Nine-year-old Shannon Matthews was seen at 15:10 GMT on 19 February 2008, outside her school, Westmoor Junior School, Dewsbury Moor, after a visit to the Dewsbury Sports Centre swimming pool for a swimming lesson. Disch, an American ionospheric scientist, vanished while travelling to the main station complex of Byrd Station from radio noise building. Griffin, an Irish postman, disappeared from the village of Stradbally, County Waterford on Christmas Day 1929. Berni, a Royal Italian Army soldier noted for using his mountaineering skills to repel the Austro-Hungarian Army, was declared missing in action during the Battle of San Matteo.

A German Nazi Party Gauleiter of Brandenburg, Stürtz went missing on 21 April 1945 during the Battle of Berlin and was not seen again. A journalist’s life is threatened when she investigates the truth about a mysterious car crash that happened twenty years earlier in this gripping thriller from the internationally bestselling author of The Couple at Number 9 and Just Like the Other Girls. One of these suspicions include the inconsistent story that the band member ‘Yellow’ presented to the authorities as opposed to what CCTV has captured that night. Indonesian politician Oto Iskandar di Nata is believed to have been abducted and murdered on a beach on 19 December 1945. In 2014, the FBI said it had concluded from witness statements that Robinson was killed by American Indian Movement militants and he was "buried in the hills".

In 2010, a British team uncovered the remains of a Western hostage in the Cambodian jungle, but DNA comparisons with samples from the Flynn family were negative.

Initially, she had refused to leave the shower block, causing one of her brothers to go collect their mother to persuade Cheryl to come out.The family kept a billboard offering a reward for information on their fate up at the house site until the late 1980s. He was remanded in custody by Dewsbury Magistrates, at a hearing on 3 April charged with 11 offences of possessing indecent images of children. Two investigations have been carried out, but both were hampered by official corruption and codes of loyalty to clan chiefs.

On 16 September 2008, he was convicted by Dewsbury Magistrates of 11 counts of possessing child pornography, relating to 49 images of level one, two, three and four found on his computer after it was seized from the house he lived in with Karen, on Moorside Road. On 19 July 1955 a car owned by Weldon Kees was discovered on the Marin County side of the Golden Gate Bridge. Schitli, a German SS- Hauptsturmführer and Schutzhaftlagerführer in the Neuengamme concentration camp, disappeared in March 1945, and was declared missing on 31 March, never to be seen again. Miller, Blough, and Bruhl, three young women from the Chicago suburbs, were last seen after leaving their blanket and personal effects behind on a crowded beach to get on a boat in Lake Michigan.Hahne, a German officer in the Wehrmacht who commanded the 197th Infantry Division, went missing in action on 24 June 1944 near Vitebsk during the Soviet Vitebsk–Orsha Offensive of Operation Bagration. German World War I flying ace Thom disappeared under obscure circumstances in Pillau, East Prussia on 3 March 1945.