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People Who Are Discovered Or Re-Surface After Long Disappearances

A lot of questions still to be answered,

An Arizona girl who disappeared nearly four years ago has turned up at a police station in Montana.

Thousands of tips have come in to the FBI and the Center for Missing and Exploited Children since Alicia Navarro allegedly ran away in 2019.

On Tuesday, police in her hometown of Glendale, Arizona, said she had "showed up to a police department" some 40 miles (64km) from the US-Canada border.

"Miracles do exist," her mother Jessica Nunez said in a post on Facebook.

When Alicia vanished from their home on 15 September 2019, the then-14-year-old left behind a signed note that read: "I ran away. I will be back, I swear. I'm sorry."

But her mother told CBS News, the BBC's US partner, that she believed her daughter had been lured away by somebody she met online.

"It's not something that happened out of the blue," she said, "and I do believe that she was lured thinking that she was going to have some kind of adventure, party or maybe love."

The teenager had been diagnosed as high-functioning on the autism spectrum and was an avid video game player, she added. According to Ms Nunez, her child was the first in Arizona to receive a silver alert, a rare emergency notification for missing persons with "specific cognitive or developmental disabilities" and seniors.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66325945
 

Girl, 14, missing for two weeks, found at barracks; her family claim she was sold to Marine for sex


A 14-year-old girl whose family claimed she was sold to a US Marine for sex has been found at Camp Pendleton in California two weeks after she went missing.

The girl was first declared missing on June 13, four days after some relatives said she ran away from her grandmother's house. However, her aunt claims the teen had been sold into sex trafficking.

The teen was found at the Marine base on June 28. Days later, a Marine was seen being led from the barracks in handcuffs.

'We can confirm that a Marine was taken into custody for questioning by Naval Criminal Investigative Services on June 28, 2023,' Captain Chuck Palmer said.

The girl's aunt, Casaundra Perez, told authorities her niece - who she says has learning disabilities - was sold to the Marine for sex.

She posted to her TikTok account on July 6, clearly nervous about what would happen to her as she feared retribution speaking out about what her niece had allegedly gone through.

'I would just like to preface this video, I did not kill myself, if I go missing or end up murdered the people potentially responsible could possibly be located here at Camp Pendleton,' she said.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-Marine-barracks-family-claimed-sold-sex.html

maximus otter

Marine is charged with sexual assault after missing 14-year-old found in barracks


A Marine who was detained in June after a missing 14-year-old girl was found in the barracks of a California base has been charged by military prosecutors with sexual assault of a minor, authorities said Friday.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...ns-sexual-assault-minor-authorities-rcna99548

maximus otter
 
Family are blaming police for not searching properly but this guy lived a chaotic, drunken lifestyle. But the coroner did find:

Assistant Coroner Abigail Combes said police had been affected by "unconscious bias" due to Mr Bowman's background and assumed he was "missing because he didn't want to be found and was drunk somewhere".

She was so concerned about what happened she intends to issue what is known as a Regulation 28 report to the College of Policing, to prevent future deaths.


A coroner has said she cannot be sure how a father-of-two died after he fell between two fence panels, because his body was too decomposed.

Lee Bowman's inquest heard it took two months for his body to be found because police assumed he was still alive and "drunk somewhere".
Mr Bowman's family said they told officers repeatedly it was out of character for him not to contact them. Nottinghamshire Police said "lessons will be learned" from the case.

Mr Bowman's daughter, Corrina Bowman, said not knowing what happened had a significant impact on her mental health. She tried to kill herself six days after reading a news article in which police falsely said her father was "alive and well", and was sectioned under the Mental Health Act for her own safety.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-67378646.
 

Colorado hiker missing since August found dead, his dog found alive next to his body​

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/colorado-hiker-missing-since-august-dead-dog-found-alive-next-body/

The sheriff's office said that Moore's body was found on Oct. 30 by a hunter in the Lower Blanco drainage basin, which is in a valley southeast of Blackhead Peak's summit, the Gazette reported. His white Jack Russell terrier, Finney, was next to the body, the sheriff's office said.

On Oct. 31, members of the sheriff's office and a search and rescue team were flown into the area to locate and recover Moore's body, the Gazette reported, citing the sheriff's office. Finney was transported to a veterinary hospital for treatment and has since been reunited with her family, officials said.
 
Here's a YouTube video about the remains of five-year-old Logan Bowman being found in woods, 20 years after he went missing.
Seems his mother and her boyfriend were under suspicion at the time.

Five-year-old Logan Bowman went missing in Virginia 20 years ago. His remains were found last year and traced back to Bowman after a man from out of town found them in a trash bag.


The poor child. At 5 he'd be attending school where teachers would surely notice signs of neglect or injury.
Perhaps he was learning to trust them. Dangerous for whoever was hurting him.
 
Mysterious case of Vasile Gorgos who vanished 30 years ago only to reappear in same clothes & no memory of what happened


A farmet who mysteriously vanished three decades ago reappeared with no memory of what happened, wearing the same clothes and with a train ticket in his pocket from the day he disappeared.

Vasile Gorgos, now 95, returned to his home in the countryside of Eastern Romania claiming he had been "home" all this time.

