Disappeared

The case of a mother-of-three who vanished, but as the case unfolds the community if shocked by the woman's secret past.

A 25-year-old woman disappears while out on a date with a friend from out of town; a suspected sexual predator is thought to be connected with the disappearance.

Investigating the disappearance of Michele Whitaker who vanished after hitching a ride from a truck stop.

Following the search for teenager Lee Cutler, who went missing one morning after seeing a friend. Investigators try to discover if he has joined the Israeli army.

A 21-year-old college student goes missing after her car swerves off the road 140 miles away from her dorm.

The investigation into Billy Smolinski's disappearance after he discovered his girlfriend had cheated on him. Detectives try to find out if she is behind the mystery.

Known for her quick smile and lightning speed on the soccer field, 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel from Rochester, N.Y., slipped off to spring break vacation in Myrtle Beach, S.C., without the consent or knowledge of her parents. On April 25, 2009, the night before she was supposed to come home, Drexel disappears. Video surveillance shows Drexel exiting a friend's hotel and her last known communication is a text to her boyfriend. But when police track her cell phone to an isolated rural area known for alligators and swamps, her family fears the worst.

After spending the day with students on October 24, 2005, 30-year-old high school teacher and former beauty queen Tara Grinstead vanishes from her home in Ocilla, Ga. To investigators, it first appears that Grinstead left with someone willingly - until they discover a latex glove in her front yard containing male DNA and indicating foul play.

Police receive a tip 6 years after a 28 year old woman disappears connecting an old colleague to it and another women's murder.

33-year-old Tanya Rider goes missing after her overnight shift at a grocery store in Bellevue, Wash. When her husband Tom contacts 911, emergency officials refuse to file a missing persons report because they think Rider may have left on her own. Tom must battle to get authorities to start a proper investigation, and when they finally do, detectives suspect he's involved.

Marina resort owners are no where to be found after meeting with their accountant when they discover money missing.

Man vanishes from his new apartment and his parents life is turned upside down only to find he has been guarding a dark secret.

The McStay family disappears from their San Diego home without a trace. There are no signs of foul play and no indication that they were running from anything. Could the McStays have intentionally walked away, or did something more sinister occur?

At midnight, Patti Adkins leaves her shift at the Honda factory and vanishes. Investigators learn of a mysterious relationship and a secret trip that was supposed to happen that night. As clues emerge, detectives piece together a troubling picture.

16-year-old Molly Bish arrives at her lifeguard job one morning and minutes later vanishes. The disappearance has police thinking that Molly drowned, but her mother's intuition leads to an investigation of a suspicious man in a white vehicle.

Brian Barton has a successful punk rock band in Seattle, Washington. But Brian suddenly quits the band, breaks up with his fiancée, and disappears. Investigators wonder if he walked away, killed himself, or if his bandmates committed foul play.

After an argument with her boyfriend, 18-year-old Roxanne Paltauf leaves an Austin Texas motel on a balmy July evening and doesn't return. With her belongings left behind, family and friends speculate about what could have caused her disappearance.

Jeremy Alex races out of the woods towards a house in Northport, ME. He tells the owners that "bad guys" are after him but runs away before they can get help. Searches for him yield nothing until four years later when an intriguing discovery is made.

Forty-two-year-old Patricia Viola is living the life of her dreams. She has two wonderful children and a happy, stable marriage. On February 13, 2001, Pat wakes up, gets the kids ready for school, and then volunteers at the local library. She returns home, briefly calls her mother, and then is never seen or heard from again. Police immediately launch an investigation to determine if Pat was the victim of foul play or if she left voluntarily. Ten years later, a private investigator stumbles on a surprising connection between Pat and a triple homicide that could blow the case wide open.

Mandy Stokes leaves her apartment to run errands on the Sunday after Thanksgiving in 2007. When she doesn’t return by the next morning, friends and family aren’t immediately concerned, but Mandy’s mother feels that something is wrong. Her intuition sparks a missing person’s investigation by Oakland Police that leads from the apartment Mandy shared with her brother to the cavernous ravine where her car is found abandoned. In a bizarre twist, police transfer the case to the Homicide Unit, and her mother’s worst nightmare begins to unfold as she is forced to consider the possibility that her own son is involved in Mandy's disappearance.

Leah Peebles recently moved from her parents’ home in Texas to Albuquerque, NM, for a fresh start after years of struggling with drug addiction. Though she came from a supportive, tight-knit family, Leah had turned to drugs to cope after being molested as a toddler and raped as a teenager. Clean for the first time in years, Leah is eager to start her career as a hairstylist and get her life on track. But just a few weeks after arriving in Albuquerque, she steps out one night for a date and never returns. When the Peebles family feels the police are too slow to respond, Leah’s father decides to take matters into his own hands and hunt for her himself. He discovers Leah has fallen back into drugs and, worse yet, has turned to prostitution to support her habit. Rumors abound and the Peebles fear Leah has fallen victim to foul play. As he traverses Albuquerque’s underworld, seeing things he never thought he would, Mr. Peebles remains determined to search until he can bring her home.

