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missing person stories: 64 news summaries

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Police Find
11th Body at Rapist's House

First victim identified,
a 53-year-old woman missing for a year

Nov 4, 09 5:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Cleveland police found another body at the home of convicted rapist Anthony Sowell, bringing the total to 11. Law enforcement also identified the first victim found as 53-year-old Tonia Carmichael, who went missing last November. "We expected the worst when these bodies starting popping up," a relative tells... More »

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Cleveland • murder • Ohio • missing person • rapist • Anthony Sowell

Missing Man Sees Self on TV, Solves Case

60-year-old at homeless shelter recognizes photo

Oct 28, 09 4:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Colorado missing-persons case has wrapped up neatly after a 60-year-old man recognized his photo during a TV announcement. Marvin Allen Fry had wandered out of a hospital and ended up at a homeless shelter for about a week until he saw the announcement about himself and alerted shelter personnel,... More »

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Colorado • missing person • homeless shelter

 Yale Professor Quizzed 
 Over Missing Student 

One of Annie Le's professors abruptly canceled class around the time she vanished

Sep 12, 09 8:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Yale professor has been interviewed by police over the disappearance of graduate student Annie Marie Le, New York Daily News reports. Le was due to attend the professor's class on Tuesday but it was abruptly canceled and Le was found to be missing hours later. The cancellation so close... More »

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New Haven • professor • missing person • graduate student • Annie Marie Le • Annie Le

 Yale Offers $10K Reward 
 in Missing-Student Case 

Search continues; still no evidence of foul play in disappearance of Le

Sep 11, 09 7:52 PM CDT
(AP) - Yale University offered a $10,000 reward today for information leading to the whereabouts of a missing graduate student. Meanwhile, investigators reviewed security-camera footage and checked the blueprints of the building where Annie Le was last seen on Tuesday. Le, 24, was supposed to be married Sunday. More »

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Yale University • wedding • security cameras • missing person • graduate student • Annie Marie Le • runaway bride • Annie Le

 Kidnap Suspect: Real 
 Story 'Heartwarming' 

'It's a disgusting thing that took place with me,' Phillip Garrido says in jailhouse interview

Aug 27, 09 9:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - “It’s a disgusting thing that took place with me,” the man arrested in the 18-year abduction of a California girl tells KRCA-TV in a jailhouse interview. “Wait until you hear the story of what took place at this house,” says Phillip Garrido, 58, of the... More »

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crime • abduction • missing person • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Nancy Garrido • Antioch, Calif.

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Calif. Girl Abducted in 1991 Reappears

Cops arrest alleged kidnappers of Jaycee Lee Dugard, now 29

Aug 27, 09 2:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - A woman missing since she was abducted in 1991 at age 11 stunned authorities and her family yesterday when she walked into a northern California police station, the Contra Costa Times reports. Jaycee Lee Dugard's alleged kidnappers, a married couple, have been arrested and charged with kidnapping and... More »

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kidnapping • abduction • missing child • missing person • child abduction • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Concord, Calif.

Maddy Suspect Asked About Her 'New Daughter'

Calls flood in after request for tips about Australian woman

Aug 7, 09 2:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Private investigators working for Madeleine McCann's parents have received “hundreds of calls” from people with information about a woman who may be involved in the child’s disappearance, the Telegraph reports. A witness said the woman, described as a Victoria Beckham lookalike with an Australian accent, was pacing and... More »

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Australia • Spain • Madeleine McCann • Algarve • Portugal • Gerry McCann • Kate McCann • private investigator • Barcelona • human trafficking • Praia da Luz • missing person

(Newser) - A British teenager is recovering in the hospital after an afternoon trip that turned into a 12-day ordeal in the Australian wilderness, the BBC reports. Jamie Neale, 19, got lost in the Blue Mountains and survived by eating seeds and grass, and sheltering under logs amid freezing temperatures. His son... More »

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Australia • missing person • New South Wales • hikers • backpacking

 Ill. Remains 
 Not Stacy 
 Peterson 

Body confirmed to be male

May 28, 09 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - The body found last week near a river in suburban Chicago has been identified as male, the Tribune reports. The discovery confirms the remains are not those of Stacy Peterson or another missing area woman. “We’re disappointed,” said a spokesperson for the family of Peterson, who’s... More »

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murder • body • remains • Stacy Peterson • Drew Peterson • missing person

(Newser) - States across the US are moving to create procedures that would alert the public about older people in the grips of dementia who’ve gone missing, the AP reports. The so-called “Silver Alert” system has already been taken up by 15 states, and the House has approved a national... More »

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Congress • elderly • dementia • missing person • Amber Alert • Alzheimer's Disease • Silver Alert • older people

 No Distress Signal From 
 Missing NFLers: Coast Guard 

Lion, Raider were fishing off Gulf Coast

Mar 2, 09 6:56 AM CST
(Newser) - The Coast Guard got no distress signal from a missing fishing boat carrying NFL players Marquis Cooper and Corey Smith and two friends off Florida's Gulf Coast, the AP reports. “That's not to say they didn't send one out," said an official. "We didn't receive anything”—... More »

