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Cops: Mom of Missing Girl Swapped License Plates

Authorities say Melodee Buzzard was last seen Oct. 9 near Colorado-Utah border

(Newser) - Authorities say the mother of missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard switched license plates during a cross-country road trip, a move investigators believe was intended to sidestep detection. The journey began Oct. 7, when Melodee and her mother, Ashlee Buzzard, left their home in Lompoc, California, for what was described as a...

Mom May Have Used Wig to Alter Missing Girl's Appearance

Search for Melodee Buzzard now focuses on weekend road trip

(Newser) - California authorities are intensifying their search for missing 9-year-old Melodee Buzzard , now focusing on a road trip her mother took earlier this month. Investigators suspect Ashlee Buzzard may have tried to disguise Melodee at a car rental agency ahead of that trip. Surveillance footage from Oct. 7 shows Melodee in...

Lawmaker Outs Suspect in 1970 Cheryl Grimmer Case
Lawmaker Outs Suspect in 1970
Case of Missing British Toddler
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Oct 26, 2025 7:01 AM CDT

Lawmaker Outs Suspect in 1970 Case of Missing British Toddler

Brother says police believe man dubbed 'Mercury' assaulted and killed 3-year-old Cheryl Grimmer

(Newser) - More than 50 years after 3-year-old Cheryl Grimmer vanished from an Australian beach, a key person of interest in the case has been named in parliament, reigniting calls for justice in the decades-old mystery, per the BBC . The British toddler disappeared in 1970 from Fairy Meadow beach in Wollongong, where...

$700K Picasso Painting Disappears on Way to Exhibit

'Still Life With Guitar' was being moved across Spain

(Newser) - Spanish authorities are searching for a $700,000 Pablo Picasso painting that disappeared while being transported across Spain. Picasso's "Still Life with Guitar," a small gouache and pencil work, was one of numerous artworks set to go on display in Granada in a show organized by the...

Judge: Missing Candidate Has to Stay on Ballot

Long Island Democrat Petros Krommidas disappeared during a swim in April

(Newser) - Nearly five months after Democratic candidate Petros Krommidas vanished during a nighttime ocean swim off Long Island, his name remains on the ballot in a Nassau County legislative race, despite his presumed death. Krommidas, a 29-year-old triathlete and political newcomer, disappeared in April. Extensive searches yielded no results, and...

Man Says He Saw Girl Carried Away in 1970
Review Sparks Outrage in
1970 Missing Child Case
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Sep 30, 2025 11:05 AM CDT

Review Sparks Outrage in 1970 Missing Child Case

Cheryl Grimmer's brother claims potential witnesses weren't interviewed

(Newser) - The brother of Cheryl Grimmer, a young girl who vanished from an Australian beach in 1970, says he's furious with police for failing to interview witnesses who've gone public in recent years. A four-year review of the 55-year-old cold case has revealed no new information that could lead...

Alleged Killer Mom Among 'Most Wanted' Is Nabbed

Cindy Rodriguez Singh charged in relation to disabled son's 2022 disappearance

(Newser) - A Texas mother on the FBI's "Top 10 Most Wanted" list has been captured more than two years after fleeing overseas following the disappearance of her 6-year-old son. Cindy Rodriguez Singh, 40, faces charges of capital murder and fleeing prosecution in connection with the presumed death of...

Hoffa Family to Trump: Unseal the FBI Case Files

Family marks 50 years of mystery by demanding long-hidden answers

(Newser) - Half a century after Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance sparked one of America's most enduring mysteries, his family is urging President Trump to release long-hidden FBI files that could finally reveal what happened to the former Teamsters boss. James P. Hoffa, the labor leader's son, argues the full...

Court Testimony: Mom Sold Daughter for Her Eyes, Skin

Kelly Smith, 2 others convicted of kidnapping, trafficking missing 6-year-old in South Africa

(Newser) - A mother, her boyfriend, and their friend have been sentenced to life in prison for the kidnapping and trafficking of a 6-year-old girl, her own daughter, who disappeared outside her South African home in February 2024 and still hasn't been found. Racquel "Kelly" Smith, Jacquen Appollis, and...

