List of solved missing person cases: 1980s

1980s

1980

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1980	Marcia King	21	United States of America	Marcia King left home in Little Rock, Arkansas, on an unknown date in 1980. She traveled across the United States and was murdered in Troy, Ohio, in April 1981 at the age of 21. King's body was identified in 2018.[1]	Murdered	37 years
1980	Bryon McCane II	4	United States of America	American boy who would become the rapper known as Bizzy Bone. He was abducted by his mother's boyfriend at an early age, together with his two sisters. For the next three years, the trio was moved around various homes across Oklahoma, with McCane being tortured and sexually assaulted. He was finally rescued after a babysitter realized that he was a missing person and contacted the authorities, who subsequently rescued him.[2]	Found alive	3 years
1980	Timothy White	5	United States of America	Timothy White disappeared in California on February 13, 1980, and it was later revealed that he was abducted by a man named Kenneth Parnell. He escaped on March 1, 1980, with the help of Steven Stayner, who had been abducted by Parnell almost eight years earlier (see above).[3]	Found alive	15 days
1980	Michael Rosenblum	25	United States of America	Michael Rosenblum was last seen alive on February 14, 1980, angrily driving his girlfriend's car away from a West Homestead, Pennsylvania, gas station; it was found an hour later abandoned and severely damaged along a road in nearby Baldwin, whose police department did not make public that it had the car for over three months. That, and other circumstantial evidence suggesting that the Baldwin police knew more about Rosenblum's disappearance than they claimed, accumulated over the next several years and led to the police chief being fired and reinstated in 1987. A skull fragment found in 1992 in woods near where the car was found was matched to Rosenblum; how he died is still unknown.[4]	Died (unknown cause)	12 years 2 months
1980	Sherri Jarvis	14	United States of America	Sherri Jarvis ran away from her juvenile detention hearing at the Washington County Courthouse shortly after her 14th birthday in March 1980. She traveled with 2 unidentified sisters to Green Bay, Wisconsin. The sisters decided to return home, but Sherri refused and walked away from them. In August 1980, Sherri wrote a letter to her family from Denver, Colorado stating that she was upset over being incarcerated and that they wouldn't hear from her until she was "at least 18 or 21". Sherri's body was discovered on the morning of November 1, 1980, in Huntsville, Texas, but remained unidentified until November 2021.[5]	Murdered	eight months, and remained unidentified for 41 years
1980	Cynthia Gastelle	18	United States of America	Cynthia Gastelle disappeared on April 3, 1980, while going to a job interview in Takoma Park, Maryland.[6] Her skeletal remains were found on February 12, 1982, in a secluded wooded area on Bull Run Mountain in Haymarket, Virginia, but remained unidentified for 30 years.[7][8]	Murdered	30 years
1980	Jessie Earl	22	United Kingdom	Earl disappeared from Eastbourne in May 1980, with her body only discovered in 1989 near Beachy Head. As of November 2020, the investigation into her murder is ongoing.[9] Police have investigated links between Earl's murder and serial killer Peter Tobin, who lived in the area at the time of her murder.[10]	Murdered	9 years
1980	Mary Stauffer	36	United States of America	Mary and daughter Bethy Stauffer were kidnapped on May 16, 1980, by Mary's former ninth-grade student and stalker, Ming Sen Shiue in Roseville, Minnesota, after mother and daughter were leaving a beauty salon before the family's move to the Philippines for missionary work.[11] Alongside kidnapping the Stauffers, Shiue would also kidnap and later murder six-year-old Jason Wilkman, who had noticed Shiue's stopped vehicle by sheer coincidence.[12] On July 7, 1980, Shiue left the house for work, allowing Mary and Beth to escape by Mary pulling one of the hinge pins on the door and call the police. Shiue would later be arrested, attack Mary at his second trial hearing, and be sentenced to life imprisonment under federal charges, 40 years under Minnesota.	Found alive	53 days
	Bethy Stauffer	8	United States of America
1980	Dorothy Jane Scott	32	United States of America	Dorothy Jane Scott disappeared while getting her car on May 28, 1980, in Anaheim, California, after she had taken two co-workers to the hospital. On August 6, 1984, a construction worker discovered dog and human bones, side by side, about 30 feet (10 m) from Santa Ana Canyon Road.[13] The human bones were later identified as being Scott's. The identity and motive of her killer or killers remains unknown.[14]	Murdered	4 years
1980	Patsy Morris	14	United Kingdom	Morris was a schoolgirl who disappeared from her school in west London, England, during her lunch break on 16 June 1980. Police and members of the community spent two days searching for her until her fully-clothed body was found on Hounslow Heath, having been strangled. Her murder remains unsolved although in 2008 it was revealed that she was the childhood girlfriend of west London serial killer Levi Bellfield and that he had allegedly confessed to the crime in prison.[15]	Murdered	2 days
1980	Shirley Soosay	35	United States of America	A Canadian native of Cree ancestry. Soosay's body was discovered in Delano, California, on 14 July 1980. She had been raped and stabbed thirty-nine times. Her body remained unidentified until February 2020. Her murderer, Wilson Chouest, was convicted of her rape and murder prior to her identification.[16]	Murdered	40 years
1980	Brenda Gerow	20	United States of America	Brenda Gerow was an American woman who disappeared on July 20, 1980, after leaving home with her boyfriend at the time. She was found dead in the desert at Pima County, Arizona, on April 8, 1981, but remained unidentified for 34 years.	Murdered	34 years
1980	Azaria Chamberlain	nine weeks old	Australia	An Australian baby girl who disappeared on the night of August 17, 1980, during a family camping trip in Uluru. Although her remains have never been found her mother insisted that a dingo had taken her from her camping tent. In a trial sensationalized by the media her mother was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Her sentence was overturned six years later when Azaria's jacket was found in a dingo lair. Azaria's disappearance was the subject of four inquests, the last of which in 2012, concluded that a dingo had taken and killed her.[17]	Killed in animal attack	6 years
1980	Tammy Terrell	17	United States of America	Terrell was an American teenager who was last seen in the company of an unknown couple at the Roswell State Fair in Roswell, New Mexico on October 4, 1980. Her body was found in Henderson, Nevada on the following day, but remained unidentified until December 2021. Her murder remains unsolved.[18]	Murdered	1 day
1980	Giorgio Giamonna	25	Italy	Giamonna and Galatola were gay males. Missing since October 17, 1980, the bodies of both were discovered in the town of Giarre on October 31, 1980. Both had been shot in the head and were discovered holding hands. The perpetrator of the murders was never identified, but is believed to have been the 13-year-old nephew of one of the victims. Their deaths led to the widespread recognition of homophobia among the Italian public and the strengthening and recognition of Italian gay rights movements.[19]	Murdered	14 days
	Antonio Galatola	15
1980	Harold "Dean" Clouse Jr.	21	United States of America	Young couple Dean and Tina Clouse and their infant daughter Holly Marie Clouse went missing from their home in Lewisville, Texas, where they had moved recently from New Smyrna Beach, Florida. The murdered remains of Dean and Tina would be discovered outside of Houston on January 12, 1981, but would not be identified until 2021. After losing contact with their families in October 1980, Dean, Tina, and Holly Marie were reported missing by family back in Florida; however, no concerted efforts were made by law enforcement to locate them. Dean and Tina were identified through forensic genealogy in 2021, but Holly Marie remained unlocated until 2022, when she was found alive in Oklahoma.[20]	Murdered	40 years
	Tina Linn Clouse	17	United States of America		Murdered	40 years
	Holly Marie Clouse	1	United States of America		Found alive	41 years
1980	Marlene Oakes	25	United States of America	Marlene Oakes was an American woman who was murdered by her husband on October 11, 1980, in Verona, Kentucky, and half of her skull was found near her house on November 29, 1981. In 2001, it was identified as being hers.[21]	Murdered	Over 1 year, and not identified until 2001
1980	Christine Weller	12	Canada	One of several victims of serial child killer Clifford Olson. Weller was abducted from Surrey, British Columbia on November 17, 1980 and her body was found a month later on Christmas Day.[22]	Murdered	1 month

