Stories about people who went missing and never returned after their work shift. Found: Stories of Former Missing Persons

Thousands of people go missing every year, and these disappearances become truly baffling when investigators have virtually nothing to work with - situations in which no one has seen anything and there are no reasonable explanations. It's almost the same as if these people literally disappeared into thin air.

1. Maura Murray

On February 9, 2004, 21-year-old University of Massachusetts student Maura Murray reported e-mail to her teachers and employers that she is forced to leave due to the death (fictitious) of one of her family members. That evening, she was involved in an accident, crashing her car into a tree near Woodsville, New Hampshire. By a strange coincidence, a couple of days earlier, Maura also had an accident and crashed another car.

The driver of a passing bus approached and asked Maura if the police should be called. The girl answered “no,” but the driver made the call anyway as soon as he got to the nearest phone. When the police arrived ten minutes later, Maura was gone.

There were no signs of a struggle at the scene, so Maura may have asked someone for a ride. The next day, Maura's fiancé in Oklahoma received a voicemail supposedly from her, but heard only sobs on the other end of the line. Although Maura acted a little strangely in the last days before her disappearance, her family does not believe that she disappeared of her own accord.

Nine years have passed, but it has not been possible to find out what happened to the girl.

2. Brandon Swanson

On the evening of May 14, 2008, as nineteen-year-old Brandon Swenson was driving back to his hometown of Marshall, Minnesota, along a rural gravel road, his car went into a ditch. Brandon called his parents and asked them to come get him. They immediately went in search of Vyn, but could not find him. His father called him back, Brandon picked up and said he was trying to get to the nearest town of Lead. And in the middle of the conversation, Brandon suddenly cursed, and the connection abruptly ended.

Brandon's father tried to call back several more times, but received no answer and could not find his son. Police later found Brandon's car, but were unable to find either the guy or him. cellular telephone. According to one version, he could have accidentally drowned in a nearby river, but no traces of a body were found in it. No one knows what prompted Brandon to curse during the ringing, but that was the last anyone heard from him.

3. Louis Le Prince

Louis Le Prince is a famous French inventor who was the first to capture moving images on film. Oddly enough, the “father of cinema” is also remembered as the subject of one of the strangest disappearances in history. On September 16, 1890, Le Prince visited his brother in Dijon and then traveled by train to Paris. When the train arrived at its destination, it turned out that Le Prince had disappeared.

IN last time Le Prince was seen entering his carriage after checking his luggage. There were no signs of violence or anything suspicious during the trip, and no one could remember seeing Le Prince outside his carriage. The windows were tightly closed, so it would have been quite difficult to jump off the train, but the suicide version seemed unlikely at all, since Le Prince was going to go to America to get a patent for his new invention.

As a result of this disappearance, the patent for the kinetoscope (a device for demonstrating sequential photographs of movement) went to Thomas Edison. As for Le Prince, his future fate still remains a mystery.

At four in the morning on December 10, 1999, an 18-year-old freshman at the University of California named Michael Negrete turned off his computer after playing video games with friends all night long. At nine in the morning, his roommate woke up and noticed that Michael had left, but left all his belongings, including his keys and wallet. He was never seen again.

The most curious thing about Michael’s disappearance is that the guy even left his shoes. Investigators used sniffer dogs to try to track Michael to a bus stop a couple of miles from the hostel, but how could he have gotten that far without his shoes on? Only one person was seen near the scene at 4:35 a.m., but no one knows if he is connected to Michael's disappearance. There is no reason to believe that Michael disappeared due to at will, but there has been no news about Michael’s fate for more than ten years.

5. Barbara Bolick

On July 18, 2007, Barbara Bolick, a 55-year-old woman from Corvallis, Montana, went hiking in the mountains with her friend Jim Ramaker, who was visiting from California. When Jim stopped to admire the scenery, Barbara was 6-9 meters behind him, but when he turned around less than a minute later, he discovered that the woman had disappeared. The police joined the search, but the woman was never found.

At first glance, Jim Ramaker's story sounds completely incredible. However, he cooperated with the authorities, and since there was no evidence of his involvement in Barbara's disappearance, he was no longer considered a suspect. The culprit would probably have tried to come up with a better story rather than claim that his victim simply vanished into thin air. Six years have passed, but no traces of violent death have been found, nor any hints of what could have happened to Barbara.

On August 23, 2008, 51-year-old Michael Hearon went to his farm in Happy Valley, Tennessee, planning to cut the grass on his lawn. That morning, neighbors saw Michael leave the farm in his all-terrain vehicle—and that was the last time he was seen.

The next day, Michael's friends visited the farm and saw his truck parked on the road. A trailer was attached to it, in which a lawn mower was found, but the grass on the lawn remained untouched. His friends returned the next day and became concerned when they saw the truck parked in the same spot, still containing his keys, cell phone and wallet.

Three days after Michael disappeared, investigators found their only lead: an all-terrain vehicle on a steep hill located a mile from his home. However, it was not clear why he needed to go there. In addition, no signs of violence were found. Michael had no enemies or any other reason to hide, so his disappearance became a truly incomprehensible mystery.

7. April Fabb

One of the most famous disappearances in British history occurred in Norfolk on April 8, 1969. A 13-year-old schoolgirl named April Fabb left home and went to her sister in a neighboring village. She rode her bike there and was last seen by a truck driver. At 2:06 p.m., he noticed the girl driving along a country road. And at 2:12 p.m., her bike was found in the middle of a field several hundred yards from where she was seen, but there was no sign of April.

Kidnapping seemed like the most likely scenario for April's disappearance, but an attacker would only have six minutes to kidnap the girl and leave the crime scene without anyone noticing. A large-scale search for April did not yield a single clue.

This case has many similarities with the disappearance of another young girl, Janet Tate in 1978, and Robert Black, a notorious child killer, was considered as a possible suspect. However, there is no evidence to conclusively link him to April's disappearance, so this mystery also remains unsolved.

8. Brian Shaffer

A 27-year-old medical student from a university in Ohio went to a bar on the evening of April 1, 2006. Sometime between 1:30 and 2:00 he mysteriously disappeared. He drank heavily that night and, after talking to his girlfriend on his mobile phone, he was last seen in the company of two young women. However, no one in the bar could remember whether he was seen after that.

The most difficult question in this story, which remains unanswered, is how Brian left the bar. The CCTV footage clearly showed him entering the bar, but not a single footage showed him leaving! Neither Brian's friends nor his family believe that he went into hiding on purpose. Three weeks earlier, he was doing well in school and planning to go on vacation with his girlfriend. But if Brian was kidnapped or the victim of another crime, how did the attacker drag him out of the bar without being noticed by witnesses or CCTV cameras?

9. Jason Yolkowski

On the morning of June 13, 2001, 19-year-old Jason Yolkowski was called to work. He asked his friend to pick him up at a nearby high school, but he never showed up.

The last time Jason was seen was by his neighbor, about half an hour before the scheduled meeting, when the guy was carrying trash cans into his garage. Security cameras from the high school show he didn't show up there. Jason had no personal problems or any other reason for disappearing, nor is there any evidence that anything could have happened to him. His further fate remains a mystery twelve years later.

