What missing persons case in the UK always stuck with you?
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PotentialCourt8531@reddit
When I found out around 3000 go missing from the foster care system each year in the UK. Every year. Trafficking is clearer an issue in the UK.
Thebunsenburger@reddit (OP)
I’m not trying to downplay the seriousness of trafficking in the UK but it is very important to be clear as possible with information like this.
3000 children in the care system don’t vanish off the face of the earth, never to be seen again, every year. A child who doesn’t tell their carer they’re going shopping with friends and turns up for dinner could be reported missing and get added to that number.
1 trafficking victim would be too many. But we should be accurate when discussing these things.
PotentialCourt8531@reddit
1000's might turn up, but 1000's never do.
robinthebum@reddit
Amazed no one has said Madeleine McCann yet. I really hope we discover what happened one day.
DryTower9438@reddit
I used to work with an organisation that dealt with this stuff. A guy I knew very well got called in to interview the parents. Probably shouldn’t say what he said.. but let’s say, he didn’t believe them.
robinthebum@reddit
Oh man. I wish you could say!
world07peace@reddit
The Portuguese police had the answer though were blocked…. https://archive.org/details/the-truth-of-the-lie-english-version/mode/1up
stellalucis@reddit
Thank you for posting this. Having read it there's so much more unanswered than just this poor little girl's death.
Advanced-Fig6699@reddit
Come on - spill! I’ve always wondered why the parents never got charged with neglect but then I heard they have friends in high places
melnificent@reddit
Social don't go after neglectful parents that have money, not worth the hassle as it'll get expensively legal very quickly.
When it happened I remember the disconnect between the experience in our deprived area and the McCanns. Left kids alone in a hotel to go and have a meal in a different building 100+ yds away, that's an instant child removal for any family without the funds to fight back.
Always felt like the entire thing was them building an alibi one brick at a time from dinner with "respectable people" onwards.
FearlessBanana81@reddit
I believe him. They had dogs in which identified her blood in their apartment and the car they hired after she had been reported missing. How they have been allowed to walk free, let alone the millions of pounds spent on this, is insane to me.
Jumpy-Jello-@reddit
You can totally say.
StuckWithThisOne@reddit
This was one of the first big news stories I ever remember. I was 7 at the time, and my mum used to do that sky news thing on sky tv where she’d press the red button and go to the page with the list of all the headlines. I vividly remember seeing it on there when it hit the news, and it really blew up the next day when she still wasn’t found. The idea of a toddler being taken from her room on holiday was absolutely horrifying to so many people.
thelivsterette1@reddit
Yeah, that one definitely stuck out for me because I remember at prep school we had an assembly and they mentioned it and there’s only a couple of years between us less than three years between us which is why that really sticks out because I was six when that happened and yeah that’s one memory that is quite distinctive from my childhood
Bgtobgfu@reddit
Every time we go on holiday with my daughter and I think ‘shall I just pop down to the lobby for some ice?’ I think of her.
risker15@reddit
If its any consolation I don't think the McCanns were on crystal meth when she disapeared.
hamstertoybox@reddit
I think it affects the way I parent in the same way way James Bulger probably affected how my mum parented me.
Puzzleheaded_Turn887@reddit
Yes, I scrolled far to see this and came to say it myself! Absolutely horrific.
snakeoildriller@reddit
Nicola Bulley. The sudden disappearance was inexplicable but what made it worse was the media circus that descended on the scene, and the awful social media "experts". The outcome was very sad indeed.
Suitable_Balance101@reddit
It was a complete farce from beginning to end. Same with him that went missing on holiday
Mental_Scallion7681@reddit
Jay Slater?
Suitable_Balance101@reddit
Aye Jay another farce.
TheFirstGlugOfWine@reddit
Her poor husband. People were crazy about it and behaving in a really unhinged manner. From what I can remember, the police were annoyed because too many TikTok sleuths were descending on the area and destroying a potential crime scene
whereohwhereohwhere@reddit
The true crime podcast epidemic is a cancer honestly
DrMoneybeard@reddit
My (now ex) husband was close to someone who was murdered. Every six months or so, some podcaster would reach out to him to "tell his story". In other words- give it to them so they can sell it for profit. They're fucking vultures.
Beautiful_Hawk548@reddit
My ex was murdered in her home by her then partner. We have a kid together so about the same frequency I get an email as does her dad. They're absolute cretins always trying to sell their shite little podcasts as a way to "heal" and "give the real story" in exchange for talking about the most traumatic day most people would ever have experienced in hopes they get some numbers popping.
DrMoneybeard@reddit
I'm so sorry that happened to you, and to your child. What an awful situation. And I'm sure the "journalists" want the juicy details from the ex-husband, hoping you'll air the dirty laundry.
In my ex's case, he was dating a woman who was in an open marriage, and she was murdered by her husband. Of course the assumption is that he killed her because of that relationship- that makes a great story.
But it's not the case at all, what happened honestly had nothing to do with my ex. They just have a narrative they're dying to find because it would feed clicks.
massdebate159@reddit
Adam Lloyd by any chance?
spicyzsurviving@reddit
not to mention Netflix “documentaries”
Winston_Carbuncle@reddit
Was there not even supposed "experts" weighing in talking nonsense? I didn't follow it closely but that's a detail I seem to be able to recall
YchYFi@reddit
Yeah a guy who made himself an expert on dreading rivers like a Derek Acorah of toktok sleuthing.
Trebus@reddit
He's still fucking on about it. Posting sonar scans on FB & doing open letters to the College of Policing.
Everything he writes is an exercise is solipsism.
pajamakitten@reddit
A diving 'expert' who thought he knew where the body would end up, only to be completely wrong.
AmbitiousAd543@reddit
Yes the police had to hire a private security company to protect the locals.Randoms trying doors and peeping through windows.Some poor guy who was renovating a property was having to chase people away who were convinced Nicola’s body was buried there.
Glittering-Round7082@reddit
The media circus was a disgrace but it was hardly inexplicable.
Lots of people fall in water and drown every year.
Tragic.
apple_kicks@reddit
Especially dog walkers. Dog gets in trouble but gets out but the owner doesn’t
mizcello@reddit
I live in a town with a major river running through it and when I got a dog the first thing my dad told me was if the dog ever got into the river, to leave them and start running down stream at the side because the dog pretty much always survives and will get out down river but the human never does. He reminded me of it when this happened and I often think about it when I’m out walking
coffeeebucks@reddit
Same with railway lines. So many people chase their pets onto a railway and don’t make it back alive, when the pet often does.
TranslatorCritical11@reddit
And I think most dog owners would save their dog above themselves too.
Markies_Myth@reddit
Not really though. The river bit, where she fell in, is really slippy and steep. It was foggy too. That is very easy to establish, a women who was distracted and with her dog then lost her footing.
What was horrible was the police "revealing" her mental health issues, listening to be advice and then people fucking filming her body being recovered. Then that diver guy who found fuck all trying to get a career from it. That was insane.
And I basically said on her (during the search) that I knew the site and it is easy to fall down a bank. But had people from Texas or somewhere saying nooooo cos they looked on Google maps and her husband is a drug dealer who killed her. Mental
terryjuicelawson@reddit
This happens a lot with people who go missing near water generally, there is often talk around here of some kind of "harbour pusher" or mystery of people last seen by the river. It was dark, they were drunk, they were fully clothed, it isn't a difficult conclusion. Just lack of body gets people wondering.
lemonherring@reddit
That guy was the worst.
Gwyllithar@reddit
except it was pretty damn obvious what happened to her right from the start.
That so called "expert" diver bloke and all those "true crime" people should have been charged with something, I dont know what, but the way people acted about that was positively unhinged.
172116@reddit
The "theory" that really stood out for me was the assertion that she must have been on the flight that took off from her partner's work shortly after she disappeared, and had been taken to Cyprus, and his employers were in on it. He worked for BAE Systems.
I can only assume people who'd been furloughed during covid restrictions had been watching too much midsomer murders.
M90Motorway@reddit
I’m so glad that I’m not the only one who remembers that!
AspectPatio@reddit
To be fair, if any company was going to be involved in a murder conspiracy...
172116@reddit
Oh, I have no doubt BAE could and would murder someone (for legal reasons, this is a joke, and I would very much like not to be sued, please and thank you, member of the comms team manning the social listening tools), I just don't think they'd go for the mortgage adviser wife of one of their staff just because he asked them to. Whistle blowers, and senior politicians of small countries, absolutely. Although to be scrupulously fair, I believe they have historically favoured bribery over murder (fun fact! Did you know that their Wikipedia page has a section headed "corruptione investigations"? And yes, that is a plural!).
DoctorOctagonapus@reddit
Classic case of Missing White Woman Syndrome. I actually ended up writing into the BBC complaining that the media coverage of her was excessive.
Sxn747Strangers@reddit
Manic Street Preachers guitarist Richey Edwards, he had suffered from severe depression for years and would self-harm, he disappeared, some of his movements are known but not all and his body was never found but he was listed as dead.
Abducted estate agent Suzy Lamplugh was never found, the police royally fucked up the investigation as they did have John Cannan in their sights but the officer in charge automatically discounted him with little explanation.
John Cannan was violent towards women and a serial rapist, he matched the suspect’s description, he momentarily said he killed her in a police interview but immediately backtracked, he was the main suspect but he was never convicted, he died in prison for the rape and murder of Shirley Banks.
Sian O’Callaghan, she disappeared after leaving Suju nightclub, (I’ve driven past it loads of times), in Swindon after an argument with her boyfriend and got into the taxi of Christopher Halliwell; Christopher Halliwell was convicted for her murder and he was later convicted for the murder of Becky Godden-Edwards.
I was in Swindon at the time and some women did not want to get into taxis, or if they did they wanted someone to go with them just to verify who the driver was; I suppose they thought someone would be less likely to bump them off if they had been seen.
BritishGent_mlady@reddit
Sian didn’t argue with her boyfriend at all that night. She merely got a bit drunk and decided to walk home. Her boyfriend was already at home, and didn’t got to Suju that night.
I’m a Swindonian and the Sian case was absolutely horrifying. I mean, taxi drivers automatically get given a persons complete trust and it’s chilling to think what happened to her within a minute, tops, of getting in that car.
Sxn747Strangers@reddit
I heard she had an argument or a disagreement of some sort at least with her boyfriend, it’s just what I remember hearing at the time.
Fun-Swimmer2998@reddit
Trevorlene Evans from Llangollen in North Wales. A sign was left a sign on a her shop door saying back in minutes in the early 90s. She just disappeared.
kliccit@reddit
Andrew Gosden for sure, very eerie case. He bunked school to go to London, was seen on CCTV coming out of King's Cross and that was last confirmed sighting of him. He crosses my mind a fair bit.
apple_kicks@reddit
This one is scary when you hear stories of stuff like Sidney Cooke and his gang wonder of that type of gang might still be around London
massdebate159@reddit
Sidney Cooke is now 99 and still rotting away in prison. The other gang members are either dead or locked up. If you have a strong stomach, go down that Wikipedia rabbit hole.