Amber Gerweck is busy dividing her time between raising her four children and working full-time on a contract with the Department of Homeland Security, when suddenly she stops showing up at work. Police search her apartment, but Amber is nowhere to be found, and evidence alludes to foul play. Only a few hours later, Amber’s vehicle is found abandoned in a parking lot in Georgia, more than six hundred miles from home. A surveillance video from the adjacent Dollar General store reveals Amber walking through the store and purchasing items apparently unharmed, but her parents are terrified. What has happened to Amber since? By the end of the first week, Georgia police mount an extensive search through the surrounding area, but they fail to uncover any clues. A number of weeks pass, and the case begins to go cold. Amber’s parents are devastated. Then, they receive a phone call that changes everything.

Colleen Orsborn goes missing after skipping school for a day at the beach. Although the spontaneous, outspoken teen has been known to get into tussles with her mother, she usually leaves a note indicating where she will be, and she always returns home. Family and friends worry that something very sinister has happened, preventing Colleen from returning home. Then, when news breaks that a notorious serial killer named Christopher Wilder can be placed in Daytona Beach the day the teenager went missing, their fears could become warranted. The disappearance of Colleen is a baffling mystery that haunts Central Florida for decades, until one woman uncovers a clue that has been right under their noses for nearly thirty years.

Jerry Michael Williams is a successful businessman in Tallahassee when he goes on a solo duck-hunting trip to Lake Seminole and disappears. Searchers find his truck, his boat, and his shotgun, but they can’t find Mike. It’s assumed he’s become the victim of a tragic boating accident, but officials are perplexed that his body hasn’t surfaced, because that would make Mike the only drowning victim on the lake who has never come up. Lake Seminole is infested with alligators, and a frightening theory is raised of what might have happened to Mike. Searchers tell his mother that alligators may have eaten him. She doesn't buy that explanation. While she hopes her son is alive, she begins to think he may have been the victim of murder, not misadventure.

When 25 year-old college grad, Mitrice Richardson, goes missing after being released from a remote sheriff's station at 12:30 AM, a heated battle for answers ensues. Multiple sightings have family and authorities divided on the young woman's whereabouts.

21-year-old Bethany Decker is a hard-working student, waitress, mother, and wife of a National Guardsman serving in Afghanistan. When she vanishes while pregnant with her second child, police discover her life was more complicated than anyone realized.

35 year-old Jesse Capen vanishes on a camping trip in Arizona's Superstition Mountains. While law enforcement searches the vast wilderness, his family finds a huge secret on his computer. His disappearance may have to do with the legend he is chasing.

52-year-old Colleen Wood has found love and a new life in South Florida. Her wealthy boyfriend offers her the chance of a lifetime--- a round the world trip on his yacht. Then Colleen suddenly vanishes and the boyfriend is the only one who knows why.

Hatice Corbacioglu went on a romantic trip with her fiancé but didn't contact anyone in weeks. Worried friends and family report her missing. When investigators unravel her fiancé's dark secrets, they suspect he is involved with Hatice's disappearance.

Twenty-four year old aspiring actress, Satara Stratton disappears in Hollywood. In Tennessee, her mother Sharon Stratton is desperate to find her. She launches a search to find Satara that takes her deep into the seedy side of a star studded city.

Jessica Heeringa is working the night shift at a gas station. When a customer arrives just before closing to find the store empty, investigators believe she's been abducted. It's a case that reveals Jessica's biggest secret and the many men who adored her

25 year-old artist Tiffany Daniels never makes it home from work. When her car is found abandoned in a Pensacola Beach parking lot, it sets off a desperate search for the missing young woman...and dark speculation about her disappearance.

The case of a college student who went missing while driving home to visit his parents.

Tammy Kingery suffers a mysterious illness and is bedridden at home. Her husband and children leave to run errands and, when they return, Kingery has disappeared. They find a note saying she's gone for a walk, but they live deep in the woods and she's taken nothing with her. Massive search efforts yield no signs of the 37-year-old nurse. On the surface it seems like she had everything she ever wanted - a loving family, a rewarding career, and a dream house - but an investigation reveals dark secrets leading to all kinds of theories about what may have happened to Kingery.

Brian Histand, a 25-year-old nationally renowned BMX rider, was last seen wandering in an alfalfa field on the southern edge of Phoenix, Ariz. Police respond to reports of a naked man in the fields but determine that Histand doesn't pose an imminent threat to himself or others. Family and friends fear for his safety in the harsh Phoenix heat and, as they search, they learn that he's exhibited disconcerting behavior over the last few days. Histand never wore a helmet while biking despite his fondness for stunts and jumps. Could concussions from his risky bike moves have led to a dangerous state of confusion?

