List of people who disappeared mysteriously: post-1970
2000s

List of people who disappeared mysteriously: post-1970

Section Title: 2000s
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Date	Person(s)	Age	Circumstances

2 January 2000	Zebb Quinn	18 (37 as of 2019)	Zebb Quinn disappeared on 2 January 2000 in Asheville, North Carolina after receiving a page from his aunt's phone number. She denied paging him, but told police that her home was broken into during that time frame.

14 February 2000	Asha Degree	9 (28 as of 2019)	Asha Degree was last seen in the early morning hours of 14 February 2000 running into a woodlot off North Carolina Highway 18 near her Shelby home on heavily raining and very windy day.

9 March 2000	Leah Roberts	23 (42 as of 2019)	Leah Roberts abruptly left her home in Durham, North Carolina on 9 March 2000. Her sister later found a note suggesting she was going on a cross-country road trip to northern Washington and a review of her banking and credit records confirmed this.

17 March 2000	Joseph Kibweteere	68 (87 as of 2019)	Joseph Kibweteere, a leader of the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, is believed to have died on 17 March 2000 but in 2014 it was announced by the Uganda National Police that there were reports that Kibweteere was hiding in Malawi.

25 May 2000	Bruno Manser	45 (64 as of 2019)	Swiss traveler who lived with the Penan people of Borneo during the 1970s and 80s. He became an internationally prominent activist in the fight for the Penan's land rights and opposition to logging and rain forest destruction.

7 July 2000	Dzmitry Zavadski	27 (46 as of 2019)	Belarusian journalist and cameraman Dzmitry Zavadski disappeared on 7 July 2000 at the Minsk National Airport and was presumably murdered.

8 December 2000	Trevor Deely	22 (41 as of 2019)	Trevor Deely was returning home from his work's Christmas party on 8 December 2000 in Dublin city centre. He was seen talking to an unknown man outside his office.

2 January 2001	Zelimkhan Murdalov	26 (44 as of 2019)	Zelimkhan Murdalov, a student from Grozny, Chechnya, left his home on 2 January 2001 saying he would return but never did.

18 January 2001	Rilya Wilson	4 (22 as of 2019)	Rilya Wilson, a foster child of the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) disappeared on 18 January 2001 in Miami, Florida.

11 April 2001	Branson Perry	20 (38 as of 2019)	Branson Perry disappeared on 11 April 2001 outside his home in Skidmore, Missouri. A female friend was at his home helping him clean in preparation for his father's return from the hospital; she stated he told her he was taking a pair of jumper cables to an exterior shed.

13 June 2001	Jason Jolkowski	19 (37 as of 2019)	Jason Jolkowski, a resident of Omaha, Nebraska, failed to show up at a local high school where he had arranged to catch a ride to work with a friend on 13 June 2001.

10 September 2001	Sneha Anne Philip	31 (49 as of 2019)	Indian-American physician Sneha Anne Philip last seen 10 September 2001 on surveillance camera footage from a store near her Lower Manhattan apartment.

3 April 2002	Marita Verón	23 (40 as of 2019)	Argentinian woman Marita Verón is believed to have been kidnapped on 3 April 2002 from her home town in the Tucumán province and has not been seen since.

7 July 2002	Bison Dele	33 (50 as of 2019)	Bison Dele, an American professional basketball player and his girlfriend Serena Karlan disappeared from on board a vessel on 7 July 2002.

Serena Karlan	30 (47 as of 2019)

c. 2002	Saeed Zeinali	26 (43 as of 2019)	Saeed Zeinali, an Iranian student at Tehran University, was arrested on 10 July 1999 and was said to be held in jail until 2002.

25 May 2003	Ben Charles Padilla	50 (66 as of 2019)	Ben Charles Padilla, a licensed aircraft mechanic, flight engineer and pilot of small airplanes, was on board Boeing 727-223 designation N844AA when it was stolen from Luanda, Angola on 25 May 2003.

4 July 2003	Ali Astamirov	34 (50 as of 2019)	Ali Astamirov, a Chechen journalist, who was working for Agence France Presse in Ingushetia, Russia was allegedly kidnapped at gunpoint by a group of three masked men in uniforms on 4 July 2003 just outside Nazran.