AssociationGold8745@reddit
He'll get a letter from the king when he turns 100. Been getting letters off the king's brother a while ago though.
Cow_Launcher@reddit
I know that was just the setup for the joke, but did you know that you don't get those letters automatically unless you're receiving a state pension? If you're not, you (or someone on your behalf) have to apply for it.
Since prisoners don't receive state pension while incarcerated, Cooke won't be getting a letter... though I suspect he wouldn't anyway, even if someone applied for him!
AssociationGold8745@reddit
Yeah, for joke purposes, he'll get a letter when he makes it. Irl, I hope he gets an appalling degenerative illness and lives with it until he's 200.
laughinggrvy@reddit
He was my first thought when I saw the post title. Very strange with the amount of CCTV everywhere, even then.
angwibro@reddit
Insane this was my first thought too. What an absolutely crazy case. Boy just vanished
ITrampyMcGee@reddit
Same. He was the face of the missing persons posters for a while. So sad, can only hope he is in peace whatever happened to him :(
Educational_Cow111@reddit
I grew up near/around Doncaster where Andrew is from and I used to see his poster still up in what I assume was his family’s window looking back
Far_Butterscotch2496@reddit
The posters with his face on are still up in some windows round here it really is sad 😔
TangerineFew6830@reddit
He still is where i an
terryjuicelawson@reddit
Problem is a lot of cameras but the footage is shonky, it got wiped and you'd need to get hold of it all and review it in the first place from wherever it was taken. Needle in a haystack.
Zap__Zapoleon@reddit
They were too slow to follow the trail. Also he was a small kid and they had trouble finding him in the crowd. Back then aswell the CCTV systems all tended to hold footage for a short amount of time before taping over it.
There was reports after the 7th july attacks that found much of Londons CCTV systems were outdated and not fit for purpose.
Glittering-Round7082@reddit
Most systems were on VHS still back then.
Some systems only stored the film as long as three hours then the tape would overwrite itself.
It's not like these days with hard drives and months of footage.
ByteSizedGenius@reddit
They didn't identify him on the Kings Cross CCTV until 3 weeks after he disappeared, the initial investigation wasn't done with any great urgency.
Mr_Garibaldy@reddit
Iirc it was because they latched onto the idea that his father was involved. By the time they ruled that out, any CCTV would have been recorded over
SpectreSingh89@reddit
I need to read about Andrew now.
skyfullofstars89@reddit
His dad, Kevin, has never given up looking for him. It is heartbreaking that Andrew has been gone for longer than they had him in their lives.
I hope Andrew's family can bring him home and get answers one day. The not knowing must be absolute torture.
DeapVally@reddit
That was his name. Yeah, I was going to say that one as well. Very odd. People always talked up the amount ot CCTV in London and the UK in general at that time, as some kind of dystopian thing, but apparently there wasn't anywhere near enough....
TheFirstGlugOfWine@reddit
I think the issue was that they didn’t look for the CCTV until weeks later and it had all been wiped
Psycho_Splodge@reddit
It's also labour intensive to actually review CCTV
SherbertResident2222@reddit
Sorry, but that’s not an excuse. Everyone too busy to look for a school kid that’s disappeared…?
terryjuicelawson@reddit
I mean, yes. To properly look through a day's worth of CCTV you need a day. And even then it can be easily missed, picking out one face from a crowd. He could have arrived and gone in any direction, so it means getting footage from every possible exit of a massive train station then all the roads they lead onto, in a city of 8 million odd people. Take out say a whole team of people to review it and what would then be said if there was no one to properly look at a murder or rape enquiry? "Oh too busy looking for one missing kid is it".
DevilsAdvocate1662@reddit
As someone who regularly reviews CCTV, it is labour intensive, but there is AI software that would make the job a lot quicker, problem is, it's expensive as hell and you're assuming the cameras work and are good enough quality, which in my experience, is rarely the case
whereshhhhappens@reddit
And in 2007 when Andrew disappeared, the AI software probably wasn’t as good as it is now in the first place, even if it existed.
DevilsAdvocate1662@reddit
Exactly, manually scrubbing hours of footage would be the only way
presterjohn7171@reddit
I used to work in CCTV and it's hard work and expensive to review footage. You might have a thousand cameras with hundreds of hours of footage. It might be one of the things that AI can excel at eventually.
EchoesofIllyria@reddit
You realise that not all other crime stops just because one child disappears? They couldn’t exactly funnel all of their resources into looking for one boy. No doubt he wasn’t even the only lost child they had to look for.
HailToTheKingslayer@reddit
I read they looked but no one could make a positive ID on any if the footage.
pajamakitten@reddit
It shows how difficult it is. It is looking for a needle in a haystack, especially for a busy station like King's Cross.
YchYFi@reddit
If you have ever watched cctv of crowds it's easy to miss or misidentify people on it.
Psycho_Splodge@reddit
No. But it requires possibly thousands of man hours to trawl through random footage from possibly hundreds of cameras and literally a second of distraction can miss what you're looking for. That's ignoring that most CCTV is set up to record on the lowest quality to maximise recording storage time.
Competitive-Hotel891@reddit
Detective here and can confirm. It can take me an entire shift to do one street.
Agile-Rock4248@reddit
I still don’t understand why he refused the return train ticket that was only like 20p more?
Monabakes@reddit
Most likely because he didn’t intend to return. Unless Andrew is found we won’t know for sure of course.
Swimming_Acadia6957@reddit
That was the train his family always took when they went to visit his Aunty in London, they always got singles because they were driven back. He was autistic so it is more than possible that he stuck to what he knew.
No-Mark4427@reddit
Where is this from? A quick Google turns up absolutely nothing official about this other than Reddit theories that he was autistic.
HettieSaturn@reddit
My first thought too … and didn’t they suddenly bring people in for questioning 3 or 4 years ago? Then it went quiet?
Humble-Ad-2713@reddit
I’m just
K-Dogg1@reddit
Same
ShinyHeadedCook@reddit
Yeah the rumours I saw was that one of them had csam involving andrew, but then nothing else was ever mentioned
DrMangosteen2@reddit
I'm the exact same age as him, and frequented chat rooms when i was the age he was when he went missing, There but for the grace of god
RelativeShoulder370@reddit
He looked so like my son in the CCTV footage, and is a similar age.
alpacinosbambino@reddit
Same. Really disturbing. Poor wee kid 😔
tigershout@reddit
OMG I just googled him and his posters are still everywhere in my old neighbourhood! Literally even last year I was seeing these around Camden.
ConsciousInternal287@reddit
Same here. He was born a year before me, and would have been into the same music. I also frequently went into London alone to meet friends, so that case was particularly chilling for me.
Available-Nose-5666@reddit
I still can’t believe he’s never been found. His poor parents 😞
GoldBear79@reddit
His dad tried to hang himself at one stage, though it mercifully failed and he went on to be (physically) okay
Available-Nose-5666@reddit
That’s so sad 😞
PuppyGirlRya@reddit
This one came to mind instantly when I saw the post. It's just awful.
dreamponies@reddit
My first thought too as I started reading. I feel so sad for his family, I really hope they get answers one day.
Ambitious_Damage_214@reddit
Ruth Wilson - a school girl local to me, who went missing in the 90s. Never found.
OriginalPlonker@reddit
Many have been covered already, but I want to mention DJ Derek who went missing after a night at the pub. Proper old school DJ, and a lovely guy by all accounts.
His body was eventually found in undergrowth miles from home. I think the theory was that he got the wrong bus and fell while trying to walk home.
MermaidPigeon@reddit
All the ones that are covered up/not heard of
Commercial_Level_615@reddit
Catrin Maguire. From my town. Went for a walk and never been seen again was in her early 20s.
syfimelys2@reddit
Yep, and also Tony Haigh. (I’m local too)
SmartPriceCola@reddit
Steven Clark.
I have my own theories about what could have happened but it’s the body location I wish we could learn.
Same with Suzy Lamplugh
massdebate159@reddit
John Cannon got Suzy. His nickname was Kipper
Barbsayshi@reddit
cannan not cannon and tbf we don’t know that for sure
massdebate159@reddit
Pedantic Pete has entered the chat!
Barbsayshi@reddit
yes I have! and you know why? because facts need to be properly reported
massdebate159@reddit
A spelling error isn't misinformation. People spelling my name wrong all the time, even family. But life goes on.
The important thing is that it made you feel important, and I'm happy for you x
SmartPriceCola@reddit
We know it was him, the mystery is where he “discarded” her.
Likewise I believe Steven’s parents accidentally did something to him, but the mystery is how they discarded him in a way he was never found.
imalreadycoolest@reddit
This is the one that i always think of. I scrolled far too long before I saw it.
What makes you think his parents were involved?
SmartPriceCola@reddit
Parents story sounds like bull to me. And the only reason for that is they are hiding the real one…
Your disabled son goes into the public bathroom and doesn’t emerge… so you just head home to see if he’s there?? Not a chance. You would go into the bathroom yourself OR say to a man passing by to ask them to go in check for you.
The last sighting of him (except for the parents) was a couple of days earlier as well, that gives them a chance to think of a cover.
imalreadycoolest@reddit
Ohhh, I didnt realise the parents had been arrested (and released) for it in 2020.
Sounds like it was based on someone coming out saying that they had seen him near his home after he supposedly went missing. But they didnt tell the police that for 30 years.
massdebate159@reddit
Is Steven the lad who was walking with his mum on the beach and went to the public toilets?
Barbsayshi@reddit
yes that’s the one
Cocktailsandknitting@reddit
Relatively recent but it’s still gutting - Jack O’Sullivan in Bristol. He was walking home from a party and seen on cctv, his phone was active until hours after he disappeared and he wasn’t in an area that was easy access to the river. The police have assumed that he’s in the river and the seeming lack of urgency in checking local cameras and talking to people in the area seriously damaged the investigation.
dottymouse@reddit
Leah Croucher from Milton Keynes.
The thing that stuck with me is how the media didn't really pick it up, which then makes me wonder how many people vanish across the country and we don't know about it. Contrasting to some cases which obviously hit the right desk at the right time.
massdebate159@reddit
They found her in a paedo's house. Sadly, her brother took his own life.
