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.
Robert Sarko
Sarko, 19, disappeared from Danielsville, Pennsylvania on June 30, 2000. Partial skeletal remains, along with Sarko's driver's license, were found buried on his property in 2004, but DNA testing was inconclusive and authorities were unable to confirm that the bones were his. Further testing conclusively identified the remains as Sarko's in March 2010.
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Monica Maria Vazquez
The Morning Call
Vazquez, 16, ran away from her Nashville, Tennessee home on December 5, 2008. She was found safe in March 2010.
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Anna Kathleen Walter
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Walter, 16, ran away from her Edwardsville, Illinois home on October 27, 2008. She was found safe in March 2010.
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Sweyzen Pagan
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Pagan, 15, ran away from her Chicago, Illinois home on October 28, 2008. She was found safe in March 2010.
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Alison Marie Mims
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Mims, 19, disappeared from Phoenix, Arizona on December 23, 1980. Her partial remains were located in 1987, but they were not identified until February 2010. Further details are unavailable.
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Michael Jay Francis
Phoenix Police Department
Francis, 21, disappeared from Baltimore, Maryland on April 15, 2007. He was abducted off the street, shot and forced into the trunk of a car. Later, the abduction vehicle was found with Francis's clothes and puddles of blood inside it. A suspect, Antonio Moore, was charged with murder. Francis's remains were found in a wooded area off Strathdale Road in Baltimore in June 2009. The body was missing both hands. It was identified in August 2009.
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Christine Marie Sheddy
The Capital
Sheddy, 26, disappeared from Pocomoke City, Maryland on November 13, 2007. In February 2010, her skeletal remains were found on the grounds of the River House Inn in Snow Hill, Maryland. Sheddy's death is considered under suspicious and remains under investigation.
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Rosa Esperanza Villa-Loboz
The Delmarva Daily Times
Villa-Loboz, 16, ran away from her Hyattsville, Maryland home on January 3, 2007. She was found safe in February 2010.
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Saraisa Ruiz
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Ruiz, 17, ran away from her El Paso, Texas home on December 15, 2008. She was found safe in February 2010.
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Lecreisha Australia Griffen
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Griffen, 16, ran away from her Charleston, North Carolina home on February 5, 2009. She was found safe in February 2010.
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Niyus Mercedes Campos
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Campos, 17, ran away from her Fort Myers, Florida home on February 20, 2009. She was found safe in February 2010.
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Shelby Marie Glasgow-Simpson
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Glasgow-Simpson, 14, ran away from her Layton, Utah home on May 23, 2008. She was found safe in February 2010.
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Christopher Randolph Hill
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Hill, 31, disappeared from Barrytown, Alabama on August 16, 2003. In 2009, his remains were found in a heavily wooded area of Choctaw County, Alabama, not far from where he disappeared. The body was identified in February 2010.
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Richard Lee Heisel
The Montgomery Advertiser
Heisel, 46, disappeared from Lubbock, Texas on June 7, 2006. In 2000, his remains were found in a brushy area behind a hotel in Van Buren, Arkansas. The body was not identified as Heisel's until February 2010. Authorities believe he committed suicide.
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Cory Michael Francisco
The Southwest Times-Record
Francisco, 15, was allegedly abducted by his non-custodial grandmother from Salem, Virginia on August 27, 2007. He was found safe in February 2010.
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A-Shae"La Shatia Turner
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Turner, 16, ran away from her Stone Mountain, Georgia home on September 24, 2008. She was found safe in February 2010.
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Maria Rosita Trejo
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Trejo, 16, ran away from her Salisbury, North Carolina home on August 21, 2007. She was found safe in February 2010.
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Maygan Ralston
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Ralston, 14, ran away from her Apple Valley, California home on December 18, 2007. She was found safe in February 2010.
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Cody Tyler Morris
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Morris, 16, ran away from his Morgantown, North Carolina home on February 7, 2008. He was found safe in February 2010.
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Brittany Leann Jones
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Jones, 15, ran away from her Garden Grove, California home on February 24, 2008. She was found safe in February 2010.
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Marcela Ramirez
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Ramirez, 15, ran away from her Portland, Oregon home on May 19, 2008. She was found safe in February 2010.
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Linda Marie Boyd
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Boyd, 15, ran away from her Spartanburg, South Carolina home on May 20, 2008. She was found safe in February 2010.
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Derek Edwin Allen
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Allen, 22, disappeared from Los Angeles County, California on January 1, 1986. His body was found in Riverside County, California in July 1986, but it wasn't identified until February 2010. Further details are unavailable.
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Paul Samut
Riverside County Sheriff's Department
Samut, 33, disappeared from Asheville, North Carolina on October 1, 2007. In January 2009, he was found safe, living in a homeless shelter in Asheville.
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Michael James Snyder
Calvin Samut
Snyder, 43, disappeared from Phoenix, Arizona on January 15, 2002. In February 2010, his remains were found buried underneath the garage floor of his former home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He had been shot to death. Snyder's ex-wife, Ellen Snyder de Baca, has been charged with his murder. Her son, who was seventeen at the time of the murder, stated he helped his mother dispose of the body.