11 August 2003	Reda Helal	Egyptian journalist Reda Helal went missing on 11 August 2003 in downtown Cairo and is believed to have been kidnapped. However, it is said that there is little evidence to support this belief.

1 October 2003	Felipe Santos	24 (40 as of 2019)	Felipe Santos was last seen being arrested for driving without a license after a traffic accident early on 1 October 2003 outside Naples, Florida by Collier County sheriff's deputy Steve Calkins.

9 October 2003	Kirk von Ackermann	37 (53 as of 2019)	Kirk von Ackermann disappeared in Iraq on 9 October 2003 after calling an Iraqi employee of U.S. defense contractor Ultra Services and telling him he needed help fixing a flat tire on his car.

3 November 2003	Charlene Downes	14 (30 as of 2019)	Charlene Downes disappeared from her home town of Blackpool, England on 1 November 2003 has not been seen since. It is believed that she may have been murdered.

12 January 2004	Terrance Williams	27 (42 as of 2019)	Terrance Williams disappeared after being arrested by Collier County sheriff's deputy Steve Calkins on 12 January 2004. The circumstances of his disappearance were similar to that of Felipe Santos who disappeared after being stopped and arrested by the same officer three months previous.

9 February 2004	Maura Murray	21 (36 as of 2019)	Maura Murray from Hanson, Massachusetts, a nursing student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was last seen 9 February 2004 on New Hampshire Route 112 at the scene of a minor one-vehicle accident in which her car was disabled after crashing into a roadside snowbank.

12 March 2004	Somchai Neelapaijit	52 (63 as of 2019)	Somchai Neelapaijit, a Thai Muslim lawyer and human rights activist representing South Thailand insurgency terrorism suspects, was last seen in Bangkok on 12 March 2004 in what may be a case of a forced disappearance.

19 March 2004	Brianna Maitland	17 (32 as of 2019)	Brianna Maitland vanished on 19 March 2004 after leaving her job as a dishwasher at the Black Lantern Inn in Montgomery, Vermont.

16 April 2004	Guy-André Kieffer	64 (79 as of 2019)	Guy-André Kieffer, a French Canadian journalist who had long covered West Africa, was kidnapped from an Abidjan shopping mall's parking lot on 16 April 2004.

May 2004	Mohammed Al Afghani	Mohammed Al Afghani, an Afghan citizen, was detained by the CIA in Pakistan in May 2004 and his current whereabouts are unknown.

12 September 2004	Joana Cipirano	8 (23 as of 2019)	Joana Isabel Cipriano disappeared on 12 September 2004 from Figueira, a village near Portimão in the Algarve region of Portugal. An investigation by the Polícia Judiciária, Portugal's criminal police, concluded that she had been murdered by her mother, Leonor Cipriano, and her uncle, João Cipriano, after witnessing them engaged in incestuous sex.

11 October 2004	Iraena Asher	25 (40 as of 2019)	Iraena Asher, a New Zealand model who allegedly suffering from bipolar disorder, disappeared in controversial circumstances at Piha, west of Auckland, on 11 October 2004.

15 April 2005	Ray Gricar	59 (73 as of 2019)	Ray Gricar, a district attorney of Centre County, Pennsylvania in the United States, disappeared on 15 April 2005. He had called his girlfriend, in whose house he resided, from his car giving his location east of Centre Hall.

18 May 2005	Rahul Raju	7 (21 as of 2019)	Rahul Raju, a boy from Alappuzha in Kerala, India, went missing on 18 May 2005 while playing with friends in his neighborhood.

30 May 2005	Natalee Holloway	18 (32 as of 2019)	Natalee Holloway, an American student from Alabama, was last seen on 30 May 2005 before leaving a nightclub in Aruba with three men including Joran van der Sloot.

5 July 2005	George Allen Smith IV	26 (40 as of 2019)	George Allen Smith IV, an American passenger on Brilliance of the Seas, disappeared from the ship on 5 July 2005 and police suspect homicide.

22 October 2005	Tara Faye Grinstead	30 (44 as of 2019)	Tara Faye Grinstead, a beauty queen and high school history teacher from Ocilla, Georgia, went missing on 22 October 2005 and investigators identified no suspects.

