'Low Strangeness' Disappearances (Missing Persons; Runaways; Crime-Related)
Victory
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Such a sad story:
https://stv.tv/news/north/1406666-father-dies-never-knowing-fate-of-long-missing-daughter/
Kenneth MacDonald, whose 19 yr old daughter utterly vanished on a trip to the Himalayas, has died 30 years after her disappearance without knowing what happened to her, despite his thorough investigations in the past few decades. The link doesn't give the whole story, but it's all I could find.
https://stv.tv/news/north/1406666-father-dies-never-knowing-fate-of-long-missing-daughter/
Kenneth MacDonald, whose 19 yr old daughter utterly vanished on a trip to the Himalayas, has died 30 years after her disappearance without knowing what happened to her, despite his thorough investigations in the past few decades. The link doesn't give the whole story, but it's all I could find.
RyoHazuki
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There are several other reports about her from the last 10 years or so, although there's precious little detail. Her father's conviction that she was still alive seemed to rest on a single recording of a Kashmiri rebel leader who allegedly spoke certain english words with a 'Skye accent' and who was probably in the same general area as Alison at the time she disappeared.
It is a very sad story, but the sparse facts (she vanished in a remote village, in a politically-unstable area, at some point during a 2-day window) would suggest that she was simply disposed of by an opportunistic perpetrator.
It is a very sad story, but the sparse facts (she vanished in a remote village, in a politically-unstable area, at some point during a 2-day window) would suggest that she was simply disposed of by an opportunistic perpetrator.
Coal
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It's a big place and in many parts of the world life is very cheap.
JamesWhitehead
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Today's Manchester Evening News has a longish piece about the 1996 disappearance of Zoe Simpson.
Remains never found. Murder by husband seems likely.
As a scrap-dealer, his access to metal-crushers led to investigation of a giant "mincing-machine." It makes for grim reading but fragments of bone were probably a a sparkplug!
Remains never found. Murder by husband seems likely.
As a scrap-dealer, his access to metal-crushers led to investigation of a giant "mincing-machine." It makes for grim reading but fragments of bone were probably a a sparkplug!
escargot
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escargot
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Today's Manchester Evening News has a longish piece about the 1996 disappearance of Zoe Simpson.
Remains never found. Murder by husband seems likely.
As a scrap-dealer, his access to metal-crushers led to investigation of a giant "mincing-machine." It makes for grim reading but fragments of bone were probably a a sparkplug!
Link doesn't work!
escargot
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This Guardian link works -
Car shredder clue to lost woman
It's from 2000 but Confucius he say, An old link that works is better than that modern rubbish of James's!
Car shredder clue to lost woman
It's from 2000 but Confucius he say, An old link that works is better than that modern rubbish of James's!
JamesWhitehead
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The Manchester Evening News appears to have pulled the story.
It was not imagined!
I wish I had saved it. It was unusually forthright in treating the deceased husband as the guilty party.
Maybe there were objections.
It was not imagined!
I wish I had saved it. It was unusually forthright in treating the deceased husband as the guilty party.
Maybe there were objections.
ramonmercado
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I thought this case had been reported on in this thread previously but no trace.
The remains of a nine-year-old girl who disappeared in the French Alps last August have been found, officials say.
Nordahl Lelandais, a 34-year-old former soldier, has admitted killing Maëlys de Araujo "involuntarily", without giving details.
He agreed to co-operate with the police after a trace of her blood was found in his car.
The girl went missing during a wedding in Pont-de-Beauvoisin, north of Grenoble.
Nordahl Lelandais said he "got rid of the body" and offered his apologies to the girl's parents, said Grenoble prosecutor Jean-Yves Coquillat.
He had previously admitted that Maëlys was in his car on the night she disappeared.
Lelandais might be a serial killer.
The police investigation into Mr Lelandais' involvement included mining his computer and phone for information.
Those trawls revealed that, in the aftermath of the disappearance of 23-year-old soldier Arthur Noyer in April 2017, Mr Lelandais searched the internet for "human body decomposition".
Mr Noyer's skull was found by a walker on 7 September in Montmelian, 16km (10 miles) from Chambéry. Mr Lelandais lived with his parents, 30km from Chambéry.
He admitted being in the area where Mr Noyer disappeared but denied any involvement in the killing. He was charged in that case in December.
Mr Lelandais has been questioned about a number of other missing persons in the region.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43065000
The remains of a nine-year-old girl who disappeared in the French Alps last August have been found, officials say.
Nordahl Lelandais, a 34-year-old former soldier, has admitted killing Maëlys de Araujo "involuntarily", without giving details.
