This is a list ofsolved missing person cases in the 2020s.
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 January 2020 | Keane Mulready-Woods | 17 | Ireland | Mulready-Woods was an Irish teenager fromDrogheda,County Louth who disappeared on January 12, 2020. His dismembered remains were found in separate locations, including a burning car, over the course of several weeks beginning January 13.[1] | Murdered | 1 day |
| 31 January 2020 | Mark Frerichs | 57 | Afghanistan | Frerichs is an Americancivil engineer who was kidnapped by theTaliban-affiliatedHaqqani network on January 31, 2020. His status remained unknown for two years until April 1, 2022, when a video released by the Taliban showed Frerichs pleading for help. On September 19, 2022, Frerichs was released by the Taliban-led government of theIslamic Emirate of Afghanistan in exchange forBashir Noorzai.[2] | Found alive | 2 years 7 months |
| February 2020 | Megan Khung Yu Wai | 4 | Singapore | Four-year-old Megan Khung Yu Wai was reported missing by her maternal grandmother on July 20, 2020. The police managed to establish that the girl had died in February 2020 and her body was burned three months later in May 2020. Three suspects, consisting of the girl's birth mother, the mother's boyfriend and a friend of the couple, were charged with murder and disposal of Khung's corpse.[3][4][5] | Murdered | 5 months |
| 6 February 2020 | Chen Qiushi | 34 | China | Qiushi, a lawyer and citizen journalist, was abducted by Chinese government officials on February 6, 2020, due to his coverage of the2019–2020 Hong Kong protests and the mishandling of theCOVID-19 pandemic in the country. In September 2020, a government agency reported that he was under strict surveillance at his parents' home.[6] | Found alive | 7 months |
| 23 February 2020 | Mazen al-Hamada | 47 | Syria | Mazen al-Hamada, an activist fromDeir ez-Zor, was a victim ofenforced disappearance when he was kidnapped by Syrian security officials on 23 February 2020. His body was found inSednaya Prison on 9 December 2024.[7] He is believed to have been executed seven days before his body was discovered.[8] | Murdered | 4 years and 10 months |
| 26 February 2020 | Li Zehua | 24–25 | China | Chinese journalist and rapper who was detained by government officials while attempting to locate journalistChen Qiushi. Two months later, he posted a video saying that he had been temporarily arrested by police and later released.[9] | Found alive | 2 months |
| 20 March 2020 | Gretchen Anthony | 51 | United States | 51-year-old Gretchen Stoughton Anthony was an American woman fromJupiter, Florida, who was last seen alive on March 20, 2020. Her estranged husband, David Ethan Anthony, was arrested a week later and charged with her murder and kidnapping. In exchange for having his charges reduced, David admitted to entering Gretchen's home inAbacoa, Florida, and stabbing her to death in her garage. David also disclosed the location of Gretchen's remains, which were found in a wooded area near her home on December 21, 2020.[10] | Murdered | 9 months |
| 26 March 2020 | Soumaïla Cissé | 71 | Mali | Malian Minister of Finance from 1993 to 2000 and president for theUnion for the Republic and Democracy who was abducted byJama'at Nasr al-Islam wal Muslimin jihadists on March 26, 2020. There was no news of his condition, until his release on October 6, 2020.[11] | Found alive | 6 months |
| 22 April 2020 | Vanessa Guillén | 20 | United States | Guillén was a 20-year-old woman who was serving in theUnited States Army at the time of her disappearance. She had told her family and close friends that she was being sexually harassed by a fellow soldier, but never made an official complaint to her chain of command. Guillén was last seen on April 22, 2020, at approximately 1:00 pm in the parking lot of her unit onFort Hood,Texas. On June 30, 2020, authorities discovered human remains along theLeon River, inBelton, which after examination indicated that they were indeed Guillén's. The autopsy revealed the cause of death was due to bludgeoning.[12][13] | Murdered | 2 months 8 days |
| 30 April 2020 | Facundo Astudillo Castro | 22–23 | Argentina | Castro was anArgentine man who disappeared on April 30, 2020, during theCOVID-19 pandemic after he was stopped by thepolice[14][15] inMayor Buratovich, Buenos Aires. Castro was found dead on August 15, 2020.[16] Castro's death was revealed to be caused bydrowning. | Drowned | 107 days |
| 15 May 2020 | Luis Espinoza | 31 | Argentina | Espinoza was anArgentinian citizen who was shot and killed by police officers on May 15, 2020, who suspected that he participated in an illegalhorse race. His body was then dumped in a ravine, and later located after his family members inquired about his disappearance. Several police officers have been charged with his murder.[17] | Murdered | 1 week |
| 17 May 2020 | Shad Gaspard | 39 | United States | On May 17, 2020, formerWWE wrestler Shad Gaspard and his 10-year-old son went swimming at theMarina Del Rey Beach in California when both were caught in a rip current. Gaspard directed life guards to save his son first. His son was saved, but Gaspard had submerged underwater. Lifeguards at the beach, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the Los Angeles Fire Department searched for Gaspard until 7:30 p.m. that evening, when the search was called off. Three days later, on May 20, 2020, Gaspard's body was found on the beach and identified by the Los Angeles County coroner's office.[18][19] | Drowned | 3 days |
| 6 June 2020 | Bibaa Henry | 46 | United Kingdom | Two British women who disappeared while walking home from a party in north-west London on June 6, 2020. Although reported missing, the police allegedly showed little interest in searching for them; their family found their bodies inFryent Country Park the next day. They were murdered by a man as a result of a "satanic pact". The case gained notoriety after it emerged that police officers who found the bodies tookselfies with them.[20] | Murdered | 1 day |
| Nicole Smallman | 27 | |||||
| 9 June 2020 | Oluwatoyin Salau | 19 | United States | Oluwatoyin Salau was a community activist fromTallahassee, Florida who was reported missing on June 9, 2020, and was found dead four days later after being murdered.[21] | Murdered | 4 days |
| 8 July 2020 | Naya Rivera | 33 | United States | Rivera, an American actress best known for her role onGlee, wasdeclared missing after she went swimming with her 4-year-old son inLake Piru, California, on July 8, 2020, and never returned. She was declaredpresumed dead in a drowning incident the next day,[22] and her body was recovered on July 13, 2020.[23] It is suspected that she and her son got caught in a current; she pushed her son onto their boat, but could not get up herself.[24][25] | Drowned | 5 days |