10 November 2005	Rahma el-Dennaoui	1 (15 as of 2019)	Rahma el-Dennaoui, a Lebanese Australian girl, went missing on 10 November 2005. Despite a police search and appeals to the general public no trace of the little girl has yet been found.

5 January 2006	Joe Pichler	18 (32 as of 2019)	Former American child actor Joe Pichler was last seen on 5 January 2006 near Bremerton, Washington.

23 January 2006	Jennifer Kesse	24 (37 as of 2019)	Jennifer Kesse was last seen on 23 January 2006 leaving her place of employment in Orlando, Florida. Her last phone call was placed to her boyfriend at 10 p.m.

April 2006	Jessie Foster	21 (34 as of 2019)	Jessie Foster, a Canadian woman, disappeared from the Las Vegas Valley in Nevada during April 2006.

1 April 2006	Brian Shaffer	27 (40 as of 2019)	Ohio State University medical student Brian Shaffer was last seen on security camera footage apparently re-entering an off-campus bar shortly before its closing time early on the morning of 1 April 2006.

26 June 2006	Sherlyn Cadapan	27 (40 as of 2019)	Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño, a community organizer and graduate student respectively, were allegedly abducted by gunmen in a remote area of the Philippines on 26 June 2006 and they have not been seen since.

Karen Empeño	20 (32 as of (2018)

July 2006	Ebrima Manneh	Ebrima Manneh, a Gambian journalist, is believed by human rights organizations to have been arrested in July 2006 and secretly held in custody since.

26 August 2006	Thiruchelvam Nihal Jim Brown	34 (47 as of 2019)	Thiruchelvam Nihal Jim Brown, a minority Sri Lankan Tamil Roman Catholic parish priest, disappeared during the Sri Lankan civil war on 26 August 2006 and is believed to be dead.

31 August 2006	Anthony Zizzo	71 (84 as of 2019)	Anthony Zizzo, a high-ranking American mobster and reputed member of the Chicago Outfit, was last seen on 31 August 2006 after leaving his home in Melrose Park and has not been seen since.

18 September 2006	Jorge Julio López	77 (90 as of 2019)	Argentine retired bricklayer Jorge Julio López disappeared on 18 September 2006 after testifying at trial against Dirty War criminal Miguel Etchecolatz and has not been seen since.

28 January 2007	Jim Gray	63 (75 as of 2019)	Jim Gray, a database pioneer, Microsoft Research scientist and Turing Award winner, left San Francisco Bay on 28 January 2007 in his 12 m (39 ft) sailboat Tenacious to scatter his mother's ashes at the Farallon Islands, a wildlife refuge 43 km (27 mi) away.

February 2007	Andrew McAuley	38 (50 as of 2019)	Andrew McAuley, an Australian adventurer best known for mountaineering and sea kayaking in remote parts of the world, is presumed to have died following his disappearance at sea while attempting to kayak 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) across the Tasman Sea in February 2007.

30 March 2007	Oralgaisha Omarshanova	39 (51 as of 2019)	Oralgaisha Omarshanova, a journalist who was working for a paper based in Astana, disappeared on 30 March 2007 and has not been seen since.

9 March 2007	Robert Levinson	58 (70 as of 2019)	Robert Levinson, a retired U.S. DEA and FBI agent, was last seen in the custody of what seemed to be Iranian intelligence agents on 9 March 2007 on Kish Island in Iran.

20 April 2007	Derek Batten	56 (68 as of 2019)	Kaz II, a 9.8 m (32 ft) catamaran, was found adrift on 20 April 2007 near Australia's Great Barrier Reef with its three-man crew, owner Derek Batten and brothers Peter and James Tunstead, missing.

Peter Tunstead	69 (81 as of 2019)

James Tunstead	63 (75 as of 2019)

30 April 2007	Lisa Stebic	37 (49 as of 2019)	Stebic was last seen by her husband at their Plainfield, Illinois home on 30 April 2007 while she was waiting for a ride to the local track where she worked out.

3 May 2007	Madeleine McCann	3 (15 as of 2019)	McCann disappeared 3 May 2007 after being left asleep in the unlocked ground-floor bedroom of her family's rented holiday apartment in Algarve (Portugal) while her parents dined with friends at a local restaurant.