In 2003, Jim and Kelly Yolkowski immortalized the name of their son by founding their project - non-profit organization, which has become one of the most famous funds for families of missing people.

10. Nicole Morin

On July 30, 1985, eight-year-old Nicole Morin left her mother's Toronto penthouse. That morning, Nicole was going to swim in the pool with her friend. She said goodbye to her mother and left the apartment, but 15 minutes later her friend came to find out why Nicole had not yet left.

Nicole's disappearance led to one of the largest police investigations in Toronto history, but no trace of the girl was ever found. The most plausible assumption was that someone could have kidnapped Nicole immediately after she left the apartment, but the building had twenty floors, so it would be quite difficult to get her out of there without being noticed.

One of the residents said that he saw Nicole approaching the elevator, but no one else saw or heard anything. Nearly thirty years later, authorities have still not collected enough information to determine what happened to Nicole Morin.

Last week, the whole city was worried about Dima Peskov, a four-year-old boy who disappeared in the forest near Yekaterinburg. Four days later he was found alive. More than a thousand volunteers were looking for the boy, including volunteers from the Lisa Alert search and rescue team. The founder of the Sverdlovsk branch is called Stanislav Kazakov - he was also looking for Dima, and even earlier - dozens of other people. “Moments” talked to him about why he started searching, and asked him to tell the stories that Stanislav remembered most. Surprisingly, all the stories turned out to be about people who disappeared of their own free will.

I tried just lying on the sofa - it was uncomfortable. Besides, I have children, I need to be an example for them. Therefore, in 2014, my wife and I decided to found a search and rescue headquarters under the auspices of Lisa Alert. When a person goes missing, there is no room for “I” unless there is “We.” We estimate 1,500 volunteers participated in the last search. It happens that there isn’t even a task, and a guy comes to us and says: “I’m ready to work, I have an ATV.” I don’t even know the motives why people help in the search. They just come to headquarters and do what needs to be done.

Even when we find a person, and he is indignant, saying, why were you looking for me, I don’t hold it against him. The main thing is that the person is alive, he does not need help. I just want our lost ones to honestly tell their relatives that they are tired and there is no need to look for them. But they didn’t leave in English and cause their relatives distress.

First search

The detachment was two weeks old when hotline A report was received about the disappearance of two guys. For three days the police pretended to be looking for them. There were no more than 10 people in our group. We decided at random that we needed to go to the shopping center. My wife and I and another guy walked along the huge Mega and looked for lost items. Several hours of wandering around shopping center did not give results. My hands even started to give up. And in the third hour of searching, the boys simply passed by his wife. We showed them the orientation, and of course they were shocked.

Then I became convinced that we were doing the right thing. I don’t know how other volunteers feel when they find a missing person, but I wanted to hug and feed these children. Now the phrase “Found. Alive” is perceived in a completely different way, but then it was an explosion.

Romeo and Juliet

We may not immediately respond to information about a missing person; we must first figure out what is happening and understand the geography of the search. One day we found an underage girl using logic and a telephone without leaving home.

We were informed about a girl who left home for a technical school, but she never showed up there. It immediately became clear that the girl had run away. We found her boyfriend, who said that she was not around, that he was also very worried. Investigators began to pursue criminal leads.

Directions were immediately posted all over the city. The next morning we received interesting information that this girl and a young man were seen on Moskovskaya Street. It turned out that the young man’s sister works in the area. We don’t get involved in family squabbles, but then it became clear that something happened at the girl’s house. We began to think about how to convince the girl to return home. I called the guy, he denied it until the last minute, saying that he didn’t know where his beloved was. I prepared my arguments in advance, the last of which was the initiation of a criminal case. The girl was nearby all this time, but did not want to communicate with anyone, so I talked to her on speakerphone.

I then felt like a grump and an old man. I said in a menacing voice: “Nastya, did you hear me?!” She replied that she would call her mother today. But I, already wise from experience, know that “today” for teenagers is equal to “never.” Therefore, I set a condition: if in 30 minutes she does not call her family, then we will come. 20 minutes later the search coordinator called me: “She’s in touch.” The ending is, of course, happy, but imagine how much worry the parents had.

The man who found himself

Not all lost people are happy to be found. One day, a woman whose husband had disappeared came to our squad. I don’t know her motives when she wrote a statement to the police. When information arrived that he was alive, we stopped keeping our finger on the pulse. It turned out that the man simply went out to the store and saw a landmark for himself.

You can get lost not only physically, but also mentally

The life of any person can lose meaning. Everyone experiences depression and breakdowns, we are not made of iron. At this moment, a person needs help, not indifference. Once we were looking for a woman who had disappeared along with her child. There were a lot of options: both the forest and the city. At that time, there were quite a few volunteers in the detachment, so it was difficult to search, given that the search area was huge. The first two days did not produce any results. Then the coordinator called us and told us that a pilgrim had seen her in one of the monasteries near Yekaterinburg. Journalists then discovered that she was hiding from creditors, and her eldest son kept saying that her mother had simply lost her nerve.

When a person is found, I stop thinking about his story, because otherwise I will constantly reflect. There is a great temptation to call my family after a while and ask how they are doing, but I don’t do this. I'm scared to hear that there has been a relapse. Therefore, I put an end to it when I find out that the person is alive.

Stanislav Kazakov during the search. Photo: from personal archive

Illustrations: Emma Mirzoyan

Missing person - quiet story. People go to work, meet friends and walk in parks, and then disappear on an ordinary Sunday evening. They stop opening the door and don't answer calls. Their relatives do not know when the missing person will return or whether he is even alive. Living in the unknown can last for years and decades.

According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as of January 1, 2017, there were 3,500 people on the list of missing persons. Over the past year, more than 10 thousand reports of missing persons were filed in Moscow with the police. According to statistics from the Lisa Alert search team, 20% of missing people cannot be found. The Village tells stories of people whose loved ones have disappeared.

Audio version of the material

“Do you think everyone will drop what they’re doing and start looking for your daughter?”

“When Yulia disappeared, I began to raise her son Yegor alone. I never cried in front of him: I either sobbed into my pillow while he was sleeping, or turned on the water in the bathroom and screamed like a fool. Sometimes I went into the forest and screamed there,” says Marina, whose daughter disappeared in the winter of 2014.

For the last three months before her disappearance, Yulia lived in a rented apartment in Moscow with a friend, and her one year old son Egor is with his grandmother in the village of Aksinino near Moscow. Yulia worked as a salesperson in a clothing store and every day after work she called her mother on Skype. On February 23, Yulia called her mother and told her that she had had a little drink with her friends and would now take a shower and go to bed. She also mentioned that Yegor’s father gave her 30 thousand rubles to buy a child’s bed in the shape of a car.

Avdoshina Yulia, 24 years old at the time of disappearance.

Since the end of February 2014 does not communicate with relatives. Currently her whereabouts are unknown.

Signs: height 170 cm, thin build, light brown hair, brown eyes.

Was wearing: blue jeans, short black leather jacket with white sheepskin trim.

“On February 24, Egor and I baked pancakes for Maslenitsa, and I waited for Yulia’s call in the evening. They say that a mother’s heart feels when something happens to a child, but this didn’t happen to me, I was completely calm,” recalls Marina. That day Yulia did not go on Skype, she mobile phone was unavailable.

