The USS Cyclops: It just disappeared without a trace … one of the most famous mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle … The USS Cyclops was one of the largest coal-hauling cargo ships in the United States’ navy. Curse of the Bermuda Triangle IV: Unexplained Encounters
The fate of the five planes known collectively as Flight 19 has baffled experts for more than 70 years … The vanishing of Flight 19 is one of the most notorious disappearances to ever occur within the Bermuda Triangle. Curse of the Bermuda Triangle V
In Colombia there have been 92,000 people disappeared. Abby Martin, The Empire Files: Human Rights Hypocrisy: Colombia vs Venezuela, Dan Kovalik
Steven Clark’s case was classified as a missing person investigation for 28 years. And during that time was subjected to numerous reviews by senior police officers, who all classified Steven as missing. But then in 2020 a new police team reviewed the case and classified Steven’s disappearance as murder. Accused of Murdering our Son: The Steven Clark Story, captions, ITV 2021
14 September 2020: Charles and Doris Clark are arrested on suspicion of their son Steven’s murder. ibid.
There were two reported sightings after Steven’s disappearance by people who knew him. ibid.
If Charles and Doris killed Steven, then not only are they the best actors I’ve ever met but they’ve got me beat, because I don’t think they murdered Steven. ibid. investigator
Two people who were arrested on suspicion of the murder of Steven Clark have now been released from the investigation without charge. ibid. caption
In Britain 76,000 children go missing every year. By the end of this programme, 13 more will have disappeared. Most will have been found within a few days. But not all. In March 2002 the disappearance of one teenage girl shocked the nation. But it was to no avail. From missing person to murder, the hunt for Millie Dowler’s killer was the biggest in the history of the investigating force. The Abduction of Millie Dowler, Channel 5 2021
In the short time it takes Millie’s friend to board the bus and look out of the window to where Millie should be, from this very stretch of a busy main road, Millie has vanished into thin air. ibid.
Two young boys disappeared off the streets of Chelmsley Wood on Boxing Day night 1996. Never to be seen again … They were only 11 and 13. And they became known as the Milk Carton kids. In the Footsteps of Killers s1e1: David Spencer & Patrick Warren, Channel 4 2021
Chelmsley Wood is a working-class area. ibid.
‘Brian Field was a gardener … He’d actually been convicted in 2001 for the rape and murder of a schoolboy called Roy Tutill.’ ibid. Leda Reynolds, local journalist
Brian Field has been convicted six times of sexual offences against teenage boys … And his fifth conviction in 1986 was a double kidnapping at Oswestry. ibid.
If the boys knew Field prior to Boxing Day night when they disappeared, that’s why nobody’s hears anybody shout or scream. ibid.
We could be uncovering one of the worst serial killers of children this country has ever known. ibid.
Fulham, West London: Suzy Lamplugh was only 25 when she went missing. She is described as bright and bubbly, funny, ambitious, popular, and hugely adept at her job … And here suddenly she goes missing off the streets of Fulham, and nobody can work out what on earth has happened to her … One of the largest police investigations of its day. In the Footsteps of Killers s1e2: Suzy Lamplugh
All of that brings us back to the prime suspect that the Met Police themselves named, which is John Cannan. He is currently in prison for the abduction and murder of Shirley Banks. ibid.
He was driving a black BMW which of course crops up in several of the witness testimonies. ibid.
Dannette & Jeannette are 15-year-old twins. March 18th 1990: they decide to head to the gas station … When she [cashier] looked back, they were gone. The Disappearance of the Millbrook Twins, Sky Crime 2021
I have rarely seen no investigation, and that’s what we saw in the case of the Millbrook Twins. ibid. Professor Laura Norton, podcaster
‘The children lived in fear. The family was broken up. And they couldn't find their mother.’ The Disappeared, witness, BBC 2013
The explosion of violence from 1969 forced thousands out of their homes in Belfast. ibid.
The practice of disappearing inconvenient bodies in the Irish countryside goes back to the 1920s and the Irish War of Independence. ibid.
