Top 10 Unsolved Missing Person Cases

10. Karlie Gusé

A much caller unsolved missing idiosyncratic lawsuit is that of Karlie Gusé. The nighttime earlier she disappeared, Karlie Gusé was seen astatine a enactment with friends successful a vicinity not acold from her location successful Chalfant Valley, CA. She called her stepmother successful a panic, saying she needed to beryllium picked up from the party. Melissa Gusé picked Karlie up from the party, and aboriginal stated that she seemed disoriented and exhibited paranoid behavior. Once home, it took hours to get Karlie calmed down capable to sleep. When Melissa awoke the adjacent morning, October 13, 2018, Karlie was dormant successful bed, but erstwhile she checked connected her a 2nd clip astir 7AM, Karlie was obscurity to beryllium found. Law enforcement canvassed the vicinity and turned up 2 witnesses who said they saw Karlie walking towards Highway 6 with a portion of insubstantial successful her hand. All of Karlie’s belongings, including her compartment phone, were recovered astatine her home. Karlie had been experiencing problems anterior to disappearing. Her begetter and stepmother acknowledged Karlie’s past of experimenting with drugs and attending alternate acquisition successful bid to amended her grades. Despite these factors, determination appeared to beryllium thing that would person prompted Karlie to permission the location that morning. Investigators, some successful instrumentality enforcement and autarkic firms proceed to hunt for Karlie, portion her father, stepmother, biologic mother, and the remainder of her household hold anxiously for Karlie to travel home.

9. Teresa Butler

Teresa Butler’s hubby came location connected January 25, 2006 to find his woman gone, their 2 young children unsupervised. At the time, the household was surviving successful Risco, Missouri. There were nary signs of a struggle, nor forced entry, but determination were a bid of invaluable items missing from the location specified arsenic a gaming console, camcorder, stereo, and Teresa’s compartment telephone and purse. Her car was inactive successful the driveway, and her wedding bands were besides astatine the residence. Investigators were stymied by this mixed container of a scene. Was it a transgression scene? Or had Teresa simply near of her ain accord—and if so, for what reason? More whirlwind revelations came erstwhile investigators realized that Teresa’s compartment telephone made 2 calls aft she had vanished. Both calls were to unfamiliar numbers, successful 2 antithetic Missouri towns. The owners of those numbers some claimed that they had nary thought who Teresa was, and did not talk to her. Thirteen years later, determination are inactive nary answers successful her disappearance.

8. Laureen Rahn

In 1980, Laureen Rahn was surviving with her parent successful an flat successful Manchester, New Hampshire. She was past seen connected April 26 astatine that flat successful the institution of 2 friends. When her parent returned location that evening, she had to grope for the doorway due to the fact that each of the lightbulbs successful the hallway had been unscrewed. When she entered the apartment, she checked Laureen’s room, and she appeared to beryllium dormant successful her bed. The adjacent morning, she realized the assemblage she’d seen dormant successful the furniture was really 1 of Laureen’s friends, and that person was clueless arsenic to Laureen’s whereabouts. Authorities treated Laureen’s lawsuit arsenic a runaway, but details that emerged successful October of that twelvemonth formed a antithetic airy connected the case. Her mother, Judith, noticed 3 calls to a California fig connected her telephone measure that she knew she didn’t make. One was to a intersexual assistance telephone enactment for teenagers, helmed by a doctor’s woman who took successful runaways—could Laureen beryllium with her? The 2nd fig was to a motel tally by a kid pornographer by the pseudonym “Dr. Z.” But unluckily authorities were incapable to link the 14-year-old’s disappearance to either of these persons of interest. To this day, what became of Laureen Rahn remains a mystery.

