Missing people
People who disappeared and have not been found. Every one has a last confirmed sighting and someone still looking.
L-8
L-8, later renamed America and popularly known as the "Ghost Blimp", was a United States Navy L-class airship whose two crewmen disappeared over the Pacific Ocean on August 16, 1942. At 11:15 a.m., several hours after the airship lifted off from Treasure Island, San Francisco, California, L-8 reappeared off the shore of Ocean Beach near Fort Funston. L-8 briefly made contact with the ground at Ocean Beach, causing…
2014 · CaliforniaMissingRico Harris
Rico Omarr Harris (born May 19, 1977 – disappeared October 10, 2014) is an American former professional basketball player. A high school standout in his native Southern California, he later led Los Angeles City College (LACC) to its first state junior college title in 1997. After his college career, he played for some International Basketball League teams, and later with the Harlem Globetrotters.
1927 · CaliforniaMissing
William Portwood Erwin
Lieutenant William Portwood Erwin (18 October 1895 – 19 August 1927) was an American World War I flying ace credited with eight aerial victories. On 19 August 1927, he disappeared during the Dole Air Race from Oakland, California to Hawaii.
1934 · CaliforniaMissingEverett Ruess
Everett Ruess (March 28, 1914 – c. November 1934) was an American artist, poet, and writer. He carried out solo explorations of the High Sierra, the California coast, and the deserts of the American Southwest. In 1934, he disappeared while traveling through a remote area of Utah; his fate remains unknown.
2000 · CaliforniaMissingScott Smith
Donald Scott Smith (born 13 February 1955 – disappeared 30 November 2000) was a Canadian musician and the bassist for Canadian rock band Loverboy, a band that sold millions of records and scored several hit songs in the 1980s before a break up and reunion in the 1990s. Smith disappeared after a large wave swept him off a pleasure boat near San Francisco, California. He was never seen again, and later presumed dead.
1980 · Sacramento, CaliforniaMissingAlma Root
Alma Root, 14 at the time, was last known to be in Sacramento, California on January 1, 1980. NamUs case MP3881.
2021 · French Camp, CaliforniaMissingJose Solorio-Luna
Jose Solorio-Luna, 23 at the time, was last known to be in French Camp, California on September 8, 2021. NamUs case MP135822.
2016 · CaliforniaMissingDisappearance of Michael Vanzandt
On March 5, 2016, Michael David Vanzandt, a 36‑year‑old U.S. Air Force veteran from Lancaster, California, disappeared in Hermosa Beach after becoming separated from friends during a night out. While the group was waiting in line outside a bar, he told them he was going to use the restroom in a nearby liquor store; surveillance footage later showed him returning to the area after they had gone into another bar. He…
1991 · CaliforniaMissingDisappearance of Jared Negrete
Jared Michael Negrete (born September 11, 1978) is a missing person who was last seen on July 19, 1991, during a Boy Scouts camping trip at Mount San Gorgonio in the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California. Search personnel recovered some of his personal effects, including a camera and food wrappers, during an extensive search of the area that lasted 16 days. The camera contained the last known photo of…
1926 · CaliforniaMissing
Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson
On May 18, 1926, American Christian evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson disappeared from Venice Beach, California, after going for a swim. She reappeared in Mexico five weeks later, stating she had escaped from kidnappers there. Allegations arose that the kidnapping story was a hoax carried out to conceal a tryst with a lover, leading to court inquiries.
1902 · CaliforniaMissing
Yda Hillis Addis
Yda Hillis Addis (born 1857, disappeared 1902 in California, U.S.) was the first American writer to translate ancient Mexican oral stories and histories into English, some of which she submitted to San Francisco-based newspaper The Argonaut. The most widely popular of her more than 100 stories are Roman's Romance and Roger's Luck.
2020 · CaliforniaMissingDisappearance of Sydney West
Sydney Kaitlyn West, a 19-year-old student at the University of California, Berkeley, disappeared near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, on September 30, 2020. West was last captured on surveillance footage walking toward the bridge amid heavy fog and wildfire smoke. The case remains unresolved.