Marina did not know either her daughter’s Moscow address or her friend’s phone number, so she called Yulia all night. On the morning of February 25, she called all her relatives, but no one knew where Yulia was. The next day, Marina went to the police station in the Stupinsky district of the Moscow region. The police told Marina that her daughter was “ adult woman, who could go on a spree or leave without warning,” and refused to accept the statement, asking to come tomorrow, that is, on the third day after the disappearance.

Experts say that filing an application three days after a person disappears is catastrophically late. According to the head of the second department of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department, Dmitry Pichugin, the concept of three days does not exist; all departments are required to accept missing persons reports immediately. "Speed ​​is most important aspect. For example, if a person disappeared in the forest, then on the first day we can find him alive, and on the third, if we find him, then most likely he will be dead,” says the head of Lisa Alert, Grigory Sergeev.

On the morning of February 27, Marina received a missing person report. Later, the police found out that Yulia left the house without documents or valuables. Her further fate is unknown.

In Russia, the search for missing people is carried out by the criminal investigation department, which is part of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Ugrozysk employees are called detectives, they work in every police department. In addition to searching for missing people, detectives are working on federally wanted criminals and unidentified corpses. In some cases - if a person disappeared from a large sum money, on vehicles, was a minor or had mental illness - a criminal case is opened about a missing person. In this case, the Investigative Committee deals with it. Any search case is conducted for 15 years, after which it is sent to the archives. From this moment on, the missing person is legally considered dead, but is still wanted.

According to Marina, the police treated her politely, but did not tell her about the progress of the search. Regular requests to transfer the case to the Investigative Committee were refused. At the same time, the police chief told Marina: “Do you think that if the criminal case gets to the Investigative Committee, then everyone there will drop their work and start looking for your daughter?”

A week after her daughter disappeared, Marina turned to the Lisa Alert search team for help. Based on his tips, over the next six months, Marina examined unidentified corpses in morgues seven times and went out twice with a detachment and the police to search for the body. One of the volunteers of the Polar Star search and rescue team notes that sometimes Ugrozysk and the Investigative Committee listen and work together with volunteer organizations, but more often they neglect their help: “I would like to say that the police work well, but this is not so. Most often I come across answers along the lines of: “What do you want, girl?” We are working". I tell them: “I know this and that,” and they answer: “Well, look for it yourself.” And then, when I bring the found child by the hand, they are surprised.”

Searching for missing people is one of the few public spheres where the volunteer movement has real power. The largest volunteer organizations in Russia are “Lisa Alert” and “Search for Missing Children”. You can contact them at any time of the day and get free help. Volunteers specialize in hot searches, and not in searching for long-lost people. The chance of finding someone who has been missing for three days is much higher than finding someone who has been missing for three months, so volunteers have to prioritize. Every day in Russia, “Search for Missing Children” receives from 10 to 20 applications about missing people, “Lisa Alert” - from 4 to 50.

Six months after the disappearance, a Lisa Alert volunteer told Marina that if Yulia was not found in the first six months, then the chances of finding her later are extremely small. Over time, the search work of volunteers comes down to contacting local media and publishing guidelines on the Internet on key dates- on the day a person goes missing and on his birthday.

A year and a half after Yulia disappeared, police officers transferred the case to the Investigative Committee. “It seems to me that the police opened a criminal case only because I constantly asked them, and because they talked about Yulia’s disappearance on television. Investigators summoned Marina and her husband for questioning several times, but “in the interests of the investigation” they did not provide any information. As a former investigator who wished to remain anonymous told The Village, sometimes relatives interfere with work: “If an investigator does not talk about the progress of the search, this does not mean that he is not working. It happens that relatives themselves helped a person disappear, and if there is the slightest suspicion that this is so, then no one will allow them to get acquainted with the case. And besides, there is a secret of the investigation that cannot be violated.”

Julia with her son Yegor. Photos from the family archive

Valery, Yulia's father

Marina, Yulia's mother, and her grandson Egor

Children's toy Yulia

Marina says that for two years she literally went crazy: she stopped looking in the mirror, didn’t think about what she went out in and what she looked like. The woman constantly “begged God to take her and return Yegor his mother.” Two years after Yulia disappeared, the guardianship and trusteeship authorities insisted that Marina go to a psychologist, after whose visits she felt much better.

According to Marina, her husband Valery became isolated after the disappearance of his daughter, began to “live a virtual life” and spend a lot of time in game World of Tanks. Mutual friends of the family told Marina that “everyone experiences trouble in their own way” and should not be judged. Now the couple live separately. Valery lives in his family’s apartment in Aksinino. In the closet in the room there are Yulia's unworn black shoes. On the yellow wallpaper of the room, the height and weight of Yulia’s son, Yegor, are written in blue pen.

After separating from her husband, Marina began raising her grandson alone. To his questions about where her mother is, she replies that her mother is missing: “Every evening Yegor and I go up to her photographs, and I tell her that my mother is not with us, but soon we will definitely find her. Later he watched the cartoon and decided that his mother had been stolen The Snow Queen" When Yegor turns 18, Marina will show him a diary in which the search for his mother is recorded in chronological order.

Notes on Egor's height and weight

Magnets on the refrigerator in Yulia's family home

The investigator leading Yulia’s case told Marina that her daughter “was stolen or she went on a spree.” A version was also put forward that Julia was in slavery. Marina believes that if her daughter were dead, the police would have found the body within three years. According to her version, it is necessary to look among the beggars: “Hundreds of thousands of people are disappearing all over the country - where are they all? In many cities there are beggars on the street, and no one knows who they are. I once asked a guy who was asking for money near the metro if he remembered himself. His eyes darted around, and I immediately saw how the man behind me was piercing me with his eyes. I think 80% of missing people are drugged beggars.”

Marina regularly communicates with psychics, whom she finds through friends. “Every six months I turn to fortune tellers, but before I did this literally every month. Now I immediately warn them that I will not pay money for a consultation. Some, of course, refuse, but such people, as a rule, are charlatans,” says Marina. The first and only paid session cost the woman 15 thousand rubles. After looking at Yulia’s baby hair and tags from the maternity hospital, the psychic said that Marina’s daughter was alive, and even showed on the map where she was approximately located.

Another time, Marina turned to the winner of the “Battle of Psychics” Alexander Sheps. By phone number listed on his website, the woman was told that before a consultation with Sheps, she needed to transfer 10 thousand rubles to the card. The woman did not do this, but found another psychic who asked to transfer 3 thousand rubles. “Then they constantly called me back from that number and said: ‘What do you need, three thousand? more valuable than life daughters?“ - and brought me to a nervous breakdown,” says Marina. For three years, not a single psychic told Marina that her daughter was no longer alive. According to Marina, communicating with psychics calms her down and gives her hope.

Volunteers and the police do not take into account information received from psychics, so over time, Marina stopped talking about these versions.

“We are working, you are not the only one with us”

Nadezhda, whose father disappeared in August 2016, has repeatedly turned to psychics, although, according to her, she does not believe in them. She found one of the psychics on Instagram: “He wrote that there was a cloud of black aura hanging on me, which definitely needed to be cleaned, and sent me a price list. For 10 thousand rubles they promised to tell me where dad was. But this is a lot of money, I’d rather spend it on a child.”

