* Michael Rockefeller: son of Nelson Rockefeller, disappeared during an expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern New Guinea.

[edit] 1962

* Frank Morris and brothers John and Clarence Anglin escaped from Alcatraz prison in the U.S. state of California and disappeared. Authorities presumed that they drowned but no bodies were ever recovered.

[edit] 1966

* The Beaumont children: Jane (9), Arnna (7) and Grant (4), all disappeared from a beach in Adelaide, Australia, on 26 January.

[edit] 1967

* Harold Holt: Australian Prime Minister, disappeared while at the beach out on a swim.
* James P. Brady - a Canadian Metis leader who mysteriously disappeared in northern Saskatchewan while on a prospecting trip with a Cree companion (who also disappeared).
* Jim Thompson: a former U.S. military intelligence officer who once worked for the Office of Strategic Services and an entrepreneur often credited for bringing Thai silks to the Western world, disappeared while on a walk at a rural Malaysian hill-station.

[edit] 1969

* Donald Crowhurst - English businessman and amateur sailor who died while competing in a single-handed, round-the-world yacht race.

[edit] 1970

* Sean Flynn, American photojournalist and son of Errol Flynn and Lili Damita; believed captured by factions of Viet Cong and/or Khmer Rouge in 1970; believed killed 1971, Bei Met, Cambodia
* Donna Lass, an American nurse last seen in Stateline, Nevada.[12]
* Robin Graham, an 18 year old student, ran out of gas on the Hollywood Freeway. She was last seen by California Highway Patrol officers who directed her to a call box, and later saw her speaking with a man beside her car. The circumstances of her disappearance resulted in CHP policy being changed to ensure the safety of stranded female motorists.[13]

[edit] 1971

* D.B. Cooper: skyjacker, true identity unknown, jumped from a hijacked Boeing 727 over the Pacific Northwest region of the United States on November 24, 1971.

[edit] 1972

* Nicholas Begich and Hale Boggs: American Congressmen who both disappeared October 16, 1972, when the Cessna 310 in which they were riding went missing en route to Juneau, Alaska, from Anchorage.

[edit] 1974

* Oscar Zeta Acosta: American attorney and Chicano activist. Most famous for portrayal as "Dr. Gonzo" in Hunter S. Thompson's book, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
* Richard Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, whose whereabouts have been unknown since his children's nanny, Sandra Rivett, was beaten to death with a lead pipe in the basement of his estranged wife's home. In 1975, Lord Lucan was the last person ever to be deemed a murderer by a coroner's jury. He was officially declared dead in 1999.[14]
* Malcolm ("Mac") Graham: An avid U.S. yachting enthusiast from San Diego, California, disappeared along with his wife from Palmyra Atoll sometime between August 28 and August 30, 1974. Although he is believed to have been murdered, and his wife's remains were found in 1981, his own remains have never been located.

[edit] 1975

* Bas Jan Ader: Dutch artist who disappeared while attempting to sail across the Atlantic Ocean.
* Jimmy Hoffa: U.S. trade union leader, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
* Lyon Sisters: two U.S. pre-teen girls who disappeared on their way home from a neighborhood mall.
* Juanita Nielsen, Australian publisher, heiress and anti-development campaigner, disappeared from Kings Cross, Sydney aged 38.

[edit] 1976

* Renee MacRae and her 3 year old son Andrew were last seen in Inverness, Scotland. They are thought to have been murdered and their remains have never been found. Their disappearance is Britain's longest running missing person's case. Northern Constabulary renewed their search for evidence in 2004 and named a suspect in a report to the procurator fiscal in October 2006, however the Crown Office declared there was insufficient evidence to go to court.[15]

[edit] 1977

* Donald Mackay - Australian anti-drugs campaigner who disappeared on 15 July 1977 and is believed to have been murdered.