1981

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1981	Tina Louise Sharp	12	United States of America	Sharp was one of four murder victims killed in the resort town of Keddie, California, in April 1981. The other three victims—her mother, 15-year-old brother and his 17-year-old friend—were discovered at the crime scene, whereas Sharp's body was discovered in Butte County three years later. All four murders remain unsolved.[23]	Murdered	3 years
1981	Colleen Marian Bridgette Daignault	13	Canada	One of several victims of serial child killer Clifford Olson. Daignault—a Surrey, British Columbia, schoolgirl—disappeared while returning to her parents' home following a sleepover at a friend's home on April 16, 1981; her skeletal remains were discovered on September 17 the same year.[24]	Murdered	5 months
1981	Daryn Todd Johnsrude	16	Canada	A further victim of serial child killer Clifford Olson. Johnsrude was Olson's third-known victim; his body was found in woodland on May 2, 1981—ten days after his April 22 disappearance. Johnsrude had died of skull fractures.[24]	Murdered	10 days
1981	Ciro Cirillo	60	Italy	Italian Christian Democratic politician who was kidnapped by members of the Red Brigades in Naples on April 27, 1981. He was held for ransom, but later released after a controversial deal was made with the Red Brigades, paying them one and a half million lire, which was provided with the help of Camorra crime boss Raffaele Cutolo.[25]	Found alive	Almost 3 months
1981	Al Indelicato	50	United States of America	On May 5, 1981, infighting within the Bonanno crime family, led to Dominic Trinchera, Philip Giaccone, and Al Indelicato, being murdered by a rival faction of the family in Brooklyn, New York. Their bodies were buried in a lot in Lindenwood, Queens. On May 28, authorities discovered Indelicato's body and removed it. More than two decades later, in October 2004, after some children reported finding a body in the lot, FBI agents excavated the property and discovered the bodies of Trinchera and Giaccone.[26] In December 2004, the bodies were positively identified as Giaccone and Trinchera.[27]	Murdered	23 days
	Philip Giaccone	48	United States of America			24 years
	Dominick Trinchera	44	United States of America			24 years
1981	Danny McIlhone	20	Ireland	Danny McIlhone was abducted by the Provisional IRA in Dublin in May 1981 and his remains were found in 2008.[28]	Murdered	27 years
1981	Sandra Lynn Wolfsteiner	16	Canada	The fourth-known victim of serial child killer Clifford Olson. Wolfsteiner was lured into Osen's vehicle while hitchhiking home from her boyfriend's apartment. Her remains were later discovered in Fraser Valley, fifty miles east of Vancouver.[24]	Murdered	2 months
1981	Karen Price	15	United Kingdom	Karen Price was a girl from Wales who was last seen on July 2, 1981. Police later concluded that Price had run away from home, then turned to sex work. Her remains were found on December 7, 1989, when workmen unearthed a rolled carpet while installing a garden behind a house. She was identified by her DNA in what is cited as one of the first instances in which DNA technology was used in this way in the UK.[29]	Murdered	8 years
1981	Suzanne Bombardier	14	United States of America	Suzanne Bombardier was a teenager who disappeared on June 22, 1980[30] after being kidnapped, A fisherman discovered Bombardier's body in the San Joaquin River on June 27, 1980, just five days later as her body was seen floating.[31]	Murdered	5 days
1981	Judy Elizabeth Kozma	14	Canada	A further victim of serial child killer Clifford Olson. Kozma was last seen alive in New Westminster on July 9, 1981; her body was discovered on July 25. She had been stabbed to death.[32]	Murdered	2 weeks
1981	Mary Louise Day	13	United States of America	Teenage girl who ran away from her parents' home in Seaside, California on July 15, 1981. She remained missing until 2003, when a woman in the Phoenix area was identified via DNA as Day.[33]	Found alive	22 years
1981	Adam Walsh	6	United States of America	Adam Walsh was an American boy who was abducted from the Hollywood Mall in Hollywood, Florida, on July 27, 1981. His severed head was found two weeks later in a drainage canal alongside Florida's Turnpike in rural St. Lucie County, Florida. Drifter Otis Toole confessed to Walsh's murder, but due to poor handling by the Hollywood Police he was never convicted of the crime.[34]	Murdered	2 weeks
1981	Vishal Mehrotra	8	United Kingdom	Mehrotra was an 8-year-old boy who disappeared on July 29, 1981, from Putney, London.[35] On February 25, 1982, some of Mehrotra's remains were found in Sussex on an isolated Farm.	Murdered	212 days
1981	Jennifer Cardy	9	United Kingdom	Nine-year-old Cardy disappeared from Ballinderry, County Antrim on 12 August 1981. She had left her home to cycle a short distance away to meet a friend, but her bicycle was later found thrown over a hedge close to her home. Six days later her body was found in Hillsborough. She had been abducted and murdered by paedophile Robert Black, although he wasn't convicted for it until 2011. Before he died, Black was about to be charged in relation to the very similar case of the disappearance of Genette Tate near Exeter in 1978. She disappeared while delivering newspapers on her bicycle and was never found.[36][37]	Murdered	6 days
1981	Charles Armstrong	55	Crossmaglen, Northern Ireland	A labourer abducted and murdered by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in August 1981; his body was discovered in County Monaghan on 29 July 2010.[38]	Murdered	28 years 11 months
1981	Dominick Napolitano	51	United States of America	Organized crime leaders ordered the murder of Dominick Napolitano. Responding to a summons, on August 17, 1981, he went to a meeting, knowing that he would be killed. On August 12, 1982, a body was found at South Avenue and Bridge Street in Arlington, Staten Island which proved to be Napolitano.[39]	Murdered	11 years
1981	Ursula Herrmann	10	West Germany	Ursula Herrmann was kidnapped in West Germany on September 15, 1981, and held captive by an unidentified assailant who called her family to demand ransom. Despite the family gathering the sum, no further instructions were given, and Ursula's body was found two weeks later, buried in the woods. A neighbor of the Herrmanns, Werner Mazurek, was later found guilty of the crime and sentenced to life imprisonment.[40]	Murdered	2 weeks
1981	Kalingam Mariappan	45	Singapore	On 22 September 1981, 45-year-old boilerman Kalingam Mariappan was reported missing after he failed to return home for the past two days. According to a witness, he saw Kalingam leaving on a lorry with two young men after having drinks with them. Thereafter, the two men - 16-year-old Rathakrishnan Ramasamy and 22-year-old Ramu Annadavascan - were arrested, and one of them, Rathakrishnan, confessed to the police that Kalingam was dead, and led them to East Coast Parkway where Kalingam's burnt body was found. After the confirmation of the victim's death, the two men were charged with murder, and it ended with Ramu being sentenced to death while Rathakrishnan was imprisoned indefinitely as he was still a minor when killing Kalingam.[41]	Murdered	Five days
1981	Tina Harmon	12	United States of America	Tina Harmon was an American girl who was abducted, raped, and murdered on October 29, 1981, by Robert Anthony Buell. After being dropped off at a convenience store in Lodi, Ohio, by her father's girlfriend. Her body was found in a nearby town five days after her abduction.[42]	Murdered	5 days
1981	Roswitha Fuchsbichler	13	Canada	On 14 November 1981, Roswitha Fuchsbichler went missing on the Highway of Tears at Prince George and was murdered by Edward Dennis Isaac.[43]	Murdered	1 week
1981	Julio Iglesias Sr.	66	Spain	Iglesias Sr. was a Spanish gynecologist and father of singer–songwriter Julio Iglesias who was kidnapped and held hostage by ETA separatists in December 1981. He was held for two weeks before being rescued by a police anti-terrorism unit.[44]	Found alive	2 weeks
1981	Dana Bradley	14	Canada	Bradley disappeared while hitchhiking along the Topsail Road in St. John's, Newfoundland, with her body found four days later. Her skull had been crushed with a blunt instrument and she had been sexually assaulted. Despite extensive news coverage and rigorous investigation, the case remains unsolved.[45]	Murdered	4 days