7. Lauren Spierer

An unsolved missing idiosyncratic lawsuit that continues to haunt the existent transgression satellite is that of Lauren Spierer. The Lauren Spierer lawsuit is 1 of the astir mysterious missing idiosyncratic cases. Many Hoosiers are acquainted with the cautionary communicative of Lauren Spierer, an Indiana University Student who disappeared connected June 3^, 2011 aft a nighttime retired partying with friends successful Bloomington, Indiana. After leaving her flat astir 2:30 successful the morning, she walked astir the country and was ne'er seen again. It wasn’t until her boyfriend, Jesse Wolf, realized that Lauren had been separated from her telephone that thing was wrong. When helium sent her a substance connection 2 hours later, 1 of the employees astatine Kilroy’s barroom responded. Wolf reported Lauren missing. Witnesses who had seen Lauren that nighttime reported that she was highly intoxicated, which mightiness explicate wherefore she near some her compartment telephone and shoes down astatine Kilroy’s. Her observed level of inebriation has led to speculation that Lauren mightiness person been drugged portion astatine the bar, perchance with a cause similar GHB, besides known arsenic “the date-rape drug.” Her household has remained suspicious of the men she was reportedly hanging retired with that night, claiming that they cognize thing astir their daughter’s disappearance. That being said, investigators besides spoke to friends of Lauren’s who informed them she was known to usage drugs erstwhile she partied arsenic good arsenic alcohol. As of January 28, 2016—when FBI and different investigating bodies searched a spot successful Martinsville for signs of Lauren with nary success—Lauren inactive remains missing.

6. Cynthia Anderson

The disappearance of Cynthia Anderson is regarded as stranger than fiction. She vanished connected August 4, 1981 from the instrumentality bureau where she worked arsenic a secretary. Her idiosyncratic belongings were missing, but her vehicle remained parked successful the lot. While investigating her disappearance, authorities discovered an unfastened romance novel. In an eerie coincidence, Cynthia had stopped reading during a country successful which the main quality is abducted. Police were already investigating Cynthia’s disappearance with the anticipation of foul play, but this gave them pause. Could she person faked her ain abduction to disappear and commencement over? There were anonymous tips months aft her disappearance that she was being held captive successful the basement of a remote residence, but authorities were incapable to corroborate this statement. The wildest theory astir her whereabouts came erstwhile a lawyer from her steadfast was arrested for drug trafficking. There was speculation that Cynthia mightiness person known excessively much about immoderate amerciable dealings going done the instrumentality firm, and met a convulsive end as a consequence. But that’s each it is: a theory.

5. Maura Murray

An unsolved missing idiosyncratic lawsuit tin get truthful large it invites a large woody of media attention. Mara Murray is possibly 1 of the astir celebrated mysterious missing idiosyncratic cases successful caller history. The University of Massachusetts Amherst pupil disappeared connected February 9, 2004. In the days starring up to her disappearance, Maura told assemblage unit and her professors that she would beryllium taking a week’s hiatus from schoolhouse to grip a household emergency. Around 7:30 that night, a car clang connected Route 112 was reported to 911. When archetypal responders arrived, the driver, Maura, was obscurity to beryllium found. During the investigation, instrumentality enforcement turned up a witnesser who had passed Maura pursuing the crash. When asked if she needed help, she said no, that she had called roadside assistance. In a model of little than 15 minutes, thing happened to Maura Murray. What’s astir puzzling astir Maura’s disappearance is that her communicative astir a household exigency could not beryllium corroborated by her family. So the question remains: Why was Maura taking a week disconnected from her education? What could person been truthful important? Maura Murray’s disappearance is regarded arsenic the archetypal missing idiosyncratic lawsuit of the societal media age, having disappeared the week that Facebook launched. Her communicative has spawned galore true-crime specials, documentaries, and a highly fashionable podcast called Missing Maura Murray.

4. Asha Degree

Asha grade was conscionable 9 years aged erstwhile she near her house on the greeting she disappeared, Valentine’s Day, 2000. Inexplicably, she had packed her schoolhouse backpack and near the location successful the aboriginal greeting hours, after which she was sighed walking on North Carolina Highway 18, conscionable a little over a mile from her home. When approached by passing motorists who noticed her, Asha reportedly ran into a wooded country conscionable disconnected the highway. At first, it appeared to investigators that Asha had tally distant from home. After interviewing family members, they learned that the kid had bene speechmaking a phantasy series about children who person spectacular adventures portion the adults are asleep. While it’s unclear whether oregon not Asha intended to instrumentality home, aboriginal search efforts for her proved fruitless. Belongings of hers, including a pencil, marker, and Mickey Mouse hairsbreadth bow were recovered adjacent a shed down a concern that sat parallel to the highway. About 18 months later, Asha’s bookbag besides turned up astatine a operation site, curiously double-bagged, starring investigators to think idiosyncratic different than Asha had near it there. In  October 2018, investigators were appealing to the nationalist for accusation regarding 2 cardinal pieces of evidence—a children’s book that was borrowed from the Fallston Middle School room successful 2000, and a New Kids connected the Block shirt. Asha Degree remains missing to this day.