12 August 2007	Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine	Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, a Haitian human rights and political activist was kidnapped on 12 August 2007 and has not been seen since.

30 August 2007	Elodia Ghinescu	39 (51 as of 2019)	Elodia Ghinescu, a Romanian lawyer had been last seen in August 2007, and her disappearance was officialized on 5 September the same year by Cristian Cioacă, her husband and a policeman in Brașov.

14 September 2007	Andrew Gosden	14 (26 as of 2019)	Gosden disappeared from King's Cross station in London on 14 September 2007. He left his home in Doncaster to go to school, but never caught the school bus, and instead returned home when the rest of the household had departed.

28 October 2007	Stacy Ann Peterson	23 (35 as of 2019)	Peterson left her Bolingbrook, Illinois home at 11 a.m. on 28 October 2007 to help a friend paint a house and has not been seen since.

29 October 2007	Aeryn Gillern	34 (46 as of 2019)	Gillern disappeared in Vienna, Austria on the evening of 29 October 2007 and has not been seen since.

17 February 2008	Marilyn Bergeron	24 (35 as of 2019)	Bergeron left her parents' home in the Loretteville neighborhood of Quebec City, Quebec, Canada around 11 a.m. on 17 February 2008 ostensibly to go for a walk leaving all her identification at home besides a credit card.

8 April 2008	Jamie Fraley	22 (33 as of 2019)	Fraley, of Gastonia, North Carolina, told a friend over the phone at 1:30 a.m. 8 April 2008 that a male friend, that she did not identify, was taking her to the hospital for the third time in 24 hours to seek treatment for a stomach flu.

14 May 2008	Brandon Swanson	19 (30 as of 2019)	After a late night celebrating the end of the semester with his college classmates, Swanson drove his car into a ditch on a side road amid cornfields near his home in Marshall, Minnesota shortly after midnight on 14 May 2008.

2 August 2008	Alex Sloley	16 (27 as of 2019)	Alexander Sloley, (known as Alex) disappeared 2 August 2008 at approximately midday after he visited a friend in Enfield, London. His family have had no contact with him since he went missing in 2008.

9 November 2008	Tai Ching 21	The burnt and abandoned wreck of the Tai Ching 21, a Taiwanese fishing boat, was found drifting on 9 November 2008 near Kiribati.

31 December 2008	Amy Fitzpatrick	15 (26 as of 2019)	Fitzpatrick was last seen at Mijas Costa in Málaga, Spain, where she was on holiday from her native Ireland. She had been babysitting with a friend on 31 December 2008 and left at about 10:10 pm that night.

1 January 2009	Jure Šterk	72 (82 as of 2019)	Šterk regularly communicated with radio amateurs while sailing around the world; but all communications ceased around 1 January 2009 as reported by an Australian ham radio operator.

18 March 2009	Claudia Lawrence	35 (45 as of 2019)	Lawrence was last seen on 18 March 2009, near Heworth in York, England while returning from her job as a chef.

25 April 2009	Brittanee Drexel	17 (28 as of 2019)	Drexel, a native of the Rochester, New York, area, was last seen by a security camera walking out of a hotel in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where she had secretly gone with friends for spring break after her mother refused her permission to go, at 8:45 p.m.

27 April 2009	Craig Arnold	41 (51 as of 2019)	Arnold, an American poet, disappeared after a hike on the Japanese island Kuchinoerabu-jima on 27 April 2009. He is presumed to have died in a fall from a high cliff but the body has not been found.

13 August 2009	Paul Tseng	49 (59 as of 2019)	Tseng, a Taiwanese applied mathematician, went missing on a kayaking trip on 13 August 2009 and is believed to be dead.

2 June 2009	Marsha Brantley	50 (60 as of 2019)	Brantley, an American woman, disappeared from her home of Cleveland, Tennessee in the summer of 2009. She is widely believed to have been murdered by her husband.

Sentence(s)

Rilya Wilson was four years old when she disappeared on January 18, 2001.

final_sentence: Rilya Wilson was four years old when she disappeared on January 18, 2001.