Barbsayshi@reddit
not to be picky but it wasn’t his house, it was a lady who lived abroad and rented out this house. he was a sort of caretaker. Either way, very grim and if the police had been diligent and done what they’re paid too then perhaps the outcome would have been different
massdebate159@reddit
You're the second Pedantic Pete in this thread, so no worries. OK, so it was a house he lived in. My house isn't mine either, I've just lived here for 15 years.
pixeltash@reddit
Ok second picky person, sorry. It was a house he was working at, not living in.
Barbsayshi@reddit
came to say the same
massdebate159@reddit
I'm so sorry
Bossman_Mike@reddit
The prime suspect is Neil Maxwell. He was already on the run from the police, wanted for all sorts, using aliases and so on.
He topped himself in April 2019 and apparently left a very long and detailed note which for obvious reasons was never made public. I wonder if that was a confession, but if it was then why didn't he say where the body was?
pixeltash@reddit
I was going to post Leah. Such a terrible thing for the family. I'm near MK and seeing the posters everywhere for years, I'm afraid I was hoping she was dead and not suffering.
The theories and speculation were pretty mental.
I do hope it was quick and she didn't suffer and am glad her (remaining) family have some peace.
iamthedon@reddit
I'm from MK and lived a few minutes away from Furzton. There were so many false stories and internet sleuths (with hints of racism) creating mad stories, and in the end she was found in a house metres from where she went missing. A victim of wrong place / wrong time.
Bossman_Mike@reddit
The police seem absolutely certain this Neil Maxwell character was responsible and say he would have been charged if he'd lived.
We don't have all the information to know why that is or what actually happened that day.
Party-Werewolf-4888@reddit
Andrew Gosden for me too, on account of me a part of the same music scene. I used to inherently scan gig venues for him after he went missing, expecting to find him.
Local to me, a 15 yr old lad called Mark Garvey went missing from Queens Drive in Liverpool in 1987 after having an argument with his girlfriend and best friend. He was seen at a bus stop and then never again. I was very young when he went missing but think it stck with me as he was the same age as my brother and they casually knew each other. My brother lived with his Mum, one street away from Mark, and then was with us at the weekend, one street from where Mark went missing. It must have struck a chord in my young mind, because Ive never forgotten it and think about it regularly.
flyingfoxtrot_@reddit
That final argument must have played endlessly in their heads. The last things you said to a loved one before they vanished being in anger. Jesus that's heartbreaking.
petermichael20@reddit
I always think of him. He's family lived near to me. Such a heartache.
coraIinejones@reddit
I regularly think about mark, so sad
Glittering-Knee9595@reddit
Corrie McKeague, the RAF gunner who disappeared in Bury St Edmunds in September 2016.
stevedore82@reddit
Is this the guy they thought went into a rubbish bin which got emptied into landfill? Or something along those lines?
ByteSizedGenius@reddit
Yes. The issue was he wasn't caught on CCTV leaving a certain area and the bin weights meant he can't have been in them... turns out the bin company fucked it up and it was in fact heavy enough for him to be in it.
flyingfoxtrot_@reddit
Oh my GOD, that's another level of horrific. That poor man. That poor family. Ending up in landfill, it doesn't bear thinking about
stevedore82@reddit
Just a terribly tragic loss for his family. The poor lad.
AmbitiousAd543@reddit
Girlfriend found out she was pregnant not long after too.😔
super_starmie@reddit
Yeah, apparently he'd been known to occasionally sleep in bins when on a night out.
He was caught on CCTV entering an area with bins and never coming out again (there was only one entrance) but there was a bin lorry.
They've never found him but it's unfortunately pretty obvious what happened. Inquest ruled he got crushed to death when the bin was emptied into the lorry and his remains are lost in landfill.
Can't believe it was 10 years ago now, I live near Bury St Edmunds - he made the national news, but he was all the local news talked about for quite a while.
CynicismNostalgia@reddit
I'm sorry for the morbid and perhaps stupid line of questioning but like... wouldn't he have screamed during those moments? Wouldn't the binmen have heard it?
zviiper@reddit
Bin lorries, especially industrial ones are loud. Also if he was disorientated and drunk he probably wouldn’t have screamed right away as it was moved.
walkunafraid7@reddit
I always found his case so desperately sad. It must be beyond heartbreaking to lose them in such an awful way, to then have their remains just... Left there in the dump. Just horribly sad.
tigershout@reddit
omfg I completely forgot about that, that was an insane story.
Winston_Carbuncle@reddit
Am I remember correctly that the tabloids were bringing up all sorts of unrelated stuff from his past? Not even bad stuff or anything, just pure tabloid bullshit.
massdebate159@reddit
Yes, he was on a swingers website or something. Typical Scum headlines
MathematicalRef@reddit
I've just read the Daily Mail article dredging it up. Bloody hell.
Important_Ruin@reddit
Standard tabloids in this country utter disgrace, and they hold so much sway on opinion in this country.
IIHOSGOW@reddit
Being from Bury I remember this well, it was very strange, especially all the missing posters etc. Mainly because it's such a small, quiet town where nothing much seems to happe normally. The spot where he disappeared used to be on my walk home from work at night, and it always seemed a bit eery after midnight (probably just the negative association)
DistinctBuilder8503@reddit
Claudia Lawrence
spookythesquid@reddit
Andrew gosden
wazbang@reddit
My friends sister went missing on December 13th 1991 and hasn’t been seen or heard since, two shithouse cunts got found not guilty of her murder due to the police fucking up with legal procedures and contaminating evidence. She was 18 and had a 6 month old son at the time. Her granny went to her grave unable to grieve her only daughter.
dopeyroo@reddit
How sad for your friend's family
wazbang@reddit
Yes they’re a beautiful family whose lives have been effectively ruined by two subhuman bastards
Bossman_Mike@reddit
For what it's worth I think the police got the right people. The prosecution's case was just a total shambles.
wazbang@reddit
It really was a shambles.
WotanMjolnir@reddit
I’m from the area, too - I grew up just off Woodway Lane, went to Frank Whittle. My sister knew her vaguely (Nicola was a couple of years older than her at school), so this one is close to me too. It’s hard to believe that she left of her own accord, just abandoning her child just before Christmas when there were no issues at my home as far as I know.
wazbang@reddit
Yh it’s heartbreaking for such a good family She didn’t leave him, it’s common knowledge who done it but the dirty bastards just got lucky
massdebate159@reddit
Nicola Payne?
wazbang@reddit
Yes mate
haggis_catcher-@reddit
Claudia lawrence for me , still no body still no closure for friends and family
OptimusPrime365@reddit
They apparently know exactly who it is but haven’t got enough evidence to bring a case.
Erratic_Goldfish@reddit
Police have basically said as much. I wouldn't be surprised if in like 10 years charges are abruptly filed after someone rats following a divorce etc
SafiyaO@reddit
Someone will speak up one day. It's terrible they didn't have the guts to do so while her father was still alive.
kecksonkecksoff@reddit
And her father passed away without any answers, I always find that so horrible and sad.
TillyFukUpFairy@reddit
I like to think that in the event there is an after life, we get answers to the questions we still have.
autumn-knight@reddit
Agreed. He left a legacy though and it’s named for his missing daughter: Claudia’s Law. Makes it easier (legally, not necessarily emotionally) to dispose of financial assets when a loved one is missing but there’s no body and therefore no death certificate, etc. I work in an industry where that has a real (though thankfully very rare) impact.
Zap__Zapoleon@reddit
yah so tragic he never stopped looking for her aswell so sad.
Capable-Ad-2172@reddit
Four people were named in the media at the time and arrested. The police believe they’re responsible but don’t have the evidence.
Oster-P@reddit
I heard rumour they were laying concrete foundation at York Uni and that she might be in there, although I think that's just people speculating. Would be interesting if they did one of those ground scan things up there, but I guess it's too big of an area, and maybe those things don't exist and my brains just making stuff up from films.
clrthrn@reddit
I heard the same days after she went missing as they poured the foundations for one of the buildings around then. I lived near York uni at the time and it was all everyone talked about. A guy I worked with was arrested and his house searched as he drank in Claudia’s local pub. We obviously nicknamed him “Ripper” after that (nickname because he was totally innocent with solid alibi)
DoctorOctagonapus@reddit
She vanished around the time they started building the Heslington East campus, but the three years I was studying there there were no rumours she ended up in the foundations.
Glittering-Round7082@reddit
But the killer was waiting outside her address. Why would he transport her body so far to hide it?
pajamakitten@reddit
Sounds like a typical uni rumour and is likely horseshit.
michaelisnotginger@reddit
That was the rumour at uni. That she was buried under the new hes east campus
doihavetousethis@reddit
My parents live next to one of the people involved and they police took them in for questioning.
Apparently it's a chef that did it shrugs
LocalMendicant@reddit
Yes that's the one that came to my mind
bellatrix99@reddit
The police (and locals) are pretty sure of what happened but they have no evidence to prosecute. The police basically said that - it’s essentially solved, but as all the people involved cover for each other nothing will come of it.
haggis_catcher-@reddit
Is it common knowledge in the community what happened and who done it?
risker15@reddit
Yes but it might be influenced by other chatter.
Commercial_Reward_78@reddit
The police arrest one of the group every couple of years, presumably hoping they’ll grass up one of the others… but so far nobody has.
Disastrous-Place-846@reddit
There is 100% a serial killer/river pusher in York.
Glittering-Round7082@reddit
Even if that is the case that's not what happened here.
The killer was waiting outside her address.
He was caught on CCTV. Unfortunately not good enough footage to identify him.
bellatrix99@reddit
That’s not what happened.
jammyftw@reddit
what happened?
catface@reddit
The worst part is the police have said they know there are people who know what happened to her (or at least have really valuable information that could help) but are refusing to tell the police what they know.
JobAnxious2005@reddit
Deffo this.
Sad they had to defend against her ‘personal relationships’ or however the tabloids put it
xEternal-Blue@reddit
Stuff like the Daily Mail shouldn't be allowed to be called news 😔.
clrthrn@reddit
Exactly the one I thought of when I read this. I lived in York at the time and she just vanished into thin air.
anxiousgeek@reddit
Patrick Warren and David Spencer were the same age as me (I was 13) and I think a lot about how they were from a rough area and not really looked for and the same probably would've been the same for me and my friends back then. We lived in Coventry so we weren't that far either.
JeffBroccoli@reddit
Luke Durbin. There was a strange poster at my local train station which simply said:
“LUKE’S EYES ARE?”
..followed by a cutout photo of a young man’s eyes. I just found it so strange. The format, the wording, the lack of information. In the end I searched online to find out what it was. I remember thinking it might be some sort of viral marketing ad or an AR game. Turns out it was this case:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Luke_Durbin
Just seemed so relatable. Young lad on a night out. Similar age to me. Mates assume he’s gone to the bogs or a takeaway or something and don’t think much of it. Never seen again.
