All cases profiled in this section feature individuals who were missing and have been located. Investigations may continue in certain instances (i.e. homicide).
Certain cases are not listed in this section at the request of the victim's family members or law enforcement officials.
Katherine Ann Gomez
Gomez, 15, ran away from her Cottonwood, California home on November 21, 2005. She was found safe in July 2008.
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Aretsibel Sabo
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Sabo, 15, ran away from her Tampa, Florida home on July 28, 2005. She was found safe in July 2008.
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Manreet Kaur
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Kaur, 16, ran away from her Queens, New York home on March 27, 2006. She was found safe in July 2008.
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Destiny Dawn Brown
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Brown, 16, ran away from her Lawton, Oklahoma home on January 22, 2007. She was found safe in July 2008.
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Megan Louise Hunnell
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Hunnell, 13, ran away from her Bowie, Maryland home on May 21, 2007. She was found safe in June 2008.
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Itzel Alexander Salazar
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Salazar, 17, ran away from her Victorville, California home on June 5, 2007. She was found safe in June 2008.
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Porshae Portrease Howell
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Howell, 14, ran away from her Helena, Arkansas home on January 11, 2005. She was found safe in June 2008.
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Diana Cruz
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Cruz, 16, ran away from her Alvarado, Texas home on November 9, 2005. She was found safe in June 2008.
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Sherri Deniese Jackson
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Jackson, 27, disappeared from Greensboro, North Carolina on November 29, 2006. The month after her disappearance, her boyfriend, Decarlo Rayshaun Bennett, was charged with her murder. In June 2008, Bennett pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and lead police to Jackson's body, which was buried in the backyard of a home on Pine Meadow Court. He faces up to forty years in prison at sentencing.
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Shaquoya Bonaparte
WFMYI News 2
News 14 Carolina
Bonaparte, 16, ran away from her Charleston, South Carolina home on March 15, 2007. She was found safe in May 2008.
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Cassandra Thompson
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Thompson, 15, ran away from her Maysville, Kentucky home on November 2, 2005. She was found safe in June 2008.
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Nathan Andrew Thompson
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Thompson, 16, ran away from his Marion, Virginia home on June 24, 2007. He was found safe in June 2008.
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The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children