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NFL • NCAA football • fishing • Coast Guard • missing boater • missing person • fishing boat • Corey Smith • Marquis Cooper

8th-Grade Boy, Female Teacher Go Missing

Mass. pair said to be in relationship; may be headed to Canada

Feb 24, 09 7:09 AM CST
(Newser) - A male 8th-grader and a 22-year-old female teacher at his Holyoke, Mass., school have both been reported missing and are suspected of running off together, the Republican reports. Federal and local authorities are searching for them after the 15-year-old’s parents raised concerns about a relationship earlier this month, and... More »

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Massachusetts • disappearance • relationship • missing person • missing student • teacher

Families of Missing Want 'Stew Maker' to Help

Man who dissolved bodies may be able to identify kidnap, murder victims

Feb 9, 09 2:38 PM CST
(Newser) - Families with loved ones missing in Mexico are hoping that "the stew maker" can give them closure, the Los Angeles Times reports. A day after the arrest of Santiago Meza Lopez—who confessed to dissolving at least 300 bodies for drug cartels—dozens of people lobbied Tijuana police... More »

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Mexico • corpse • violence • Mexican drug war • Tijuana • body • drug cartel • missing person

Drew Peterson:
I Wouldn't Trust Me, Either

Murder suspect says he understands fears of fiancée's family

Jan 30, 09 12:14 PM CST
(Newser) - Drew Peterson, divorced from wives No. 1 and 2 and suspected of killing wives No. 3 and 4, understands why the family of would-be wife No. 5 is none too pleased with their engagement, ABC reports. “I would have concerns if I were the friends and family of this... More »

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murder • engagement • suspect • Kathleen Savio • Stacy Peterson • Drew Peterson • missing person • Christina Raines

 Florida 'Mini-Madoff' 
 Missing With $350M 

Police searching for fund manager after clients complain of missing millions

Jan 17, 09 7:48 AM CST
(Newser) - A Florida hedge fund manager is missing along with hundreds of millions of dollars of his clients' money, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune reports. Art Nadel, 75, was reported missing Wednesday after his wife found a suicide note. Stunned investors have been told that Nadel's funds, thought to have totaled $350 million,... More »

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Florida • hedge fund • investment • money management • Ponzi scheme • missing person • securities fraud • Art Nadel • recession depression

Search for Missing Cruise Woman Suspended

Family believes she jumped from ship

Dec 30, 08 1:48 AM CST
(Newser) - The search for a woman missing from a cruise ship off Mexico since Christmas has been suspended, reports the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Jennifer Ellis-Seitz of is believed to have gone overboard from the Norwegian Pearl near Cancun in what may have been a suicide. Her husband—arrested in April for... More »

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Coast Guard • Cancun • Gulf of Mexico • cruise ships • missing boater • missing person

(Newser) - The FBI is looking into the disappearance of a Florida woman who was reported missing from a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday, Fox News reports. Jennifer Seitz’s husband reported her missing, and the Coast Guard says surveillance video shows a woman going overboard. Meanwhile, a... More »

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FBI • Coast Guard • Cancun • Gulf of Mexico • cruise ships • missing boater • missing person • search and rescue • Jennifer Seitz

Kin of 'Fiancée': Dream On, Drew

23-year-old 'never said she was going to marry him'—oh, and she has a live-in boyfriend

Dec 21, 08 5:57 PM CST
(Newser) - No stranger to controversy in his romantic dealings, Drew Peterson is now facing off with the family of the 23-year-old woman he says will become the fifth Mrs Peterson, the Chicago Tribune reports. Waitress Christina Raines has some kind of relationship with Peterson, but that’s where the agreement ends;... More »

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marriage • engagement • Drew Peterson • missing person • unsolved crimes

Drew Peterson Engaged Again

Would-be wife No. 5
is also 23; but murder suspect is still married to missing No. 4, Stacy

Dec 17, 08 11:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Drew Peterson, whose wife Stacy has been missing since last year, wants to move on to bride No. 5, his lawyer tells the Chicago Sun-Times. “He proposed and she accepted,” Joel Brodsky says, though “I guess he’s got to get divorced.” Peterson doesn’t see... More »

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engagement • Kathleen Savio • Stacy Peterson • Drew Peterson • missing person • unsolved crimes

Cops: Anthony Searched for 'Neck Breaking,' 'Chloroform'

Evidence disclosed in missing toddler case

Nov 27, 08 1:26 PM CST
(Newser) - A computer in the home of the Florida woman suspected in the disappearance and likely death of her 2-year-old daughter was used to search Google for “neck breaking,” and “shovel,” the Orlando Sentinel reports. “Death,” “inhalation” and “chloroform” were also Wikipedia queries... More »

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murder • text message • missing person • Casey Anthony • Caylee Anthony • Cindy Anthony

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