1982

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1982	Lynette Dawson	33	Australia	Lynette Dawson was the wife of Australian teacher and rugby league player Chris Dawson. She disappeared on 9 January 1982; her remains have never been found. Her disappearance was the subject of intense public interest due to her husband's extramarital affair with a student of his who then was only 16. On 5 December 2018, Chris Dawson was charged with the murder of Lynette, but pleaded not guilty in June 2019. In February 2020, he was committed to stand trial for the murder of Lynette. On 30 August 2022, Chris Dawson was found guilty on Lynette's murder,[46][47][48][49][50] and sentenced on 2 December to 24 years in jail with a non-parole period of 18 years.[51]	Murdered	Not found
1982	Lori Anne Razpotnik	15 or 16	United States of America	One of forty-nine known victims of serial killer Gary Ridgway. Razpotnik was last seen by her family in 1982 at age 15. She is believed to have been murdered by Ridgway in the spring or summer of the following year. Razpotnik remained unidentified until December 2023, when her body was identified via DNA analysis.[52]	Murdered	41 years
1982	Kathleen McCormack Durst	29	United States of America	A medical student, Durst disappeared on 31 January 1982 after leaving the house of a friend to return to the South Salem, New York, residence that she shared with her husband. She has not been seen since and was declared legally dead in 2001. Since her marriage was deteriorating, police strongly suspected that her husband, Robert Durst, had murdered her, citing inconsistencies in statements he gave them. He is suspected in two other disappearances and served three years in prison for evidence-tampering in the death of a third person. On 17 September 2021, he was convicted of Kathleen's murder.[53][54][55]	Murdered	39 years
1982	Deborah Scaling Kiley	24	North Carolina, United States	Deborah Scaling Kiley and four other crew members escaped from a sinking ship in 1982, and reached a lifeboat. Following the subsequent deaths of three fellow survivors, Kiley and her last surviving crew member were rescued five days after the ship sank.[56]	Found alive	5 days
1982	Tulasa Thapa	13	Nepal	Tulasa Thapa was a Nepali girl who was kidnapped and sold into prostitution in India, where she was systematically abused and raped by her abductors. She was eventually released, admitted to a hospital and saved, but suffered permanent psychological and health issues which led to her premature death in 1995.[57]	Found alive	10 months
1982	Carolyn Eaton	17	United States of America	Carolyn Eaton was a 17-year-old girl whose body was discovered along Interstate 40 in Williams, Arizona, on February 14, 1982; she had last been seen alive in the company of an older male on February 4 at the Monte Carlo Truck Stop near Ash Fork, Arizona. Her body was identified via genetic genealogy on February 22, 2021.[58]	Murdered	39 years
1982	Nava Elimelech	11	Israel	Elimelech disappeared while going to a friend's house in Bat Yam, Israel on March 20, 1982. A search party later found her severed head wrapped in a plastic bag, along with the rest of her remains. Her murder is unsolved.[59]	Murdered	10 days
1982	Michelle Garvey	14	United States of America	Michelle Garvey was an American girl who ran away in Connecticut on June 3, 1982, and was found murdered in Texas almost one month later on July 1. The body was not identified as hers until more than three decades later, in 2014.[60]	Murdered	28 days
1982	Christelle Bancourt	12	France	Abducted while going to an appointed meeting with her dentist in Marseille, France, on June 10, 1982, Bancourt's kidnapper, an acquaintance named Christian Marletta, later raped and strangled her before dismembering the body, which was found a month later.[61]	Murdered	1 month
1982	Dawn Olanick	17	United States of America	Dawn Olanick, who was formerly known as "Princess Doe", was a teenage girl from West Babylon, New York who went missing on June 24, 1982, and was found dead on July 15, 1982, in Cedar Ridge Cemetery in Blairstown, New Jersey after being murdered.[62]	Murdered	Less than one month
1982	Zechariah Baumel	22	Lebanon	IDF soldier who was declared missing in action on June 11, 1982, during the Battle of Sultan Yacoub in the 1982 Lebanon War. In 2019, President of Russia Vladimir Putin announced that the Russian Army, in coordination with the Syrian military, had found Baumel's remains in the old Martyrs' Cemetery in the Yarmouk refugee camp south of Damascus, Syria.[63]	Killed in action	37 years
1982	Hezi Shai	28	Lebanon	IDF tank commander who was declared missing in action on June 11, 1982, during the 1982 Lebanon War. Shai, who had been captured by PFLP-GC militants, was later released as part of a prisoner exchange in 1985.[64]	Found alive	3 years
1982	Krista Harrison	11	United States of America	Krista Harrison was murdered on July 17, 1982, in Marshallville, Ohio. Her body was found 6 days later. The case remained unsolved for two years, until Robert Anthony Buell was convicted of her murder.[65]	Murdered	6 days
1982	Susan Maxwell	11	United Kingdom	11-year-old Maxwell vanished after last being seen walking alone in the English village of Cornhill-on-Tweed on July 30, 1982. 13 days later her body was found 264 miles away in Staffordshire. She had been abducted and murdered by paedophile and serial killer Robert Black.[66]	Murdered	13 days
1982	Bob Johnson	44	Canada	Wells Gray Provincial Park murders: a family of six was murdered while camping.[67]	Murdered	1 month
	Jackie Johnson	41
	Janet Johnson	13
	Karen Johnson	11
	George Bentley	66
	Edith Bentley	59
1982	Rachael Runyan	3	United States of America	Rachael Runyan was an American girl from Sunset, Utah who was kidnapped on 26 August 1982 and was found dead in a creek bed in nearby Morgan County three weeks later.[68]	Murdered	3 weeks
1982	Carole Pappas	42	United States of America	Carole Pappas, the wife of former Major League Baseball pitcher Milt Pappas disappeared after leaving the couple's home in Wheaton, Illinois. In 1987, workers drained a pond four blocks from the Pappas' house and found the car with Carole's body inside. It is theorized that she mistook a driveway near the pond for one leading to her neighborhood, and that she may have been drinking.[69]	Died by drowning	5 years
1982	Lisa Ann Millican	13	United States of America	The first of two victims of Alvin and Judith Neelley. Millican was abducted from the Riverbend Mall in Rome, Georgia, on 25 September 1982. She was sexually assaulted by both individuals before she was shot to death on 28 September. Her body was discovered three days later.[70]	Murdered	3 days
1982	Don Kemp	34–35	United States of America	Kemp was a New York advertising executive who disappeared under mysterious circumstances in Wyoming, where he had planned to begin a new life. His remains were discovered in 1986, but the circumstances surrounding his death, and whether it is homicidal in nature or not, remain unclear.[71]	Died (undetermined cause)	4 years
1982	Alisha Heinrich	1	United States of America	Alisha Heinrich and her mother, Gwendolyn Clemons, were last seen around November 24, 1982, in Kansas City, Missouri. Heinrich's body was recovered in Moss Point, Mississippi after nearly two weeks; she was a victim of homicide. She remained an unidentified decedent until 2020. Clemons' remains have never been recovered.[72]	Murdered	2 weeks

1983

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1983	Ervin Dwayne Gibson	16	United States of America	Gibson was an Uptown teenager abducted and murdered by serial killer Larry Eyler on 24 January 1983. He was murdered in Lake County. Gibson's body was discovered on 15 April, but remained unidentified until November 1983.[73]	Murdered	10 months
1983	Richard Edward Bruce Jr.	25	United States of America	Bruce was the fifteenth known victim of serial killer Larry Eyler. He was murdered on 18 May 1983 and his body was thrown from a bridge into a creek in Effingham, Illinois. Bruce's body was discovered by a trapper on 5 December, but remained unidentified until August 1994.[74]	Murdered	11 years
1983	Michael Andrew "Mick" Riley	22	United States of America	Michael Andrew "Mick" Riley 22, disappeared from a Indianapolis nightclub on May 28, 1983 Riley's nude body was later found in a ditch in Hancock County, southeast of Greenfield, on June 5, 1983 after being murdered.[75][76]	Murdered	Less than two weeks
1983	John Brandenburg Jr.	19	United States of America	Brandenburg was a Kentucky native murdered in Newton County, Indiana by serial killer Larry Eyler on or about May 29, 1983. According to Eyler, Brandenburg's murder was one of five of the twenty-two murders to which he posthumously confessed which he committed with his alleged accomplice Robert David Little. Brandenburg's body was found on October 19, 1983; his body was identified in April 2021.[77]	Murdered	38 years
1983	Caroline Hogg	5	United Kingdom	5-year-old child Caroline Hogg disappeared while playing outside her home in the Edinburgh suburb of Portobello on 8 July 1983. A boy later revealed he had seen her walking away with an unknown man. The case received widespread media coverage across the UK. Her body was found many miles away in Leicestershire 10 days later. She had been abducted and murdered by paedophile and serial killer Robert Black.[78]	Murdered	10 days
1983	Keith Bibbs	16	United States of America	Bibbs was a Chicago teenager murdered in Newton County, Indiana by serial killer Larry Eyler on or about Monday July 11, 1983. He was abducted while hitchhiking from Indiana to Illinois upon Indiana State Road 63 and driven to an abandoned farmhouse where he was duped into allowing himself to be bound to a wooden post, then blindfolded and gagged before he was stabbed multiple times in his upper and lower torso. His body was found on October 18, 1983, and identified in July 2023.[79]	Murdered	40 years
1983	Andrea Scherpf	24	Canada	German tourists who vanished while hitchhiking near Chetwynd, Canada on October 3, 1983. Their bodies were found three days later, and both had been shot to death. A man was convicted of their murders in 1991, but later exonerated via DNA evidence in 2013.[80]	Murdered	3 days
	Bernd Göricke	27	Canada
1983	Heide Marie Villarreal-Fye	25	United States of America	25-year-old cocktail waitress Heide Marie Villarreal-Fye was last seen alive at a convenience store located off of West Main Street and Hobbs in League City, Texas on October 10, 1983. On April 4, 1984, Heidi's remains were discovered after a dog brought her skull to a nearby house in Calder Field on the 3000 block of Calder Road near League City. The medical examiner determined that Heidi had broken ribs and had been beaten with a club; she is believed to have died from blunt force trauma to the head.[81]	Murdered	6 months
1983	Freddy Heineken	60	Netherlands	The Dutch businessman and chairman of Heineken N.V. was kidnapped together with his driver and held for ransom by a group of men. After paying the ransom of 35 million Dutch guilders, Heineken and his driver were released, and all of the kidnappers were eventually captured and served prison sentences for the crime.[82]	Found alive	21 days
1983	Danny Katz	14	Israel	Israeli boy who was abducted by five Arab assailants while waking to a friend's house in Haifa on December 8, 1983. His body was found three days later, having been sexually assaulted, tortured and strangled. The five men were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, but there are allegations that they had been tortured into confessing.[83]	Murdered	3 days