| 9 July 2020 | Park Won-soon | 64 | South Korea | Park was a South Korean politician, lawyer, and activist, and was the longest-servingmayor of Seoul.[26] He disappeared on July 9, 2020, and was found dead a day later; it was revealed that he died by suicide.[27][28] | Suicide | 1 day |
| 24 June 2020 | İpek Er | 18 | Turkey | İpek Er was an 18-year-old Kurdish student fromBatman who died on August 18, 2020, following a suicide attempt resulting from her kidnapping and repeated rape over a 20-day period of confinement the previous month.[29] | Suicide | 20 days |
| 18 July 2020 | Bernadette Walker | 17 | United Kingdom | Walker was a 17-year-old student atPeterborough College who disappeared on 18 July 2020. Her stepfather, Scott Walker was convicted of murdering her[30] and has since died in prison. | Murdered | 1 year |
| 13 July 2020 | Brad Booth | 45 | United States | TheCanadian professionalpoker player was reported missing on July 30, 2020 after telling his roommates inReno, Nevada that he was going camping on July 13, 2020. His family announced that Booth had been located "alive and well" on September 16, 2020.[31] | Found alive | 65 days |
| 12 November 2020 | Melissa Caddick | 49 | Australia | Australian financial advisor who vanished on November 12, 2020, amid allegations that she was running aPonzi scheme. Her partial human remains were found floating in the ocean in February 2021, but cause of death is yet to be established.[32] | Unknown | 4 months |
| November 2020 | Esther Dingley | 37 | France | Dingley was an English hiker and blogger who disappeared during a solo trip through thePyrenees. Partial remains were found in July 2021, and later confirmed byDNA examination[33] to be Dingley's. She possibly died from slipping off a cliff. | Unknown | 8 months |
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2021 | Ali Sadpara | 45 | Pakistan | Ali Sadpara, John Snorri Sigurjónsson, and Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto were mountaineers who disappeared while ascendingK2 inKarakoram mountain range. The three were last seen alive at theK2 Bottleneck. Their bodies were discovered by a Madison Mountaineering Sherpa Team on July 26, 2021.[34] | Misadventure | 171 days |
| Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto | 33 | |||||
| John Snorri Sigurjónsson | 47 | |||||
| 4 January 2021 | Peter Neumair | 68 | Italy | On January 4, 2021, an elderly couple Peter Neumair and Laura Perselli were reported missing from their home inSouth Tyrol,Italy.[35] They were later found murdered by their son Benno Neumair.[36] | Murdered | 4 months |
| Laura Perselli | 63 | 1 month | ||||
| February 2021 | Ahmadullah | 13–17 | Pakistan | The four boys were last seen hunting for wild hare in the area ofJanikhel, Pakistan, in early February 2021. On March 21, 2021, a shepherd's dog found their mutilated remains in a mass grave: one was beheaded, another shot and the final two stoned to death. Their deaths remain under investigation, and sparked a nationwide protest from family, relatives and locals, who are demanding tighter security against militants operating in the area and the capture of the boys' killers.[37] | Various | 3 weeks |
| Atifullah | ||||||
| Mohammad Rahim | ||||||
| Razamullah | ||||||
| 24 February 2021 | Louis Nix | 29 | United States | Louis Nix was an American professionalfootball player who went missing on 24 February 2021, inJacksonville, Florida, and was found dead three days later on 27 February.[38][39] | Drowned | 3 days |
| 3 March 2021 | Sarah Everard | 33 | United Kingdom | On the evening of March 3, 2021, Everard, a marketing executive living inBrixton Hill, disappeared after leaving a friend's house. Six days later, 48-year-oldMetropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping Everard and was later rearrested on March 10 on suspicion of her murder when human remains were found nearAshford, Kent.[40][41] The remains were confirmed to be Everard's on March 12 and Couzens was charged with her kidnap and murder later the same day.[42][43] On June 8, 2021, Couzens pleaded guilty to kidnapping and raping her.[44] On July 9, 2021, he pleaded guilty to murdering her.[45] | Murdered | 7 days |
| 27 April 2021 | Olivia Zimmermann de Zárate | 6 | Spain | Kidnapped with her sister, Anna, by their biological father Tomás Antonio Gimeno Casañas on the island ofTenerife, Spain on April 27, 2021. He allegedly murdered both girls at his house in Igueste de Candelaria and dumped both bodies in the ocean; Olivia's was found off the coast ofSanta Cruz de Tenerife on June 10. Her sister's body has not been found.[46] | Murdered | 45 days |
| 5 May 2021 | James Dean | 35 | United Kingdom | Dean, an English footballer who played as aforward for several teams since beginning his career in 2003, was reported missing on May 6, 2021, after he was last seen the day prior. Three days later, his body was located by police inOswaldtwistle. Foul play was ruled out in his death.[47] | Unknown | 4 days |
| 8 May 2021 | Skilyr Hicks | 23 | United States | American singer and songwriter, best noted for her appearance on the eighth season ofAmerica's Got Talent. A repeat runaway with possible mental health issues, she went missing from her home inNorth Augusta, South Carolina, on May 8, 2021, only to be found unharmed days later.[48] She died later the same year. | Found alive | 5 days |
| 9 May 2021 | Tristyn Bailey | 13 | United States | On the morning of 9 May 2021, 13-year-old cheerleader Tristyn Bailey fromSt. Johns County, Florida, was reported missing by her family. Later that day, Bailey's stabbed body was found by a resident in a wooded area. Her classmate Aiden Fucci was arrested for her murder and sentenced to life in prison.[49] | Murdered | 1 day |
| 15 May 2021 | Ken Kadokura | 47 | Japan | Japanese professional baseballpitcher Ken Kadokura was reportedly missing since May 15, 2021. On June 6, 2021, his wife reported that he returned to his home.[50][51] | Found alive | 22 days |
| 28 May 2021 | Esther Brown | 67 | United Kingdom | Scottish pensioner reported missing on May 28, 2021. She was found dead in her flat inGlasgow four days later. A week after her body was discovered, paroled sex offender Jason Graham was arrested and confessed to her rape and murder. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 19 years in prison.[52][53] | Murdered | 3 days |
| 11 June 2021 | Mee Kuen Chong | 67 | United Kingdom | Chong was murdered by neighbourJemma Mitchell for financial gain on June 11, 2021. The murder occurred at herNorth London address. Mitchell later attempted to forge Chong's will to make Mitchell the primary beneficiary. Her body was disposed of inSalcombe,Devon, and was discovered on 27 June. Mitchell was later sentenced to life imprisonment.[54] | Murdered | 16 days |