[edit] 1978

* John Brisker: former American Basketball Association and National Basketball Association player, disappeared after flying to Uganda.
* Mel Lyman: cult leader. Claimed by cult members to have died 1978, but no body, death certificate, or other proof were ever produced. The date of death and burial place are unknown outside the "Lyman Family".[citation needed]
* Frederick Valentich 20-year old Australian pilot, disappeared while flying across Bass Strait, in what has been claimed by some people as a UFO encounter.
* Genette Tate: 13-year old girl who disappeared whilst doing a newspaper round in the English county of Devon in August 1978.
* Sayyid Mousa al-Sadr, Lebanese philosopher and a prominent Shi'a religious leader, disappeared on a tour to Libya on August 31 , 1978 and was never found.

[edit] 1979

* Etan Patz: schoolboy, disappeared while walking to New York City bus stop.
* Louis Cafora: An armed robber from the U.S. state of New York.

[edit] 1980

* Azaria Chamberlain, Australian baby girl, presumed to have been taken by a dingo near Uluru. Some clothing items were later recovered, but her remains have never been found
* Louise and Charmian Faulkner: mother and toddler daughter who disappeared from outside their residence in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia.

[edit] 1982

* Johnny Gosch: Paperboy in Des Moines, Iowa, United States, abducted while delivering papers. His image was one of the first national missing children notices to appear on milk cartons, and later the cover of Newsweek.

[edit] 1983

* Emanuela Orlandi: a citizen of Vatican City.
* Kirsa Jensen: disappeared while riding her horse to the beach at Awatoto, Napier, New Zealand on Sept 1 1983. Her disappearance is still one of New Zealand's biggest unsolved cases.

[edit] 1984

* Kevin Andrew Collins: U.S. youth from San Francisco
* Boris Weisfeiler: U.S. mathematician who went missing in Chile.

[edit] 1986

* Suzy Lamplugh, a British estate agent who went missing from Fulham, West London and was declared dead, presumed murdered, in 1994. Despite further police investigations in 1998 and 2000, no trace of her has ever been found.

[edit] 1989

* Jacob Wetterling, kidnapped on October 22 in St Joseph, Minnesota, USA. Was never found.

[edit] 1991

* Sarah MacDiarmid: young female, disappeared from Kananook station in Melbourne, Australia.
* Ben Needham: 21 month old male, disappeared from the island of Kos in Greece, 24 July. He has never been found. It was believed Ben was abducted and several suspects in Kos and Veria were suggested as being responsible, no one was ever charged with abduction.
* Michael Dunahee: (born May 12, 1986) is a missing child from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, disappeared aged five.

[edit] 1994

* Michael Anthony Hughes has been missing since his abduction from Indian Meridian Elementary School in Choctaw, Oklahoma, United States, by Franklin Delano Floyd (who claimed to be his father) on September 12 of that year. Floyd has claimed that Hughes is still alive somewhere in the U.S., but has not disclosed his location.
* Ylenia Carrisi, Italian TV celebrity and daughter of singers Albano Carrisi and Romina Power. Disappeared during a vacation in New Orleans.

[edit] 1995

* Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, born April 25, 1989 in Lhari County, Tibet, and recognized by the current Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, as the 11th Panchen Lama on May 14, 1995, was removed by the government of the People's Republic of China three days later. No one could meet him since then.
* Richey James Edwards: member of Welsh rock band the Manic Street Preachers. His car was found abandoned next to the Severn Bridge, a bridge notorious for suicides. He was suffering from an array of mental health problems up to his disappearance, but was never considered suicidal.
* Jodi Huisentruit: abducted outside her apartment while on her way to work as a KIMT news anchor in the U.S. state of Iowa.

[edit] 1996

* Kristin Denise Smart: a student at California Polytechnic State University who disappeared after leaving a party.

[edit] 1997

* Grant Hadwin: unemployed logger who cut down Canada's landmark Golden Spruce as a protest against the logging industry. He disappeared while kayaking across British Columbia's Hecate Strait en route to his trial.
* Kristen Modafferi, a former college student from Charlotte, North Carolina, who vanished without trace while on a summer-away study program in the San Francisco Bay Area.

