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Per a 2017 report, the U.S. states of Oregon, Arizona, and Alaska have the highest numbers of missing-person cases per 100,000 people. In Canada—with a population a little more than one tenth that of the United States—the number of missing-person cases is smaller, but the rate per capita is higher, with an estimated 71,000 reported in 2015.
Date Person(s) Age Country of disappearance Circumstances Outcome Time spent missing or unconfirmed 2000 Zebb Quinn: 18 United States Zebb Quinn was an 18-year-old American male who went missing on January 2, 2000, in Asheville, North Carolina.
Some of the most widely covered missing person cases have been kidnappings of children by strangers; however these instances are rare. In most parts of the world, criminal abductions make up only a small percentage of missing person cases and, in turn, most of these abductions are by someone who knows the child (such as a non-custodial parent).
Lists of solved missing person cases. Lists of solved missing person cases include: List of solved missing person cases: pre-1950. List of solved missing person cases: 1950–1999. List of solved missing person cases: post-2000.
Lists of people who disappeared. Disappeared people in art at Parque por la Paz at Villa Grimaldi in Santiago de Chile. Lists of people who disappeared include those whose current whereabouts are unknown, or whose deaths are unsubstantiated: Many people who disappear are eventually declared dead in absentia. Some of these people were possibly ...
Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. Missing person cases in the United States by state (49 C) Missing person cases in Washington, D.C. (4 P)
At that time, the custom was a three-day waiting period before police responded to missing-persons reports. Gosch was not heard from again, but his case prompted new laws for Iowa and other states resulting in missing-persons reports involving children being given immediate attention. 12 September 1982 Steven Pearsall: 35 Lewiston, Idaho, U.S.
The high volume of media coverage of the case was cited among some commentators as an example of missing white woman syndrome, which is defined as the news media's over-emphasis on missing person cases involving young, attractive, white, upper-middle-class women or girls compared to the relative lack of attention towards people who go missing ...