09Because just like in 1974...
12:11You haven't given up hope, though.
12:12No, uh-uh.
12:19Australian pilot Frederick Valentich was a student in the country's Air Training Corps.
12:23In the evening of October 21, 1978, Valentich was flying over Bass Strait, which separates mainland Australia from Tasmania.
12:32During the flight, Valentich contacted Melbourne Flight Service to report an unidentified aircraft that was following him.
12:38Delta Sierra Juliet, there seems to be a large aircraft below 5,000.
12:41The craft had bright lights, and seemed to be hovering right above him.
12:45Just after telling Flight Service that it wasn't an aircraft, a loud scraping noise was heard over the radio.
12:52Valentich was lost, and his plane was never recovered.
12:55Flying a single-engineer airplane over water, lost communication in such strange circumstances.
13:01I put an alert phase on the airplane.
13:03Ufologists believe that the pilot was abducted by a UFO,
13:06while others posit that he was unknowingly flying upside down,
13:10and saw his own reflection in the water before crashing.
13:161982, Johnny Gosch.
13:19On September 5, 1982, Johnny Gosch, a paperboy in West Des Moines, Iowa,
13:25disappeared during his morning paper route.
13:27At first, West Des Moines police treated the disappearance as an abduction,
13:31and launched a big search that included several law enforcement agencies.
13:34Multiple witnesses reported seeing him speak with a mysterious man in a blue car shortly before he vanished,
13:40while another claimed they saw a silver car speeding away near the spot where Gosch's paper wagon was left.
13:45The case has since gained widespread publicity,
13:47but authorities have made no headway in determining who took Gosch or what became of him.
13:52In 1997, his mother, Noreen, alleged that Gosch visited her briefly with an unidentified man,
13:58but left without revealing where he was going.
14:00West Des Moines police officer said that Noreen had told similar stories before,
14:04only to recant them later.
14:07There were never any witnesses that verified her claim.
14:10The validity of this claim remains in doubt,
14:12and despite other unconfirmed sightings, Gosch is still officially missing.
14:181988, Tara Calico.
14:22On June 15th, 1989, a woman found a Polaroid photograph at a Florida convenience store.
14:27The nationwide frenzy brings a second family into the spotlight.
14:31The mothers of Mike and Tara were strangers only a week ago.
14:35Now they're brought together in a common cause,
14:37a national effort to find their missing children.
14:40The picture showed a young woman and a boy,
14:43both bound and gagged, seemingly in the back of a van.
14:46Many believed the woman to be Tara Calico,
14:48who had vanished nearly one year earlier during her routine bike ride near her home in Belen, New Mexico.
14:54Neither she nor her bike were found,
14:56and authorities only recovered pieces of her Sony Walkman and a cassette tape along the trail.
15:00While Scotland Yard identified the woman in the picture as Calico,
15:04an FBI analysis proved inconclusive.
15:06Her whereabouts remain a mystery,
15:08But in 2023, the Valencia County Sheriff's Office announced new leads in the case.
15:13Right now, a team is working to go through three decades' worth of police files.
15:18In order to sign off on charges,
15:20they have to rule out the laundry list of suspects who were named over the years.
15:25There's no hard timeline on when or if charges will be filed.
15:36The last time anyone saw half-siblings Monica and Michael Bennett was on June 21, 1989 in Brunswick, Georgia.
15:44The two shared a mother but had different fathers on the day they vanished.
15:47Michael's father Robert picked them up,
15:49reportedly to help him pack for his move to Alabama.
15:52That was the last anyone saw of them when questioned.
15:55Robert gave conflicting accounts,
15:56claiming at one point that they ran away from his apartment,
15:59and at another that he dropped them off at their mother's house.
16:02Despite these discrepancies,
16:04police classified the siblings as runaways and failed to carry out a thorough investigation.
16:09It wasn't until the 2000s that they were reclassified as Endangered Missing
16:13and added to the government's missing person database.
16:171992, The Springfield Three
16:21This missing persons case,
16:22in which Cheryl Levitt, Stacey McCall, and Susie Streeter all disappeared,
16:26has remained unsolved since 1992.
16:29The story begins at Levitt's home in Springfield, Missouri,
16:32where the women spent the night after attending high school graduation parties.
16:35The girls leave the party just after 2 a.m.
16:38Cops believe Stacey and Susie walked through the front door of Cheryl's house on Delmar Street about 15 minutes later.
16:44That's where the mystery begins.
16:46When a friend arrived at the house the next morning,
16:48all three were missing, despite their cars being parked outside.
16:52Authorities say there was no sign of a struggle.