[edit] 1998

* Tom and Eileen Lonergan were an American couple left stranded due to a faulty head count while SCUBA diving in shark-infested waters off Australia's Great Barrier Reef, and not reported missing until their belongings were found on the dive boat two days later. Double suicide and murder/suicide theories were ruled out by police and the coroner, who charged skipper Jack Nairn with manslaughter; he was acquitted in November 1999. The 2003 film Open Water was loosely based on the Lonergans' story.[16]
* Amy Lynn Bradley, an American passenger on the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship MS Rhapsody of the Seas, disappeared while the ship was docking in Curaçao, Antilles.[17]
* Florinda Donner and Taisha Abelar, along with several other female followers of Carlos Castaneda, disappeared shortly after his death. The remains of one, Patricia Partin, were found in 2003; the whereabouts of the others are unknown.[18]

[edit] 2000

* Bruno Manser: Swiss born activist who fervently campaigned for the preservation of rainforests on Sarawak.
* Trevor Deely: Disappeared in Dublin. He was last seen on December 7, 2000

[edit] 2001

* Jason Jolkowski: A 19-year-old resident of Omaha, Nebraska who disappeared on June 13, 2001. Following his disappearance, his parents founded Project Jason, a nonprofit organization that assists families of missing persons.

[edit] 2002

* Bison Dele (aka Brian Williams): former National Basketball Association player, thought to have been murdered in the Pacific Ocean by his brother, body never found.

[edit] 2003

* Ben Charles Padilla: a licensed aircraft mechanic, flight engineer, and pilot of small airplanes who has been missing since May 25, 2003 when Boeing 727-223 designation N844AA with him on board was stolen from Luanda, Angola. The aircraft was subsequently sighted in Conakry, Guinea, in July 2003.
* Daniel Morcombe, an Australian teenager, disappeared from the roadside near his Sunshine Coast home. Police believe he was abducted and murdered, but his body has never been found.[19]

[edit] 2004

* Maura Murray: an American college student from Massachusetts, who disappeared after a one-car accident in New Hampshire.

[edit] 2005

* Natalee Holloway, an American teenager, was last seen leaving a nightclub in Aruba with three men.[17]
* Ray Gricar: District Attorney in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania
* Charles Rutherford Jr.: Attorney who disappeared with his girlfriend in Lake Huron; her body was later found.
* Patrick McDermott: partner of Olivia Newton-John; disappeared on return from a fishing cruise off San Pedro, California.
* George Allen Smith: from Greenwich, Connecticut, United States, was discovered to be missing on July 5, 2005, ten days after his wedding to Jennifer Hagel Smith, while cruising the eastern Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey aboard the Royal Caribbean cruise ship, Brilliance of the Seas.

[edit] 2006

* Joe Pichler, an American child actor, vanished from his home town of Bremerton, Washington at the age of 18. Four days after he was last heard from, his car was found above the Port Madison Narrows; inside, police discovered a note which they characterized as a suicide note. The message expressed suicidal thoughts and asked that his belongings go to his younger brother, but did not explicitly state that he intended to take his own life.[20][21]
* Jorge Julio López, Argentine retired bricklayer, was kidnapped during the National Reorganization Process, and disappeared again during the democratic government of President Néstor Kirchner after testifying in trial against Dirty War criminal Miguel Etchecolatz.
* Sivasubramaniam Raveendranath, a Sri Lankan Tamil academic and Vice Chancellor of the Eastern University of Sri Lanka, disappeared while attending a conference in Colombo.

[edit] 2007

* Jim Gray (63), database pioneer, Microsoft research scientist, and Turing Award winner, left San Francisco Bay in his 12 meter sailboat to scatter his mother's ashes at the Farallon Islands, a wildlife refuge 43 km away, and was reported missing when he failed to return later the same da