1984

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1984	Katsuhisa Ezaki	42	Japan	The president of the Ezaki Glico company was kidnapped by two masked men and then held for a ransom of 1 billion yen and 100 kg of gold bullion. However, Ezaki managed to escape three days later from the warehouse in Ibaraki.[84]	Found alive	3 days
1984	Kassim Ouma	6	Uganda	Kidnapped as a child to serve in the National Resistance Army. After leaving the army, Ouma took up boxing and is now a professional boxer, holding the IBF light middleweight title from 2004 to 2005.[85]	Found alive	5 years
1984	Hassan Jangju	16–17	Iraq	Iranian Basij operative who became the subject of a famous photograph taken by photographer Alfred Yaghobzadeh. He was killed during Operation Kheibar circa February 1984, and his remains were discovered and returned to Iran in 2017.[86]	Killed in action	33 years
1984	George Crooks	28	United States of America	On March 26, 1984, in the U.S. state of Georgia, 28-year-old lawyer George Grant Crooks was murdered by his homosexual lover Robert Dale Conklin, who stabbed him to death with a screwdriver and dismembered the body, and the body parts were discovered two days after the killing (as well as a day after Crooks was reported missing). Conklin was found guilty of the murder and sentenced to death. 21 years after the murder, Conklin was executed on July 12, 2005.[87]	Murdered	Two days
1984	Benjamin Weir	61	Lebanon	American Presbyterian missionary who was abducted by Islamic Jihad militants from his Beirut, Lebanon home in May 1984. He was later released during the Iran-Contra affair in exchange for anti-tank weapons.[88]	Found alive	16 months
1984	Mark Tildesley	7	United Kingdom	Mark Tildesley disappeared while visiting a funfair in Wokingham, Berkshire, England, on the evening of June 1, 1984. He was lured away from the fair and his bicycle was found chained to railings nearby.[89] In 1990 it emerged that Tildesley had been abducted, drugged, tortured, raped and murdered by a London-based paedophile gang on the night he disappeared.[89][90]	Murdered	Never found
1984	Luis de Lión	44	Guatemala	Guatemalan writer and leader of the Guatemalan Party of Labour who was abducted by Guatemalan Army soldiers from Guatemala City on May 15, 1984. His fate remained unknown until 1999, when his name and photograph appeared in an unsealed military document, indicating that he had been killed three weeks after his arrest.[91]	Murdered	Never found
1984	Ruth Waymire	24	United States of America	On June 20, 1984, the dismembered torso of a female murder victim was discovered in the Spokane River in Spokane, Washington. Nearly 14 years later, on April 19, 1998, the decedent's skull was discovered in a vacant lot in Spokane. On March 29, 2023, the decedent was identified by Othram as 24-year-old Ruth Waymire, whose murder remains unsolved.[92]	Murdered	38 years
1984	Danette Elg	31	United States of America	On July 18, 1984, Elg was murdered by a male acquaintance who intruded her house and murdered her by stabbing and slashing. Elg's mutilated body was found three days later in her home and the killer, Richard Leavitt, was arrested, convicted and sentenced to death for murdering Elg. Leavitt was executed in 2012.[93]	Murdered	3 days
1984	Jonathan Wright	Unknown	Lebanon	British journalist for Reuters who was kidnapped by a Palestinian splinter group in the Beqaa Valley, Lebanon. His kidnappers planned to trade him in exchange for three members who attempted to assassinate Israeli diplomat Shlomo Argov, but Wright managed to escape on September 16 through a ventilation hole. He was later picked up by a militia patrol and returned to Beirut.[94]	Found alive	More than 2 weeks
1984	Laura Lynn Miller	16	United States of America	16-year-old Laura Lynn Miller was last seen alive on September 10, 1984, using a payphone to call her boyfriend at the same convenience store in League City, Texas where 25-year-old Heide Marie Villarreal-Fye was last seen a year earlier. Miller's remains were found on February 2, 1986, 60 feet from where police discovered Villarreal-Fye's remains.[95]	Murdered	1 year
1984	Lisa Nichols	28	United States of America	The body of 28-year-old Lisa Nichols, a resident of West Virginia, was discovered along Interstate 40 near West Memphis, Arkansas on September 16, 1984. Her identity remained unknown until she was identified nine months later, in June 1985, through the use of fingerprints. Nichols is believed to be one of the first victims of the unsolved Redhead murders.[96]	Murdered	9 months
1984	Vicki Lynne Hoskinson	8	United States of America	Vicki Lynne Hoskinson was a girl from Flowing Wells, Arizona, who disappeared on September 17, 1984, while riding her bike to mail a birthday card to her aunt. Her remains were found on April 12, 1985.[97]	Murdered	7 months
1984	Christine Jessop	9	Canada	Jessop went missing on 3 October 1984, and her body was found two months later, with signs of being raped and murdered. Jessop's next-door neighbour, Guy Paul Morin, was wrongfully convicted of the crime and his charges were all cleared after post-conviction DNA tests revealed that Morin was not the killer. A 2020 DNA testing would identify another man as the real murderer based on DNA extracted from Jessop's underwear but the suspect, Calvin Hoover, died in 2015 due to suicide.[98]	Murdered	2 months
1984	Yumi Hasebe	5	Japan	5-year-old Yumi Hasebe went missing from a pachinko parlor in Ashikaga, Tochigi. Her skeletized remains were found about a mile (1.7 km) from her home. Fukushima's case is considered to be one of the cases that make up the North Kanto Serial Young Girl Kidnapping and Murder Case.[99]	Murdered	3 months
1984	Jonelle Matthews	12	United States of America	Jonelle Matthews disappeared from Greeley, Colorado on December 20, 1984. Her remains were discovered on July 23, 2019, located about 15 mi (24 km) southeast of Jonelle's home.[100][101]	Died from gunshot wound	33 years
1984	Elizabeth Lamotte	17	United States of America	Elizabeth Lamotte disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire on April 6, 1984. Her body was discovered in Tennessee a year later, but was not identified until 2018. Lamotte was possibly a victim of an unidentified serial killer.[102]	Murdered	34 years