16:55In fact, the front door was unlocked.
16:57The TV was on.
16:58Their clothes were still there.
17:00Their purses and personal items untouched.
17:03The friend found a broken porch light,
17:05and she reportedly received an obscene phone call while there.
17:08Levitt's dog was also visibly agitated.
17:11When McCall's mother later arrived to investigate,
17:13she found a, quote,
17:15strange message on the answering machine.
17:16But this was accidentally deleted.
17:19It was a brief call, and the person didn't identify themselves.
17:22It was a male voice that made sexual innuendos,
17:26and she hung up and immediately received a second call with also making sexual overtones.
17:31Unfortunately, the crime scene was so badly contaminated that it prevented a proper investigation.
17:36But until then, these families will continue to live one day at a time,
17:40hoping for the best, but knowing the worst could be just around the corner.
17:471998, Amy Lynn Bradley
17:51In 1998, Amy Lynn Bradley had just graduated from college
17:55and was preparing to start a new job when she joined her family on a celebratory Caribbean cruise to Curaçao.
18:01At around 6 a.m. on March 24th,
18:03Bradley's father discovered she was missing from the balcony where she had fallen asleep.
18:07But Amy is not on deck.
18:09All of her belongings are still in the room.
18:12Yet after searching the ship for more than an hour,
18:15Amy is nowhere to be found.
18:17All efforts to find her on the cruise ship proved futile,
18:21as the crew delayed announcing her disappearance until after most passengers had disembarked.
18:25Over the years, various theories have emerged,
18:28including that she was abducted and trafficked,
18:30fell overboard and drowned,
18:32or that she deliberately ended her own life.
18:34There have also been possible sightings of Bradley in Curaçao,
18:38but none have led to her being reunited with her family.
18:40We just can't give up looking.
18:43We just got to do what we have to do.
18:47As long as it takes.
18:50January 2000, Zeb Quinn.
18:54It's a loss without closure, with plenty of clues, but no resolution.
18:58On January 2nd, 2000,
19:0018-year-old Zeb Quinn met up with his friend Robert Owens.
19:03After Quinn received a notification on his pager, however,
19:06he appeared frantic and allegedly sped away in his car.
19:10Two days later, after being treated at the hospital for injuries,
19:13Owens called in sick for Quinn.
19:15It's very complex, as you've reported on.
19:17Mr. Owens was a person of interest in the Quinn disappearance from 2000,
19:23and those kind of things do make the case,
19:28you know, it does make the case much more complicated.
19:30On January 6th, Quinn's car was found abandoned with bizarre lipstick drawings on the back windshield
19:36and a live puppy stuck inside.
19:38His mother has some hope he could have been kidnapped and is still alive.
19:42In July 2017, Owens was charged with first-degree murder in the death of Quinn,
19:47but ultimately pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact.
19:50He is also serving life in prison for ending the lives of the Food Network's Christy Schoen
19:54and her husband J.T. Codd in 2015.
19:56We're able to bring Jason Owens to justice.
19:59He's removed from society.
20:00He's going to die in the custody of the state of North Carolina.
20:05As for Quinn, his remains still haven't been found.
20:11February 2000, Aisha Degree.
20:15After putting their daughter Aisha to bed on February 13th, 2000,
20:19Harold and Aquila Degree woke up the next morning to find her missing.
20:22Investigators at the time had reason to believe that she took some items with her out of the house
20:28and that she left the house and walked south on Highway 18 toward the city of Shelby.
20:34There were no signs of forced entry, and Aisha's brother O'Brien was asleep in his own bed.
20:40Strangely, it seemed she had packed a bag and simply walked out of the house.
20:44Around 4 a.m., several motorists spotted her walking along a highway alone,
20:48and when one approached her, she fled into the woods, never to be seen again.
20:53Months later, Aisha's bag was found at a construction site,
20:56containing items that didn't belong to her.
20:58For years, the case yielded no significant leads,
21:01until September 2024, when authorities classified her disappearance as a homicide
21:06and named two suspects.
21:08It's important here, we know that no one has been charged.
21:11Investigators took DNA from Roy and Connie Dedman.
21:16They also took a green car and several other items, including a camera, computers, and phones.
21:252004, Maura Murray.
21:28On February 9th, 2004, Murray, a nursing student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,
21:34emailed her professors claiming there'd been a death in the family.
21:37It is a real mystery.
21:40One minute she's here, one minute she's not, and there's just so many theories.
21:45Her parents have since stated that no such death occurred.
21:47She looked into hotels in Vermont, loaded her car with clothing and toiletries,
21:52and packed up her belongings in boxes.