He agreed to co-operate with the police after a trace of her blood was found in his car.
The girl went missing during a wedding in Pont-de-Beauvoisin, north of Grenoble.
Nordahl Lelandais said he "got rid of the body" and offered his apologies to the girl's parents, said Grenoble prosecutor Jean-Yves Coquillat.
He had previously admitted that Maëlys was in his car on the night she disappeared.
Lelandais might be a serial killer.
The police investigation into Mr Lelandais' involvement included mining his computer and phone for information.
Those trawls revealed that, in the aftermath of the disappearance of 23-year-old soldier Arthur Noyer in April 2017, Mr Lelandais searched the internet for "human body decomposition".
Mr Noyer's skull was found by a walker on 7 September in Montmelian, 16km (10 miles) from Chambéry. Mr Lelandais lived with his parents, 30km from Chambéry.
He admitted being in the area where Mr Noyer disappeared but denied any involvement in the killing. He was charged in that case in December.
Mr Lelandais has been questioned about a number of other missing persons in the region.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43065000
ramonmercado
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Uh oh!
A nationwide search is underway for a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist who vanishednished nearly two weeks ago after leaving the agency’s Atlanta headquarters because he felt sick.
Timothy Jerrell Cunningham — a commander with the US Public Health Service who has responded to Superstorm Sandy, along with the Zika and Ebola outbreaks — reported to work on Feb. 12, but left because he said he wasn’t feeling well.
But family said they know something was amiss three days before the 35-year-old Harvard graduate disappeared.
“There were some exchanges via phone as well as text that alerted me to be concerned about our son,” his father, Terrell Cunningham, told NBC News, without specifying what was troubling about the messages.
https://nypost.com/2018/02/24/cdc-scientist-goes-missing-after-leaving-work-sick/
A nationwide search is underway for a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist who vanishednished nearly two weeks ago after leaving the agency’s Atlanta headquarters because he felt sick.
Timothy Jerrell Cunningham — a commander with the US Public Health Service who has responded to Superstorm Sandy, along with the Zika and Ebola outbreaks — reported to work on Feb. 12, but left because he said he wasn’t feeling well.
But family said they know something was amiss three days before the 35-year-old Harvard graduate disappeared.
“There were some exchanges via phone as well as text that alerted me to be concerned about our son,” his father, Terrell Cunningham, told NBC News, without specifying what was troubling about the messages.
https://nypost.com/2018/02/24/cdc-scientist-goes-missing-after-leaving-work-sick/
AlchoPwn
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Don't worry, he's doing work as Cuba Gooding Jnr's stunt double.
Bigphoot2
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Missing airman Corrie McKeague now a cold case
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/search-missing-corrie-mckeague-passed-12253304
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/search-missing-corrie-mckeague-passed-12253304
escargot
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Just a drunken accident then, the same as if he'd fallen in the river. As most people suspected, I think.
ramonmercado
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His mother still sees a conspiracy.
Evidence in the inquiry into missing airman Corrie Mckeague was manipulated, his mother has claimed.
Nicola Urquhart believes there was "inconsistency" over raw data on the weight of a bin load taken to landfill in the hours after he disappeared.
She appeared on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show following Suffolk Police's decision to end the investigation into his disappearance.
The force said it had faith in the information given.
A Suffolk Police spokesman said: "Following extensive inquiries, we have absolute confidence in the raw data provided to us by Biffa which identified the time, date and the weight of the bin concerned which was unusually and excessively heavy."
However, Mrs Urquhart has said the data had either been manipulated or "someone is lying" to the police.
Investigators were initially given the wrong weight of the bin that Mr Mckeague may have climbed into, making it too light to support the theory he was in there.
This was later corrected, showing that the bin was actually much heavier than first thought.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-43553706
Evidence in the inquiry into missing airman Corrie Mckeague was manipulated, his mother has claimed.
Nicola Urquhart believes there was "inconsistency" over raw data on the weight of a bin load taken to landfill in the hours after he disappeared.
She appeared on the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show following Suffolk Police's decision to end the investigation into his disappearance.
The force said it had faith in the information given.
A Suffolk Police spokesman said: "Following extensive inquiries, we have absolute confidence in the raw data provided to us by Biffa which identified the time, date and the weight of the bin concerned which was unusually and excessively heavy."
However, Mrs Urquhart has said the data had either been manipulated or "someone is lying" to the police.
Investigators were initially given the wrong weight of the bin that Mr Mckeague may have climbed into, making it too light to support the theory he was in there.
