Missing Persons
Evidence ‘Invalidated’ in Explosive Report on Mexico’s 43 Missing Students
MEXICO CITY — The Mexican president said his government had finally solved the mystery behind the haunting disappearance of 43 students, one of the worst human rights abuses in the country’s recent history. In August, the government unveiled a truth commission report saying that after being abducted in 2014, the students were killed by drug […]
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British Journalist and Brazilian Indigenous Expert Missing in the Amazon
Brazilian journalists and Indigenous activists criticized the authorities’ search efforts late Monday, in part because it appeared that they had still not used a helicopter, which could be crucial in finding the men in such a vast and remote area. The army also initially said late Monday that it had not received authorization to dispatch […]
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‘Mummified’ Body Is Identified as Man Missing Since 2020
A construction worker was tearing out a wall inside a century-old Beaux-Arts convention center in Oakland, Calif., on March 9 when he made a gruesome discovery: a mummified body, believed to be that of a man in the “late stages of decay,” a police spokeswoman said. Who he was and how he got there were […]
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‘Little Miss Nobody’: Child’s Remains Have Been Identified, Sheriff Says
In July 1960, a little girl’s body, decomposed and burned, was found by a hiker in a remote part of Arizona. The child wore a checkered blouse and white shorts. Adult-size flip-flops had been cut to fit her small feet. Her nails were painted red. She became known as “Little Miss Nobody,” because no one […]
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Scuba-Diving YouTuber Finds Car Linked to Teens Missing Since 2000
A YouTuber who uses underwater sonar equipment to investigate missing persons cases found a car belonging to two Tennessee teenagers who have been missing for 21 years, potentially bringing an end to the cold case. It is at least the fourth time since late October that people who investigate cold cases on YouTube have dived […]
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