Trofimov Vyacheslav. 63 years old at the time of disappearance.

21.08.2016 left home, and since then his whereabouts have been unknown.

Signs: height 170 cm, full build, gray hair, blue eyes.

For the last year and a half before his disappearance, Vyacheslav fully supported his daughter and grandson. Nadezhda separated from her husband and is now raising her son alone. She writes to her father every day on WhatsApp: talks about the news, congratulates him on the holidays and asks for forgiveness. “Mom always wanted to live by the sea, so I imagine that my father is relaxing with her on the shore, and he simply has no time for me. It’s easier this way, because when I realize that he’s missing and he’s most likely not alive, I start crying,” says Nadezhda.

At the time of his disappearance, Vyacheslav was 63 years old. Lately he worked as a personal driver. Vyacheslav loved his daughter, grandson and car, which was “like another daughter” for him. Every day before going to bed, he called Galina Fedorovna, a woman from a neighboring house, and they wished each other Good night. On Sunday, August 21, Vyacheslav planned to help a friend move things from the garage. That evening he did not call Galina Fedorovna, his phone was unreachable, and the woman became worried. The next day she filed a missing person report with the local police department. For 10 days, the police did not contact either Galina Fedorovna or Vyacheslav’s daughter, Nadezhda, and answered her calls that they were working.

When Nadezhda came to find out what stage the search was at, it turned out that it had not even begun, because Galina Fedorovna was not a relative of the missing man. The head of the second department of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department, Dmitry Pichugin, assures that any acquaintance can file a missing persons report, and the police are obliged to accept it. However, Vyacheslav’s daughter had to re-write the statement: “I was shocked and began to be indignant, but they quickly shut me up, saying that “we are working, and you are not the only one.” They also said that my father is a “grown man” and “will find himself.”

Polyany Street, where Vyacheslav’s car was last seen

Police officers checked the CCTV cameras and learned that on August 21, Vyacheslav’s car was driving along Polyany Street in Butovo. After that, not a single camera saw her. Nadezhda claims that the police did not search Vyacheslav’s apartment or inspect his garages, although she regularly asked for this. As a result, Nadezhda opened the garages on her own, but did not find anything unusual. Now there is unnecessary furniture, car parts and black garbage bags with the clothes of the missing Vyacheslav.

A month after the disappearance, the Investigative Committee began to look into the case. In November 2016, three months after Vyacheslav’s disappearance, his apartment was searched. By this time, Nadezhda and her son were already living there; her father’s things were in the garage. “It was very funny, they examined various stains in the kitchen and even found a speck of blood. I've been living in the apartment for two months, and they only came now - what's the point? - says Nadezhda. “But you can’t argue against them, they took my father’s documents and my personal diaries, which they still haven’t returned.”

Law enforcement agencies do not inform Nadezhda about the progress of the search: the police say that they are working, and the investigators refer to the secrecy of the investigation. In six months, three investigators have changed in Vyacheslav’s case. Unlike police officers and investigators, volunteers regularly report on their work. Nadezhda contacted Lisa Alert two weeks after her father disappeared. Volunteers posted notices around the area, called hospitals in Moscow and the region, and also interviewed local auto mechanics and garage owners.

There are several versions of where Vyacheslav disappeared. A week before his disappearance, he borrowed 600 thousand rubles from a friend to buy a new car. Perhaps he left with the money and started new life, but Nadezhda is sure that he would not have done that, and repaying the debt was not a problem for him, since he “earned good money.” A week before his disappearance, Vyacheslav told his daughter that he was now working part-time at a vegetable warehouse, and “you won’t need potatoes anymore, Nadyukha.” It is not known what exactly the work was, but Nadezhda suggests that Vyacheslav was supposed to transport potatoes from Belarus.

Vyacheslav disappeared along with two mobile phones. Nadezhda cannot find out where they last received a signal: according to Federal Law 152, in order to gain access to this information, as well as find out where they logged into their social network account, law enforcement agencies need to go to court. According to Dmitry Pichugin, it takes from a day to a week for court permission. Sometimes the judge refuses, and criminal investigation officers resubmit the request. According to the former investigator, filing documents with the court is a complex procedure, and many employees either do not know how to do it or simply do not want to bother.

Vyacheslav's garage, in which his things lie

Nadezhda, daughter of Vyacheslav

As a child, Nadezhda spent a lot of time in her dad’s car, who always drove a Mercedes. Now every time Nadezhda sees a Mercedes on the street, she remembers her father. Now in former apartment Nothing reminds Vyacheslav of him except a few photographs and his favorite mug. “Six months have passed since he went missing, and I want to hope that he is alive, but I understand that the chances are small. Now I want to at least say goodbye to him as a human being,” she says. Several years ago, her mother died, after which Nadezhda got a tattoo with the word “mother” on her right wrist. Now, in order not to be separated from her father, Nadezhda is going to tattoo the word “dad” on her left hand.

Nadezhda did not seek psychological help because she believes that she can cope with her grief on her own. “However, a person who does not know where his relative is is in a much more serious condition than a person whose relative has died,” says Larisa Pyzhyanova, director of the Center for Emergency Psychological Assistance of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. “When a relative dies, there is still certainty, and a person who has lost a loved one goes through several emotional stages, at the end of which he usually accepts the loss and learns to move on. And the man who lost close person, finds himself in an “emotional swing”: he constantly has hope that a relative will be found, which inevitably gives way to disappointment. Moreover, after each lost hope, he plunges into an even greater crisis. A person can remain in such a state for years, and the support of relatives is not enough here - the help of specialists is needed,” says Pyzhyanova.

Polyany Street

In Russia there is no system of psychological assistance to people whose loved ones have disappeared. For help from a psychologist, you can contact the Department of Labor and social protection, call the emergency psychological service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations or the local department of the psychoneurological dispensary (PND). Polar Star volunteer Lyubov Vorozheikina believes that every family in which a relative has disappeared should be under the supervision of PND employees. According to the head of Lisa Alert, Grigory Sergeev, relatives of missing people almost never seek psychological help and are left alone with their loss.

"Hanging"

Tamara, whose daughter Yaroslava disappeared in July 2016, cannot simulate her return home and after a long silence says that there are no more emotions left: “When Yaroslava disappeared, I quickly fell into a cynical stupor and immediately joined the search. I didn't cry or get hysterical. If someone had told me this story five years ago, I would have said that it was impossible to survive such a thing. But the human psyche forms cunning plugs that allow it to survive. I don't feel alive, but I don't bang my head against the wall either. Now I have no hope, that’s why I talk about everything so calmly.”

Yaroslava lived almost her entire life in a one-room apartment with her sister, parents and a white fluffy cat. Now almost every thing in the apartment reminds of the missing girl. Her sister uses her desk and textbooks, her books and drawings are on the shelves, and on the sofa there is still a big white dog - Yaroslava’s favorite toy.

In 2013, Yaroslava was hit by a car: she flew six meters and fell on the asphalt. The hospital diagnosed him with a fractured skull. After the accident, the girl developed memory problems and behavioral abnormalities. A year and a half later, Yaroslava was diagnosed with a psychopathic-like syndrome and was sent for treatment to a children's psychiatric hospital, where she stayed for three months. According to relatives, after the treatment the girl felt better: “Yaroslava started to improve, we often discussed something, laughed, and she became motivated to finish school with her classmates.”