1985

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1985	Lawrence Jenco	51	Lebanon	American Catholic priest who was kidnapped by Islamist extremists in Beirut, Lebanon while working as a director of the Catholic Relief Services. After numerous negotiations, he was released and repatriated back to the U.S.[103]	Found alive	18 months
1985	Kiki Camarena	37	Mexico	37-year-old Kiki Camarena, an American intelligence officer, was abducted by corrupt Mexican officials working for the major drug traffickers in Mexico on February 7, 1985. Camarena was subsequently taken to a residence in Guadalajara, owned by Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero, where he was tortured over a 30-hour period and murdered. Camarena's body was found wrapped in plastic in a rural area outside the small town of La Angostura on March 5, 1985.[104]	Murdered	26 days
1985	Terry A. Anderson	38	Lebanon	American journalist for the Associated Press who was abducted by Islamic Jihad militants on March 16, 1985, from a street in Beirut, Lebanon. He was held hostage during the Lebanon hostage crisis, but was eventually released without harm on December 4, 1991.[105]	Found alive	6 years
ca. 1985	Espy Pilgrim	33	United States of America	Espy Pilgrim of North Carolina lost contact with her family sometime in the early to mid 1980s. Her body was discovered on April 1, 1985, in Kentucky, but her body remained unidentified until 2018.[106]	Murdered	33 years
1985	Seamus Ruddy	32	France	A journalist from Newry, Northern Ireland was kidnapped on 9 May 1985 and his body was found on 6 May 2017.[107]	Murdered	32 years.
1985	Rima Danette Traxler	8	United States of America	Traxler was an eight-year-old schoolgirl who disappeared while walking home from St. Helen's Elementary School to her Longview home on 15 May 1985. She was declared legally dead in 1988. Her murderer, Joseph Kondro, confessed to Traxler's murder in a plea bargain to avoid the death penalty in 1999. Traxler's body has never been found.[108]	Murdered	Never found
1985	Pebco Three	Various	South Africa	South African anti-Apartheid activists who were, tortured and subsequently killed by members of the Bureau of State Security on May 8, 1985. Their fate remained unclear until November 11, 1997, when former Police Col. Gideon Nieuwoudt confessed that he and several others were responsible for their deaths.[109]	Murdered	12 years
1985	Thomas Sutherland	52	Lebanon	Scottish-American academic who was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad militants from his home in Beirut, Lebanon on June 9, 1985, who had mistaken him for Calvin Plimpton. He was released years later, together with English author Terry Waite.[110]	Found alive	6 years
1985	Carole Packman	40	United Kingdom	A British woman who disappeared from her home in Bournemouth, England in July 1985. Although her body has never been found, her husband, Russell Causley, was found guilty of her murder at a 2004 retrial.[111]	Murdered	Never found
1985	Ellen Rae Simpson Beason	29	League City, Texas, U.S.	29-year-old Ellen Rae Simpson Beason was last seen with friends on July 29, 1985, at the Texas Moon Club in League City, Texas, where she met local construction worker Clyde Hedrick. Later that evening she told her friends that she and Hedrick had made plans to go swimming. Beason's decomposed remains were discovered underneath a sofa in a wooded area beside Old Causeway Road in Galveston County, Texas. Though the medical examiner was initially unable to determine the cause of death, upon the exhumation of Beason's remains in 2012, it was ruled that she had suffered several severe skull fractures.[112]	Murdered	Unknown
1985	Jeanine Sigala	17	United States of America	Jeanine Sigala, female American teenager who was not seen for five days was found dead in Scotts Valley[113] in late August 1985 after being murdered by serial killer Terry Childs.	Murdered	5 days
1985	Raymond Fife	12	Warren, Ohio, U.S.	Raymond Fife, a 12-year-old Boy Scout, disappeared in Warren, Ohio, on September 10, 1985; he was last seen going outdoors to meet his friend. Fife's body was discovered more than four hours later at a wooded field behind a supermarket; he died from his injuries two days later. Timothy A. Combs and Danny Lee Hill were both arrested and convicted of raping and murdering Fife; Combs was sentenced to life in prison, while Hill was sentenced to death.[114]	Murdered	4 hours
1985	Ellen Blau	21	United States of America	On September 20, 1985, 21-year-old Ellen Blau was abducted in Wichita Falls, Texas by serial killer Faryion Wardrip. Her body was found on October 10, 1985.[115]	Murdered	3 weeks
1985	Michele Avila	17	United States of America	On October 2, 1985, Avila left her Los Angeles home to meet with a friend from high school, Laura Doyle. She never returned, and three days later, her body was found along a stream in Angeles National Forest. The case went unsolved until July 1988, when her two friends, Karen Severson and Laura Doyle, were arrested and convicted for her murder. According to the prosecutors, the two girls suspected that Avila had slept with their boyfriends, and so, they lured her to the creek and drowned her there.[116]	Murdered	3 days
1985	Alison Day	19	United Kingdom	British woman Alison Day went missing on her way to visit her boyfriend who worked next to Hackney Wick station. She was last seen getting off at the station, using a telephone box and then walking towards the nearby canal. Three weeks later her body was found in the canal. She had been raped and murdered by "The Railway Killers" John Duffy and David Mulcahy, who would go on to murder two more women near stations in or around London in the following months.[117]	Murdered	3 weeks

1986

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1986	Anita Cobby	26	Australia	Cobby, a registered nurse and beauty pageant contestant, was kidnapped from Blacktown railway station after dinner at Sydney Hospital in Surry Hills, Australia. Her body was found two days later on a rural farm in Prospect, showing signs of being sexually assaulted prior to her death. Five men would later be convicted of her murder, each sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.[118]	Murdered	2 days
1986	Sarah Harper	10	United Kingdom	10-year-old child Sarah Harper disappeared from the Leeds suburb of Morley while walking to a shop 100 yards from her home to buy bread. The owner of the shop confirmed she had bought the bread, just before a "balding man" had entered the shop. A white Ford Transit van was seen in the area where she disappeared from. 24 days later her body was found 71 miles away in the River Trent near Nottingham. She had been abducted and murdered by paedophile serial killer Robert Black.[119]	Murdered	24 days
1986	Bambi Woods	30 or 31	United States of America	An American former pornographic actress and exotic dancer best known for her appearance as the title character in the 1978 film Debbie Does Dallas. Woods disappeared in 1986, and rumors soon emerged she had died of a drug overdose. She was discovered alive and well in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2005, having severed all connections to her previous occupations and lifestyle.[120]	Found alive	19 years
1986	Jennifer Guinness	49	Ireland	Irish socialite and member of the Guinness family who was kidnapped and held for ransom in Dublin by career criminal John Cunningham, aided by his brother and two associates. She was later rescued, and her kidnappers were sentenced to various sentences.[121]	Found alive	8 days
1986	Brian Keenan	36	United Kingdom	Northern Irish writer who was kidnapped by Islamic Jihad militants in Beirut, Lebanon on April 11, 1986. After being held in detention for 4 years, he was released following negotiations with the Irish government, and later wrote a book about his experience as a hostage.[122]	Found alive	4 years
1986	Wanda Jean Mays	26	United States of America	Wanda Jean Mays disappeared after midnight on May 12, 1986, while staying with her aunt and uncle's home near Guntersville Lake, Alabama. In the morning, her aunt and uncle discovered her room empty and the window broken from the inside. In 2008, the FBI confirmed that remains found at the foot of a cliff 2 miles (3.2 km) from her relatives' home were Mays', and her death was ruled an accident.[123]	Died in accidental fall	32 years
1986	Shelley Kathleen Sikes	19	Galveston, Texas, U.S.	19-year-old Shelley Kathleen Sikes was last seen leaving her job as a waitress at Gaido's Seafood Restaurant on the beachfront in Galveston, Texas just before 12:00 a.m. on May 24, 1986. Sikes's car was found the next day, stuck in mud, blood-stained, and abandoned on the side of an Interstate 45 access road, south of the Galveston causeway. Though Sikes has never been found, Gerald Zwarst was convicted of aggravated kidnapping in connection with her disappearance and sentenced to life in prison.[124][125]	Murdered	Body never found
1986	Anne Lock	29	United Kingdom	29-year-old British woman Anne Lock caught the train home from work to Brookmans Park railway station and was never seen alive again. Lock was the third woman in 8 months to disappear near a railway station within a 25-mile radius of London. 9 weeks later her body was found on an embankment near Brookmans Park station. She and the other two women had been abducted and murdered by serial killers John Duffy and David Mulcahy, also known as "The Railway Killers".[126]	Murdered	9 weeks
1986	Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro	48	United States of America	American mobsters and brothers Anthony "Tony the Ant" Spilotro and Michael Spilotro had disappeared on June 14, 1986, from their Oak Park home.[127] On June 22, 1986, both their bodies were found[128] with only their undershorts on after being buried in a cornfield in the Willow Slough preserve near Enos, Indiana.	Murdered	8 days
	Michael Spilotro	41	United States of America
1986	Liliane Barrard	37–38	Pakistan	Married French couple Lilian and Maurice Barrard were famous climbers. They successfully climbed K2 in June 1986, but disappeared during the descent. One month later Liliane's body was found in a snow field at 17,500 ft, while Maurice's body was not on the mountain found until 1998.[129]	Died in mountaineering accident	1 month
	Maurice Barrard	44–45	Pakistan			12 years
1986	Tanya Moore	31	United States of America	Moore and Rodriguez were two transgender friends working as prostitutes on Philadelphia's thirteenth street in 1986.[130] The pair disappeared on June 30, 1986, after getting into the car of a couple of clients. On July 3, 1986, their mutilated and dismembered bodies were found burning at a baseball diamond in Middletown.[131][132] Their murder remains unsolved.	Murdered	4 days
	Tina Rodriguez	27	United States of America
1986	Sherry Ann Duncan	16	Thailand	Thai-American high school student who was abducted and killed after leaving her school in Bangkok on July 22, 1986, who was found a few days later in some wetlands. Four men were erroneously arrested and sentenced to death for her murder, but were acquitted in 1995, some of them posthumously. Duncan's real killer(s) has/have not been found.[133]	Murdered	A few days
1986	Alison Parrott	11	Canada	Alison Parrott, a Canadian girl from Toronto, Ontario who disappeared from her home after having received a phone call from a stranger was found dead two days later in a nearby woods on July 25, 1986 after being murdered.[134]	Murdered	2 days
1986	Dawn Ashworth	15	United Kingdom	15-year-old Dawn Ashworth did not return home after visiting a friends house in Narborough, Leicestershire, on 31 July 1986. Two days later her body was found nearby on a footpath called Ten Pound Lane. Her murder was not solved until 1988, when Colin Pitchfork, who was also found to have killed another 15-year-old in the same village in 1983, was convicted of her murder in what was the first time someone was convicted as a result of DNA profiling in the UK.[135]	Murdered	2 days
1986	Michael Allen "Mike" Glenn	29	United States of America	On August 15, 1986, the body of 29-year-old Michael Allen "Mike" Glenn, clad only in his underwear, was found in a ditch near Eaton, Ohio. He lived separately from his parents in a trailer park located on the outskirts of Indianapolis and worked as a handyman. The exact date of his disappearance was not established but the I-70 Strangler thought to be Herb Baumeister was believed to be responsible. Strangulation marks, possibly from a rope, were found on his neck. He was identified three years after his discovery with the help of fingerprinting.[136]	Murdered	Uncertain
1986	Samantha Knight	9	Australia	Samantha Knight was an Australian girl from Bondi who missing on August 19, 1986,[137] and was never found. It was later discovered that she had been killed.	Murdered	Never found
1986	Kimberly Maria McLean	17	United States of America	The future Lori Erica Ruff, McLean went missing after running away from her parents' home in the suburban area of Philadelphia in the fall of 1986. Over the following years of her life, she acquired the false identity of the deceased Becky Sue Turner, legally changed her name to Lori Erica Kennedy, and married into a wealthy family in Texas. But frequent quarrels over her mental instability, erratic behavior, and secretive past, led to her suicide in 2010. Her true identity went undiscovered until 2016, when she was identified following a DNA test.[138]	Found alive	30 years
1986	Nicola Fellows	9	United Kingdom	Two nine-year-old girls who were reported missing from Brighton, England, on October 9, 1986.[139] The next day they were found dead in Wild Park in what became known as the "Babes in the Wood" murders.[139] The girls' murderer, pedophile Russell Bishop, would only be convicted after 32 years and two trials in 2018, but not before he would abduct and attempt to kill another local girl in 1990.[139]	Murdered	1 day
	Karen Hadaway	9	United Kingdom
1986	Anita Cobby	26	Australia	Cobby, a registered nurse and beauty pageant contestant, was kidnapped from Blacktown railway station after dinner at Sydney Hospital in Surry Hills, Australia. Her body was found two days later on a rural farm in Prospect, showing signs of being sexually assaulted prior to her death. Five men would later be convicted of her murder, each sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.[118]	Murdered	2 days
1986	Sylvie Aubert	22	Chalon-sur-Saône, France	One of several young women who disappeared or was abducted close to the A6 motorway around Mâcon, Chalon-sur-Saône and Montceau-les-Mines in France. Aubert disappeared after levaing her workplace in November 1986; her body was discovered in April the following year.[140]	Murdered	5 months
1986	Sandra Lindsay	24	United States of America	Lindsay was kidnapped on December 3, 1986 and murdered on February 7, 1987 by serial killer Gary M. Heidnik.[141]	Murdered	2 months
1986	Cara Knott	20	United States of America	Cara Knott, a young American woman who disappeared from San Diego County, California on December 27, 1986,[142] and was found dead the next day after being killed.	Murdered	1 day