Wisconsin Mother Missing Since 1962 Found Alive
Wisconsin Mother Missing
Since 1962 Found Alive
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May 10, 2025 12:30 PM CDT

Wisconsin Mother Missing Since 1962 Found Alive

Police say she chose to leave her family

(Newser) - A Wisconsin cold case dating back more than 60 years has ended with the missing woman found alive. Audrey Backeberg, now 82, vanished from her family's home on July 7, 1962, when she was 20 years old and a mother of two. The Sauk County Sheriff's Office...

Cops: Wisconsin Kayaker Faked Death, Fled to Europe

Ryan Borgwardt left wife, 3 children behind

(Newser) - A Wisconsin man apparently faked his own drowning this summer so he could abandon his family and flee to eastern Europe, investigators say. Green Lake County Sheriff Mark Podell said in a news release Friday that the Dodge County Sheriff's Office informed his agency on Aug. 12 that Ryan...

Search for American Missing in Greece Called Off

Albert Calibet's family suspects foul play

(Newser) - The search for a retired Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who went missing on a Greek island last month has ended without success, relatives say. NBC News reports. Albert Calibet, 59, disappeared during a solo hike June 11 on the island of Amorgos. Brother Oliver Calibet said Monday that...

Mom: Resort Where Daughter Went Missing 'Unsettling'

Colette Seymore, mom of Taylor Casey of Chicago, wants FBI to get involved in Bahamas search

(Newser) - Nearly two weeks after Chicago's Taylor Casey disappeared in the Bahamas , her family is frustrated by what they see as a bare minimum search effort and pleading with the FBI to get involved. Casey, 41, was last seen June 19 at Sivananda Ashram Yoga Retreat on Paradise Island. The...

On Greek Isle, a British TV Doctor Vanishes

Search continues for Michael Mosley on Aegean island of Symi

(Newser) - After hours of searching, authorities have found no trace of a British TV doctor who vanished while vacationing on the tiny Greek island of Symi, just a few miles off the coast of Turkey. Michael Mosley, a BBC presenter and Daily Mail columnist who helped popularize intermittent fasting, reportedly set...

Woman Says She's Kid Who Vanished in 1985

Pennsylvania State Police investigating Facebook claim related to Cherrie Mahan, who was 8

(Newser) - Surely not every Facebook comment is to be believed. But police in Pennsylvania are eager to determine the truth of one particular comment in which a woman claims to be Cherrie Mahan, who vanished from Pennsylvania as an 8-year-old in 1985. The woman made the claim on the " Memories...

Tourists Killed in Mexico Were Lucky to Be Found

Tens of thousands of others remain missing and, arguably, ignored

(Newser) - Australian brothers Callum and Jake Robinson and their American friend, Jack Carter Rhoad, met a horrifying death —each shot dead in an apparent car-jacking before their bodies were dumped in a well. But in one sense, the tourists were lucky. "The robust operation to quickly find the remains...

Woman Whose 911 Call Went to the Wrong State Is Found Dead

Amanda Nenigar's Feb. 27 call went to California dispatchers, though her car was found in Arizona

(Newser) - A tragic ending to the story of a California woman whose 911 call was routed to the wrong state: Amanda Nenigar, who went missing Feb. 27, was found dead Friday night in a remote area near the small Arizona town of Cibola, just over the border from California, CBS News...

Sad End for Toddler Who Vanished Last Summer in Alps

Remains of little Emile Soleil have been found, identified in France

(Newser) - Sad news out of France, where the remains of a toddler who went missing in the Alps last summer have been found. AFP calls it the "first major breakthrough" in the case of little Emile Soleil, who was last seen on July 8 by locals in the village of...

Cops: Missing Adults, Kids Joined Child Molester's Cult

6 missing people from St. Louis area said to be followers of self-proclaimed god Rashad Jamal

(Newser) - Four adults and two children reported missing in Missouri in August are believed to have joined a cult run by a convicted child molester and online guru, police say. Rashad Jamal, born Rashad Jamal White, is serving an 18-year prison sentence in Georgia for child molestation and cruelty to children,...

Vanished Foreign Minister Hand-Picked by Xi Is Replaced

China's Qin Gang hasn't been seen since June; absence met with rumors of extramarital affair

(Newser) - China's foreign minister is out of the job after just seven months, including a final month in which he hasn't been seen in public. Qin Gang last appeared in public in Beijing on June 25 during a meeting with officials from Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and Russia, per CNN...

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