There’s been a lot of speculation that he got mixed up with drug dealing, so there’s an assumption he was nabbed by someone and “dealt with”, but that’s mostly just rumours. Arrests have been made, but with no charges laid, and no subsequent info as to what actually happened.
I check in on the story once in a while. It’s unlikely the real facts will ever come out
Rosekernow@reddit
That same poster was down in Cornwall at a train station for ages. I used to go past it to work every day, and often thought of him.
super_starmie@reddit
Blimey it'll be 20 years in a couple weeks. I'm from Ipswich so have heard a lot about this over the years.
Apparently after his night out he went to get a train but they'd stopped running, then he went to a taxi company but he'd left his wallet at his friend's house and didn't want to phone his mum for money as he didn't want to wake her up, so they wouldn't take him. Disappeared on his way to the bus station, probably planning on waiting for the first bus which would have been at about 6:45am (I used to get the bus to Woodbridge, which is the one he was most likely going to wait for, to get to work). Iirc the last sighting of him was right across from the bus station.
Bossman_Mike@reddit
I lived in Ipswich briefly. People talk about the cut-through from the Old Cattle Market down to Star Lane etc. like it's nothing, but it's actually pretty sketchy even by day. Never mind at night. And you're still some distance from the station at that point.
Tasty-Explanation503@reddit
I think the ID fraud might be a red herring in this one, probably turned out they were just using anyone's name in the news who's missing, but the potential county lines link is interesting at the least.
The Volvo running on blag plates is the key to the case.
Double_Jab_Jabroni@reddit
There was a disappearance in Swansea with similar rumours of drug debts etc He was found after 21 years missing, but I think the investigation is still ongoing sadly.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c894j80r1p1o
No_Currency6911@reddit
I’m glad this family got closure. Being from East Suffolk and from the town Luke worked in I really hope his family get closure someday soon too
Tasty-Explanation503@reddit
Luke's case is a weird one, never quite understood him leaving Zest out the blue on the night, didn't tell his friends or anything, it was almost like he was spooked.
Then again, that club was really strange anyway, even the doormen were up to no good.
BeginningImaginary11@reddit
Trevor Deely Dublin 2000, quite literally vanished walking home from Christmas party. You see him on camera and then gone. Not one trace of him since. Zilch
NotoriousP_U_G@reddit
Dublin isn’t the UK, but, there is a The Prosecutors podcast episode on this case, which made a convincing case that it is linked to the visit of Bill Clinton and a possible assassination attempt.
With dissidents track record of being able to disappear people without a trace, it isn’t something out of the question
tigershout@reddit
I searched this podcast after you mentioned it and sounded good but then saw what the podcasters are like and no thank you.
The male podcaster's comments after 26 people, including 20 children, were murdered in the Sandy Hook school shooting:
Talley wrote that his “solution would be to stop being a society of pansies and man up.” In a blog post in the wake of the shooting, Talley urged his readers to join the NRA.
“I pray that in the coming battle for our rights, they will be victorious,” he wrote.
NotoriousP_U_G@reddit
Yeah they aren’t great people politically, however, they lay out the facts of this case quite well
BeginningImaginary11@reddit
No way, I never heard that before. And I’ve followed it very closely. Missed the bit where it specified the uk 😬
NessaGuin@reddit
The Ask UK sub might have been a tip off.
BeginningImaginary11@reddit
Lovely
whereohwhereohwhere@reddit
Since we're talking about Ireland, there was a slew of young women who went missing in the greater Dublin area in the 90s, to the extent that it's known as the vanishing triangle. Most of them never found iirc.
NotoriousP_U_G@reddit
There are suspicions that at least some of the missing women were killed by the son of a high profile Fine Gael politician, who has been a person of interest in one case in particular, also arrested, questioned and had areas associated with them searched.
I think this isn’t unlikely as it doesn’t seem too mad that investigations have been hindered over the years by a few words in the right ears.
BeginningImaginary11@reddit
This would not surprise me in the least
NotoriousP_U_G@reddit
The son came forward as the last person to see her alive and the politician blocked any searches of the property in the following weeks and months
whereohwhereohwhere@reddit
Yeah that tracks. Same with the Kerry Babies case.
BeginningImaginary11@reddit
That case.. my Dad was a young gp in the area when it happened. He still talks about it
NotoriousP_U_G@reddit
The theory very simplified is that the location he worked was on the route of Clinton’s visit and would offer a vantage point to anyone triggering a device etc.
Access to the office would allow them to bypass certain security measures put in place, the disappearance is reminiscent of others that have been taken by dissidents.
He would have had access keys to the office
Clinton’s visit was 3 days after the disappearance
BeginningImaginary11@reddit
That’s incredible!! Given his absolute evaporation it kind of makes sense to me. They would have made sure there was nothing to follow. I still can’t get my head around how they found not one single clue. Thank you for sharing 🫡
NotoriousP_U_G@reddit
No worries! There are many disappearances in Ireland linked with paramilitaries, many without a trace, or a body being found. Even one in Paris with a body not being found for 30 odd years
BeginningImaginary11@reddit
You are so well read/ informed. Helps me understand /reminds me why I stay on Reddit 👊
NotoriousP_U_G@reddit
Thanks! It is a topic that is really worth looking into if you have time
BeginningImaginary11@reddit
I’m already down that rabbit hole.. again! A new one
Jecca78@reddit
Daniel Entwistle for me. Little boy from Yarmouth, disappeared while out playing on his bike.
https://www.norfolk.police.uk/news/norfolk/news/unsolved-cases/daniel-entwistle/
VeeberEd@reddit
Lee Boxell and Andrew Gosden
Chinotime@reddit
Yes, Lee for me. He was my brother's mate. I remember him coming round for a birthday and just being a likeable doofus.
His poor parents came round for with leaflets for my folks to distribute. I can remember his mum sobbing at our kitchen table. I think about him a lot.
VeeberEd@reddit
Devastating to 💔
TheNinjaPixie@reddit
Lee for me too
Annual-Addendum3826@reddit
Yep me too, the whole story is heartbreaking
Remote-Pool7787@reddit
Like how has no one mentioned Lord Lucan ?! It’s THE missing person case in the uk
IndigoTreeSpirit@reddit
I’m pretty convinced John Aspinall had something to do with ‘losing’ Lucan.
CourtneyLush@reddit
Me too. Aspinall had the means to help him out and I really believe that he did.
Bossman_Mike@reddit
I genuinely think it was a Blackadder Earl Haig thing.
We'll help you out this time, but fuck off and don't bother us ever again.
Remote-Pool7787@reddit
Yeah I think that’s probably what happened. I also think that John Aspinall was the kind of guy who got off on the idea that he could get one up on the authorities
StuckWithThisOne@reddit
Tbf he went missing before my mum was even born.
Remote-Pool7787@reddit
Nah, it’s a major cultural reference. Doing a Lord Lucan. I wasn’t born either when it happened
StuckWithThisOne@reddit
Sure but it happened 50 years ago. I’m in my 20’s.
Remote-Pool7787@reddit
So? The best know serial killer in the UK is Jack the Ripper and that’s not within the lifetime of anyone alive today
StuckWithThisOne@reddit
Ok I’m just explaining that Lord Lucan isn’t a cultural phenomenon amongst my age group lol.
apple_kicks@reddit
Sandra Rivetts son maintains a website about evidence him living overseas all these years https://www.lordlucanthetruth.com/the-evidence
Remote-Pool7787@reddit
Yes I watched the documentary he did a couple of years ago. I really feel for the guy but he is absolute grade a mental
Gullible_Pen4925@reddit
Tbh I believed him, I think the man they found was him.
imalreadycoolest@reddit
Speak more on that. Im curious.
Remote-Pool7787@reddit
The documentary is widely available. It was bbc or itv, a highly reputable production. Watch it and see what you think
WestLondonWoman73@reddit
I remember Lee Boxall, who was the same age as me when he disappeared.
Btd030914@reddit
Patrick Warren and David Spencer, two young lads and friends who went missing together on Boxing Day 1996. Doesn’t bear thinking what must have happened to those two lads.
LillyAtts@reddit
That was who I came to say as well. The police weren't really bothered at first as the boys were "streetwise"...nowadays it's seen as concerning when young kids are streetwise, because they shouldn't be.
One local to me is Mary Bastholm. She's widely considered to have been murdered by Fred West (and he confessed) but they've never found her body. For years there were rumours she was buried in the basement of a cafe in town, but this was dug up a couple of years ago and nothing was found.
OreoSpamBurger@reddit
Reminds me of the Dean Corll case from Houston in Texas - he killed *at least* 29 boys from the late 60s to the ealry 70s (possibly quite a lot more than that), but the police weren't arsed about all the dissapearances happeing in the same few neighbourhoods because they were kids from poor areas, broken families etc, and "boys will be boys".
LillyAtts@reddit
Was he the one who took photos of his victims? Horrendous.
OreoSpamBurger@reddit
Yes, photos of some of his victims were later found in another stash of 'CP' recovered from an unrelated police raid in a different area - there are rumours he was linked to a wider network of predators sharing films and images, and possibly even human trafficking.
It's very disturbing, and there was never a definitive answer to how far or deep it all went.
hungrybuniker@reddit
Oh my word, I remember them digging up the cafe! Southgate Street right? Passed it on the way to work.
LillyAtts@reddit
Yes, the old Oasis cafe, opposite that weird bookshop.
HauntedByDemons24-7@reddit
This is what I was coming to say as it’s a local one to me. They did have a team of people volunteering that dug up all behind Solihull moors football club looking for them. I’m friends with Patrick’s cousin too the families never got the closure they deserved
Didodil@reddit
Margaret Fleming https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-48523897
HooverBeingAMan@reddit
This is the one I was thinking of. How they got away with that for so long is beyond me. No one questioned the sudden disappearance or the bizarre stories that couple told about what she had apparently been doing?? Meanwhile the money keeps coming in and not a single authority figure checks the case in 17 years?
Legit_Vampire@reddit
A young teenager went missing in town near to where I live. She had a young baby she adored, she popped out to the local shop but never returned.
Glittering_Bath5948@reddit
Natalie Putt?
Legit_Vampire@reddit
Yes
imalreadycoolest@reddit
Did she leave the baby? Did she have a partner? I haven't heard of this one.
Legit_Vampire@reddit
Yes she left the baby with her dad I believe, I don't think she & the baby's dad were together
MotherEastern3051@reddit
She was with her ex partner, the baby's Dad, and he said she apparently left to buy cigarettes after they had a discussion about their ended relationship. A taxi driver came forward and said he had picked the ex bf up from the house that day, and he had with him the baby and several black bin bags that he struggled to lift into the boot but wouldn't accept any help with. Police later found a t shirt with Natalie's blood on, and his dna, in the loft. Apparently this wasn't enough to ever bring charges and he denies any involvement. It's so heartbreaking for Natalie, her family and her son, by all accounts she adored her baby and would never have left him of her own accord.