Zhuravleva Yaroslav. 14 years old at the time of disappearance.

Signs: height 175–176 cm, slender build, reddish-brown hair, length below the waist, gray-blue eyes, round face.

Special signs: leg size 42, a burgundy hematoma spot on the head under the hair, pronounced dimples on the cheeks.

Was wearing: black leggings, black sweatshirt, black and white sneakers.

They tried not to leave Yaroslava alone - there was always at least one adult with her. The girl spent a lot of time with her parents and sister, but spent the night with her grandmother in an apartment in a neighboring house. On the evening of July 10, Yaroslava added a large dose of her medicine to the tea and put her grandmother to sleep. She left a note in the apartment in which she confessed her love for her relatives and asked not to blame anyone but herself for her disappearance. Yaroslava took with her a hair curling iron, a boiler, several blouses, a flask of cognac, fifteen hundred rubles and a small empty suitcase. She left her phone and all documents in the apartment.

The family learned about the girl's disappearance the next day. At about one o'clock in the afternoon, Alexander, Yaroslava's father, came for his daughter and saw her grandmother sleeping on the floor. He immediately dialed 112. The dispatcher told him to urgently go to the nearest police station. According to Tamara, they acted as quickly as possible, trying not to waste a second. At the police station near Tamara's office they refused to receive them and were told to go to another station - at their place of registration. Although, by law, an application can be submitted in any department of the city.

At the district office, Tamara and Alexander, due to a long queue, were able to file a missing child report only at 20:30. After this, there was no news from the police for seven days. According to Tamara, she and her husband themselves came to the department to find out about the progress of the case: there they were given “dead” phone numbers that no one answered. Only on the fifth day did the police receive a video from a camera in the entrance, which shows that Yaroslava left the house at night and headed towards the highway.

First and latest photos from the family archive. Top row - ultrasound pictures of Yaroslava's mother during pregnancy, bottom row - photos from a video camera on the night of Yaroslava's disappearance

As Dmitry Vtorov, president of the Search for Missing Children Foundation, says, the main problem that prevents the police from effectively searching for missing people is the lack of personnel. “It is generally accepted that there are many police officers in Russia, but there are actually very few detectives, and they are constantly busy. If a police officer takes on the search for a missing person, and at the same time there is a robbery on his territory, then the boss immediately throws him in to close the robbery case. Therefore, he constantly switches and pauses the search for the missing person,” says Dmitry. In the conversation, his words were confirmed by police colonel Dmitry Pichugin, who also noted that detectives should not deal with cases of robbery and murder.

In addition, law enforcement officers also face bureaucratic problems. Tamara says that her daughter’s case now consists of 500 pages: “Every time I bring a small piece of paper with a phone number, the investigator draws up a report. Even if I came to say exactly one word, the investigator writes three pages of the protocol. Boxes of paper are wasted, but no one makes an examination or conducts a real search. In general, Gleb Zheglov and Volodya Sharapov are not about us.”

Eight days after the disappearance, Alexander, Yaroslava’s father, filed a complaint with the prosecutor’s office, and his daughter’s case was transferred to the Investigation Department for the South-Western Administrative District. Only after this did the search work begin: the investigator inspected the two apartments in which Yaroslava lived and took away all the computers and diaries. Tamara called every day and asked if they had found anything on the computers, but she always received the same answer: “We have sent requests for examination and are waiting.” Tamara says that the investigator interviewed the children who were lying with Yaroslava in psychiatric hospital, and went to “vpiskis” (teenage parties in private apartments or houses). The information that the cameras did not record Yaroslav at the entrances to the metro was reported to the parents three months after the disappearance.

Little is known about the search work of the Investigative Committee. Investigators refused to communicate with journalists without the approval of the press service, and the latter ignores all requests from The Village editors. According to research fellow European University, one of the authors of the book “Russian Investigator: Vocation, Profession, Everyday Life” by Kirill Titaev, when a case of a missing person gets to the Investigative Committee, it is usually dealt with by the youngest employee. Titaev believes that in fact the criminal investigation continues to conduct the search, and the investigator is simply “shifting papers.” According to a former investigator, cases of missing people seem easy at first, because “the logic is clear: in what directions and how to act.” Typically the job consists of interviewing people and checking calls and video cameras. However, at some point the search may reach a dead end: “The person has not been found, and all versions of where he could have disappeared and what could have happened to him have already ended. Then you have to think."

As the police department explained to Tamara, they do not have the authority to work throughout Moscow, so the search was conducted only within the Zyuzino district. On November 10, the case was transferred from the district office to the district office. The employee who will handle the case at the district office was appointed only after 10 days. Tamara took her personal computers to the investigative department, but, according to her, no one was looking into them. In Yaroslava’s VKontakte account, the parents found several correspondence with brothels in St. Petersburg. Their telephone numbers are also listed there, but, according to Tamara, this information was not used in any way.

Personal belongings of Yaroslava and her sister

Drawing of Yaroslava

On the very first day, Tamara contacted Lisa Alert, after which volunteers distributed the information in the city and on the Internet. Three months after her daughter disappeared, Tamara turned to the Search for Missing Children squad for help. The search was carried out by squad volunteer Lyubov Vorozheikina. “Love did a lot of psychological work with me, she is a confident and massive lady, not in terms of figure, but spiritually massive. She said that there had never been a case where she had not found a child,” Tamara recalls.

The main search tools that Love uses are social media and the mobile phone of the missing person. However, Yaroslava disappeared without her phone, and the girl’s parents changed the password for her VKontakte account, so there was no chance that the girl could log into it again. Lyubov, together with other volunteers, posted directions around the area, helped make a report about Yaroslav on the Moscow 24 TV channel, got information about the departure of young girls to Australia and conducted great job on VKontakte: “At night I sat in all sorts of groups of biologists and chemists, groups associated with Australia, and fan groups of musicians whom Yaroslava loves. In them, I opened the list of participants and manually looked through all the accounts to find Yaroslava’s second page. She has red hair and an expressive face, it is difficult to confuse her with anyone. I even went to a concert of the band Twenty One Pilots, which Yaroslava loved, but I didn’t see anyone like her.” Lyubov searched for the missing Yaroslava for two months, after which she stopped the search for personal reasons.

Yaroslava's parents believe that the girl is in St. Petersburg. According to them, their daughter always loved this city and literally “raved about St. Petersburg.” No one called the phone numbers of the brothels that Yaroslava’s parents found. Volunteers are not ready to inspect brothels without protection and a guarantee of safety, and government agencies say in response to everything that they “send requests and wait.” The fact that Yaroslava is in St. Petersburg is also indicated by Tamara’s correspondence with an unknown user under the name Ivan Ivanovich on VKontakte. In February 2017, he sent Tamara a message: “Yaroslav is in this moment she lives very well, she found the person she needs, and in spite of everything, or it’s good there, so I’m writing to you not to tell you the address, but to simply reassure you that everything is fine with her. All the best, goodbye.” (spelling and punctuation of the author. - Ed.). The investigator warned Tamara that the relatives of the missing are regularly written by scammers who supposedly know the location of the missing person and are ready to tell everything for money. Tamara repeatedly received similar messages, but this time the sender did not demand money and did not mock. He reported the information and never appeared online again.

