Missing Persons

Denise Huskins was painted in the media as the real-life "Gone Girl" after she told police she had been kidnapped from her boyfriend's home under a bizarre set of circumstances, but Huskins' kidnapping claims were true and eventually led police to a surprising suspect.

District Attorney Ray Gricar was just eight months away from retirement when he mysteriously vanished in 2005 after taking the day off work.

Sarm Hesslop was captured in final surveillance camera images getting into a dinghy with boyfriend Ryan Bane and heading out into the ocean where his boat had been docked just off the shore. 

“I can't wait to see him when we're reunited," said Susan Caruana, the grandmother of now-17-year-old Alex Batty.

“I believe she’s alive — I do, I do. I believe it in my heart,” Major Jennifer Thompson of the Cornelius Police Department said of missing Madalina Cojocari.

Connie Lorraine Christensen was last seen in Nashville, Tennessee in April 1982. Her remains were identified more than 40 years later. 

Quanell X and Texas prosecutors worked together to solve the murder of 19-year-old Tynesha Stewart, a missing Black woman "of great significance."

Jacob Wetterling was kidnapped off the side of the road in October of 1989. He remains weren't found until 27 years later.

Missing teen Valerie Tindall's neighbor Patrick Scott allegedly said, “It just kind of happened,” when police asked him why he killed her.

In 2022, a long-time person of interest cited as "a very disturbed individual" confessed to the rape and murder of 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel, 13 years after the teen vanished from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.