Legit_Vampire@reddit
Thank you I didn't know any of this I can remember seeing it on the news etc & how young an innocent she looked.
Glittering_Bath5948@reddit
I lived near Dudley at the time. I often think of her. The whole situation is sad.
Legit_Vampire@reddit
It is. I work with a friend of hers. So sad
BoomalakkaWee@reddit
Peter Edwards - an American church minister living and working in Scone, Scotland, who was last seen getting off the X7 bus in Stonehaven in November 2016, and has never been located since.
Sure-Dingo-8769@reddit
Madeleine McCain. She disappeared when I moved to UK. And now I hear her name is in the Epstein Files.
Ok_Deer1956@reddit
Andrew Gosden is the one that always gets me too. The fact he was so young and just vanished after that clear CCTV footage is haunting. It's those cases with a final, ordinary sighting that somehow make it feel even more unsettling. You just hope for answers, for the families of Claudia Lawrence and Corrie McKeague as well.
whizzzzzzz@reddit
Danny Nolan, he went missing on the first day of 2002.
CeaselessWatcher00@reddit
Andrew Golden, as others have said. I can't imagine how hard the not knowing is for his parents, as well as dealing with the glimmer of hope that he might still be alive.
SubstantialAd283@reddit
Patricia Duncan 51, wife, mother and grandmother went missing in Nov 2002. The whole thing was overshadowed by the Arlene Fraser court case in the media.
Two missing women, less than 20 miles apart within 5 years and only the younger more affluent woman got the national headlines.
chis73@reddit
both for me too. Both are "close to home" for me - one is an extended family case & the other is literally down the street case.
Erinawful@reddit
Kyle Vaughan, case in south Wales of a young man who went for a night out, drove home, crashed on the risca bypass, his car was found, he wasn't. So much more to it, but his poor mum passed away without knowing where he was. His poor dad. I think about him everytime I drive through that area to visit family. It's got such vast woodland.
Adorable_Chocolate68@reddit
Suzy Lamplugh, a 25-year-old estate agent, vanished on July 28, 1986, after leaving her Fulham office to meet a client known only as "Mr. Kipper".
Past-Anything9789@reddit
I remember the Holly and Jessica one. Probably the first big case I was aware of. I was in my teens when they disappeared. I remember the picture of them in their Man U shirts.
Sara Payne was the worst one for me, I was going abroad visiting my dad who was working overseas at the time. On the way to the airport we drove past where her (undiscovered) body was. When I came back 5 days later we drove past all the flowers and teddy bears where she was found.
The fact that she was in a ditch that was feet from where we drove, has always stayed with me.
AngelJoyArt@reddit
Mary Duncan from West Dunbartonshire. She went missing on 19 March 1976. She did not take her daughter with her when she disappeared and her daughter named, Laura died of natural causes on 25 October 1976. We find out years later that her stepfather fathered her daughter.
I have known about this case for years as it happened in my home town. I hope Mary’s sisters get closure.
Traditional-Man77691@reddit
I always think of Luke Durbin , aged 19, went missing on a night out in Ipswich, his mate went to the night club bar to get drinks but couldn't find him after, he was seen by CCTV trying to get a train home but no more trains until the morning, also tried to get a Taxi from an open Taxi firm in the early hours, but didn't have cash and didn't want to wake his mum for he debit card details for the fare, so carried on wandering the streets of Ipswich to be never seen again.
Thenedslittlegirl@reddit
Local one for me: Moira Anderson, an 11 year old girl who left her house in the snow in February 1957, got on a bus and was never seen again.
Lots of intrigue over the years, a local woman wrote a book claiming her father, the bus driver, a convicted sex offender, was responsible. A grave has been exhumed looking for her and the suspected murderer was even linked to Fred West.
OreoSpamBurger@reddit
She's done a podcast serial about it, too; it seems it was very likely to have been her dad. Grim.
Informal-Scientist57@reddit
When I was at school Sandra Brown came and gave a performance about her dad, it was harrowing to say the least.
kai_enby@reddit
This is the one for me too, my gran is somewhat similar in age to Moira and from the same bit of town and the families kind of vaguely knew each other I think. I haven't read Sandra's book but I listened to her podcast that's mostly the same content and it definitely seems plausible her dad did it
Greendeco13@reddit
The book is very plausible
Thenedslittlegirl@reddit
Yeah I believe Sandra Brown is correct
bumpoleoftherailey@reddit
Not a UK one, but it’s always stuck with me. A guy I worked with was on holiday in Thailand with his partner a few years back. He got chatting with an Australian couple in a restaurant, who told him that a couple of years previously they’d been there with their teenage daughter. She’d got up to go to the loo and never came back.
They stuck around for as long as they could but the police investigation went nowhere and eventually they had to go home. They still went back as often as they could, to talk to people and hand out leaflets etc.
Sharks_and_Bones@reddit
Keith Bennett. We know what happened to him but those 2 monsters refused to say where they left him. His poor mother went to her grave unable to put her son to rest.
LucyLovesApples@reddit
His brother is still searching for him I believe
HighPriestess29@reddit
Same. I love moorland and Saddleworth is one of the closest to me, however I cannot bring myself to walk this moor. Feels disrespectful somehow.
Dull_Banana5349@reddit
I drove over Saddleworth Moor quite often and you can't help but think of him, and all the others. Poor kids. There's always flowers by the roadside.
CMR1891@reddit
I think about him every time I’m on that stretch too. As horrific as it is, it’s nice to know that after all these years he’s being remembered, even by people who weren’t even born
Markies_Myth@reddit
Same, I think about him when I pass that road by the knoll. It's so heartbreaking.
Hedgehog131313@reddit
Myself too - went down to family at Christmas and drove through the moors. I couldn't help but get so emotional. Then I thought I bet almost every driver on the motorway with me has them in their thoughts. X
Dull_Banana5349@reddit
I don't think that when I'm on the M62 (much) but I have to drive over the A635 which is where they parked to bury them and took photos. That's where the memorial is.
FrogScorn@reddit
Every time I think of his poor mum it makes me feel sick with grief. What an awful thing to have to live with.
Royal_View9815@reddit
Steven Clark in 1992. Out with his mother and popped into a public toilet only to never be seen again. They arrested his parents in 2020 but they were released due to lack of evidence.
andyteg@reddit
Mark Tildesley
massdebate159@reddit
They never found him, but Sidney Cooke's vile gang were charged with his murder. The Wikipedia article about him is a sickening read.
andyteg@reddit
I moved to Wokingham 3 years ago and happened to discover the story about Mark when finding out more about the town. There was a documentary on Channel 5 last year.
LucyLovesApples@reddit
The boy who bunked off school and went to London with only his games console and hasn’t been seen since.
Thi13een@reddit
That’s Andrew Gosden
Aware_Ad_431@reddit
So this is eery.. I saw this thread and remembered the tragic story an old neighbour’s sister had told me - that her son had gone missing years before. I couldn’t quite remember the names so I did a bit of research.. it turns out they have just decided to reopen the case…. it must be the worse thing for a parent to lose their child.. I would love the family to get some closure at last..
https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/police-revisit-case-missing-lee-33791929?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcARTOKlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEeM-js3dx5Vhqiwiz8lFqbXA0sU0AL0v_pZJj0C7jMYvBP6mwkMcnr2x-rVi0_aem_S9f8UaXinY9l-EU8OVnKBg#Echobox=1776440085
pinknoise_@reddit
I'm from Northern Ireland and I'm not familiar with this case. Will do some more reading about this.
Aware_Ad_431@reddit
Yeah I thought that was odd too.. must have been a slow news day for NI ..
Diddleymaz@reddit
Genette Tate.
Stunning_Anteater537@reddit
Was scrolling to find this name. I grew up in a village very near Aylesbere and a little younger than her, 7 when she disappeared. My mum stopped me riding my bike for a while which was a right pain in the arse since all my friends lived in different villages. It was all anyone talked about for a while
Heard that Robert Black was made a strong suspect a few years ago but he died before they could charge him.
skolhearted_bitch@reddit
Another slightly similar was April Fabb who back in 1969 went on her bike to visit her sister in the next village over from where she lived in Norfolk & somewhere between the 2 villages just seemed to vanish into thin air
She was seen cycling along a lane at about 2pm & her bike was found in a field at about 2.15pm & no trace of her has been found since then
YetAnotherLollipop@reddit
I grew up in Devon, and Genette Tate was the scary story we all got told about....the bit that always got me was that the wheel on her bike was still going round when it was found.
Diddleymaz@reddit
Exactly
Littlekite2010@reddit
Ben needham - I still hope his family finally get some closure
whatmichaelsays@reddit
Ben Needham is one that I always seem to remember - partly because it was regularly on the regional news in Yorkshire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Ben_Needham
majesticjewnicorn@reddit
That one hits hard for me because the day he went missing was the same day I was born. I heard about the case about 10 years ago as it was in one of those magazines like Women's Own or similar, and when I read about it my blood ran cold and I burst out crying. Knowing the happiest day of my parents' lives was the worst day of his parents' lives filled me with sadness. I know everyday is happy for some and sad for others, but I could really resonate with this case because of my situation. Every birthday I say a little prayer for him and his family.
SkarbOna@reddit
13 people my age from highschool in a different city, including someone I knew from previous school burned alive in a coach accident on my 18th birthday. Apparently the driver passed out for whatever reason and went head on with a lorry. Well, the lorry tried to dodge and went to the side where it reached half of the length of the bus where fuel tanks were. Being on the funeral few days later where her boyfriend having fresh stitches on his face and her mother making unhuman like screams at her grave fucked me up a bit.
thelivsterette1@reddit
Sort of update to that case, his mother is waiting on the results of yet another DNA test
Learning-EFWH8045@reddit
A few weeks ago an American woman claimed the aged image of Ben looked exactly like her boyfriend. They were waiting for official dna confirmation, and her boyfriend wanted to stay anonymous. Haven't heard anything since.
RelativeShoulder370@reddit
This was the first one to come to my mind, again he was a similar age to my son, I had to give him an extra hug that day 😔
vochomurka@reddit
Runaway train music video toddler.
ExcitementKooky418@reddit
Definitely this one. Remember it being in the news when I was a kid, and then MUCH later being in the papers again, I think when his mum had a book out and there was some speculation that he might have been found living with some travellers or something
Bellatrixforqueen@reddit
Oh gosh yes , they would have photos of what they thought he would look like now up in airports
Gwyllithar@reddit
not one in particular, but a while back I came across a site tracking long term missing people in the uk, and its haunting. people just disappear. and the numbers is quite shocking. at least for me.