Among Ivan Ivanovich’s subscribers, Tamara found a woman whose close relative had also disappeared. Through her, she contacted three more women from different cities of Russia who were looking for missing people. Moreover, they all assume that their relatives are in St. Petersburg. The women sent each other correspondence with Ivan Ivanovich and, comparing them together, found out that the person who writes from this account is in contact with a certain “criminal labor camp in which people are kept in slavery.” In their opinion, Ivan Ivanovich lives in the Segezha region of Karelia and periodically goes to a labor camp in the north Leningrad region. Tamara passed this information on to the investigator, who said that he would not deal with “another scammer.”

Investigators call unsolved protracted cases “hangings” among themselves. The head of the police department is obliged to check the status of the case once a quarter and the prosecutor’s office once every six months and monitor the work of the responsible employee. Dmitry Pichugin admits that the effectiveness of work depends on specific people in local branches and the extent of their responsibility. If a law enforcement officer is indifferent or does his job poorly, then you need to write written complaints to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. “I will be the first to tear apart a negligent employee. If local people fail to do their job, we punish the managers and can take the case to the district or even the city,” says Dmitry. According to him, after any complaint, the police conduct an investigation, as a result of which the employee may be fired or a criminal case may be opened against him.

Last week, relatives of the missing people called investigators again to inquire about the status of the case. No one answered Marina's call. No one answered Nadezhda's call. An investigator answered Tamara’s call and said that “work is underway, but in the interests of the investigation, he cannot say anything.”

Editor's note: On May 10, police told The Village that Vyacheslav Trofimov had been found. On April 26, the body of a man was found in a car on Lipovy Park Street in the village of Kommunarka in New Moscow - this is nine kilometers from Polyany Street, where Vyacheslav’s car was last seen by CCTV cameras.

According to local residents, the car stood on the street for more than six months. According to police colonel Dmitry Pichugin, the cause of Vyacheslav’s death is not criminal; probably, “something happened to the man’s heart.” However, the motorist who discovered the body said that the car seats were covered in blood. A RIA Novosti source reported that a bag was placed over the man’s head.

As of May 11, Nadezhda, Vyacheslav’s daughter, had not been confirmed that the man found was her father.

We managed to talk about the current topic of missing people, the so-called “lost people” in professional jargon, with a private detective from one of the leading agencies in Russia, a former senior police officer, who told us interesting facts and stories from his practice. Here's what we learned about the harsh realities of work modern representatives private investigation in the field of people search. In Russia, currently without war, with a population of 146 million people, almost 200 thousand people go missing every year, according to statistics on officially filed reports of disappearances. However, only every second person can be found. To find means to find, regardless of whether dead or alive, with confirmation (identification) from those who submitted the application (most often close relatives). At the same time it remains open question the fate of other missing people, the number of whom is equivalent to 100 thousand people. The private detective immediately made a reservation that the conversation would concern exclusively those persons who were among those against whom an application had been filed with the police or appeals to specialists of private search structures - detective agencies about the disappearance of acquaintances, colleagues, relatives, friends, etc. It is noteworthy that all other statistics given in the public domain on the Internet have different meanings. Our opponent noted: “All figures published in the media mass media, are false, not reflecting the real state of affairs, based on the instructions of the highest “ranks” in uniform.”

Circumstances of missing person

At the same time, based on the general reasons for what happened, the category of missing persons can be divided into those who disappeared under certain circumstances:

• They disappeared abruptly, without any explanation or reason;
• Lost as a result of a hike or a hunting or fishing trip to a place unknown to them;
• Left home as a result of a family quarrel, “slamming the door”;
• Disappeared under certain circumstances, which are associated with frequent alcohol abuse, illness nervous system. Often, if these are elderly people and they cannot be found, this category should be classified as corpses with an unknown identity;
• Escaped from an orphanage;
• Classified as missing, but had significant circumstances to “disappear,” including unfulfilled obligations in the form of debts or potentially negative consequences of actions, crimes, etc.;
• Disappeared due to force majeure in the form of natural disasters or, for example, lived in a combat zone, becoming a hostage of the situation, active or passive participants;
• Missing people without a fixed place of residence.

The man disappeared suddenly. The investigation found no traces

If we take into account the entire contingent of all missing people in Russia, then half certainly belong to those who lead an immoral and antisocial lifestyle (alcohol, drugs, vagrancy, gambling and others). But approximately 25% of the missing are people who disappeared for no apparent reason - suddenly (this is approximately 50 thousand people annually in Russia, and only a minority of them can be found, since in other situations, with the exception of the very first point of the reason for the disappearance objectively understandable and intuitively one can assume in advance exactly how events developed, highlighting the motives. life situations, in which the disappearance of people is difficult to explain with sound logic and to find arguments in favor of an independent decision to leave. A private detective, a former criminal investigation officer, who conducts his activities in search and search of people, claims that “the list of situations when a person disappeared suddenly (suddenly means that nothing foreshadowed such a thing) can be continued indefinitely, amazed by the amazing circumstances that even with cannot be explained by a qualitative investigation.” And yet, where do those people of whom no trace remains?

A young woman went missing in Simferopol

In the morning hours, a resident of Simferopol, a young woman, aged 32, who has two children, sent one of her children to kindergarten on the way and took a minibus. She never showed up at work, despite the fact that she was only a few meters away from the bus stop. It was not possible to find it either on the first or second day. At the same time, various versions were worked out: friends, relatives, even possible lovers, phone calls were checked. No traces. No missing items were found in the apartment either. Even minibus passengers were able to confirm the fact of her presence and getting off at the designated stop. Then the trace of the person is simply lost.

Disappearance of a man

A typical man with a solid salary, living in a country house bought without credit loans, having a car, a family and a child has suddenly disappeared. It’s trivial that he took the elevator down to the underground garage, got into his personal Volkswagen and left for work, where he never showed up. A couple of days later the car was found parked on the way to work. Experts found no signs of violence, any struggle, or robbery inside the Volkswagen. At the same time, the car was started and the key fob was in the ignition, but by that time the gasoline had already run out. The smartphone and laptop remained intact inside the car, the car is in good condition, turns, stops are not turned on, there are no emergency signs. They searched everything in the surrounding area, but didn’t even find any traces. Despite his financial sufficiency, the man held the position of middle manager and had no relation to management. Most of the income came from apartments owned by the parents and wife's now deceased grandmother, which were inherited after their death and were rented out. The wife is a regular therapist in the hospital. According to the card accounts of the plastic movement cards you have with you financial assets was also not noticed.

Mom went missing

A girl who recently gave birth went to buy dairy products in one of the nearby stores. The child is not even one year old yet. Often, I went out for cottage cheese and milk at lunchtime, when the child fell asleep. My husband is always at home, his work is on the computer, there is always someone to look after. She left and never returned an hour, two, three, days later... The store is only a couple of stops on the trolleybus, responsibility: breastfeeding... And yet it’s been a year and there are no traces.