| 28 June 2021 | Lauren Cho | 30 | United States | Lauren Cho was last seen in the area betweenMorongo Valley andYucca Valley, California walking away from her friend's converted bus after an argument on June 28, 2021. On October 9, 2021, investigators found unidentified human remains in the rugged terrain of the open desert of Yucca Valley, during their search for Cho. On October 28, 2021, investigators confirmed that the remains found on October 9 belonged to Cho.[55][56] | Unknown | 3 months, 11 days |
| 18 July 2021 | Julius Ssekitoleko | 21 | Japan | UgandanOlympic weightlifter who went missing while attending the2020 Summer Olympics inTokyo on July 18, 2021. He was located inNagoya two days later, explaining that he wished to start a new life.[57] | Found alive | 2 days |
| 13 August 2021 | Kylen Schulte | 24 | United States | Married couple who were shot to death by an unidentified offender while camping inMoab, Utah, on August 13, 2021, and were later declared missing. In December 2022, the case was closed and Adam Pinkusiewicz was cited as the murderer.[58] | Murdered | 5 days |
| Crystal Turner | 38 | |||||
| 27 August 2021 | Gabby Petito | 22 | United States | Gabby Petito was last seen with her fiancé Brian Laundrie on August 27, 2021, at a Tex-Mex-style restaurant inJackson, Wyoming.[59] She had told her mother a few days earlier that they were nearGrand Teton National Park. On September 11 Petito was declared missing, and on September 19 she was found dead in theBridger–Teton National Forest.[60][61] An autopsy found she was killed by strangulation.[62] Laundrie was reported missing on September 17, a few days after he left his parents home inNorth Port, Florida. His remains were found on October 20 inMyakkahatchee Creek Environmental Park, and it was later found that he had committed suicide.[63] | Murdered | 23 days |
| 17 September 2021 | Brian Laundrie | 23 | Suicide | 1 month | ||
| 9 September 2021 | Tanya Fear | 31 | United States | British actress and comedian who was reported missing from herLos Angeles apartment on September 9, 2021. She was later found unharmed, having received treatment at a local hospital for an undisclosed reason.[64] | Found alive | 4 days |
| 5 October 2021 | Cleo Smith | 4 | Australia | Australian toddler who disappeared from a campsite inGascoyne, Western Australia, whilst camping with her family on October 5, 2021.[65] She was found in a house inCarnarvon, Western Australia.[66] | Found alive | 18 days |
| November 2021 | Peng Shuai | 35 | China | Chinese professional tennis player who vanished off social media in November 2021, shortly after accusing a high-ranking Chinese politician of sexual assault. She reappeared two weeks later, claiming that her post had been misunderstood and that she had never actually accused anyone.[67] | Found alive | 2 weeks |
| 2 December 2021 | Hanifa Abubakar | 5 | Nigeria | Hanifa Abubakar, a girl fromNassarawa,Kano State, Nigeria, was kidnapped on December 2, 2021,[68] and found dead on January 20, 2022. | Murdered | 49 days |
| 9 December 2021 | Thomas Phillips | 34 | New Zealand | The father and his three children had previously been considered missing for 18 days in September 2021 before emerging from the bush unharmed. After Thomas was charged for wasting police resources, the family disappeared again on 9 December 2021.[69] Thomas was killed in a shootout with police on 8 September 2025 and the children were recovered unharmed. | Various | 3 years, 8 months and 30 days |
| 12 December 2021 | Kamarie Holland | 5 | United States | Holland was a five-year-old child abducted from herColumbus, Georgia, home on December 12, 2021, by Jeremy Williams. She was sexually assaulted and murdered by strangulation inPhenix City, Alabama, on December 13. The abduction and sexual assault was committed upon the agreement that Holland's mother, Kristy Siple—who staged a child abduction scenario—would be paid $1,300 by Williams to engage in sex with Holland. Siple was ultimately sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment; Williams was found guilty of four counts of capital murder. He is currently incarcerated on death row.[70] | Murdered | 3 days |
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 November 2022 | Hans-Joachim Lohre | Unknown | Mali | German Roman Catholic priest and missionary who was kidnapped by unknown assailants in Mali.[71] | Released | 1 year |
| 6 January 2022 | Shane O'Connor | 17 | Ireland | Shane O'Connor, the teenage son of Irish musicianSinéad O'Connor, had disappeared fromNewbridge, County Kildare on January 6, 2022, and was found dead just two days later.[72] | Suicide | 2 days |
| 13 January 2022 | Charlise Mutten | 9 | Australia | Charlise Mutten was an Australian girl who disappeared while visiting the estate of her mother's fiancé, Justin Stein, inMount Wilson. Her body was found a few days later, and Stein has subsequently been charged in her death.[73] | Murdered | 4 days |
| February 2022 | Rebecca Contois | 24 | Canada | Contois was anIndigenous Canadian woman allegedly murdered by Jeremy Skibicki. She was last seen alive in the first week of February 2022. Her remains were found discarded in a garbage bin near an apartment complex inNorth Kildonan,Winnipeg, on May 16.[74] | Murdered | 3 months |
| 13 February 2022 | Lindsey Pearlman | 43 | United States | American actress, voice actress and animal rights activist. Pearlman was reported missing to theLos Angeles Police Department on February 13, 2022; her body was discovered in her car on February 18. The cause of her death was determined to be suicide via intentionaloverdose ofsodium nitrite.[75] | Suicide | 5 days |
| 26 February 2022 | Oluwabamise Ayanwole | 22 | Nigeria | Ayanwole was a Nigerian woman who was abducted after boarding aBRT inLagos, Nigeria. Her nude body was found nine days later, close to Carter Bridge onLagos Island. The driver of the bus, Andrew Nice Omininikoron, was later arrested on suspicion of her rape and murder.[76] | Murdered | 9 days |
| 12 March 2022 | Naomi Irion | 19 | United States | Irion was abducted from a parking lot inFernley, Nevada, by 41-year-old Troy Driver on March 12, 2022. Her body was discovered inChurchill County on March 29. Irion had been shot to death. Driver committed suicide while in custody prior to his trial for her murder.[77] | Murdered | 17 days |
| 13 March 2022 | Maksim Yevhenovych Levin | 40 | Ukraine | Levin was a Ukrainian photographer killed by Russian armed forces during a mission to document the consequences of theRussian invasion of Ukraine inKyiv Oblast. He is believed to have died on March 13; his body was found near a village on April 1, 2022.[78] | Murdered | 19 days |