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Where he's been all these years remains unknown - and he was interviewed on Romanian TV Credit: Stirile ETV

Several chilling details about the cattle farmer’s mysterious disappearance in 1991 remain unsolved.

Gorgos was known to regularly leave town for a handful of days to sell his cattle - only, this time, he didn't return for 30 years.

Witnesses reportedly claimed that Gorgos was left outside his gate by a car, alleging that the old man was confused and didn't know where he was, but that he seemed well-kept.

Bewilderingly, all that Gorgos seems to remember of his life is his family, his house, and his work as a cattle farmer three decades ago.

He stated adamantly that he has been at home all these years.

Gorgos' family were left with only a few clues to go on, the fact he returned wearing the same clothes he disappeared in, and the items in his pocket.

In one pocket, they found his ID card, and in the other was a single train ticket along the Bacău-Ploieşti line from the day he vanished.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/26137478/mysterious-vasile-gorgos-vanished-reappear/

maximus otter
 
Another mystery is why the Sun has only just reported this when the story says he returned in "September 2021 when, just as mysteriously as he disappeared, Gorgos reappeared outside the gate of his farm."

Perhaps he's been working as an Igor for one of the local undead. I'm disappointed he was returned in a car. An ancient coach with a heavily-muffled coachman and black horses would have been much better.
 
My (contorted) theory:
Gorgos got recruited by a team of mad government scientists who were experimenting with suspended animation. They told him they'd pay him a lot of money. 30 years later, they found that his body had continued to age, but his brain had indeed gone into hibernation.
Realising that the experiment was a failure, they dumped him off at the exact location where they'd found him.
 
My (contorted) theory:
Gorgos got recruited by a team of mad government scientists who were experimenting with suspended animation. They told him they'd pay him a lot of money. 30 years later, they found that his body had continued to age, but his brain had indeed gone into hibernation.
Realising that the experiment was a failure, they dumped him off at the exact location where they'd found him.
Or he'd been looked after in some sort of care home.
 
My (contorted) theory:
Gorgos got recruited by a team of mad government scientists who were experimenting with suspended animation. They told him they'd pay him a lot of money. 30 years later, they found that his body had continued to age, but his brain had indeed gone into hibernation.
Realising that the experiment was a failure, they dumped him off at the exact location where they'd found him.
Another case solved - Next!
 
Know a "calm and serious" man - albeit with a tendency to play guitar in his room after a few drinks. ? He might well be on the run for 50 years.

A DNA test has revealed a dying man who claimed to be one of Japan's most wanted criminals was telling the truth.

Satoshi Kirishima made his confession in January, telling police "I want to meet my death with my real name".

Officials have now confirmed the 70-year-old was indeed Kirishima, a member of a militant group behind several deadly bombings in the 1970s. Exactly how he remained at large for so long - despite his face adorning posters across Japan - is unclear.

Kirishima is suspected of helping plant and detonate a homemade bomb that destroyed part of a building in Tokyo's Ginza district on 18 April 1975, according to local media. There were no casualties.

At the time, he belonged to the East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front, a radical, left-wing organisation believed to be behind several bombings against companies in Japan's capital Tokyo in the 70s - including one targeting a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries building which left eight dead and more than 160 injured.

Kirishima is alleged to have been involved in four other attacks the group carried out. Two other members were sentenced to death for their involvement in attacks.

It is thought he is the only member of the group never caught by police, not that they ever gave up: a picture of the long-haired, bespectacled 20-something university student has been appearing on posters outside police stations across the country for decades.

Yet despite his image being widely publicised, neighbours were seemingly caught unawares when his identity was revealed last month, with one describing him to Mainichi newspaper as a "calm and serious" man - albeit with a tendency to play guitar in his room after a few drinks.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68412672
 
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And another longtime fugitive reappears. She seems to have been a common or garden criminal for most of that time though.

A former member of the disbanded left-wing militant Red Army Faction has been arrested after more than 30 years on the run, German authorities said.

Prosecutors in the northern town of Verden confirmed the arrest of Daniela Klette, 65. The Bild daily, which cited unidentified security sources, reported that she was arrested in Berlin on Monday evening.

Klette is one of three former Red Army Faction members whom police have been seeking for years. Klette, Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg have been linked to at least 12 robberies in northern Germany between 1999 and 2016. They were also wanted for attempted murder.

Authorities suspect the motive for the robberies was to get hold of money rather than anything political.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41340833.html
 
And another longtime fugitive reappears. She seems to have been a common or garden criminal for most of that time though.

A former member of the disbanded left-wing militant Red Army Faction has been arrested after more than 30 years on the run, German authorities said.

Prosecutors in the northern town of Verden confirmed the arrest of Daniela Klette, 65. The Bild daily, which cited unidentified security sources, reported that she was arrested in Berlin on Monday evening.

Klette is one of three former Red Army Faction members whom police have been seeking for years. Klette, Ernst-Volker Staub and Burkhard Garweg have been linked to at least 12 robberies in northern Germany between 1999 and 2016. They were also wanted for attempted murder.

Authorities suspect the motive for the robberies was to get hold of money rather than anything political.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41340833.html
The whole history of RAF makes an interesting read indeed, particularly Meinhof's experience.
 
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