1987

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1987	Brahim Dahane	22	Western Sahara	Sahrawi human rights activists who were detained by Moroccan security forces in 1987 for protesting against the MINURSO referendum. They were kept in various detention centers until their eventual release in 1991; both have continued their activism since.[143]	Found alive	4 years
	Aminatou Haidar	21
1987	Deborah Dudley	23	United States of America	Dudley was kidnapped on January 2, 1987 and was murdered on March 19, 1987 by Gary M. Heidnik.[144]	Murdered	3 months
1987	Roger Auque	31	Lebanon	French journalist, diplomat and war correspondent who was arrested by Hezbollah militants in Lebanon in January 1987, for spying on behalf of Israel. He was detained together with another French journalist, until both men were released in November of that year.[145]	Found alive	10 months
1987	Terry Waite	47	Lebanon	English humanitarian who was kidnapped by the Islamic Jihad Organization on January 12, 1987, while he was working as a hostage negotiator in Beirut, Lebanon. He was held in solitary confinement until November 18, 1991, when he was released without incident.[146]	Found alive	4 years
1987	Suzanne Korcz	27	United States of America	27-year-old Suzanne Korcz disappeared on May 1, 1987 from a nightclub in Lockport, New York.[147] Her body was found on September 5, 1995 at Niagara Falls and in 2004 serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells confessed to the crime.[148]	Murdered	8 years
1987	Kandy Janell Kirtland	9	United States of America	9-year-old Kandy Janell Kirtland was last seen alive in Huntsville, Texas, on the afternoon of May 12, 1987. Kirtland was spotted talking to a man who had parked in her house's driveway after she was dropped off by bus. On May 22, an arrest warrant was issued for 44-year-old James Otto Earhart, who had visited Kirtland's home prior to her abduction. Earhart was arrested on May 26; Kirtland's remains were discovered later that day and identified as hers on May 28. Earhart was charged with and convicted of Kirtland's murder and sentenced to death; he was executed by lethal injection on August 11, 1999.[149]	Murdered	16 days
1987	Cam Lyman	54–55	United States of America	Lyman was a multimillionaire dog breeder from Westwood, Massachusetts who disappeared in the summer of 1987. His body was found in a septic tank on his estate in Hopkinton, Rhode Island by the new owners of the house in December 1997.[150]	Died (undetermined cause)	11 years
1987	Heather West	16	United Kingdom	16-year-old Gloucester girl Heather West was never seen again after 1987. Although she was never reported missing by her parents, police began to investigate her disappearance after rumours were heard of there being a "family joke" at her family's home that the couple's daughter was "under the patio". The police were given a search warrant in 1994 to search the family home and found her body, before finding many other bodies buried at the property. Heather, and the other victims, had been killed by her parents, the notorious serial killers Fred and Rose West.[151][152]	Murdered	7 years
1987	Jermaine Allan Mann	1	Canada	Mann was a Canadian citizen kidnapped by his father, Allan Mann, on 24 June 1987, when he was 21 months old. He and his father lived under assumed identities in the United States. His true identity was revealed in 2018.[153]	Found alive	31 years
1987	Teresa Cormack	6	New Zealand	New Zealand schoolgirl who was abducted, raped and killed while wandering around Napier on 19 June 1987. Her body was found under a tree more than a week later. Her killer, teenage sex offender Jules Mikus, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment decades after her death.[154]	Murdered	8 days
1987	Larry Wayne Pearson	20	United States of America	The final victim of serial killer Robert Berdella. Abducted on 23 June 1987, Pearson was killed on 5 August after enduring six weeks of captivity. His severed head was recovered from Berdella's property in April 1988.[155]	Murdered	10 months
1987	Tomoko Oosawa	8	Japan	8-year-old Tomoko Oosawa was last seen leaving her home in Ojima, Gunma (now Ota, Gunma) on 15 September 1987. Her partial remains would not be found on the banks of Tone River until November 27 of the following year. Oosawa's case is considered to be one of the cases that make up the North Kanto Serial Young Girl Kidnapping and Murder Case.[99]	Murdered	1 year 2 months
1987	Holly Glynn	21	United States	Holly Glynn was an American formerly unidentified woman who died in Dana Point, California, on September 20, 1987, by committing suicide by jumping off a cliff. In 2015, her identity became known.[156]	Suicide	28 years
1987	Shirley Banks	29	United Kingdom	British woman Shirley Banks mysteriously disappeared while shopping in Bristol on 8 October 1987. Three weeks later her Mini car was discovered, painted blue, in the garage of known rapist John Cannan, and her body was found on 3 April 1988 in "Dead Woman's Ditch" in the Quantock Hills. Cannan was convicted of her murder and of various other abductions, attempted abductions and rapes. Cannan is also the prime suspect in the much wider-known case of the disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh from Fulham, 28 July 1986, three days after he was released from prison in the same area. When Bank's car was discovered in Cannan's garage, it had been fitted with the false number plate "SLP 386S",[157] believed to refer to Suzy Lamplugh and 1986, the year of her disappearance.[158]	Murdered	6 months
1987	Steven Tuomi	25	United States of America	The second victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. A native of Ontonagon, Michigan, Tuomi was murdered in the Ambassador Hotel in Milwaukee. His body was dismembered within Dahmer's grandmother's West Allis residence. Dahmer confessed to Tuomi's murder shortly after his 1991 arrest.[159]	Murdered	4 years
1987	Kathy Bonney	19	United States of America	Kathy Bonney was a 19-year-old Norfolk, Virginia, student murdered by her own father on November 21, 1987, in what he alleged was an argument within his vehicle. Her father shot her twenty-seven times and discarded her body close to a canal in North Carolina.[160]	Murdered	1 day
1987	Deanna Criswell	16	United States of America	Deanna Criswell disappeared on November 23, 1987, from Spokane, Washington. A body was found on November 25 two days later in Pima County, Arizona, but it was not identified as hers until February 11, 2015.[161]	Murdered	27 years
1987	Sian Kingi	12	Australia	Sian Kingi, an Australian-born New Zealander schoolgirl, was abducted on November 27, 1987, from Noosa, Australia, by married couple Barrie John Watts and Valmae Faye Beck, who subsequently raped and killed her. Kingi's body would later be discovered on December 3 near the Tinbeerweh Mountain State Forest. Both Watts and Beck were later convicted in a much-publicized trial, Watts was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Beck to 14+1⁄2 years' mprisonment.[162]	Murdered	A week
1987	Heidi Härö	19	Finland	19-year-old Heidi Härö disappeared in Mäntsälä in December 1987 after leaving a local bar and possibly hitching a ride. Her decomposed body was found five months later in a forest area in Pukkila with some of her clothes missing. Härö may have been a victim of the Hausjärvi Gravel Pit Murders.[163]	Murdered	5 months
1987	Isabelle Laville	17	France	Isabelle Laville did not return home from college on December 11, 1987. In 2004, Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier of Saint-Cyr-les-Colons, France, confessed that they had kidnapped Laville as she walked in the direction of her Saint-Georges-sur-Baulche home and brought her to their house where she was raped and killed before her body was dumped in a well in Bussy-en-Othe. Her remains were recovered from the well in July 2006.[164]	Murdered	181⁄2 years