| April 2022 | Gonzalo Lira | 53 | Ukraine | Gonzalo Lira was a maleChilean-American filmmaker, novelist and commentator who disappeared for a short time in April 2022 after he claimed that he had been detained by theSecurity Service of Ukraine,[79] after he had resurfaced. | Found alive | Unknown |
| 24 April 2022 | Lily Peters | 10 | United States | Lily Peters was an American girl fromChippewa Falls, Wisconsin, who after not arriving home on April 24, 2022, was reported missing by her father and was found dead the next day after being killed.[80] | Murdered | 1 day |
| 25 April 2022 | Aguil Chut-Deng | 55 | Australia | Aguil Chut-Deng, who was also known as Aguil Chut-Deng and Aguil de'Chut Deng, aSouth Sudanese activist and revolutionary, was found dead on 26 April 2022 in a wooded area inBrisbane after being reported missing a day earlier.[81] | Undetermined | 1 day |
| 26 May 2022 | Emmeril Kahn Mumtadz | 22 | Switzerland | Emmeril Kahn Mumtadz, the son ofWest Java GovernorRidwan Kamil, disappeared after being swept away at theAare River's current inBern, Switzerland on May 26, 2022. He was presumed dead eight days later by his family. His body was found on June 9 at the Engehalde Dam.[82][83] | Drowned | 2 weeks |
| 5 June 2022 | Dom Phillips | 57 | Brazil | Dom Phillips was a British journalist who went missing in Brazil in June 2022, along with his guide, Bruno Pereira. Phillips was writing a book on theAmazon rainforest and had travelled to Brazil to meet locals. Their disappearances were first reported on June 5 when their boat did not arrive at an expected meeting point near thePeru border. On June 16, eleven days thereafter, a Brazilian man later named as Amarildo da Costa de Oliveira admitted to murdering both men and led police to the site where he buried the bodies. Police then arrested Oliveira and his brother Oseney. One day later, on June 17, officials confirmed that Phillips' body had been identified by dental records.[84] Pereira's body was identified the following day on June 18, and a third suspect named Jeferson da Silva Lima (also known as Pelado da Dinha) was arrested after turning himself in to a police station inAtalaia do Norte. Officials later stated that Phillips and Pereira were shot with hunting ammunition.[85] | Murdered | 12 days |
| Bruno Pereira | 41 | Murdered | 13 days | |||
| 10 June 2022 | Ezra Miller | 29 | United States | Miller, an American actor, and Iron Eyes—a Native American activist—disappeared on 10 June 2022. Both were located in August.[86] | Found alive | 2 months |
| Tokata Iron Eyes | 18–19 | |||||
| 24 July 2022 | Dawn Dumont | 48 | Canada | A Canadian writer and former lawyer and journalist who staged her own disappearance and death on July 24, 2022. Dumont and her child were found alive inOregon on August 5.[87] | Found alive | 12 days |
| 20 August 2022 | Luke Bell | 32 | United States | Luke Bell was an Americancountry singer-songwriter and musician who disappeared on August 20, 2022, inTucson, Arizona, and was found dead nine days later.[88] In September, it was revealed that he died from afentanyl overdose on August 26.[89] | Drug overdose | 9 days |
| 16 September 2022 | Tom Marsh | 60 | Atacama Desert, Chile | 60-year-old astronomer and astrophysicist Tom Marsh disappeared while visiting theLa Silla Observatory inChile on 16 September 2022. His body was discovered in theAtacama Desert on 10 November 2022.[90] | Undetermined | 55 days |
| 15 October 2022 | Theophilus London | 35 | United States | Theophilus London, a Trinidadian-born American rapper, was reported missing by his family in December 2022. London had been last contacted that July, stopped updating his social media accounts the same month, and was last seen in Los Angeles on October 15.[91] London was located by his family on January 4, 2023.[92] | Found alive | 2 months, 21 days |
| 27 November 2022 | Hamish Kilgour | 65 | New Zealand | Hamish Kilgour was the drummer and co-founder ofThe Clean, an influential New Zealand indie rock band.[93] Kilgour was last seen at a shopping plaza inChristchurch on November 27, 2022, and was reported missing by his family on December 1.[94] Kilgour's death was announced by Christchurch police on December 6.[95] | Suicide | 10 days |
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 January 2023 | Constance Marten | 35 | United Kingdom | A British couple went missing on January 5, 2023, when their car was found abandoned and on fire nearBolton. They were found on February 27, 2023, when they were arrested inBrighton. They went missing with their newborn baby, who was believed to have been born a couple days earlier, but were found without their baby (see below).[96] | Found alive | 53 days | |
| Mark Gordon | 48 | ||||||
| Baby A | 1–2 months | After the couple were found (see above) without their baby, an extensive search encompassing around 90 mi2 (230 km2) involving over 200 police officers took place.[97][98] A baby's remains were found almost 48 hours after the search began, on March 1, 2023, wrapped in a plastic bag and hidden inside a shed on anallotment inHollingbury,Brighton, near where the couple were arrested.[99] The couple were charged with multiple crimes including causing or allowing the death of a child and manslaughter by gross negligence,[100] and each sentenced to 14 years in prison.[101] | Unknown | 55 days | |||
| 13 January 2023 | Julian Sands | 65 | United States | Julian Sands was a British film and television actor. On January 13, 2023, just over a week after his 65th birthday, Sands went hiking in theSan Gabriel Mountains northeast of Los Angeles. He was reported missing later that day after severe storms hit the area and he failed to return home. Sands' car was found five days later near the area he was reported missing from. On June 24, 2023, hikers reported finding a body in the area near where Sands disappeared, and the remains were confirmed as Sands' three days later on June 27.[102] | Undetermined | 5 months, 14 days | |
| 23 January 2023 | Jeff Machado | 44 | Brazil | Jeff Machado was a Brazilian actor and journalist who went missing in January 2023 inRio de Janeiro in the neighborhood ofCampo Grande. He was found dead on May 22, 2023[103] after being found buried in a trunk after being murdered by unknown people. | Murdered | 5 months | |
| 27 January 2023 | Nicola Bulley | 45 | United Kingdom | Nicola Bulley was reported missing on the morning of January 27, 2023. She had taken her dog for a walk near theRiver Wyre, and her dog and mobile phone—still connected to a workMicrosoft Teams call—were found but there was no trace of Bulley. Police hypothesised that she had fallen into the river; her body was recovered approximately one mile (1.6 km) downstream on February 19.[104] | Drowned | 23 days | |