21:54After leaving campus, she purchased alcohol and withdrew $280 from an ATM.
21:59Murray crashed her car around 7 p.m. that night,
22:02and when police arrived at 7.45, she was nowhere to be found.
22:06There was no injury, so they searched on foot and in vehicles.
22:10Basically, what they were looking for was, A, a person walking, or B, footprints in the snow.
22:15They found none.
22:16The responding officer found a few suspect items in the car,
22:19including driving directions to Vermont and blank accident report forms.
22:24Of Murray herself, there was, and has been, no trace.
22:28All I have left is the public, because I'm not getting any help anywhere else.
22:35I'm asking for help of my daughter.
22:392005, Ryan Chambers.
22:49In June of 2005, Ryan Chambers embarked on a spiritual journey to India with his friend, John Booker.
22:58However, after a while, Booker noticed that Chambers wasn't getting much sleep and was beginning to act strangely.
23:04Then, in the early morning of August 24th,
23:07the 21-year-old Australian simply walked out of his ashram wearing nothing but a pair of shorts.
23:11He left behind all his belongings and an eerie note reading,
23:15quote,
23:15If I'm gone, don't worry.
23:17I'm not dead.
23:18I'm freeing minds.
23:19But first, I have to free my own.
23:22No one has seen or heard from him since.
23:24An exhaustive search was launched,
23:26but after turning up nothing for years,
23:28Chambers was legally declared dead in 2023.
23:342006, Brian Schaefer.
23:37Ohio State University medical student Brian Schaefer went out with friends to celebrate the start of spring break in 2006.
23:43As the night progressed, Schaefer got separated from the group,
23:46and his friends assumed he had gone home without telling them.
23:49The following day, his girlfriend was getting concerned because she was unable to reach Brian.
23:55But when he failed to show up in the subsequent days and missed a long-planned flight,
23:59he was reported missing.
24:00Security footage from the bar's entrance captured Schaefer briefly interacting with two ladies,
24:05but showed no evidence of him leaving.
24:07The only other way out was through a construction zone,
24:10which would have been difficult for him to navigate, especially if he was intoxicated.
24:14This puzzling series of events has raised several questions about Schaefer's fate
24:18that authorities have not been able to answer.
24:20The people closest to Brian still hope that one day they'll learn the truth.
24:262008, Brandon Swanson.
24:29On May 14, 2008, Brandon Swanson of Minnesota was driving home following a night out partying.
24:36After veering off into a ditch, the 19-year-old student phoned his parents and asked them to pick him
24:40up.
24:41Swanson's parents remained on the phone with him for the next 47 minutes,
24:45but couldn't seem to find him at his supposed location.
24:48He said he was fine, that he was not injured, and, you know, in fact, when we did find his
24:53vehicle,
24:54there was no damage to it.
24:56Still on the call, Swanson asked his dad to meet him at a local bar,
25:00but soon after, he yelled out a curse word and went silent.
25:04Investigators later found that the young man was actually about 25 miles away from where he thought he was.
25:09It's believed he inadvertently fell into the Yellow Medicine River and drowned, hence the sudden cursing.
25:17March 2011, Rebecca Coriam.
25:21When this 24-year-old British woman disappeared the morning of March 21, 2011,
25:26she was working for the Disney Wonder cruise ship.
25:28The ship set sail from Los Angeles on Sunday, March 22, for the Mexican Riviera.
25:34The alarm was raised last Tuesday when she failed to turn up for her shift.
25:38The following day, the vessel docked in Puerto Vallarta,
25:41and the Mexican Navy and U.S. Coast Guard were deployed to search the seas.
25:46Coriam was last seen on CCTV footage talking to someone on one of the ship's internal phones at 5.45
25:51a.m.
25:52She was clad in extra-large clothing and appeared visibly distressed by the call.
25:57She hung up, walked away, and was never seen again.
26:00Investigators believe that Coriam went overboard,
26:02but how she went overboard remains a mystery.
26:05Some believe she jumped, others believe she was pushed by a rogue wave,
26:09and her parents believe she was thrown into the ocean.
26:12A very, very little information comes back to us as to what investigations found out.
26:18And that's the frustrating side that we face, really,
26:22and that's partially because of the problems of where the ship was registered.
26:26The official investigation has received loads of criticism,
26:30and Disney Wonder has even been accused of covering up her disappearance.
26:34Just don't know what happened to her, do we? That's the worst.
26:38May 2011. Timothy Pitson.
26:42On May 11th, 2011, James Pitson dropped his son Timothy off at school,
26:46but when he returned later that day, he discovered the boy was missing.
26:50I pulled up and I got out.