This was later corrected, showing that the bin was actually much heavier than first thought.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-43553706
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Cunningham is no longer missing, but there's still a mystery ...
SOURCE: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43658329
ramonmercado
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No sign of Pandemic Viral Outbreak so far.
AlchoPwn
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Misplacing an entire Prime Minister is extremely careless. I love the irony of the swimming pool named after him.
ramonmercado
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He was probably eaten by a shark.
AlchoPwn
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My personal favorite theory that I heard was that he was an agent for Communist China and as his cover was in jeopardy he escaped into a submarine and retired to be a factory commissar there. Utter bunk, but hilarious.
https://www.theage.com.au/news/nati...ory-discredited/2005/08/04/1123125853880.html
XBergMann
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Oh dear this one seems to have ended in tragedy for all concerned
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ody-river-elbe-latest-inverness-a8317706.html
The body of an Inverness postman who went missing while on his brother’s stag weekend in Hamburg has been found in the city’s River Elbe.
Liam Colgan, 29, disappeared in the early hours of February 10 while on a night out in the German city.
The Lucie Blackman Trust, a charity which supports families of people missing abroad, said the body was discovered at 6.30am on Monday morning.
A statement said: “Whilst formal identification is yet to be carried out, Mr Colgan's driving licence was in the pocket of the jacket and the clothes were those he was wearing the night he disappeared.
"The Trust asks that Mr Colgan's family be given space and privacy to grieve at this difficult time."
Brother begs Liam Colgan to get in touch after stag do disappearance
His brother Eamonn, a police officer based in Dundee, had previously told BBC Radio Scotland: “Liam is very laid back, very positive, a very proud and doting uncle to my two children.”
He added: “We miss him greatly, all his family and friends do… we come across constant reminders like toys he's given to our children and his car is still here from when we went off on the stag do."
The disappearance occurred after Mr Colgan, keen musician, left the Veermaster pub in the city’s famous Beatles Platz. It sparked a major search effort.
Volunteers based in Hamburg organised for 300,000 leaflets to be posted to residents while an online crowd-funding page, set up to help cover the cost of the family flying to and from Hamburg, raised more than £15,000.
Eamonn and his fiancee Susan Dolan, both 33, have postponed their wedding.
UK news in pictures
Matthew Searle, chief executive with the Lucie Blackman Trust, said: “An astonishing amount of support has been apparent in this case – the search for Liam has been joined by thousands of people, both German and British, and we would like to thank all of them for their support.
“Our thoughts are of course with Liam’s family and friends today.”
A statement from police in Hamburg said: “After a witness had informed the police this morning, several radio patrol cars went to a harbour in the HafenCity [district]. The fire brigade eventually salvaged a body floating in the water.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ody-river-elbe-latest-inverness-a8317706.html
The body of an Inverness postman who went missing while on his brother’s stag weekend in Hamburg has been found in the city’s River Elbe.
Liam Colgan, 29, disappeared in the early hours of February 10 while on a night out in the German city.
The Lucie Blackman Trust, a charity which supports families of people missing abroad, said the body was discovered at 6.30am on Monday morning.
A statement said: “Whilst formal identification is yet to be carried out, Mr Colgan's driving licence was in the pocket of the jacket and the clothes were those he was wearing the night he disappeared.
"The Trust asks that Mr Colgan's family be given space and privacy to grieve at this difficult time."
Brother begs Liam Colgan to get in touch after stag do disappearance
His brother Eamonn, a police officer based in Dundee, had previously told BBC Radio Scotland: “Liam is very laid back, very positive, a very proud and doting uncle to my two children.”
He added: “We miss him greatly, all his family and friends do… we come across constant reminders like toys he's given to our children and his car is still here from when we went off on the stag do."
The disappearance occurred after Mr Colgan, keen musician, left the Veermaster pub in the city’s famous Beatles Platz. It sparked a major search effort.
Volunteers based in Hamburg organised for 300,000 leaflets to be posted to residents while an online crowd-funding page, set up to help cover the cost of the family flying to and from Hamburg, raised more than £15,000.
Eamonn and his fiancee Susan Dolan, both 33, have postponed their wedding.
UK news in pictures
Matthew Searle, chief executive with the Lucie Blackman Trust, said: “An astonishing amount of support has been apparent in this case – the search for Liam has been joined by thousands of people, both German and British, and we would like to thank all of them for their support.
“Our thoughts are of course with Liam’s family and friends today.”