| 21 February 2023 | Abby Choi Tin-fung | 28 | Hong Kong | On February 24, 2023, three days after her disappearance, the headless corpse of 28-year-old Abby Choi Tin-fung, a media personality and influencer, was discovered at a Tai Po village in Hong Kong. Reportedly, some of her body parts were hidden in a refrigerator and some were cooked. The police therefore classified the case as murder.[105] In total, seven suspects, including Choi's ex-husband, were arrested in connection to the murder.[106][107][108] | Murdered | 3 days | |
| 2 March 2023 | Stefán Arnar Gunnarsson | 45 | Iceland | AnIcelandic handball coach and player. Gunnarsson was reported missing on March 2, 2023. His body was found washed ashore on a beach inReykjanesbær on 2 April. He had died of drowning in an apparent suicide.[109] | Drowning | 1 month | |
| 13 March 2023 | Elizabeth Tsurkov | 36 | Iraq | Elizabeth Tsurkov is a Russian -Israeli researcher who was kidnapped inBaghdad in March 2023 while conducting doctoral research in Iraq. She was held hostage by the groupKata'ib Hezbollah for 903 days before her release on September 9, 2025. She is currently a doctoral student atPrinceton University.[110] | Released alive | 2 years, 5 months, and 32 days | |
| 11 May 2023 | David Mitogo | 32 | Spain | Aforward for theEquatorial Guinea national football team. Mitogo disappeared close to the riverMinho. His body was recovered from the riverAvia two weeks later.[111] | Unknown | 2 weeks | |
| 28 May 2023 | Giulia Tramontano | 29 | Italy | A missing pregnant woman was reported missing inMilan on 28 May 2023.[112] Three days later her body was discovered and her boyfriend was found guilty of the murder.[113] | Murdered | 3 days | |
| 2 June 2023 | Cecilia Strzyzowski | 28 | Argentina | Strzyzowski was a 28-year-old Argentine woman who was allegedly murdered in an act offemicide by up to six individuals including her partner, César Sena, on June 2, 2023. Crushed and charred bones believed to belong to Strzyzowski were later discovered in the Tragadero River, close to Sena's home, but could not be conclusively identified. However, extensive traces of blood discovered in Sena's house was determined on July 11 to source from her.[114] | Murdered | 1 month | |
| 18 June 2023 | Paul-Henri Nargeolet | 77 | Atlantic Ocean | Five people perished on 18 June 2023 when thesubmersibleTitan imploded near thewreck of theTitanic. On 22 June, following the discovery of a debris field approximately 490 metres (1,610 ft) from thebow of theTitanic,OceanGate confirmed the deaths of all five passengers. A subsequentUnited States Coast Guard conference attributed the implosion of theTitan to a catastrophic loss of thepressure hull.[115] | Misadventure | 4 days | |
| Shahzada Dawood | 48 | ||||||
| Hamish Harding | 58 | ||||||
| Suleman Dawood | 19 | ||||||
| Stockton Rush | 61 | ||||||
| 8 July 2023 | Émile Soleil | 2 | France | Young boy who disappeared on July 8, 2023, during a stay at his grandparents house in the Frenchcommune ofLe Vernet, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, bodily remains were later found in a nearby forest. | Undetermined | 266 days | |
| 19 July 2023 | Yanfei Bao | 44 | New Zealand | A real estate agent who disappeared from a suburb ofChristchurch on 19 July 2023; her body was discovered in a shallow grave by police on rural farmland nearLincoln on 30 July 2024.[116] On 4 December 2024, Chinese national Tingjun Chao was convicted of Bao's murder.[117] | Murdered | 1 year | |
| 5 August 2023 | Rachel Morin | 37 | United States | On August 5, 2023, Morin was murdered while hiking along theMa and Pa Trail inBel Air, Maryland by illegal immigrantVictor Martinez Hernandez.[118] He was sentenced to life in prison.[119] | Murdered | 3 days | |
| 2 September 2023 | Jonila Castro | 21 | Philippines | Two youth environmental activists disappeared inOrion, Bataan on 2 September 2023.[120] They resurfaced two weeks later.[121] | Found alive | 17 days | |
| Jhed Tamano | 22 | ||||||
| 23 September 2023 | Lina Delsarte | 15 | France | Delsarte, a 15-year-old girl disappeared from her home inSaint-Blaise-la-Roche on 23 September 2023.[122] She was later discovered murdered when her remains were discovered on 16 October 2024 in woods nearNevers.[123] | Murdered | 13 months | |
| 7 October 2023 See also:Gaza war hostage crisis | Shani Louk | 22 | Israel | Louk was a 22-year-old German-Israeli abducted byHamas militants during the October 7, 2023Nova music festival massacre. Footage of her abduction became one of the most viral videos of theGaza war. On 30 October, theIsrael Defense Forces informed Louk's relatives that a section of thepetrous part of the temporal bone had been identified viaDNA analysis as belonging to Louk, indicating she had likely died at the festival. Her remains were found on May 17, 2024, in the Gaza Strip.[124] | Murdered | 23 days | |
| Farhan al-Qadi | 52 | ANegev Bedouin man kidnapped by Hamas militants on October 7 fromKibbutz Magen, Qadi was rescued from tunnels in southern Gaza in a joint operation by the Israel Defense Forces andShin Bet on August 27, 2024.[125] | Found alive | 10 months, 20 days | |||
| Yarden Bibas | 34 | TheBibas family, which held multiple citizenship of Israel, Argentina, and Germany, were kidnapped on by Palestinian militants during theNir Oz attacks. Yarden was held captive in Gaza, and was released on February 1, 2025 as part of theJanuary 2025 Gaza war ceasefire.Hamas handed over the remains of his wife, Shiri, and two children, Ariel and Kfir, on February 20, 2025. There are contradictory claims of their killing from Israeli authorities and Hamas.[126] | Released alive | 1 year, 4 months, and 25 days | |||
| Shiri Bibas | 32 | Killed | 1 year, 5 months, and 13 days | ||||
| Ariel Bibas | 4 | ||||||
| Kfir Bibas | 9 months | ||||||
| Rom Braslavski | 19 | Braslavski, a security guard at theNova music festival, was taken captive byHamas as part of theOctober 7 attacks. He was released on October 13, 2025 as part of theGaza peace plan.[127] | Released alive | 2 years, 6 days | |||
| Hersh Goldberg-Polin | 23 | A 23-year-old American-Israeli abducted byHamas militants from theRe'im music festival massacre. Goldberg-Polin is known to have been wounded prior to being taken captive. His body was recovered from a tunnel inRafah in the Gaza Strip on 31 August 2024.[128][129] | Murdered | 10 months, 24 days | |||
| Romi Gonen | 23 | Romi Gonen is anIsraeli woman who was abducted byHamas onOctober 7th 2023 during theNova music festival massacre. She was released on January 19, 2025 as part of theJanuary 2025 Gaza war ceasefire.[130] | Released alive | 1 year, 3 months, and 12 days | |||
