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A person of interest in the disappearance of a mother-of-eight from Michigan, who was last seen traveling to pick up a friend in December, is being updated by both local and federal investigators.

A mother from Billings, Montana, Linda Varela Adams, has taken on the search for her son Jance Varela, who has been missing since July 2022. Despite reporting him missing and the police assigning an investigator to the case, no active search for Varela has been launched. Adams has taken charge of the search herself, using social media and building a network of volunteers to conduct vigils and ground searches, and continuously distribute flyers. She has also created a Facebook page dedicated to finding her son.

It's a tragic situation that no one ever wants to face. A missing person report, followed by the news that they have been found dead. Last week, a mother and her 7-year-old son were discovered dead in California after the woman's 3-year-old reported them missing.

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.

Brandon Pfeifer-Davis, a 22-year-old resident of Greenfield, has been missing since March 24, and his family and friends are growing increasingly worried. The Pittsburgh Police Department is now asking for your help in finding him.

The Gray family is in turmoil as the search for Séamus Gray, a 21-year-old Navy sailor and South Florida man, ends. Gray was last seen leaving a St. Patrick's Day celebration near Chicago one week ago. The search for Gray has been called off after authorities "exhausted every effort" to find him. Gray texted a photo of himself, green beer in hand, to his mother on March 17, and she FaceTimed him from Jupiter to say "cheers." Five days later, Kerry Rodier Gray shared the same photo of him to Facebook, begging for information.

Haliey Wells, a missing 16-year-old girl still missing from Warren County, Tennessee. The 16-year-old has been missing for ten days; she is described as a white female with hazel eyes, shoulder-length dark hair, and some streaks of purple, approximately 5f 2in, 100lbs. She does not have a car.

Authorities in Washington state reported finding the remains of a woman and her 7-year-old daughter in rural Yakima County. Vancouver police said in a press statement that they had found what they believe to be the remains of Meshay Melendez, 27, and her daughter Layla Stewart, 7, on Wednesday.

Her body still hasn’t been found, but Larry Millete is going to trial for the murder of his wife, Maya Millete. Messages exchanged between the couple shortly before Maya went missing were presented at Larry’s preliminary hearing, and they speak volumes.

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.