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.
Cinthia Faustine Johnson
Johnson, 15, ran away from her La Habra, California home on June 14, 2007. She was found safe in February 2010.
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Charlene Janetta Simmons
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Simmons, 15, ran away from her Milwaukee, Wisconsin home on November 18, 2008. She was found safe in January 2010.
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Renee Antontte Munoz
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Munoz, 15, ran away from her San Bernardino, California home on July 28, 2008. She was found safe in January 2010.
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Breanna Forrester
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Forrester, 16, ran away from her Simpsonville, South Carolina home on January 22, 2009. She was found safe in January 2010.
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Miriam Cruz-Torres
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Cruz-Torres, 13, ran away from her Dalles, Oregon home on January 28, 2005. She was found safe in January 2010.
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Jazmin Arevalo
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Arevalo, 13, ran away from her Oceanside, California home on September 24, 2006. She was found safe in January 2010.
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Abraham Lee Shakespeare
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Shakespeare, 42, disappeared from Lakeland, Florida sometime during April 2009. His disappearance wasn't reported until November. Dorice "Dee Dee" Moore, Shakespeare's self-appointed financial advisor, tried to conceal his absence. She claimed she had helped him walk out of his life because he was tired of people asking him for money. (Shakespeare had won $31 million in the lottery in 2006.) Police suspected foul play was involved in his disappearance, however.Shakespeare's body was found buried five feet under a concrete slab on Moore's boyfriend's property in Plant City, Florida in January 2010. It was identified through fingerprints. Authorities stated it looked as if his body had been there for a long time. His murder remains under investigation and no charges have been filed against anyone.
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Anna Jeanette James
ABC Action News
CBS News
CNN
James, 28, disappeared from Landers, California on October 20, 2008. In December 2009, a dog found her skull in the desert. The skull was identified by dental records in January 2010. Authorities don't know how James died; her death remains under investigation.
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Charles Stephen Bond
The San Bernardino County Sun
Bond, 32, disappeared from Ocean Springs, Mississippi on May 17, 2009. He was on a boat that capsized in a storm. In January 2010, his skeletal remains were found on one of the Chandeleur Islands, which part of Louisiana. His death has been classified an accidental drowning.
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Jamie Caterina Barela
The Mississippi Press
Barela, 15, disappeared from Albuquerque, New Mexico on March 26, 2004. Her 25-year-old cousin, Evelyn JesusMaria Salazar, went missing with her. In November 2009, Salazar's body was identified. Her skeletal remains were found at a construction site in the West Mesa area of Albuquerque in February, along with the bodies of ten other victims. The final body to be identified was Barela's; she was identified in January 2010, nearly a year after the remains were discovered. The West Mesa murders remain under investigation.
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Beatrice Adaeze Bwalya Enwezor and Bupe Jideofor Enwezor
The Albuquerque Journal
KOAT Albuquerque
Beatrice, 4, and Bupe, 1, were abducted by their non-custodial mother from Eagan, Minnesota on November 8, 2007. They were found safe in January 2010.
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Yzury Bautista
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Bautista, 14, ran away from her Ocean City, New Jersey home on February 4, 2008. She was found safe in January 2010.
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Christian Dawn Starcher Seabolt
The Daily Record
Seabolt, 18, disappeared from Spencer, West Virginia on August 31, 2002. In December 2009, her body was found in a pine thicket twenty-five feet off the road in Wirt County, West Virginia. The body was identified in January 2010. Her death remains under investigation.
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Demar Hayes
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
Hayes, 14, ran away from his Las Vegas, Nevada home on June 13, 2008. He was found safe in January 2010.
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Ingrid Margarita Lopez
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Lopez, 16, ran away from her Fairfax, Virginia home on March 25, 2005. She was found safe in January 2010.
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Rafael Gonzalez and Trinidad Gonzalez Jr.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Rafael, 7 months, and Trinidad, 1, were abducted by their non-custodial father from Madison, Indiana on December 30, 2007. They were found safe in January 2010.
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Saquesha Lashun Henderson
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Henderson, 14, ran away from her Chicago, Illinois home on October 6, 2006. She was found safe in January 2010.
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Arlan Abraham Walker
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Walker, 22, disappeared from Santa Barbara, California on November 4, 1996. In January 2010, his body was identified. Walker's remains had been found several years before and it took DNA to determine whose they were. Further details are unavailable.
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Sally Lee Glahn
Project Jason
Glahn, 25, disappeared from Blaine County, Idaho on June 2, 1981. Authorities at the time suspected she'd been taken against her will. In January 2010, Glahn was found alive and well in Florida.
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Walter Henry Dohrn Jr.
Frank Glahn
Dohrn, 70, disappeared from Cherry Valley, California on July 3, 2009. He was visiting a friend when he became confused and wandered away from his friend's rural home. In January 2010, Dohrn's skeletal remains were found near Roberts Street. The cause of death has not been determined, but foul play is not suspected.
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Priscilla Ann Rogers
KTTV FOX 11
Rogers, 41, disappeared from Wilmington, North Carolina sometime in June 2009. In December 2009, her remains were found in a wooded area off River Road. Rogers's body was identified in January 2010. Authorities believe she was murdered, but they haven't determined the cause of her death.
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Constance Palmer
The Wilmington Star News
Palmer, 16, ran away from her Las Vegas, Nevada home on February 20, 2008. She was found safe in January 2010.
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Jalisa Morris
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Morris, 16, ran away from her Pinellas Park, Florida home on May 15, 2008. She was found safe in January 2010.
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Bejohna Angelina Anastacia Peres
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Peres, 3, was abducted by her non-custodial mother from Houston, Texas on May 2, 2007. She was found safe in December 2009.
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Danica Maria Davila and Monique Angelie Davila
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Sisters Danica, 14, and Monique, 16, ran away from their Tampa, Florida home on January 30, 2007. They were found safe in December 2009.
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John Herbert Hauswirth
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Hauswirth, 82, disappeared from Monterey, California on March 11, 2009. In December 2009, his skeletal remains were found in a wooded area near Spyglass Hill Golf Course in Pebble Beach, California. Authorities believe he died shortly after his disappearance.
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Seif Benkailly Mahssen
The Monterey Herald
Mahssen was less than a year old in early 1958, when his father took him for a two-week trip to Yemen and never returned him. In December 2009, Mahssen's American relatives found out he was alive and well in Yemen. They hope to reconnect with him.
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Lusiana Carmen Argueta
Seif Mahssen's sister
Argueta, 16, ran away from her Federal Way, Washington home on November 13, 2008. She was found safe in December 2009.
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Harold Leroy Lewin Jr.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Lewin, 45, disappeared from Thurston County, Washington on May 25, 2003. In March 2007, his skeletal remains were found on a logging trail in the Cedar Flats area off of Delphi Road. The bones weren't identified until 2009, however. The cause and manner of Lewin's death are undetermined, but he suffered from early-onset Alzheimer's Disease and had been increasingly forgetful prior to his disappearance.
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Sarah Reyes Hernandez
The News Tribune
Hernandez, 19, disappeared from Redlands, California on October 3, 1994. In 2000, her skeletal remains were found in a shallow grave in rural San Diego County, California, but she wasn't identified until the fall of 2008. In December 2009, Seferina Marquez Ponce was charged with her murder. Ponce was Hernandez's landlady at the time of her death. She is awaiting trial.
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KABC-TV
The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
The Press-Enterprise
The San Diego Union-Tribune