I mainly read the ones in rural areas, people going hiking, camping, running, even walking a dog....route is known, car is found, some cases they are seen on their route, then at some point they just disappear.....some are remote areas, but others there is no credible way a body was not found if it was there.
do they just decide to up and leave or does something happen. its just so strange.
Douiret@reddit
The disappearance of Trevaline Evans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Trevaline_Evans
massdebate159@reddit
This one has always struck a chord with me. I saw a documentary recently thst revealed that the "smart dressed man" who was seen in her shop on the day was actually her brother in law. Her husband was very shifty too.
twirling_daemon@reddit
Ooh I listened to a podcast about her recently, had never heard of her previously
Proper odd one this
Fluffy_Ad2274@reddit
Really an odd one. I think of her whenever I go into an antique shop (which, given how few of them there are left, is admittedly not that often now :-/): it seems such an extraordinary thing that no-one seems to know anything.
massdebate159@reddit
Although not missing anymore, the Shannon Matthews fiasco. That poor girl. She'd be nearly 28 now! I hope she's doing ok
Fine_Analyst_4408@reddit
Shaun Ritchie because it was local. Went out with friends on Halloween 2014 and ended up at a remote farmhouse, where he was last seen apparently running away from it. Someone called the police and then someone called back to cancel them. His friends claimed they thought he was with other members of the group when they split up. The area was boggy/marshy and some of his clothes were found nearby but it's impossible to say whether foul play was involved or if he passed away from hypothermia and is lost in the marsh. Local rumours are grim. I still don't understand why the police didn't check out the call anyway, I would have found it very suspicious.
matthiasbullet@reddit
Charlene Downes. Blackpool Kebab "myth"
baldybeardface@reddit
Arlene Fraser, from my home town
Creepy-Bandicoot-866@reddit
Just watched the BBC documentary about her. So sad.
calbris@reddit
What do you believe happened? It’s always been such a confusing case for me. Also my hometown!
baldybeardface@reddit
Glen Lucas killed her after Nat paid him. Dismembered and fed to Hector Dick's pigs. At least that was the common rumour going around. Makes the most sense too
Serenity1423@reddit
Renata Antczak
In 2017, mum-of-two Renata Antczak disappeared after leaving her home in Hull. There have been no sightings of her since and no body has been found. She took her kid to school and was simply never seen again
Her husband has since been found guilty of attempting to obtain a date rape drug to use on her to find out if she was having an affair
The most recent article I can find on her disappearance is this one from 2022
anabsentfriend@reddit
Georgina Gharsalla - Worthing 2018
Bossman_Mike@reddit
Sadly that one smells a lot like Albanian organised crime.
anabsentfriend@reddit
It is very strange. It's been one of those cases where internet detectives have been coming up with numerous theories. There's been a lot of blame pushed towards the police, but I'm not sure how warranted that is.
deerbagel@reddit
She was found eventually, but Shannon Matthews. I'm from a nearby town and she was the same age as me. Our school wouldn't let us walk home or get the bus and we had to be basically escorted to and from the school gates by our parents. They were terrified that another kid would go missing in similar circumstances. I remember people going around our estate handing out leaflets and collecting money for the reward for finding her. She was found (8 think her uncle kidnapped her and her mum helped?) I hope she's doing well wherever she is now, poor girl
thelivsterette1@reddit
Maddie McCann. I distinctly remember being told about in prep school in must’ve been in Year 1? I think partly sticks with me as there’s less than 3 years between us.
Far-Dimension3508@reddit
Melanie hall disappeared in bath after spending the night out clubbing she got split up from her friends and disappeared. They found her body years later in probably one of the most horrible places possible for it being situated on the edge of the one of busiest motorway junction in the country. Hundreds of thousands passed her by but nobody knew she was there.
maruby@reddit
Claudia Lawrence. Someone knows the truth.
CaleyAg-gro@reddit
Renee McRae and her son Andrew. I was only a kid at the time, but can clearly remember stopping in my Dad’s car, in the lay-by where her car was found burnt out when driving home, about a week after the disappearance.
Marmite_L0ver@reddit
Genette Tate. I remember most of Robert Black's targets, but she stuck in my mind because all they initially found when she disappeared was her bike and bag of papers. As an older person, Suzy Lamplugh and Danielle Jones. I'm glad that the murderers of people who refuse to show remorse or say where they've hidden the bodies of their targets are kept longer in jail before the possibility of parole. The families need closure and it's just inhumane to prevent them from getting it.
HospitalDue2983@reddit
I remember clearly this happening. We were on the way to Devon for a family holiday - I would have been 14 at the time. Struck me as being really weird at the time - stuck with me
Technical-Swim-4783@reddit
Shannon Matthews. I just don't understand how a mother could put her child and whole family through that
blackcurrantcat@reddit
Yeah I always think about Andrew Gosden. It seems like it should be so resolvable and yet he seems to legitimately just have disappeared into thin air. As he’s a gamer, not knowing of his own internet presence now doesn’t make sense to me but, if he’s still alive maybe he has just chosen to ignore everything even from his family. But the alternative is he got dragged into something horrific and I’m also surprised given the time passed that his bones haven’t been uncovered or something about his death hasn’t come to the fore.
Honestly what really pisses me off is that Madeline McCann has received multiple amounts of money into her disappearance that Andrew and uncountable other children haven’t. I just don’t get why Madeline has got so much compared to other children. I’m not making any comment on her case, I just don’t see why Andrew and other children haven’t got the money or publicity that she has.
Odisse1013@reddit
Suzanne Pilley, she was seen on cctv in Edinburgh entering her office building but never left, dogs indicated she'd been put, deceased, in to her married boyfriends car boot, his phone was traced to have travelled to and stopped at the "rest and be thankful" for a number of hours, she's buried there, somewhere. He was convicted but never admitted it.
Bossman_Mike@reddit
I remember seeing that his car's suspension was buggered and there was various foliage and soil on the undertray, like it had been driven off-road somewhere.
cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit
Ritchie Manic always seemed like it might be an interesting story….. or a horrible suicide. I don’t really want to know if it’s the latter.
TheCatWithATiara@reddit
It's so sad. It's the disappearance my mum always mentioned. My nan was friends with his mum too, until her death. She was a lovely lady according to nan.
0ttoChriek@reddit
A lad in my sixth form was obsessed with Richey Edwards, and did his own disappearing act. Unfortunately, his body was found in the water below the Severn Bridge, where he'd committed suicide, apparently to emulate Edwards.
cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit
Woah. That’s truky awful for his loved ones… knowing he did it for such arbitrary reasons - like if hed preferred REM or Radiohead, he’d not gave had that to emulate. That would haunt me.
YchYFi@reddit
I doubt it was arbitrary. There is a reason those of us who have felt this way gravitate towards certain things. Internal pain can be hard to bear.
cold_tap_hot_brew@reddit
I chose to believe the person who was telling the story of their peer :
Double_Jab_Jabroni@reddit
I think it’s safe to say there was a reason he gravitated towards the Manics, and Richey in particular. Very sad.
PartTimeLegend@reddit
4real
hydrocotyle99@reddit
I am from Sutton in south London and the disappearance of the young teenager Lee Boxell in 1988 still haunts me and, I suspect, the whole area, particularly people who remember the time. After many years of detective work the police broke through a brick wall of silence and established he had attended an unauthorised youth club at a church in nearby Cheam which later became known as being set and frequented by predatory paedophiles. The whereabouts of his body (or himself if still alive) is to this day unknown to the authorities.
Bossman_Mike@reddit
Apparently that case is now being re-examined.
I think it's another one where they know what happened, but can't prove it.
tigershout@reddit
Stats alone:
Over 170,000 people are reported missing in the UK annually. This equates to one person being reported missing roughly every 90 seconds. Children make up nearly two-thirds of these incidents.
MelodicAd2213@reddit
Damien Nettles, missing since Nov 1996 on IoW.
Pebbley@reddit
Remember this well, they searched everywhere on the Isle of Wight, general consensus that he drowned in Cowes Harbour after leaving the High street chippy, though experts on the tides in Cowes, say, the body would have eventually turned up.
Bossman_Mike@reddit
The other theory is that he caused trouble with a local hothead drug dealer named Nicky McNamara (who died in 2002) and ended up being accidentally killed. McNamara and his family had a fearsome reputation so nobody wanted to say anything.
thine_be_mine@reddit
Tapiwa Matuwi. He was an IT grad from one of the universities in Swansea.
There'd been a couple of incidents involving young men going missing and then later found with CCTV being used to track their last moments, but the cameras didn't seem to capture Tapi's trail.
I remember at the time thinking the police didn't do too much to try and find him - but of course we aren't privvy to their cases.
He was last seen on a busy street and maybe one day he'll be found or will come back to his family.
English_R0se@reddit
This question has already been asked so many times on this sub. I swear someone asked it last week.
BornBluejay7921@reddit
Suzy Lamplugh for me.
Bossman_Mike@reddit
I really do think that case is tragically simple.
Suzy was being stalked by Cannan after he laid eyes on her one day, so he books a viewing on a house to meet her alone.
bellatrix99@reddit
John Cannan probably.
Bossman_Mike@reddit
He did have a history of stirring the pot and confessing (or not) to things he didn't actually do, but the circumstantial evidence against him in her case is rock solid. Apparently they even found small traces of her DNA in a car he owned later.
It seems he went from flat out denial to later bragging that the police would never catch him for it. He also seems to have let slip small details to different people over the years.
The police did want to charge him, but the CPS bounced the case file as not being sufficient and that's all they had.
MsScaryPoppins@reddit
Same here - I used to know her parents and was friends with her younger sister when I was growing up. I still remember my mum coming into my bedroom in the morning to tell me she’d gone missing. :(
LengthImaginary9017@reddit
Was trying to remember her name until I found your post. Still remember the photo of her that was used by the press. Hard to believe people can just go missing without a trace. Poor families.
Party-Werewolf-4888@reddit
I used to work out in the community and as part of our training we did a safety course with the Suzy Lamplugh Trust. Scary shit.
judd_in_the_barn@reddit
Ruth Wilson - doesn’t get the exposure that other cases get.
SpectreSingh89@reddit
Madeline McCann only cause her hometown is a mere few miles from mine.
Regular-Resist8411@reddit
Georgina Gharsallah. She’s fairly local to me so her case is often featured on the local news. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Georgina_Gharsallah
deformedfishface@reddit
Robert Gibson. Middle aged family man, library campaigner, likeable dood. Goes for a walk one Sunday and is never seen again.
Sticks with me because I knew him. Not best of friends or anything but we knew other’s names. Seemed like such a ‘normal’ guy. I suppose that’s the lesson, you never know what someone is going through inside.