| Noa Argamani | 26 | Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or are anIsraeli couple who were abducted byHamas onOctober 7th 2023 during theNova music festival massacre. On June 8, 2024, Argamani and three other hostages wererescued from Gaza in a joint operation by theIsrael Defense Forces,Shin Bet, and theIsrael Police.[131] Or was released from Hamas captivity on October 13, 2025, as part of thethird Gaza war ceasefire agreement.[132] | Found alive | 9 months, 1 day | |||
| Avinatan Or | 30 | Released alive | 2 years, 6 days | ||||
| Alon Ohel | 22 | Alon Ohel is anIsraeli-Serbian[133]pianist who was abducted byHamas during theNova Music Festival massacre. He was held hostage in theGaza Strip for two years, until his release on 13 October 2025 as part of theGaza peace plan.[134] | |||||
| Nattapong Pinta | 36 | Nattapong Pinta was a Thai agricultural worker who was taken hostage during the October 7, 2023assault on Kibbutz Nir Oz, near the Gaza Strip, where he worked on an avocado and pomegranate farm.[135] His body was recovered by theIsrael Defense Forces (IDF) in June 7, 2025.[136] | Found dead | 1 year, 8 months | |||
| Omer Shem Tov | 21 | Omer Shem Tov is anIsraeli man who was abducted byHamas onOctober 7th 2023 during theNova music festival massacre. He was released on February 22, 2025 as part of theJanuary 2025 Gaza war ceasefire[137] | Released alive | 1 year, 5 months, and 15 days | |||
| Vivian Silver | 74 | Vivian Silver was a Canadian-Israeli peace activist and women's rights activist.[138] She was murdered in theBe'eri massacre, a part of theOctober 7 attacks.[139] Her body was identified using DNA on November 13, 2023.[140] | Murdered | 1 month, 6 days | |||
| Edan Alexander | 19 | Edan Alexander is an American-Israeli soldier and was taken as aprisoner of war by Hamas onOctober 7th 2023. He was released on May 12, 2025 following high profile negotiations involving theU.S. government.[141] | Released alive | 1 year, 8 months, and 6 days | |||
| Matan Angrest | 20 | Matan Angrest is an Israeli soldier and was taken as aprisoner of war by Hamas onOctober 7, 2023. He was released on October 13, 2025.[142] | 2 years, 6 days | ||||
| Agam Berger | 19 | Agam Berger is an Israeli soldier and was taken as aprisoner of war by Hamas onOctober 7, 2023. She was released on January 30, 2025.[143] | 1 year, 3 months, and 23 days | ||||
| Elkana Bohbot | 34 | Elkana Bohbot is anIsraeli man who was abducted byHamas onOctober 7, 2023at theNova music festival. He was released on October 13, 2025.[144] | 2 years, 6 days | ||||
| Nimrod Cohen | 19 | Nimrod Cohen is an Israeli soldier and was taken as aprisoner of war by Hamas onOctober 7, 2023. He was released on October 13, 2025.[145] | |||||
| Ariel Cunio | 25 | Ariel and David Cunio are Israeli brothers who was abducted to theGaza Strip, onOctober 7, 2023 during themassacre at Kibbutz Nir Oz and were released on October 13, 2025, as part of a Israel-Hamas agreement.[146] | |||||
| David Cunio | 33 | ||||||
| Emily Damari | 27 | Emily Damari is a British-Israeli abducted during theKfar Aza attacks on October 7 2023. She was released on January 19, 2025.[147] | 1 year, 3 months, and 12 days | ||||
| Evyatar David | 19 | Evyatar David is anIsraeli man who was kidnapped during theNova music festival massacre of theOctober 7 attacks, and was held as a hostage byHamas until October 13, 2025, when he was released as part of ahostage-prisoner exchange.[148] | 2 years, 6 days | ||||
| Eitan Mor | 23 | Eitan Mor is anIsraeli man who was kidnapped during theNova music festival massacre of theOctober 7 attacks, and was held as a hostage byHamas until October 13, 2025, when he was released as part of ahostage-prisoner exchange.[148] | |||||
| Shoshan Haran | 65 | Shoshan Haran is an Israeli woman was kidnapped from her house during theBe'eri massacre and was released 50 days later on November 15, 2023 in thefirst hostage deal.[149] | 50 days | ||||
| Avigail Idan | 3 | Avigail Idan is an American-Israeli child who was abducted in 2023 during theOctober 7 attacks as part of theKfar Aza Massacre byHamas. She was released on November 26, 2023, after spending 50 days in captivity.[150] | |||||
| Bar Kupershtein | 21 | Bar Kupershtein is anIsraeli who was abducted byHamas onOctober 7th 2023 while working as a paramedic and security guard at the Nova music festival. He was released on October 13, 2025.[151] | 2 years, 6 days | ||||
| Yosef Ohana | 23 | Yosef Ohana is an Israeli who was abducted byHamas on October 7, 2023 while working as a bartender at theNova music festival after helping evacuate wounded victims.[152] He was held for 738 days before being released on October 13, 2025.[153] | |||||
| Noa Marciano | 19 | Noa Marciano was a 19-year-oldIsraeli soldier who was taken as aprisoner of war byHamas onOctober 7, 2023 from anIDF observation base onNahal Oz. Her body was recovered by the IDF on November 16, 2023.[154] | Killed | 1 month, 9 days | |||
| Gadi Moses | 79 | Gadi Moses is an Israeli citizen who was abducted from his home byPalestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) militants during theNir Oz massacre on October 7, 2023. He was released on January 30, 2025, as part of an agreement between Israel andHamas. Moses is the oldest living male hostage released during theGaza War.[155] | Released alive | 1 year, 3 months, and 23 days | |||
| Ran Gvili | 24 | Ran Gvili was an Israeli combatant killed in battle near Kibbutz Alumim during the7 October attacks. His body was taken to theGaza Strip byHamas militants during the Hamas-led assault.The IDF reported on January 26, 2026 that Gvili’s remains had been located and identified.[156] | Killed | 2 years, 3 months, and 19 days | |||
| Yarden Roman-Gat | 36 | Yarden Roman-Gat is a German-Israeli woman who was abducted from her inKibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023, during theBe'eri massacre. Yarden was released on November 29, 2023, as part of a temporary ceasefire andprisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel brokered by Qatar and the United States.[157] | Released alive | 53 days | |||
| Mia Schem | 21 | Mia Schem, aFrench-Israeli woman, wasabducted byHamas during theRe'im music festival massacre, part of theOctober 7 attacks.[158] She appeared in the first hostage video released by Hamas. She was released on 30 November 2023.[159] | 54 days | ||||
| Eli Sharabi | 51 | Eli Sharabi is an Israeli man who wasabducted during theBe'eri massacre as part of theOctober 7, 2023attack. He was released on February 8, 2025. During the massacre, his wife Lian and their daughters Noya and Yahel were murdered. His brotherYossi was also kidnapped and later murdered after 100 days in captivity.[160] | 1 year, 5 months, and 1 day | ||||