2001 · CaliforniaMissingDisappearances of Shaina Kirkpatrick and Shausha Henson
Shaina Ashley Kirkpatrick (born April 27, 1997) and her sister, Shausha Latine Henson (born January 26, 2001), are two missing American children who vanished under mysterious circumstances in 2001 from Portland, Oregon, United States. The siblings accompanied their mother, Kimyala Henson, on a road trip with Kimyala's childhood friend, Christina Noel Mayer, and Mayer's boyfriend, Frank Lee Oehring. The group had…
2004 · CaliforniaMissingTimothy Verne Perryman
Timothy Verne Perryman (born December 5, 1950) is a missing person. He was last seen March 28, 2004 near his home in Agoura Hills, a Los Angeles, California suburb. Tim Perryman earned his BA from USC, and at the time of his disappearance had recently earned his MBA from California Lutheran University.
1995 · CaliforniaMissingDisappearance of Erin Marie Gilbert
Erin Marie Gilbert (May 4, 1971 – disappeared July 1, 1995) is an American woman who vanished while attending the Girdwood Forest Fair in Girdwood, Alaska. Gilbert, who had previously resided in California, had moved to Anchorage, Alaska, where she lived with her sister and worked as a nanny. At the time she disappeared, Gilbert was on a first date with a man, David Combs, whom she had met at a bar in Anchorage…
2016 · CaliforniaMissingDisappearance of Arianna Fitts
Arianna Fitts (born September 6, 2013) is an American child missing since 2016. Arianna and her mother, Nicole Fitts (then aged 32), were reported missing on April 5, 2016, in San Francisco, California. Nicole was last seen on April 1, 2016, and Arianna has not been seen since mid-February 2016.
1999 · CaliforniaMissing
Disappearance of Michael Negrete
Michael William Negrete (born March 25, 1981) was an eighteen-year-old American man and student at the University of California, Los Angeles, who vanished without a trace in Los Angeles in December 1999. Police consider his disappearance to be suspicious and have categorized his disappearance as a homicide case.
2016 · CaliforniaMissing
Sherri Papini kidnapping hoax
Sherri Louise Graeff-Papini is an American woman who disappeared on November 2, 2016, reportedly while out jogging a mile from her home in Redding, California. Papini was 34 years old at the time. She reappeared three weeks later on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, having been reportedly freed by her captors at 4:30 that morning, still wearing restraints, on the side of County Road 17 near Interstate 5 in Yolo County,…
2015 · CaliforniaMissing
Disappearance of Asha Kreimer
Asha Kreimer (born May 2, 1989; disappeared September 21, 2015) is a missing Australian woman. She had been awake for five days, suffering a mental health crisis, and had been released following a psychiatric evaluation. While eating breakfast with her boyfriend and a family friend in the Rollerville Cafe in Point Arena, California, she headed for the restroom.
1988 · CaliforniaMissingDisappearance of Michaela Garecht
On November 19, 1988, nine-year-old Michaela Joy Garecht (born January 24, 1979) was abducted in broad daylight at the corner of Mission Boulevard and Lafayette Avenue in Hayward, California, United States. Sketches of Garecht's abductor were distributed along with missing person flyers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area within 24 hours of her disappearance, but search efforts proved fruitless. Her case was…
Year unknown · CaliforniaMissing
Charles Clifford Ogle
Charles Clifford Ogle (January 21, 1923 – c. August 12, 1964?) was a businessman and developer in San Francisco and Oakland, California, at the time of his disappearance.
2005 · CaliforniaMissingDisappearance of Patrick McDermott
Patrick Kim McDermott (born September 18, 1956 – disappeared June 30, 2005) was a Korean-American cameraman who disappeared on June 30, 2005, while on an overnight fishing trip off the coast of Los Angeles, California. He was the on-and-off boyfriend of singer-actress Olivia Newton-John. The United States Coast Guard concluded that he was likely lost at sea.
1949 · CaliforniaMissingJean Spangler
Jean Elizabeth Spangler (September 2, 1923 – disappeared October 7, 1949) was an American actress who appeared in bit parts in several Hollywood films in the late 1940s. She garnered public attention for her mysterious disappearance in late 1949. Born in Seattle, Washington, Spangler attended high school in Los Angeles, California, before beginning a career in film in 1948, appearing as a dancer in several…
Year unknown · CaliforniaMissing
Disappearance of F. Lewis Clark
Francis Lewis Clark (June 21, 1861 – 1914?) was a prominent American industrialist. He disappeared after dropping off his wife at the train station in Santa Barbara, California.