Ok_Preparation_86@reddit
Joanna Yeates - the missing pizza, the seemingly inexplicable disappearance. The fact she was found on Christmas Day haunts me every Christmas time. Her parents' only child. Her fiancé obviously moved on and married someone else, starting a family. I often think of her per poor parents essentially robbed of the rest of their life. The subsequent years focused on the landlord who was treated appalling by the police and the papers. But that poor woman and her truly evil neighbour.
karennotkaren1891@reddit
Allan Bryant. And more recently Alice Byrne.
Always think of them. Also Richie Edwards from the manic street preachers. My mum was a massive fan so I listened to them all the time growing up
MomsTiredGoPlay@reddit
I find it insane 2 young men went missing about a street apart 15 years to the day. Allan’s dad has my utmost respect, he’s never stopped fighting for his son.
nihilistkitty@reddit
I came here to say Allan Bryant. His poor family. I remember the weekend he went missing. We all just thought he would turn up eventually
massdebate159@reddit
Ames Glover. A 5 month old baby who went missing from the back of his dad's car in 1990. Very little media coverage of him because he wasn't white.
Lee Boxall- I have a feeling that the paedo grave digger did something to him. Police only dug around the graves and not in them.
Andrew Gosden- Very strange and sad case. Did he run away? Or was he planning on coming back and met foul play?
Martin Allen- almost certainly a victim of Sidney Cooke's vile gang.
Alex Sloley- Very similar to Andrew Gosden. Very bright maths student who disappeared in London
ITrampyMcGee@reddit
Terrible re Ames Glover - just read his dad left him alone for 20 minutes in the car! I can't imagine leaving a baby that young alone but also to lose a child that young is just devastating
massdebate159@reddit
Yeah, I read somewhere that social services were involved with the family before he was taken. Not sure how true that is. I know the 80s and 90s were a different time, but it was still London! No way you'd leave a baby for that long.
Mind you, the McCanns left three toddlers alone while they got drunk but they get daily praise.
ITrampyMcGee@reddit
I can't even leave my 3 month old alone in the room next to me for a few minutes at a time without feeling deeply edgy that she's rolled over or something will fall on her and suffocate her or some other horrible thing... I can't imagine leaving such a young child for so long with nobody to check on them, no way to hear if they're distressed, nobody to respond if they're crying :( even typing that breaks my heart:(
massdebate159@reddit
I'm a childless 37 year old and I feel the same. Under 1 year is such a risky time.
CuppaJos@reddit
My friends mum when we were in primary school
dontevenremembermain@reddit
Andrew Gosden, also I know the body was found but Lindsay Rimer
presterjohn7171@reddit
I'm from Worcester and the "Mr Kipper" murder is still talked about. A local estate agent Suzy Lamplaugh went to show this Kipper guy a property and was never seen again. She was very pretty so the press paid attention but. Nobody ever found him or a body.
Empty-Question-9526@reddit
Richey Edwards. Big band, big albums, was about to go to America with James Dean Bradfield and then just disappeared
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Familiar-Woodpecker5@reddit
April Jones in Machynlleth. Heartbreaking.
BillWilberforce@reddit
Lord Lucan. Apparently attempted to kill his wife but accidentally killed the nanny instead. His car was found near IIRC Beachy Head. Which is a popular spot to commit suicide but his body was never found. Did he jump or did he then flee the country? A lot of books, documentaries and "experts" have spent decades trying to work out what happened. With numerous reported sightings having been investigated over the years.
world07peace@reddit
He was spirited out of the country by ‘friends’
ProfessionalWitty949@reddit
Daniel entwistle, 7yo lad that went missing in great Yarmouth in 2003. Disappeared without a trace after going out on his bike for a ride.
Negative_Nancy213@reddit
James Nutley, disappeared in October 2004 after walking along the seafront back to his hotel on a golfing holiday, cctv picked him up passing a hotel 3 doors away and then nothing,
Afraidofchives@reddit
For anyone that's interested, may I recommend an excellent podcast series entitled "The Missing". Here's a synopsis of the show;
"Can you help find ‘The Missing?’ Hosted by journalist Pandora Sykes, ‘The Missing’ is a Podcast that looks into the cases of the long-term missing and asks you, the listener, to help. Brought to you in association with charities Locate International and Missing People, every week we explore a different case, hear original interviews with family and friends, and ask the questions that need to be answered. Where did they go? What happened to them? And does anyone listening have any information? In the UK alone, a person is reported missing every 90 seconds. In this series, we ask you to become part of the search. With your help, some of these cases could be solved.”
ExcellentCan2525@reddit
Jack O'Sullivan went missing in Bristol in 2024. Vanished on his way home from a night out
amyreb2002xx@reddit
Charlene Downes
massdebate159@reddit
Her Dad was mates with paedos, but the kebab shop bullshit makes better headlines
amyreb2002xx@reddit
Yeah people love to use it to fuel their racist agendas but don’t acknowledge the role the dad played
massdebate159@reddit
Nope. Don't get me wrong, the kebab shop guys were scumbags, and she was probably being groomed by them. But there's definitely something up with the Dad. Look up Paige Chivers. I believe her dad's mate was suspected of her disappearance
Meal-Entire@reddit
Richey Edwards from the Manics has always been on my mind.
ijs_1985@reddit
James Nutley from my town and know some people who were close mates with him
Went missing on a lads golf trip in Tenby in 2004, was captured on CCTV and then nothing (appreciate it’s right by the sea but nothing every found)
Hepzebah56@reddit
Damien Nettles. I knew some of the people rumoured to be involved in his disappearance. There have been a few arrests over the years but with no real evidence no charges have ever been brought. There is a BBC documentary on the case that is really interesting. It’s called the Boy who Disappeared.
liliumv@reddit
I know she was found, but Shannon Matthews. I can't imagine how she felt/feels knowing what her own mother did to her. And for what? Money? Attention? Absolutely heartbreaking.
Flying_worms@reddit
Not seeing any comments mentioned Carmel Fenech.
Teenager from Peckham who fell in with the wrong crowd and got into hard drugs. I really feel for her mum because it seems like she did everything to save her, moved out of London and everything but nothing could stop Carmel from going back and going missing sometimes for weeks until one time she went missing for the last time.
It stings because someone knows what happened to her, she was tossed aside. I always remember her mum saying she went round all the crack houses in London looking for her, I can imagine the pure desperation.
Because she was always going missing police didn’t prioritise her case, but her mum knew one day something serious would happen and it did.
massdebate159@reddit
Her picture still sticks in my mind.
No_Doubt_About_That@reddit
Jack O’Sullivan
amyreb2002xx@reddit
So glad someone mentioned him 💔 I was scrolling to see his name
Myorangecrush77@reddit
I was going to comment if someone else didn’t.
Myorangecrush77@reddit
The people at the party know more. I’m Sure.
Giftsofrecovery@reddit
Very little publicity for this poor family - His mum talking a few weeks ago 🙁 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/jack-osullivan-catherine-son-missing-people-search-b2951010.html
Katatonic92@reddit
Sadly this is the reality for the majority of families who have a missing loved one. These things are rarely widely reported on & if they were from a big city, they are lucky to get a passing mention in local media. At least with people from villages & smaller towns they stand a chance of getting local coverage.
There isn't really a formula to how some get high levels of publicity. The younger they are the more likely, the more attractive the MP is the higher chance of more coverage, career can play a role, an attractive doctor is going to get more attention than your average looking shop assistant. A slow news day, content to fill, is also a factor. Is it extra mysterious, does it include details (the stranger the better) that could give people the opportunity to play armchair detective, that will be popular. This is a big one in capturing wider attention & fuelling publicity. Missing people are reduced down to an entertainment level & it's fucking awful.
dreamponies@reddit
I was thinking of him as I was scrolling down. I’m not sure why his case didn’t get more attention.
Jinxybabz@reddit
There was hardly any public information. I feel like the police let his family down and didn't seem to put any effort into Jacks case. It was only when Jay Slater went missing a few months later. It was all over the news when attention was drawn to Jack being missing and the lack of media attention. As someone who lives in Bristol and not far from where Jack went missing,the first I heard about Jack going missing was on Facebook. When people were raising the question of why Jay Slater going missing made all the newspapers and was breaking news sites and Jack going missing was barely mentioned.
dreamponies@reddit
I think the Jay Slater case was more salacious. There was speculation about him being involved in dodgy stuff, then the whole debacle with the family and the go fund me stuff. Jack O’Sullivan seemed like a lovely lad from a lovely family, far less salacious and therefore (sadly) newsworthy?
hamstertoybox@reddit
I’m local and it’s heartbreaking seeing the posters everywhere. His poor family.
Whoooshingsound@reddit
Honestly, I think the poor lad ended up in the river and was washed out to the estuary. Couple of students a year seem to fall in the river and drown in Bath and Bristol.
milkteacuppa@reddit
Owen Harding, then aged 16, disappeared during lockdown in March 2020 and was never seen again. His mother said he was upset due to social distancing - his girlfriend lived far away and the travel restrictions prevented him from seeing her - and was last seen on CCTV heading towards a cliff top near his home in Saltdean.
The conclusion online seems to be that, either intentionally or accidentally, Owen fell from the cliff and his body was swept away at sea. It just sticks with me because this would be traumatic for his family in any scenario, but add Covid? Where you literally cannot even gather a search party? And then six years later, no trace of him has ever been found.
CraigTheBrewer12@reddit
Now mostly resolved, but Leah Croucher. I’m not far from MK and used to work there, so I’d see all the missing persons posters up. Tragically her brother also killed himself, so her poor parents had two sets of trauma to deal with.
tigershout@reddit
The story of that spy found zipped up in a bag in a bath (& I swear to god when it first came out they said it was a suicide)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Gareth_Williams
BPARKER959549392@reddit
Local to Cardiff
Mark Kinson
Lorraine Ridout
As above Jack Sullivan.
Hatchetface1705@reddit
Finn Creany. A wild camping guy who YouTubed his trips. One day he walked into the Scottish wilderness and never came back. A year later his bag showed up near a loch but it hadn’t been there before. His poor wife and babies 😔
Ok_Young1709@reddit
I don't think they found him yet, but they have stopped the search and know basically what has happened to him. 😞 It was horrible though, had hoped he would be found when he first went missing.
Hatchetface1705@reddit
What do they think happened?
Zap__Zapoleon@reddit
They don't know, they remain open to the idea it was an accident or mental health thing.
Hatchetface1705@reddit
That’s so sad 😞
dopeyroo@reddit
Was his wife pregnant at the time, and had to have the baby not knowing where he was?