| Amit Soussana | 40 | Amit Soussana is an Israeli woman who was abducted during theOctober 7 attacks in theKfar Aza Massacre. She was freed on November 30, 2023, during theprisoner exchange between Hamas and Israel, after spending 55 days in captivity. She was the first Israeli hostage to come forward about being sexually assaulted in captivity.[161] | Released alive | 55 days | |||
| 4 November 2023 | Ross McDonnell | 44 | United States | Ross McDonnell was a filmmaker and photographer. He was last seen riding a bicycle after he left his apartment inBedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on November 4, 2023. The bicycle was later found locked up at Fort Tilden Beach inBreezy Point, Queens. On November 17, 2023, a headless and armless body was found in Breezy Point. It was later confirmed that it was McDonnell. Foul play is not suspected.[162] | Undetermined | At least 13 days | |
| 11 November 2023 | Giulia Cecchettin | 22 | Italy | An Italian college student murdered by her former boyfriend, Filippo Turetta, on November 11, 2023. Her body was discovered in the ski resort ofPiancavallo on November 18.[163] | Murdered | 1 week | |
| 5 December 2023 | Alexei Navalny | 47 | Russia | ARussian opposition leader, lawyer, andpolitical prisoner who has organised anti-government demonstrations and campaigned againstcorruption in Russia. Navalny briefly disappeared on December 5, 2023; he was later discovered to be incarcerated in theYamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.[164] | Found incarcerated | 3 weeks | |
| 8 December 2023 | Gaynor Lord | 55 | United Kingdom | A mother of three who disappeared after leaving her workplace early inNorwich city centre on December 8, 2023. Her belongings were found in Wensum Park, and her body was recovered from the River Wensum on December 15, 2023. The coroner ruled her death as misadventure due to drowning.[165] | Drowned(misadventure) | 1 week | |
| 16 December 2023 | Fredrick Wangabo Mwenengabo | 48-49 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Fredrick Wangabo Mwenengabo is a Congolese-Canadian who was kidnapped while visiting family members inGoma, and was held for ransom until being released. He returned to Canada on 1 June 2024.[166] | Released alive | 3 months |
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 January 2024 | Hinako Ashihara | 50 | Japan | Hinako Ashihara, amangaka, was reported missing on January 28. Two days before she went missing, she criticizedNippon TV on her blog for mishandling the live action adaptation of her manga,Sexy Tanaka-san, before deleting the blog post and apologizing. Her body was found inNikko, Tochigi a day later on January 29. She is believed to have died by suicide.[167][168][169][170] | Suicide | 1 day |
| 29 January 2024 | Hind Rajab | 5 | Palestine | On 29 January 2024, during theGaza War, Palestinian child Hind Rajab, along with six of her family members, was fleeing from the Gaza City neighborhood ofTel al-Hawa, when an Israeli army tank shot their vehicle, a blackKia, killing Rajab's aunt, uncle, and three cousins. Rajab and another cousin survived and contacted thePalestine Red Crescent Society(PRCS) to ask for help while noting that they were being attacked by an Israeli tank. The cousin was later also killed and Rajab was left stranded in the vehicle for hours on the phone, as paramedics from PRCS attempted to rescue her. Both Rajab and the paramedics were later also found killed on 10 February after an Israeli withdrawal.[171] | Murdered | 12 Days |
| 15 February 2024 | Audrii Cunningham | 11 | United States | Audrii Cunningham went missing fromLivingston, Texas, on February 15, 2024, and was found dead five days later.[172] | Murdered | 5 days |
| 8 February 2024 | Alexandra Föderl-Schmid | 53 | Austria | The Austrian journalist and deputy editor-in-chief of German newspaperSüddeutsche Zeitung disappeared on 8 February. One day later, she was found alive and hypothermic under a bridge over theInn river inBraunau am Inn.[173] | Found alive | 1 day |
| 18 February 2024 | Jesse Baird | 26 | Australia | Jesse Baird was a television presenter andAustralian rules footballgoal umpire. He was last seen with his partner Luke Davies, aged 29, on the evening of February 18, 2024.[174] On February 21, personal belongings of both men were found in askip bin inCronulla, and a subsequent police search of Baird'sPaddington home found large quantities of blood and bullet casings from a police firearm.[175] On February 23,police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon was charged with murder, and on February 27, the bodies of Baird and Davies were found inBungonia, nearGoulburn.[176][177][178] | Murdered | 9 days |
| 26 March 2024 | Danka Ilić | 1 | Republic of Serbia | A young Serbian girl who disappeared on 26 March 2024. Ten days after her disappearance, two suspects were arrested for her alleged murder. Her body was never found.[179] | Murdered | 10 days |
| 2 April 2024 | Sade Robinson | 19 | United States | A college student who went missing in Wisconsin.[180] Her severed leg washed up onLake Michigan the next day.[181] The other body parts were discovered later.[182] | Murdered | 1 day |
| 12 April 2024 | Benjamin Achimeir | 14 | Israel | Benjamin Achimeir, a teenage boy went missing on April 12, 2024,[183] after he left a farm located close to anIsraeli settlement in the West Bank and was found dead a day later. | Murdered | 1 day |
| 24 May 2024 | Celeste Rivas Hernandez | 14 | United States | A 14-year-old girl fromLake Elsinore, California was last heard from on May 24, 2024.[184] On September 8, 2025, her body was found decomposed in the trunk of aTesla belonging to American singer-songwriter David Burke, known professionally asD4vd. | Unknown | 1 year, 4 months |
| 5 June 2024 | Michael Mosley | 67 | Greece | British television journalist, producer and presenter reported missing by his wife while they were on holiday with their children on the Greek island ofSymi on June 5, 2024. Mosley's wife alerted authorities after he did not return to their hotel. Asearch and rescue team including local people, local police, fire crews, and police fromAthens useddrones, and extensively searched the tracks and paths he might have taken on foot, with the search extending the following day.[185] On June 9, 2024, Mosley's body was found near a fence on Agia Marina beach in Symi.[186][187] | Natural causes | 5 days |
| 10 June 2024 | Saulos Chilima | 51 | Malawi | Saulos Chilima, the Malawian Vice President and economist, and Patricia Shanil Muluzi, a teacher, Malawian politician andFirst Lady of Malawi from 1999 until 2004 who disappeared on June 10, 2024, while aboard an aircraftdisappeared from radar inChikangawa Forest Reserve inMzimba District. The plane and their bodies were found a day later after it had crashed.[188] | Accident | 1 day |
| Patricia Shanil Muluzi | 59 | |||||