1988

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1988	James Edward Doxtator	14	United States of America	The third victim of serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and the first victim who, according to Dahmer, he murdered with malice aforethought. He was murdered at Dahmer's grandmother's West Allis residence and much of his body was subsequently disposed of in the trash. No remains were ever found. Dahmer confessed to murdering Doxtator following his 1991 arrest.[165]	Murdered	3 years
1988	Andrés Pastrana Arango	34	Colombia	Colombian politician and then-Senator who was abducted on January 18, 1988, by the Medellín Cartel, who demanded that the government prevent the extradition of Pablo Escobar to the United States. Pastrana was rescued a week later, and continued with his political career.[166]	Found alive	1 week
1988	Helen McCourt	22	United Kingdom	Insurance clerk who disappeared in Billinge, England, on February 9, 1988. While her body has never been recovered, local pub owner Ian Simms was convicted via DNA profiling, making it one of the few cases where a conviction has occurred without a body.[167]	Murdered	1 year
1988	William R. Higgins	43	Lebanon	American USMC corporal who was abducted by a Hezbollah-linked terrorist group on February 17, 1988, while on a peacekeeping mission in Lebanon. Higgins was supposedly executed a few months after his capture, but his remains went unrecovered until 1991.[168]	Murdered	3 years
1988	Sarah Cherry	12	Maine, United States	On July 6, 1988, 12-year-old Sarah Cherry was abducted and murdered by Dennis Dechaine, who was sentenced to life in prison for the murder.[169]	Murdered	Several days
1988	Lisa Marie Kimmell	18	United States of America	Kimmell disappeared while travelling to her parents home in Billings, Montana, with her body later found near the North Platte River in Casper, Wyoming. She had been bludgeoned and stabbed to death there. The case remained unsolved until 2002, when the perpetrator's DNA was matched to Dale Wayne Eaton. He was subsequently convicted of the murder and sentenced to death, but following a new trial is now awaiting resentencing.[170]	Murdered	8 days
1988	Farida Hammiche	30	France	The wife of a bank robber, Farida Hammiche went missing from her home in Vitry-sur-Seine in April 1988. Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier confessed to having kidnapped and killed Hammiche to steal loot that Fourniret had hidden in Hammiche's home. Hammiche's body has not been found. In 2018, Fourniret was convicted of the murder of Hammiche, while Olivier was convicted of complicity.[171]	Murdered	16 years
1988	Michael Henley	9	New Mexico	Michael Henley was an American child from New Mexico who disappeared in 1988 and was found dead in the Zuñi Mountains,[172] in June 1990. His death cause is unknown.	Died (undetermined cause)	Over 2 years
1988	Marie Wilks	22	United Kingdom	British woman who suddenly disappeared in sight of traffic while using an emergency phone on the hard shoulder of the M50 near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. While on the line to the operator she mysteriously stopped speaking and the operator could then only hear the sound of passing cars. Later, police found the phone dangling on its cord next to her broken down car. Two days later her body was found at the bottom of the Eastbound carriageway embankment three miles from her car. Although a man was convicted of her murder, he was later released on appeal. Her murder remains unsolved.[173]	Murdered	2 days
1988	Wojciech Pryczek	13	Poland	The first of four boys kidnapped and murdered by Polish serial killer Mariusz Trynkiewicz. Pryczek was last seen alive on July 4, 1988; he was strangled to death. Trynkiewicz was found guilty of murdering all four of his victims and sentenced to death. His sentence was later commuted to 25 years in jail.[174]	Murdered	1 month
1988	Marie-Angèle Domèce	18	France	Marie-Angèle Domèce, an 18-year-old disabled women, disappeared in Auxerre on 8 July 1988. In February 2018, French serial killer Michel Fourniret confessed to Domèce's murder. However, her body has yet to be located.[175]	Murdered	Never found
1988	Janine Balding	21	Australia	Balding was abducted near Sutherland railway station in Sydney, Australia on September 8, 1988, by a gang of five homeless people who hijacked her car and drove to the M4 Motorway near Michinbury, where three of them raped her at knifepoint. She was then bound, gagged and carried off to a nearby paddock, where the three main culprits drowned her. Her body was found the same day, and the culprits arrested and sentenced to long imprisonment terms.[176]	Murdered	Same day
1988	Jaclyn Dowaliby	7	United States of America	Jaclyn Dowaliby was taken from her home in Midlothian, Illinois, on September 10, 1988, and found dead five days later.	Murdered	5 days
1988	Melissa Ann Tremblay	11	United States	Melissa Ann Tremblay was an American girl who went missing on September 11, 1988 from Lawrence, Massachusetts[177] and was found the next day after being killed.	Murdered	1 day
1988	Unnamed 14-year-old Native American girl	14	United States	In October 1988, serial rapist-kidnapper John Jamelske abducted his first victim, a 14-year-old Native American girl, whom he held captive for over two years. Jamelske compelled her to his will by threatening violence against her younger brother. The victim was 17 by the time Jamelske released her; she made no attempt to report to authorities after she was released.[178]	Released	3 years
1988	Richard Evelyn Byrd III	68	United States of America	Richard Evelyn Byrd III was an Antarctic explorer and a United States naval officer who had gone missing on September 13, 1988, in Baltimore, Maryland, and was found dead on October 3, 1988.[179]	Died from Alzheimer's disease and starvation	Less than one month
1988	Brenda Schaefer	36	United States of America	Schaefer was kidnapped on September 23, 1988, by her boyfriend Mel Ignatow and his ex-girlfriend Mary Ann Shore, who held her at the latter's house in Louisville, Kentucky. There, she was raped, tortured and finally killed by both abductors, who then buried her in Shore's backyard. More than a year later, the body was located, but Ignatow would be acquitted in a controversial trial.[180]	Murdered	1 year
1988	Junko Furuta	17	Japan	Japanese high school student who was abducted in Misato, Saitama, Japan, by a gang of teenage boys while riding her bike home on November 25, 1988. Furuta was then repeatedly raped, tortured and finally murdered by her captors, who encased her body in concrete, with police finding it on March 29, 1989.[181]	Murdered	4 months
1988	Stacy Lyn Chahorski	19	United States of America	The body of 19-year-old Stacy Lyn Chahorski was discovered along the east side of northbound I-59 near Rising Fawn in Dade County, Georgia, on December 16, 1988. Chahorski was not officially reported missing until January 1989; she had been last heard four months earlier via telephone, informing her mother that she planned to hitchhike back to her home in Michigan. Chahorski remained unidentified until March 2022. On September 6, 2022, Charhoski's killer was identified as Henry Frederick Wise, a truck driver and stunt driver who died in a car accident in South Carolina in 1999.[182]	Murdered	33 years
1988	Kenyatta Odom	5	United States	The decomposed remains of five-year-old Kenyatta "KeKe" Odom were discovered in Millwood, Georgia, on December 21, 1988, though remained unidentified until November 2023, when Odom's mother, Evelyn, and Evelyn's boyfriend, Ulyster Sanders were indicted on multiple charges in connection with Odom's death, including felony murder.[183]	Killed	34 years
1988	Venus Xtravaganza	23	United States of America	The body of transgender performer Venus Xtravaganza was found under a bed in a New York hotel on December 25, 1988, after going missing four days earlier. Xtravaganza had been strangled.[184]	Murdered	4 days
1988	Stompie Seipei	14–15	South Africa	UDF activist kidnapped along with three other boys by a group of Winnie Mandela's bodyguards on December 29, 1988, after being accused of being a police informant. One of the men later killed him, slashing his throat.[185]	Murdered	3 days