26:52His teacher goes, what are you doing here, Mr. Pitson?
26:53I'm like, here to pick Timothy up.
26:55Oh, he left 8.15 this morning.
26:57Shortly after 8 a.m., Timothy's mother, Amy Fry-Pitson, had picked him up
27:01and taken him on a trip to amusement parks, resorts, and zoos.
27:05He was last seen two days later on security footage.
27:08On May 14th, Fry-Pitson's body was discovered in a motel room.
27:11She had taken her own life and left a note stating that Timothy was safe,
27:15but would never be found.
27:16True to those words, no trace of him has ever emerged.
27:20In 2019, Hope briefly resurfaced when a teenager in Kentucky claimed to be Timothy,
27:25but sadly, that turned out to be a hoax.
27:27What did the false hope he created do to you?
27:29Oh, it destroyed me for a week or two.
27:32Very unhappy.
27:36Very destructive.
27:39June 2011, Lauren Spearer.
27:43In 2011, 20-year-old Lauren Spearer was attending Indiana University and studying textiles merchandising.
27:50On the night of June 2nd, 2011, Spearer went out with some friends to Bloomington's Kilroy Sports Bar.
27:55She left the bar around 2.30 a.m. and was last seen leaving a friend's apartment at 4.30.
28:01She remains missing to this day.
28:03The latest images come from a security camera, according to the authorities.
28:06Here's one of them, which police say shows Lauren just hours before she disappeared.
28:11Various theories have been put forth, including abduction and a fatal overdose,
28:15as Spearer had reportedly consumed alcohol and drugs.
28:18One theory is that Lauren was kidnapped by a biker gang after collapsing in the street on the way to
28:24her apartment.
28:25Despite thousands of tips and attempts by police to tie her disappearance to other crimes in the area,
28:30Lauren Spearer's whereabouts remain unknown.
28:33I really just would like to hear this is where you can find your daughter.
28:37It's the not knowing what happened to her, where she might be, you know, it's unbearable.
28:452014, Lars Mittank.
28:49One of the strangest and creepiest stories involving a disappearance has to be that of 28-year-old German man
28:54Lars Mittank.
28:55In June 2014, Mittank was vacationing at Bulgaria's Golden Sand Seaside Resort with friends.
29:01When it was time to leave, Mittank was left in the country owing to a ruptured eardrum, which prevented him
29:06from flying.
29:07He checked into the hotel Color Varna by himself, where he reportedly began to act paranoid.
29:12He even called his mother and told her that four men were looking to get rid of him.
29:17The last time anyone saw Mittank, he was running through Varna Airport in fear, hopping a fence and fleeing into
29:23the nearby woods.
29:24He hasn't been seen since.
29:26The source of his fear and his current whereabouts remain unknown.
29:35In the early hours of October 15, 2018, police responded to a 911 call at the home of James and
29:42Denise Kloss in Barron, Wisconsin.
29:44Inside, they discovered a horrible scene.
29:46The couple had been murdered, and their teenage daughter Jamie was missing.
29:50Each day I wake up with a new, refreshed hope, today is going to be the day.
29:56I can still feel she's going to come home.
29:58My heart tells me, yep, and I won't give that up.
30:02For 88 agonizing days, authorities searched for Jamie, but were unable to come up with any leads.
30:08Then, on January 10, 2019, Jamie mysteriously turned up in the woods, where she encountered a local woman who took
30:15her to a neighbor's house.
30:16Investigators later learned that Jake Thomas Patterson had killed her parents that night and abducted her for his own sexual
30:22gratification.
30:23Patterson was arrested that same day and sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus 40 additional years.
30:29Patterson was given two life sentences without parole for the murders, the maximum 40 years for Jamie's kidnapping, the judge
30:36calling him the embodiment of evil.
30:40November 2018, He Zhen Kuei.
30:44In November 2018, this Chinese biophysicist made world headlines when he announced he'd created the first genetically edited human babies.
30:53I understand that my work will be controversial, but I believe family need this technology.
31:00His claim was met with widespread condemnation due to serious ethical issues with his experiment.
31:06His research was suspended, he was fired from Sustec, and then he disappeared.
31:11He was last seen at the Human Genome Editing Conference in Hong Kong on Wednesday.
31:15The South China Morning Post reports that the researcher's employer is dismissing claims he was detained.
31:21In December, it was reported that he was sequestered in an apartment under guard.
31:25One year later, he was sentenced to three years in prison.
31:28He was released in April 2022 and is now working on gene therapy for rare genetic diseases.
31:35Which of these disappearances intrigues you the most?
31:37Let us know in the comments.
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