| 1 July 2024 | Jacques Freitag | 42 | South Africa | South Africanhigh jumper Jacques Freitag went missing on July 1, 2024, fromPretoria West, and was found dead two weeks after being killed.[189] | Murdered | 2 weeks |
| 21 June 2024 | Geneva Lopez | 26 | Philippines | Lopez was aFilipino model; she and herIsraeli partner, Cohen, were reported missing inCapas, Tarlac, on June 21. Their bodies were discovered in a quarry on July 6. Both had been shot to death.[190] | Murdered | 15 days |
| Yitshak Cohen | 37 | |||||
| 16 June 2024 | Bryson Muir | 14 | United States | The son ofNFL playerDaniel Muir. Muir was last seen outside his grandmother's home inCleveland, Ohio on June 16; he was found alive on July 3. Following his discovery, his father was arrested and charged with domestic battery and obstruction of justice.[191] | Found alive | 17 days |
| 17 June 2024 | Jay Slater | 19 | Tenerife | Slater was a 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from England who flew to Tenerife on holiday. On June 17, after he attended the NRG Festival near his accommodation inLos Cristianos, he travelled some 11 hours northwestward to the mountain village ofMasca with two men.[192] He was last heard from at 08:50WEST, after informing his friend that he would attempt to walk back to his accommodation and was reported missing at 09:04 WEST.[193] 28 days later, his body was found after local authorities identified that he likely died from an accidental fall.[194] | Likely accident | 28 days |
| 19 August 2024 | Mike Lynch | 59 | Italy | Mike Lynch disappeared on August 19, 2024, after thesuper yacht he was travelling in sank off the coast ofSicily, with Lynch and 21 others on board. The yacht was struck by awaterspout and subsequently capsized and sank. His body was found a day later on August 20. | Drowned | 1 day |
| 4 October 2024 | Sandra Domínguez | 36 | Mexico | A human right activists forindigenous women inOaxaca, Sandra Domínguez went missing along with her husband Alexander Hernández. On 24 April 2025, the bodies of Domínguez and Hernández were found in hidden graves at a property located on a dirt road between La Ceiba and Unión Progreso inSantiago Sochiapan, Veracruz.[195] | Murdered | 202 days |
| October 2024 | Humaira Asghar | 31 | Pakistan | Humaira Asghar, a Pakistani actress disappeared In October 2024. She was found deceased on 8 July 2025.[196] | Unknown | 9 months |
| 8 November 2024 | Hannah Kobayashi | 30 | United States | Hannah Kobayashi disappeared on 8 November 2024 after leavingLos Angeles International Airport. She was found unharmed in Tijuana, Mexico and returned to the United States on 16 December 2024. | Found alive | 38 days |
| 21 November 2024 | Zvi Kogan | 28 | United Arab Emirates | An Israeli-Moldovanrabbi residing in theUnited Arab Emirates. Kogan was an envoy of theOrthodox JewishHasidic organizationChabad. He was last seen at the kosher supermarket he managed inDubai. Shortly thereafter, Kogan was abducted and killed. On 24 November 2024, a body was found and confirmed to be that of Kogan.[197] | Murdered | 3 days |
| 27 December 2024 | Hussam Abu Safiya | 51 | Palestine | Palestinian paediatrician and neonatologist who served as the director ofKamal Adwan Hospital in theGaza Strip from February 2024 until itsevacuation in December 2024. Abu Safiya was subsequently arrested and has beendetained without charge inOfer Prison for over a year.[198] Israeli forces initially denied his arrest, but later confirmed his detention on January 3, 2025.[199] | Found incarcerated | 8 days |
| Date | Person(s) | Age | Country of disappearance | Circumstances | Outcome | Time spent missing or unconfirmed |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 January 2025 | Wang Xing | 31 | Myanmar | A Chinese actor went missing in Myanmar, and was discovered 4 days later.[200] | Found alive | 4 days |
| 7 January 2025 | Eliza Huszti | 32 | United Kingdom | Eliza and Henrietta Huszti were two sisters from a set of triplets who went missing fromAberdeen in the north east of Scotland on 7 January 2025 and were both found dead on 31 January after their bodies were found in theRiver Dee.[201] | Drowned | Three weeks |
| Henrietta Huszti | 32 | |||||
| January 2025 | Mizuki Itagaki | 24 | Japan | Mizuki Itagaki, a 24-year-old male Japanese actor, was reported missing in late January 2025. He was later found dead in Tokyo approximately mid-March 2025.[202] | Found dead | c. Two months |
| February 2025 | Sam Nordquist | 24 | United States | Sam Nordquist, an American man fromRed Wing, Minnesota, was officially reported missing in February 2025 after losing contact with family in early January.[203] Sam had flown to New York from Minnesota in September of 2024 to meet his girlfriend. His remains were found on February 13, 2025. Authorities stated that he died in early February following over a month of torture and abuse. Seven people have been charged with his murder.[204] | Murdered | Over a month |
| April 2025 | Sam Ruddock | 36 | United States | Sam Ruddock, aParalympic athlete disappeared in April 2025 in Las Vegas, Nevada, after going to seeWrestleMania 41, has been found safe.[205] | Found alive | 12 days |
| 15 May 2025 | Pheobe Bishop | 17 | Australia | Pheobe Bishop, a 17-year-old Australian, was reported missing after she failed to board a flight. Her remains were found on 6 June and identified on 17 June.[206] | Found dead | 33 days |
| 30 May 2025 | Paityn Decker | 9 | United States | Three children went missing inWenatchee, Washington and were later found dead. Police later found Travis Caleb Decker deceased during a search south of Wenatchee.[207] | Found dead | 3 days |
| Evelyn Decker | 8 | |||||
| Olivia Decker | 5 | |||||
| 21 June 2025 | Juliana Marins | 26 | Indonesia | Juliana Marins, a Brazilian solo traveler, went missing on 21 June 2025 during a hike onMount Rinjani, a volcano on the island ofLombok, Indonesia. Her body was retrieved on 24 June 2025.[208] | Accident | 4 days |
| 2 November 2025 | Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi | 51 | Israel | Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi is amajor general in theIsrael Defense Forces who served as thechief military advocate from 1 September 2021 to October 31, 2025. On October 31, 2025, Tomer-Yerushalmi resigned from her post after admitting she was responsible for leaking a classified surveillance video to the media.[209] On November 2, the IDF stated that Tomer-Yerushalmi had gone missing. She was found alive at a beach inHerzliya after several hours, with police, military, and rescue forces participating in her search.[210] She was arrested by police later that night, along with former IDF prosecutor Matan Solomesh.[211] | Found alive | 2 hours |
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