Um, I’m actually camping in Leadore. Just outside of Leadore. Um, my two year old son, um, we can’t find him. About an hour. Missing 411: Mysterious Disappearances, 911 call
Deorr Kunz jr: disappeared July 10th 2015 Salmon-Challis National Forest age 2; Jaryd Atadero, disappeared October 2nd 1999 Cammanche Park Wilderness; Keith Parkins, disappeared April 10th 1952 Ritter Oregon age 2. ibid. captions
Hundreds of people vanish from our national parks and forests; some right under the noses of parents or family members under very unusual and very similar circumstances. ibid. radio news
I don’t know why he [Rey Rivera] disappeared. When they said it was suicide I was, like, he ran out of the house like he was late for something. Unsolved Mysteries s1e1: Mystery on the Rooftop, wife, Netflix 2024
After the car was located all these folks started to organize these kind of searches in that area around the car. The next big thing that happened is that someone discovered this hole in the roof of the Belvedere Hotel. ibid. Jayne
Rey’s autopsy – it was some brutal reading. Multiple, multiple ribs fractured, punctured lungs, contusions and abrasions to the chest and torso, clavicle fracture, puncture of the sternum … fractures to the base of the skull, open fracture of the tibia and fibula, protrusion of bone … ibid. rozzer
This guy just ends up dropping out of the sky, and ending up in a conference room, and no-one knows anything? ibid. journalist
Two weeks before he died there was something that was worrying him. ibid. wife
I was in tenth grade when all of this transpired. The last morning we got up … I was in a hurry to get to school … She dropped me off at school. Unsolved Mysteries s1e2: 13 Minutes, Pistol Black, Patrice’s son
It appeared that she was arming up her lunch. It was found there on the counter by the microwave. The rest of her shop was unremarkable. It was Patrice’s normal, clean, tidy, well-kept shop. ibid. rozzer
A laundry list of suspects … When Jeremy Jones started to confess to these different murders, he talked how he needed to tell us about a hairdresser in Georgia ibid.
We got the call from the Dawson County Sheriff’s Office that two volunteers at Lebanon Baptist Church had found a er skull they believed to be human. ibid.
When Patrice’s body was found it was December 6th 2005. 600 days she was missing. ibid.
A young elegant unidentified woman is found dead in a hotel room. Unsolved Mysteries s1e2: A Death in Oslo, reporter
We found the woman dead on her bed with the gun in her hand, a wound in her head and the hotel door was double locked on the inside … no evidence of a struggle. ibid. rozzer
They couldn’t find any identity: No credit card, no driver’s license, and no wallet and no car keys, no home door keys … ibid. reporter
She had checked in under a false name: Jennifer Fairgate. ibid.
Michigan: To say that she [JoAnn Matouk Romain] left the church to walk across the street in twelve-degree weather, dark of night where it was icy and snowy into a flood of freezing cold water [Lake St Clair] to take her own life, it just doesn’t make sense. Unsolved Mysteries s2e5: Lady in the Lake, daughter
They [rozzers] said we think your mom walked from the car to the water and committed suicide. ibid.
Southwest Boblo Island: 35 miles from St Paul Catholic Church: JoAnn Romain was found down on the Detroit River on the Canadian side of an island called Boblo Island … I don’t see anything that points to suicide. ibid. investigative reporter
I believe that my mom was abducted while walking out of church; she was grabbed from the left side where the bruises and contusions were on her arm, and her purse was ripped, pushed into her own car where the abductor then drove away. ibid.
Harlem, New York, Thursday 18 May 1989: When you have missing children [Christopher Dansby and Shane Walker], you do what needs to be done. The search area for Christopher was 24 blocks … ’ Unsolved Mysteries s2e6: Stolen Kids, rozzer
There’s considerable concern from headquarters as well as locally. You know, what the heck’s going on? The times of the day were similar, the days of the week … There’s just way too many similarities … ibid.