Tourist disappeared from hotel

Friends decided to go on vacation with two families in private cars from Belgorod to Crimea. We were on the road all day, after which we decided to stay at one of the roadside hotels on the outskirts of the city and rented two rooms. In the morning, after a sound sleep, they discovered that one of the men was missing. None of the family members: the wife, as well as the son and daughter, heard anything; the administrator who was on duty that night, a very young girl, completely dozed off in the utility room and could not see anything. Entrance doors Hotels are locked at night, and video surveillance only works in the parking area. At the same time, the car is intact, all documents, mobile phone, money, personal belongings are in place. The man came out of the room lightly dressed and with shoes on, probably to smoke at night, since there were no cigarettes anywhere. Even after searching everything around for a radius of many kilometers, they could not find any clues to find the person.

The story of the disappearance of the office "clerk":

A promising young man got a job as a programmer in one of the city offices of Sevastopol, worked for several years, established himself well and even got a girlfriend with whom he lived in civil marriage. Together we bought a car on credit and lived in a rented apartment. One fine day, the young man left the office for lunch break and disappeared forever. He got home for lunch, the girl confirmed this by the presence of dirty dishes left behind and food eaten. However, he never came to work again. It is noteworthy that no trace of him or his car could be found. At the same time, apart from the loan, for which funds were regularly paid, he had no problems or difficulties, and by character he was a non-conflict person, gentle, cheerful. His phone went off an hour after lunch, which became known from a call from his boss, who noticed his absence and called an hour after the break. The investigation yielded no results.

And here's another:

A police officer has disappeared. At the same time, he did not disappear after a shift or duty, or a heavy duty outfit, when there was a chance to assume that he himself was staying with friends to drink a glass of beer together. On the contrary, he disappeared in the morning, quietly boarding a train on the way to work, which, by the way, he never made it to. Colleagues worked through all possible versions and connections, but no one could provide Additional information. They interviewed a colossal number of passengers that day, but all in vain... A positive person, repeatedly awarded, simply disappeared.

Versions for investigation and search

Here is a list of the main versions of events that are confirmed by real facts and were the causes of the disappearances:

• Murders. In this case, the corpse cannot be found due to the fact that it was dismembered, burned, buried or destroyed in any other way;
• Kidnapping a person and then selling him into slavery;
• Kidnapping of women for the purpose of exportation and forced prostitution;
• Kidnappings to obtain donor organs;
• Absurd accidents, including injuries with memory loss.

This information was presented by a person who has almost two decades of operational experience in the authorities and the field of private investigation. Having then joined the police in the dashing 90s, and now working on the search and search for people privately, he notes that the statistics and reasons have not undergone significant changes. The same crimes, their motives for 20 years. In some cases, you can think about mysticism or aliens, since unremarkable people go missing, who should never have been among the disappeared. And thus, almost 100,000 people per year disappear and are not found in Russia. Of course, against the backdrop of a natural decline in the form of mortality of 1 million per year, these are not such huge numbers. But still, these are people, people who had families, and all this time their relatives and friends experience anxiety and bitterness of loss, fear and uncertainty for the fate of a person close to them!

Actions taken by relatives to solve the disappearance

We wish every person never to encounter such difficulties, but once we find ourselves in stressful situation in case of disappearance, their fate may directly depend on the actions of loved ones. At the Client’s request, DASC private detectives organize an urgent search in the form of the arrival of specialists, detectives and experts, using all forces and means to find the person “on fresh tracks.” Most often, this is the most effective way to find the disappeared and provide them with assistance. Efficiency, professionalism and high quality Our agency's human search services have already been appreciated by hundreds of grateful Clients, for whom cooperation with DASC turned out to be fatal and allowed them to save their family, friends and relatives.

Fri, 26/09/2014 - 12:51

Stories about mysterious disappearances always excite the blood, because no one still knows what happened to the missing people, where they are now and whether they are even alive. When going to work, a person usually expects that after a work shift he will return home safely, but history knows several chilling cases when people mysteriously disappeared from their workplace and after that no one ever saw them again.

Deborah Poe

Being a convenience store clerk is a job fraught with potential dangers. But 26-year-old Deborah Poe needed money, so she took a job as an overnight saleswoman at a store in Orlando.
On February 4, 1990, Poe was working her regular night shift at the store and was last seen at approximately 3:00 am. An hour later, the customer found the store empty and contacted police.
Poe's car was still in the parking lot, her wallet was inside, and there were no signs of a robbery or struggle. The bloodhound picked up Poe's trail behind the store, but it quickly ended, indicating that she had left in another vehicle.
The case took a bizarre turn when another customer stated that she walked into the Store between 3:00 and 4:00, but Poe was not there. Behind the counter stood a young man wearing a Megadeth T-shirt. The guy sold her cigarettes even though everything around him seemed unfamiliar to him. This mysterious man he was never found, and police are not sure he is connected to Poe's disappearance.
To this day, Deborah Poe is considered missing. And she's not the only young woman who has disappeared while working alone at a convenience store...

Lynn Burdick

In 1982, 18-year-old Lynn Burdick got a job as a store clerk in a small mountain town in Florida. She worked alone on the evening of April 17. At 8:30 p.m., there was a half-hour before the store closed, and Burdick's parents called to see if she needed a ride home. But no one picked up the phone.
Brother Burdick went to the store to check on her. There was no sign of Lynn anywhere, and the cash register was missing $187. No leads were found during the search operation, but police believed Burdick's disappearance was related to an incident that had occurred earlier that evening.
In less than an hour, an unidentified man attempted to abduct a young woman from the nearby Williams College campus. The student ran away from him and the criminal disappeared. Later, a dark sedan matching the description of the suspect's car was seen driving in the direction of the ill-fated store. Since it was located only 15 kilometers from the college, it is possible that the same person abducted Burdick.
One potential suspect was a man named Leonard Paradiso. Paradiso was convicted of the murder of a young woman in 1984 and is believed to be responsible for a large number of other unsolved murders. He may have been in the area at the time of Burdick's disappearance, but died in prison of cancer in 2008 before he could be linked to other crimes.

Curtis Pichon

For 10 years, Curtis Pichon worked as a police officer in Concord, New Hampshire, but his time on the force ended when he developed multiple sclerosis. By age 40, Pichon was forced to take a job as a security guard at the Venture Corporation plant in Seabrook.
On July 5, 2000, he went on the night shift. At 1:42 a.m., he called the fire department after his car inexplicably caught fire. No one ever knew the cause of the fire, but firefighters noticed that Pichon seemed unusually calm considering what had happened to his car. After the fire was extinguished, he continued to work, but at approximately 3:45 a colleague noticed his absence. Pichon mysteriously disappeared, and during the search not a single trace of him was found.
Due to his battle with multiple sclerosis, Pichon was also depressed, so it was assumed that he was suicidal and suffered mental insanity when his car caught fire. However, due to illness, Pichon could not go far to commit suicide, so his body had to be found near his place of work. The door and two vending machines at the plant were damaged, so it was possible that Pichon had encountered a criminal.
A few years later, one of Pichon's former colleagues, Robert April, was arrested for an entirely different crime. April was said to have claimed that he killed Pichon. However, the charges against April were dropped because... no evidence linking him to mysterious disappearance Pichon was never found.

