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Thirty-seven-year-old Massachusetts resident, John Wayne Potter, went missing on the 23rd of November 2022. John Wayne had been living in Lowell at 190 Coburn Street with his sister and multiple roommates. His sister said she hadn’t seen John since the day before Thanksgiving. When he didn’t attend his family’s Thanksgiving celebration, everyone knew something was alarmingly wrong.

In December of 1946, 18-year-old Paula Jean Welden set out on a hike in the Green Mountains of Vermont. She was a sophomore at Bennington College and had recently told her roommate she was feeling restless and wanted to go for a walk. However, Paula never returned from her hike and was never seen again.

The kidnapping of an American woman from her home in Mexico sent shock waves through the country and beyond. This is the fifth time in just over a month and a half that an American has been kidnapped in Mexico. This worries both tourists and people who live there. Maria Del Carmen Lopez is the woman who was killed. She is a mother of seven and also has a home in Mexico. She was taken against her will by people no one knows, and now her family is begging anyone who knows anything to come forward.

The mystery of a missing man from LaGrange, Georgia has finally been solved after more than 47 years. Kyle Clinkscales, who disappeared in 1976 at the age of 22, had been the subject of an extensive search by his parents, Louise and John Clinkscales. They left no stone unturned in their tireless search for their son, and their efforts made them crusaders for missing persons. The case was the oldest missing person cold case in Troup County, Georgia, but in December 2021, a car was found submerged in a creek in Chambers County, Alabama, containing the skeletal remains of Kyle Clinkscales. It may take months for investigators to determine a cause of death, given the age of the remains.

It was upsetting to know that a 13-year-old Texas girl who had been missing for two weeks had been found in a shed in North Carolina. Jorge Camacho, 34, the suspect, was taken into custody on accusations of abduction, raping, and trafficking in human beings. Camacho is charged with enticing the girl to the shed where he was living in Davidson County through online chats.

Kennedy Walton, a 27-year-old woman from St. Louis, Missouri, has been missing since March 3, 2022, causing distress to her aunt, Marco Dean, who has had two seizures worrying about her niece. "I have had seizures, two seizures, worrying about Kennedy," said Dean. Although Walton lives in south St. Louis, she frequently visits her mom and sisters in Belleville, a city in St. Clair County, Illinois. However, when Walton's mother didn't see her daughter as planned, they filed a missing person report with the Belleville Police Department.

The disappearance of three Texas ladies in Mexico serves as a terrible reminder of the hazards that can present when going abroad. On February 24th, the women, sisters Maritza and Marina Rios, as well as their friend Dora signs, crossed the border to sell clothes at a flea market. They were reported missing three days later by the husband of one of the women, who had not been able to reach them since shortly after they left.

We often hear of people going missing, one or two here and there, but this is the story of six young men who vanished one night without a trace. They have yet to be found and their families have been met with every road black imaginable in the search for answers.

The latest update from Julia Wendell, the young Polish woman who claims she could be British, kidnapped toddler, Madeleine McCann, she and Dr Fia Johansson, have flown to the United States as Julia is requesting DNA tests. Madeleine McCann was three-year-old when she disappeared. She was from Rothley, Leicestershire, England. She went missing in an apartment one night from the Portuguese holiday resort, Praia da Luz on the Algarve in 2007. Her parents Gerry and Kate McCann have been looking for her for over 16 years.

Gui Meiying, who was born on August 1, 1972, in China's Liaoning Province, was the eldest child of an ethnic Korean family. Her younger sister describes her as having a lively personality and good academic performance which made her family proud.

An 83-year-old Pennsylvania woman who had been missing for over 30 years was found alive and happily living in a nursing home in Puerto Rico. Patricia Kopta was last seen in Pittsburgh in the summer of 1992, and her husband reported her missing case a few months later in the fall. He told authorities that it was not uncommon for his wife to disappear for short periods of time.

Authorities have discovered the whereabouts of a woman from Pittsburgh who had been missing for over three decades, in a nursing home in Puerto Rico. Patricia Kopta left her family behind and wandered around northern Puerto Rico before she was taken to an adult care home in 1999. She kept her past hidden initially but eventually revealed her identity as she suffered from dementia. Kopta was once a well-known street preacher in her hometown, and her case had puzzled authorities who declared her legally dead. Those who knew her in Puerto Rico recognized her and contacted Ross Township police, leading to her discovery. CBS News reported.

Authorities are seeking the public's help in finding Elizabeth Scarleth Recinos, a 23-year-old Hispanic woman who went missing in Lancaster on Tuesday. According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, Recinos was last seen at the intersection of 45th Street and West Avenue L around 3 a.m.

It was supposed to be a relaxing family vacation for Madeleine McCann and her family, but it turned into a nightmare that they would never forget. Madeleine, a three-year-old British girl, was on holiday with her parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, her two-year-old twin siblings, and a group of family friends in the resort town of Praia da Luz, Portugal.

Tumeka Williams, 47, of Theodore, Alabama, was reported missing by her family on Monday, February 20. Williams was last seen at a Stuckey’s convenience store on Hwy 49 at 7 p.m. in Hattiesburg. At that time, surveillance footage shows her wearing an orange shirt, light brown jacket, and khaki pants. Williams had traveled to Jackson, Mississippi, to purchase a car, according to the Hattiesburg Police Department (HPD). Her family says that she had decided not to purchase the vehicle and was returning home when she disappeared.

It’s a mother’s worst nightmare. A 10-month-old baby disappeared from her home in Kansas City, Missouri. Baby Lisa Irwin was reportedly snatched from her home overnight while asleep in her crib. Despite the hard work of the police, a cash reward for information, and the hiring of a private investigator — it’s been over 10 years since she was taken and she has still never been found.

In the U.S., it used to be fairly common for you to see the names and photos of missing people on the back of milk cartons. This practice became obsolete when the Amber alert system was created in 1996, but prior to this, it was a way to alert the public of missing people, particularly missing children.

The Appalachian Trail has been the site of many mysterious disappearances over the years. However, one story stands out above the rest as the most disturbing in the trail's history.