Hatchetface1705@reddit
Yeah 😞
ArrowPresby@reddit
Mary Ferns aged 88, disappeared on June 17, 2008 in Edinburgh and has never been seen again. She went out to buy tights and was never seen again. It seems completely scary and bizarre that a whole person can just dissappear and leave no trace! Her husband has since died never knowing what happened.
monstera_152@reddit
Renee and Andrew MacRae. Think the wife of William MacDowell knows much more than she’s ever let on.
ShortGirlUK@reddit
Levi Davis
kitknit81@reddit
Suzanne Pilley. There’s a bloke in prison for her murder but no body was ever found and it’s not really known what happened to her.
Spottyjamie@reddit
This as he went to my school and lived on my estate
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6437869.stm
RessurectedAccount@reddit
Disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh. Huge story in the 80's
BumblebeeForward9818@reddit
The schoolgirl last seen at a Bathgate bus stop.
westerntraveller@reddit
Vicki Hamilton, who knows how many more missing women and girls were killed by Peter Tobin?
Sea_Photograph_3998@reddit
Damien Nettles.
Prize-Jelly1898@reddit
Nicola Payne all these years later and still nothing!!
Old_Introduction_395@reddit
Owen Harding
In 2020, 16-year-old Owen Harding vanished after leaving his Saltdean home following an argument over lockdown restrictions. He was last seen walking toward Telscombe Cliffs while on the phone with his girlfriend. Despite extensive searches and CCTV sightings, no trace of him has ever been found.
OldLondon@reddit
Suzi Lamplugh on a national level and Lee Boxall on a local level as I frequented some of the same places as him as a kid and he only lived a few roads away.
Calibigirl69@reddit
Genette Tate, even now after almost 50 years. 13 Yr old school girl doing a paper round as a favour fir a friend who was on holiday. Just completely disappeared and has never been found.
Chemical_Ad_1618@reddit
Madeline mcann. I live in the U.K. went on holiday to Croatia that summer and there were Madeline mcann posters in Croatia.
Barbsayshi@reddit
John Clarke book has a very good theory on this case
ElmStreetDreamx@reddit
Charlene Downes
Shannon Matthews
Andrew Gosden
Barbsayshi@reddit
they found shannon Matthew’s
ElmStreetDreamx@reddit
It says missing cases that stuck with you, not whether they were found or not
xoMeowllieCat@reddit
Richey edwards. The manics are one of my all time favourite bands and i think he was a singwriting genius so it always makes me sad. Pretty sure his sister believes he is still alive but its doubtful
salt_flowers@reddit
Tapiwa Matuwi - disappeared in my hometown, I fear he fell in the water but his family has been given no closure. I had a friend of mine missing for 4 months before his body was found and identified, it was torture. I cant imagine the pain these families go through after years of nothing.
IsSheMe@reddit
Andrew Gosden, seeing his face on the missing people adverts makes me sad. There is a part of me that hopes he ran away to start a new life.
givesyouhel@reddit
I think because it's more music than true crime lore, Richey Edwards gets missed from these conversations. I hope he's ok. I know he probably isn't.
CrowApprehensive204@reddit
Andrew Gosden and Claudia Lawrence but I'm sure there are a great many more that did not get as much publicity
locoforcocothecat@reddit
Reading all the names of missing people here, it's scary to think how many died by accident, suicide, foul play... and even more terrifying, how many are still alive, possible being held captive? So scary.
ShinyHeadedCook@reddit
As others said, Andrew Gosden. My belief was always he travelled to London and fell foul of pedo scumbags.
There's an awful documentary from a long time ago, think its still on YouTube, called The Boy Business. Showed how rings of pedos trawled london and trafficked boys into forced sex industry in places like Amsterdam, and those boys were often killed. Its horrific theres proper evil monsters out there
amyreb2002xx@reddit
Luke Durbin, Damien Nettles and Lee Boxell 😢 I hope they’re at peace wherever they ended up💖
cappsy04@reddit
My old neighbours gran went missing one day. Was all over the news and then nothing. I've searched her name but can't find anything now. I was 11 at the time so may be misremembering it.
dreamponies@reddit
Oof this is a sad thread. So many of these have stuck with me over the years and make me occasionally wonder. I can’t imagine what it’s like for the poor families.
Azure_727@reddit
A member of my family vanished in the late 80 or early 90s. No history of MH problems, good job, did not drink or use drugs. Vanished without a trace one night after meeting friends down the pub. He was declared legally dead after 7 years. Every so often I think of his parents - I didn't know him, but I knew them - and how sad that they died without ever knowing what happened to their boy.
YetAnotherLollipop@reddit
I have two.
Mary Flanagan, she was 16 when she went missing on NYE in London. She'd overslept that morning and told her parents she'd go in for the afternoon shift at her job at Tate and Lyles and stay on for their NYE party. She wasn't home the next morning, her parents thought she'd stayed over with a friend. They went to the factory to be told that Mary hadn't been at work for 2 weeks. Mary had recently ended a relationship with a chap called Tom. Her father disapproved of her breaking up with Tom and there had been a big argument about it. Mary's family never saw her again. Her you get siblings are still searching for her. A few years ago an age progression was released. A woman bearing a strong resemblance to it walked into either a health centre or a police station and said this wasn't her and she'd never heard of Mary Flanagan. She also said something a long the lines of "I don't need looking after. I'm independent and can take care of myself'.
David Spencer and Patrick (this is awful but I can never remember his name). Two young boys (about 13) who went missing on boxing day. They were out late at night, one of them bringing the new bike he'd got for Christmas. The police didn't step up and investigate properly because they were from what was considered a "rough area". And the narrative seemed to focus on "what were they doing out that late/where were their parents/what did they expect to happen?" Rather than the fact that they were missing at all.
Old_Quit_851@reddit
Claudia Lawrence
Willsagain2@reddit
So many young people just disappear and it seems unlikely they are all runaways. The one that I immediately thought of is Genette Tate.
luluruns@reddit
Lisa Dorrian. Northern Ireland
Fleetwood2016@reddit
Arlene Arkinson was only 15 when she went missing on a night out in Bundoran, County Donegal in 1994. She was from Castlederg, just over the border in NI, a few miles from where I grew up. Robert Howard a convicted child rapist and murderer was found to be responsible for her killing but never gave up the location of her body. I think of Arlene often and her poor family.
BlackberryNice1270@reddit
Claudia Lawrence.
Perihelion_Soul@reddit
The Tottenham defence, 2026.
Spine chilling.
Rude-Possibility4682@reddit
Thanks for the belly laugh after all the gloomy realism here.
massdebate159@reddit
Laughs in Southampton
KitFan2020@reddit
Claudia Lawrence
Euphoric-Employee658@reddit
2
Firthy2002@reddit
Andrew Gosden. I truly believe the investigation being mishandled means he won't be found unless someone puts their hand up for it.
JamesL25@reddit
At different times- Three cases
Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman- Technically a murder case, but I always remember it coincided with a friends Dad’s 50th birthday barbecue. At previous parties this family held, we had always gone to the park at the end of the road to have a kick around. It was strictly not allowed with recent events, which looking back 20+ years on, now I completely understand.
Andrew Gosden- Partially because he was the same age as me
Claudia Lawrence- Not until years later. I started uni in York two years after the disappearance, and my accommodation was literally next door to her house. It was a cause I didn’t know much about, but learnt quickly as her photo was on many posters and police vans at the time. I always remember coming home drunk one Saturday night to see the area roped off because they were filming a reconstruction (I got escorted back to my flat)
OrangeBeast01@reddit
I think about John Cantlie every now and then. He was abducted by Islamic State and forced (we assume) to do propaganda videos for them in a web series.
After IS was defeated, he was was never heard from. There were contradicting reports about him being killed or sighted from time to time, but his parents gave up hope in 2022 and held a funeral for him.
LillyAtts@reddit
I didn't realise he'd never been found. How awful.
Retiredandrelaxed@reddit
Ginette Tate
markusparkus75@reddit
Andrew Gosden, as it was local to me. Also Claudia Lawrence. I remember at the time the police thought she might have disappeared voluntarily and left the country, but I had this weird feeling there something far more sinister to it. Everyone I talked to at the time felt the same. It was weird how everyone collectively had the same sense of something being very wrong with her disappearance.
Own-Pen3465@reddit
Elizabeth Chau
AndreaandMarilyn@reddit
Suzy lamplugh
Firm-Statistician772@reddit
Madeline
Cannabis_Sir@reddit
Patrick Warren and David Spencer
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/odn9jx/disappearance_of_patrick_warren_and_david_spencer/
St2Crank@reddit
Richey Edwards is pretty mad really. A member of the Manic Street Preachers has just disappeared.
Pebbley@reddit
Miss Lampugh Estate Agent, went to meet a client visit, never seen again.
lalajia@reddit
Allan Bryant, missing since 2013 after a night out in Fife. His poor dad is still very active, asking for answers.
ljdug1@reddit
Suzy Lamplugh,
Mecryyou@reddit
Nellie Herriot.
Nellie Herriot was last seen getting off a bus in Brighton in 2012, aged 96.
Gingy2210@reddit
David Spencer (13) and Patrick Warren (11), known as the "Milk Carton Kids," vanished from Chelmsley Wood, Solihull, on Boxing Day 1996. 30 years ago and its like they vanished into thin air.
Consistent_Sale_7541@reddit
Marsha Wray. She and her family lived near a family member and i remember her garden being dug up and her car parked up for a long time.
woooooooood9@reddit
Probably Caudia Lawrence. No closure or anything.
AllTheThingsSheSays@reddit
Christine Markham, as its local to me. 9 year old girl who vanished in 1973. She was last seen on a road I regularly go down, every time I walk down there I think of her and what could have happened.
Bellatrixforqueen@reddit
Keith Mangem because I delivered the evening gazette at the time and they had a daily number of days post and then it just stopped 😐
Brave_Reaction_4968@reddit
Elizabeth Chau. I was working her sister when she went missing.
Every so often, I check to see if there are any updates. But there's little chance of anything positive.
LaurenNotABot@reddit
Yes, I was local when this happened . The fact at least 2 other women went missing in similar circumstances in the area is scary too .
I know Bellfield was mentioned and he was definitely around the area as he often hung around with the doormen of the club I was working at .
kestrelita@reddit
Rosie Palmer. I was 8, I remember my Dad telling me exactly how far away the ice cream van was (it was as far as Jessica's house) and showing me the newspaper headline when her body was found.
eralcilrahc@reddit
Andrew Gosden for me too. Poor boy and his family, I hope they get answers at some point
Competitive_Rub_9590@reddit
For me it’s Timothy MacColl, he vanished while serving in the Royal Navy after a night out in Dubai and was never seen again.
They later presumed drowning, but no body was ever found and it never felt fully explained.
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