Susie Lamplew

One of the strangest disappearances in London history is that of 25-year-old estate agent Susie Lamplew. She was last seen at the offices of Sturgis Estate Agents on July 28, 1986, but mysteriously disappeared when she went to show a house to a potential client in Fulham. According to Lamplew's notes, the client's name was "Mr. Kipper" and their meeting was scheduled for 12:45 p.m.
Lamplew never returned from the meeting and her car was found approximately 2.5 kilometers from her home in Fulham. Witnesses saw her arguing with an unknown person on the street that day before getting into another vehicle. The investigation found no trace of Lamplew, and she was pronounced dead in 1994.
Authorities thought Mr. Kipper was a serial rapist named John Cannan, who had been released from prison three days before Lamplew's disappearance. His nickname was Kipper and he looked like unknown person, with whom Lamplew was arguing. In 1989, Cannan was convicted of murdering another woman and received three life sentences. One of ex-girlfriends Cannana told police he talked about raping and killing Lamplew and was questioned about his involvement in her disappearance.
Even though the police had a strong case against Cannan, there was not enough evidence to charge him with Lamplew's murder. Nevertheless, they publicly announced that Cannan, in their opinion, was the criminal. Cannan remains in prison and denies killing Lamplew.

Lisa Geis

On the morning of February 27, 1989, employees of a Georgia company arrived at their workplaces to find the building flooded. As it turned out, the flood was caused by a fire extinguishing system that went off at the workplace belonging to 26-year-old computer programmer Lisa Geis, who had been working the night before and was nowhere to be found. Fire and flood became a secondary issue when a pool of blood was discovered at Geis's workplace.
Geis' car and wallet were found in nearby woods, and police feared the worst when they found a bloody brick nearby. Due to flooding in the building and heavy rain on the street, all evidence of the bloody scene was seriously damaged.
The main suspect was a recently fired employee. The employee may have broken into the building to cause chaos and unexpectedly came across Geis. At that time, the suspect lived on a large property of his own with many wells, and several years later he ex-wife claimed that he once called them "a good place to hide a corpse." Even though police searched many of these wells, they found no trace of Geis, and there is still no evidence linking the suspect to her alleged killer.

Brian Carrick

On the evening of December 20, 2002, 17-year-old Brian Carrick went to work as a storekeeper at a food market in Johnsburg, Illinois. The next day, Carrick's parents panicked because he never returned home and reported him missing. The police did not find a single witness at the market who could confirm that Carrick was leaving work.
The morning after Carrick disappeared, one of the employees discovered a pool of blood in the refrigerator with products. The manager, thinking that blood had dripped from raw meat, ordered to wash the stain. However, drops of blood were found throughout the store and DNA testing confirmed it belonged to Carrick.
A few years later, it was believed that Carrick's manager, Mario Cassiaro, was responsible for his disappearance. After their colleague Shane Lamb was arrested in a drug case, he turned in both Cassiaro and Carrick. According to Lamb, Carrick obtained marijuana for Cassiaro and owed him money. When Cassiaro asked Lamb for help to collect a debt from Carrick, things got out of control. They accidentally killed him in the cold storage room and then disposed of the body.
In 2010, Cassiaro was charged with first-degree murder after Lamb agreed to testify against him in exchange for a reduced sentence. During the first hearing, the jury was unable to reach a unanimous conclusion, but in 2013 Cassiaro was found guilty and received 26 years in prison. He continues to maintain his innocence, and Brian Carrick's body has never been found.

Kim Leggett

Kim Leggett, a 21-year-old girl who worked as a secretary in Mercedes, Texas. On October 9, 1984 at 4:30 p.m., a client saw Leggett talking to two unknown men in the parking lot. About 15 minutes later, Leggett's stepfather received an anonymous phone call saying Leggett had been kidnapped for ransom.
At first he assumed that the demand was a prank, but he soon learned that his stepdaughter was absent from work. Even though her car was parked and her belongings and wallet were inside, Kim Leggett disappeared without a trace. The Leggett family received a ransom demand of $250,000. The letter was written in her handwriting.
Leggett's stepfather was a pilot, and she was rumored to have been kidnapped because he refused to smuggle contraband into Mexico. Leggett left behind a husband and a one-year-old son, and some suspicions also arose about her husband - he allegedly mentioned his wife's disappearance in a conversation with friends when no one knew about it.
However, the two men who spoke with Leggett were never found. After the first ransom demand, no one contacted her family again.

Trevaline Evans

In 1990, 52-year-old Trevaline Evans was the owner of an antiques store in small town Llangollen in North Wales. On the afternoon of June 16, Evans mysteriously disappeared from the store. Her car was still parked nearby, and the sign front door reported that she would be back in two minutes.
Evans purchased an apple and banana from a nearby store at approximately 12:40 p.m. and was seen returning to the store. Banana peel in the waste paper basket indicated that she had returned to her workplace, but what happened next remains a mystery.
During the day Evans was seen in different places throughout the city, including near her home. But if Evans returned to the store after being gone for two minutes and then left again, why was the sign still hanging on the door? Additionally, both of her purses and jacket were left at the store along with other items she planned to take home that day.
Over the years, Evans was allegedly seen in London, France and Australia, but none of these reports were documented. At the same time, on the day of the disappearance, an unknown man was seen in the store, but he was never identified. 25 years later, the disappearance of Trevaline Evans remains one of the most perplexing cases in the history of the United Kingdom.

Kelly Wilson

In 1992, 17-year-old Kelly Wilson got a job at Northeast Texas Video in the small town of Gilmer. On the evening of January 5, she was working at a video store and went out to withdraw money from the bank around the corner. No one has seen her since then. Wilson's car was later found in a video store parking lot with a flat tire and her wallet still inside.
No new information about the disappearance emerged for two years until some rather horrifying conclusions were drawn. The town began to believe that Wilson had been kidnapped by a satanic cult, raped, murdered and ritually dismembered.
In January 1994, eight suspects were charged with murder. Seven of the men were from the local Kerr family, and the eighth suspect was police sergeant James Brown, who was investigating Wilson's disappearance. The suspects were also accused of sexually abusing their own children, some of whom told Child Protective Services they witnessed Wilson's murder.
However, it soon became apparent that the children had made up their testimony, and there was no evidence to support violence or murder. Charges against Sergeant Brown and the Kerr family were dropped and rumors of a satanic cult were debunked. All suspects claimed their innocence in the disappearance of Kelly Wilson, which remains unsolved to this day.

Paul Armstrong and Stephen Lombard

In 1993, a California towing company became the center of attention when two unrelated employees disappeared without a trace. Tow truck driver Steven Lombard and bulldozer driver Paul Armstrong had no obvious connection to each other, but somehow disappeared at the same time on the same day.
Armstrong was last seen at his home that morning by a friend who reported him missing when he failed to meet her at lunch. Lombard was seen after lunch, when he went into the office to collect his salary. He was never seen again after that, and his pickup truck was soon found abandoned in a K-Mart parking lot with the keys inside.
The strangest thing about this story was that the owner of the company, Randal Wright, found himself in the midst of strange events. In 2009, Wright's estranged wife mysteriously disappeared from country house in Mexico. She was never found, and Wright did not even bother to report her disappearance to Mexican authorities.