Sixty-year old stonemason David Riemens has one final meeting to attend about a construction job before he drives from Tennessee to Michigan to visit family. But when he never returns home to collect his bags, and his truck is found abandoned in a local parking lot, friends immediately sound the alarm. Desperate to find him, investigators try locating the unknown construction site and look for clues in Riemens's unconventional off-the-grid lifestyle, but every avenue they explore leads to yet another dead end. The only indisputable evidence they have to go on is that Riemens has seemingly vanished into thin air.

When a Bible-teaching mom goes missing from her family's farm, Missouri investigators must decipher a cryptic handwritten note.

When 17-year-old Macin Smith doesn't come home from school, his parents worry. A note hidden in his wallet leaves his family troubled. And police attempt to piece together the puzzle while his family vacillates between hope and despair.

Twenty-one-year-old Kortne Stouffer vanishes from her bed one night following a couple of scuffles with neighbors and friends. Investigators pursue various leads, but the young woman is nowhere to be found, and her family clings to an endless hope.

A young woman moves to the U.S. for a new opportunity, but in a mere matter of weeks, she vanishes without a trace. Kidnapping survivor Elizabeth Smart joins in the search to find her in this mystery where the clues are sparse.

20-year old Bear Diaz has diabetes, leaving him weak and vulnerable. When he vanishes in the night with his TV, backpack and cash, investigators must consider foul play. Then Skylar Tosic disappears, leaving people wondering if the cases are linked.

After a night at home watching movies, 18-year-old Zoe Campos cannot be found by her family the next morning. As investigators pore through the teen's Facebook account, they discover she did not turn in early as her loved ones originally thought.

Ashley Summers is a fun-loving 14-year-old. When she vanishes on July 4th, her family is at a loss. The mystery deepens when the FBI connects her case to two other young women missing from her neighborhood. Ten years later, there's still no answer.

Logan Schiendelman vanishes, and authorities find his car abandoned; multiple tips claim seeing Logan, but searches turn up nothing; with no evidence of foul play, questions surface and police are forced to examine his family's controversial past.

While on a Caribbean cruise, 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley vanishes from her family's cabin and is never seen again; over a decades-long struggle, her family embarks on countless grueling searches, stopping at nothing to find their beloved Amy.

Stephanie Crane, aged 9, walks home from the local bowling alley, but never arrives. Early leads go nowhere. For years authorities don't find her or make an arrest. Now, they hope that advances in evidence testing may finally solve the mystery.

Stephanie Crane, aged 9, leaves a local bowling alley but never arrives home; years later, authorities hope that advances in evidence testing may finally solve the mystery.

In Greensboro, N.C., 19-year-old Tyarra Williams vanishes from the parking lot of her apartment complex; after receiving tips that Williams may have fallen prey to human trafficking, her grandfather embarks on a cross-country search for answers.

26 year old Kirsten Brueggeman was last seen in Indianapolis, Indiana on January 2, 2021. At 2:00 am she was seen walking through the YMCA parking lot on North Shortridge Road. Kirsten hasn’t been seen or heard from since.

Daniel Robinson arrives at his work site in the desert in Buckeye, Arizona, and reportedly acts strangely just before taking off in the middle of his shift, never to be seen again.

Pepita Redhair, a 27-year-old Navajo woman, goes missing after her mother drops her off at her boyfriend’s house in Albuquerque, N.M.; the family takes matters into their own hands to find her, even enlisting the help of a medicine man.

Jason Landry disappears while driving home for the holiday break; PI and retired FBI agent Abel Pena does his own investigation and suspects Jason may have been the victim of foul play.

Successful businesswoman and mother of five Dee Ann Warner disappears from the family farm. The family initially suspects her husband Dale has something to do with her disappearance, but Dale insists she just took off.

32 year old Kimberly Avila was last seen in Brownsville, Texas on May 13, 2017. She disappeared after being dropped off by her sister in downtown Brownsville, close to the Mexican border.

Vibrant 19-year-old Sydney West is accepted to her dream school for college. However, on the morning of September 30th, 2020, Sydney decides to visit the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and mysteriously vanishes into the fog.

Dia Abrams owns several properties in the Idyllwild community of California, including a sprawling 116-acre ranch. But on June 6th, 2020, Dia tells her partner, Keith Harper, she will feed the horses and is never seen or heard from again.

Dahvonte Morgan, a family man from San Francisco, disappears in the mysterious town of Mt. Shasta, Calif.; as his family searches, it becomes clear the community is wary of outsiders and his girlfriend may know more than she shares.

On January 2, 2020, fifteen-year-old Kristen Galvan disappeared a month after she was rescued from a sex trafficking ring in Houston, Texas. As her mother desperately searches for her, she uncovers the dark and unforgiving world of human trafficking.

40 year old Sheena Gibbs was last seen in Chicago, Illinois on November 3, 2021. She disappeared after making plans to travel to Iowa to care for her mother who was hospitalized.

25-year-old Alexander Gumm was last seen in Kauai, Hawaii on February 23, 2018. He disappeared after traveling to the island as part of his spiritual quest to seek enlightenment.