1989

Date	Person(s)	Age	Country of disappearance	Circumstances	Outcome	Time spent missing or unconfirmed
1989	Paul Vanden Boeynants	70	Belgium	Belgian politician who served two separate terms as the country's prime minister. On January 14, 1989, he was kidnapped by members of Patrick Haemers's gang, who demanded a ransom in exchange for the safe return of Boeynants. The ransom was paid, but all the members were later captured.[186]	Found alive	1 month
1989	Avi Sasportas	20	Israel	Israeli soldier who was abducted and subsequently killed by the newly founded Hamas on February 16, 1989. His murder, coupled with that of Ilan Saadon, caused a stir in Israel and subsequent manhunt and apprehension for the militants responsible.[187]	Murdered	More than 2 months
1989	Kelly Ann Tinyes	13	United States of America	Tinyes was a thirteen-year-old Valley Stream, New York schoolgirl who was strangled, stabbed, and sexually mutilated in the home of a neighbor. Her killer, 21-year-old neighbor Robert Golub, was convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.[188]	Murdered	1 day
1989	Aundria Bowman	14	United States of America	Bowman disappeared under mysterious circumstances from her adoptive family's home in Hamilton, Michigan on March 11, 1989. Her adoptive father, Dennis Bowman, claimed that she had stolen money and then fled, and was thus classified as a runaway. More than three decades later, after Dennis was arrested for an unrelated murder in Virginia, he confessed that he had killed Aundria because she tried to escape being molested by him. He revealed the burial site in Monterey Township, near the family home, and Aundria's remains were subsequently recovered. The elder Bowman is due to stand trial for both murders he is accused of.[189]	Murdered	31 years
1989	Helén Nilsson	10	Sweden	Abducted while she was out to meet some friends in Hörby, Sweden on March 20, 1989. She was kept alive for a few days before her captor killed her and dumped her body in the woods. The killer, Ulf Olsson, was identified and convicted of her killing in the early 2000s after his DNA linked him to the crime scene.[190]	Murdered	6 days
1989	Jeanne-Marie Desramault	21	France	Jeanne-Marie Desramault was dropped off at the gare de Charleville-Mézières on the morning of March 18, 1989, by a nun whose convent she was staying at, with plans to travel to Béthune to visit her parents. She never boarded the train and was not seen alive again. In 2004, Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier confessed to kidnapping and killing Desramault, whose remains were found on July 3 that year, buried in the garden of a Donchery chateau formerly owned by the Fourniret couple.[191]	Murdered	15 years
1989	Urban Höglin	23	New Zealand	Urban Höglin and Heidi Paakkonen disappeared while tramping on the Coromandel Peninsula of New Zealand in April 1989. Fugitive offender David Wayne Tamihere was convicted of their murders in December 1990. Höglin's body was discovered in October 1991, while Paakkonen's body has not been found.[192]	Murdered	21⁄2 years
	Heidi Paakkonen	21	New Zealand			not found
1989	Ilan Saadon	Unknown	Israel	Israeli soldier who vanished mysteriously while hitchhiking back home on May 3, 1989. Large searches were organized to locate his remains, which were found on August 11, 1996. It was determined that Saadon had been killed by the then-newly formed Hamas, and his murder, coupled with that of Avi Sasportas, caused a stir in Israel and subsequent manhunt and apprehension for the militants responsible.[193]	Murdered	7 years
1989	Jackie Mann	75	Lebanon	British RAF fighter pilot who was abducted in Beirut, Lebanon on May 13, 1989, by a Hezbollah-linked insurgent cell. Mann was held in detention for two years, as his kidnappers demanded the release of Palestinian prisoners, until he was released without incident on September 24, 1991.[194]	Found alive	2 years
1989	Cindy James	44	Canada	James, a Vancouver, British Columbia nurse with a history of mental illness, had reported being stalked and harassed for seven years, sometimes to the point of vandalism of her home and physical assault. Police were unable to find any evidence that someone else had been involved during that time, despite spending almost C$1.5 million. On May 25, 1989, she disappeared after a shopping trip at a local grocery. Her tied-up body was found in the backyard of an abandoned house in Richmond, with what an autopsy later found was excessive amounts of morphine, diazepam and other drugs in her system. A lengthy inquest concluded that while the drug overdoses had caused her death, the manner—suicide, homicide or accident—could not be determined.[195]	Died (undetermined cause)	14 days
1989	Peter Dixon	51	United Kingdom	Couple Peter and Gwenda Dixon failed to return home after going on one last walk on the Pembrokeshire coast on June 29, 1989 whilst on holiday. Ten days later their bodies were found in undergrowth next to the nearby cliff path. They had been robbed and then shot dead at point-blank range with a shotgun by psychopathic Pembrokeshire burglar and serial killer John Cooper.[196]	Murdered	10 days
	Gwenda Dixon	52	United Kingdom
1989	Donna Sue Nelton	28	United States of America	The body of 28-year-old Donna Sue Nelton was found eight miles west of Decatur, Arkansas off of Highway 102 in Rogers, Arkansas on May 7, 1990. She had been shot, set on fire, and possibly run over with a vehicle. Nelton remained unidentified until October 25, 2022; she had last been seen alive in the fall of 1989. Her boyfriend, George Alvin Bruton, was suspected in her murder; Bruton died in prison in 2008.[197]	Murdered	33 years
1989	Duncan MacPherson	23	Austria	Duncan MacPherson was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who disappeared 9 August 1989 when he went on a trip to Austria. In 2003 his body was found on a mountain[198] where he had gone snowboarding and his death cause is unknown.	Died (undetermined cause)	14 years
1989	Liang Shan Shan	17	Singapore	A Malaysian teenager who went missing after leaving her school on October 2, 1989. Her body was discovered on October 14 in Yishun Industrial Park. Although no official cause of death was determined, her death was classified as murder. The prime suspect in her murder, Oh Laye Koh, was initially acquitted of her murder, but eventually found guilty following a retrial. Oh was sentenced to death and hanged at Changi Prison in May 1995.[199]	Murdered	12 days
1989	Jacob Wetterling	11	United States of America	Jacob Wetterling was abducted on October 22, 1989, by a masked gunman while cycling home in the dark with his brother and a friend after going to rent a video from a convenience store in St. Joseph, Minnesota. His remains were found on September 1, 2016, when Danny Heinrich, already serving time on child pornography charges, led police to them.[200]	Murdered	~29 years
1989	Amy Mihaljevic	10	United States of America	Amy Mihaljevic, an American elementary school student, was kidnapped and murdered in Bay Village, Ohio, on October 27, 1989. Her body was found on February 8, 1990, in a field off a rural road in Ashland County.[201]	Murdered	3 months
1989	Patricia Candace Walsh	23	United States of America	Walsh and Zyskowski, a married couple from Seattle, Washington, disappeared shortly after leaving the city in November 1989. Zyskowski's remains were discovered in January 1990 in Ozona, Texas; Walsh's body was discovered by deer hunters in Millard County, Utah, on October 26, 1990.[202]	Murdered	11 months
	Douglas Scott Zyskowski	26				2 months
1989	Tsutsumi Sakamoto	33	Japan	Tsutsumi Sakamoto, a lawyer working on a lawsuit against the cult Aum Shinrikyo, was kidnapped and murdered by members of the cult along with his wife and 14-month-old son on November 5, 1989. Their bodies were dumped in three different areas of Japan in order for police to not link their cases. Their disappearance was not linked to the cult at first, but was uncovered following the cult's attack on the Tokyo subway in 1995, and their bodies were found in September 1995.[203][204]	Murdered	5 years 10 months
	Satoko Sakamoto	29	Japan
	Tatsuhiko Sakamoto	1	Japan
1989	Elisabeth Brichet	12	Belgium	Elisabeth Brichet left her friend's house in Namur, Belgium, on the evening of December 20, 1989, and did not arrive home. In 1996, her mother helped organise the White March in honour of Belgium's missing and murdered children following the arrest of Marc Dutroux. On July 3, 2004, the girl's remains were found buried in the garden of a Donchery chateau which formerly belonged to Michel Fourniret and Monique Olivier.[205]	Murdered	141⁄2 years

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