3. Annette Sagers

Eight-year-old Annette Sagers went missing connected her mode to school successful October of 1988. Less than a twelvemonth earlier, her mother, Korinna Lynne Sagers Malinoski had gone missing. There was small grounds to overgarment a picture for investigators, but that her car was recovered parked successful beforehand of their home. When Korinna’s girl went missing arsenic well, they searched the autobus halt where she should person been picked up for school. Investigators recovered a cryptic note that placed her mother’s disappearance successful a full caller context: “Dad, momma come back. Give the boys a hug.” Authorities weren’t definite what to marque of the note at first, arsenic they suspected idiosyncratic whitethorn person forced Annette to write. After careful examination, handwriting experts did find that Annette likely wrote the note. This looks similar Korinna could person disappeared of her own accord a twelvemonth prior, and had returned to reclaim her girl earlier vanishing again. What could not beryllium explained was that Korinna had near down 2 boys when she disappeared successful 1987. Despite anonymous tips that claimed burial locations for Annette’s remains, the enigma of the missing parent and girl remains unsolved.

2. Tara Calico

The lawsuit of Tara Calico continues to haunt the true-crime world, with some investigators and armchair detectives alike speculate to the circumstances surrounding this bizarre lawsuit and its sensational clues. Like Annette Sagers, Tara Calico disappeared successful 1988 aft leaving her location successful Belen New Mexico to being a motorcycle thrust on Highway 47. Tara was ne'er seen again. In the hunt for Tara, pieces of her Walkman were recovered on Highway 47. The motorcycle was ne'er recovered. Leads successful the lawsuit dried up and it went acold until a twelvemonth aboriginal erstwhile a disturbing portion of grounds emerged that has go celebrated passim the internet. In Port St. Joe, Florida, a pistillate reported that she had recovered a Polaroid extracurricular successful the parking batch of a section convenience store. The Poloaroid featured a lad and a young woman, some bound and gagged, propped up against pillows successful what appears to beryllium the cargo country of a sheet van. The witnesser told authorities that a achromatic van had antecedently been parked successful that spot, driven by a achromatic antheral with a mustache. There is inactive speculation to this time astir whether oregon not the pistillate successful the photograph is really Tara Calico. The publication lying adjacent to the young pistillate successful the photograph is V.C. Andrews’ My Sweet Audrina, which was allegedly 1 of Tara’s favourite books. While nary authoritative origin for Tara’s disappearance has ever been established, the sheriff of Valencia County offered his theory: He claimed that boys who knew Tara were progressive successful immoderate benignant of mishap on Highway 47, involving Tara’s bicycle and the boys’ truck. However, without a body, instrumentality enforcement were incapable to marque a case. 

1. Diane Augat

One of the oldest unsolved missing idiosyncratic cases is that of Diane Augat. In 1998, 30-year-old Diane Augat of Odessa, Florida walked retired of her location and vanished without a trace. About 10 years anterior to her disappearance, Diane received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, a intelligence unwellness that causes monolithic temper swings betwixt periods of aggravated affectional euphoria, oregon highs, and heavy depressive lows. Her lawsuit was truthful terrible that it led to losing custody of her children and her hubby divorcing her successful 1991. She self-medicated with drugs and alcohol. On April 10, 1998, Diane near her location and was ne'er seen again. What followed was a bid of unusual events that magnitude to the crippled of a Hollywood movie. Just 3 days aft she vanished, her answering instrumentality received a chilling message, “Help, help, fto maine out,” followed by “Hey, gimme that.” It sounded arsenic though determination was a conflict implicit the telephone successful the background. The caller ID said Starlight, but erstwhile Diane’s parent called back, determination was nary answer. Two days aft that, the severed extremity of Diane’s close mediate digit was found. Two weeks later, successful possibly 1 of the astir bizarre events successful immoderate missing idiosyncratic case, a container of her covering was recovered successful the freezer of a section convenience store. Despite the details reflecting that of a Hollywood blockbuster thriller, determination has ne'er been immoderate satisfying solution successful her case.