A statement from police in Hamburg said: “After a witness had informed the police this morning, several radio patrol cars went to a harbour in the HafenCity [district]. The fire brigade eventually salvaged a body floating in the water.”
ramonmercado
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Oh dear this one seems to have ended in tragedy for all concerned
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ody-river-elbe-latest-inverness-a8317706.html
The body of an Inverness postman who went missing while on his brother’s stag weekend in Hamburg has been found in the city’s River Elbe.
Liam Colgan, 29, disappeared in the early hours of February 10 while on a night out in the German city.
The Lucie Blackman Trust, a charity which supports families of people missing abroad, said the body was discovered at 6.30am on Monday morning.
A statement said: “Whilst formal identification is yet to be carried out, Mr Colgan's driving licence was in the pocket of the jacket and the clothes were those he was wearing the night he disappeared.
"The Trust asks that Mr Colgan's family be given space and privacy to grieve at this difficult time."
Brother begs Liam Colgan to get in touch after stag do disappearance
His brother Eamonn, a police officer based in Dundee, had previously told BBC Radio Scotland: “Liam is very laid back, very positive, a very proud and doting uncle to my two children.”
He added: “We miss him greatly, all his family and friends do… we come across constant reminders like toys he's given to our children and his car is still here from when we went off on the stag do."
The disappearance occurred after Mr Colgan, keen musician, left the Veermaster pub in the city’s famous Beatles Platz. It sparked a major search effort.
Volunteers based in Hamburg organised for 300,000 leaflets to be posted to residents while an online crowd-funding page, set up to help cover the cost of the family flying to and from Hamburg, raised more than £15,000.
Eamonn and his fiancee Susan Dolan, both 33, have postponed their wedding.
UK news in pictures
Matthew Searle, chief executive with the Lucie Blackman Trust, said: “An astonishing amount of support has been apparent in this case – the search for Liam has been joined by thousands of people, both German and British, and we would like to thank all of them for their support.
“Our thoughts are of course with Liam’s family and friends today.”
A statement from police in Hamburg said: “After a witness had informed the police this morning, several radio patrol cars went to a harbour in the HafenCity [district]. The fire brigade eventually salvaged a body floating in the water.”
Sad news.
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News Update on the Cunningham (CDC epidemiologist) case ...
SOURCE: https://www.yahoo.com/news/medical-examiner-releases-cdc-doctor-194543160.html
ramonmercado
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Not looking good for this guy, jaguars, ocelots and cougars are native to the national park, be lucky if they find his gnawed bones.
An indigenous group has joined the search for a 62-year-old Austrian man who went missing in a national park in Paraguay three weeks ago.
Wilhelm Wabnegg was last heard from on 2 May when he was setting off for the Cerro León hills in the Defensores del Chaco national park.
His motorhome was found on 10 May but there was no trace of Mr Wabnegg.
Fifteen members of the Ayoreo tribe are now searching their ancestral land for Mr Wabnegg.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-44224674
An indigenous group has joined the search for a 62-year-old Austrian man who went missing in a national park in Paraguay three weeks ago.
Wilhelm Wabnegg was last heard from on 2 May when he was setting off for the Cerro León hills in the Defensores del Chaco national park.
His motorhome was found on 10 May but there was no trace of Mr Wabnegg.
Fifteen members of the Ayoreo tribe are now searching their ancestral land for Mr Wabnegg.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-44224674
Carse
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That’s that then, nothing to see here..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-45015080
Corrie Mckeague: Airman 'somewhere in Suffolk waste disposal system'
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Police believe he climbed into a waste bin and was taken away by a refuse lorry.
Writing on Facebook, Martin Mckeague said: "Corrie is no longer missing... after looking at all of the facts and evidence we now know what happened."
He added: "We are certain he is somewhere in the Suffolk waste disposal system, but his remains are essentially irretrievable."
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-45015080
Corrie Mckeague: Airman 'somewhere in Suffolk waste disposal system'
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Police believe he climbed into a waste bin and was taken away by a refuse lorry.
Writing on Facebook, Martin Mckeague said: "Corrie is no longer missing... after looking at all of the facts and evidence we now know what happened."
He added: "We are certain he is somewhere in the Suffolk waste disposal system, but his remains are essentially irretrievable."
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SkepticalX
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Apparently there are over a thousand people who have disappeared without a trace into America's national parks. Very interesting (and disconcerting) article found here:
https://www.outsideonline.com/2164446/leave-no-trace
My daughter hikes a lot of mountains out in Colorado so reading this article is not the stuff of which a good night's sleep is made.
https://www.outsideonline.com/2164446/leave-no-trace
My daughter hikes a lot of mountains out in Colorado so reading this article is not the stuff of which a good night's sleep is made.