Dive into the most chilling and mysterious disappearance cases that have left investigators and families searching for answers. From unexplained vanishings to bizarre circumstances, these stories will send shivers down your spine and challenge everything you thought you knew about missing persons.
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00:00Amelia Earhart is on one of the final legs of her historic flight around the world,
00:04when something goes terribly wrong.
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo,
00:08and today we're counting down our picks for the most mysterious and terrifying instances
00:12of people who vanished without a trace for a long period of time.
00:16Who was D.B. Cooper?
00:18Did he survive?
00:21Number 30.
00:22Jamie Closs.
00:23In the early hours of October 15th, 2018,
00:26police responded to a 911 call at the home of James and Denise Closs in Barron, Wisconsin.
00:31Inside, they discovered a horrible scene.
00:34The couple had been murdered, and their teenage daughter Jamie was missing.
00:37Each day I wake up with a new, refreshed hope.
00:42Today is going to be the day.
00:44I can still feel she's going to come home.
00:46My heart tells me, yep, and I won't give that up.
00:50For 88 agonizing days, authorities searched for Jamie,
00:53but were unable to come up with any leads.
00:55Then, on January 10th, 2019,
00:58Jamie mysteriously turned up in the woods,
01:00where she encountered a local woman who took her to a neighbor's house.
01:03Investigators later learned that Jake Thomas Patterson had killed her parents that night
01:08and abducted her for his own sexual gratification.
01:10Patterson was arrested that same day
01:12and sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus 40 additional years.
01:17Patterson was given two life sentences without parole for the murders,
01:20the maximum 40 years for Jamie's kidnapping,
01:23the judge calling him the embodiment of evil.
01:26Number 29.
01:27Monica and Michael Bennett
01:29The last time anyone saw half-siblings Monica and Michael Bennett
01:32was on June 21st, 1989, in Brunswick, Georgia.
01:36The two shared a mother but had different fathers.
01:39On the day they vanished, Michael's father Robert picked them up,
01:42reportedly to help him pack for his move to Alabama.
01:44That was the last anyone saw of them.
01:46When questioned, Robert gave conflicting accounts,
01:49claiming at one point that they ran away from his apartment
01:52and at another that he dropped them off at their mother's house.
01:55Despite these discrepancies, police classified the siblings as runaways
01:58and failed to carry out a thorough investigation.
02:01It wasn't until the 2000s that they were reclassified as
02:04Endangered Missing and added to the government's missing person database.
02:08Number 28.
02:09Johnny Gosch
02:10On September 5th, 1982, Johnny Gosch, a paperboy in West Des Moines, Iowa,
02:15disappeared during his morning paper route.
02:22that included several law enforcement agencies.
02:25Multiple witnesses reported seeing him speak with a mysterious man
02:28in a blue car shortly before he vanished,
02:30while another claimed they saw a silver car speeding away
02:33near the spot where Gosch's paper wagon was left.
02:35The case has since gained widespread publicity,
02:38but authorities have made no headway in determining who took Gosch
02:41or what became of him.
02:42In 1997, his mother Noreen alleged that Gosch visited her briefly
02:46with an unidentified man, but left without revealing where he was going.
02:50West Des Moines police officers said that Noreen had told similar stories before,
02:55only to recant them later.
02:57There were never any witnesses that verified her claim.
03:00The validity of this claim remains in doubt,
03:03and despite other unconfirmed sightings, Gosch is still officially missing.
03:07Number 27.
03:08Amy Lynn Bradley
03:10In 1998, Amy Lynn Bradley had just graduated from college
03:14and was preparing to start a new job when she joined her family
03:17on a celebratory Caribbean cruise to Curacao.
03:19At around 6 a.m. on March 24th, Bradley's father discovered
03:23she was missing from the balcony where she had fallen asleep.
03:26But Amy is not on deck.
03:28All of her belongings are still in the room.
03:31Yet after searching the ship for more than an hour,
03:34Amy is nowhere to be found.
03:36All efforts to find her on the cruise ship proved futile,
03:39as the crew delayed announcing her disappearance
03:42until after most passengers had disembarked.
03:44Over the years, various theories have emerged,
03:47including that she was abducted and trafficked.
03:49Fell overboard and drowned.
03:51Or that she deliberately ended her own life.
03:53There have also been possible sightings of Bradley in Curacao,
03:56but none have led to her being reunited with her family.
03:59We just can't give up looking.
04:02We just gotta do what we have to do.
04:06As long as it takes.
04:07Number 26.
04:09Ronald Tammon
04:10Ronald Tammon, a 19-year-old sophomore at Miami University in Ohio,
04:14vanished mysteriously on the night of April 19th, 1953.
04:18Walked out of his dorm room around, I think, 8 p.m.
04:20and was never seen again.
04:22An open textbook.
04:23The radio was still playing.
04:25All of his personal effects, including his wallet and car keys,
04:28were still in the room.
04:29The last person who saw him was his residence hall manager
04:32who gave him new bedsheets around 8 p.m.
04:34after someone placed a fish in his bed as a prank.
04:37By 10.30 p.m., when his roommate returned,
04:39Tammon was gone, leaving behind his coat, wallet, and car keys.
04:43Although his roommate reported the disappearance the next day,
04:46school authorities delayed taking action for several days.
04:49One woman in a nearby town claimed that on that night,
04:52a disoriented dirty man resembling Tammon
04:54knocked on her door asking for directions.
04:56She didn't alert police until she saw Tammon's picture
04:59in a local newspaper and the story about his disappearance.
05:03This, alongside other reported sightings,
05:05still has not helped authorities figure out what happened to Ronald Tammon.
05:09Number 25.
05:10Tara Calico
05:11On June 15th, 1989, a woman found a Polaroid photograph
05:15at a Florida convenience store.
05:17The nationwide frenzy brings a second family into the spotlight.
05:21The mothers of Mike and Tara were strangers only a week ago.
05:24Now they're brought together in a common cause,
05:27a national effort to find their missing children.
05:30The picture showed a young woman and a boy,
05:32both bound and gagged, seemingly in the back of a van.
05:36Many believed the woman to be Tara Calico,
05:38who had vanished nearly one year earlier
05:40during her routine bike ride near her home in Belen, New Mexico.
05:43Neither she nor her bike were found,
05:45and authorities only recovered pieces of her Sony Walkman
05:48and a cassette tape along the trail.
05:50While Scotland Yard identified the woman in the picture as Calico,
05:53an FBI analysis proved inconclusive.
05:56Her whereabouts remain a mystery,
05:58but in 2023, the Valencia County Sheriff's Office
06:01announced new leads in the case.
06:02Right now, a team is working to go through
06:05three decades worth of police files.
06:08In order to sign off on charges, they have to rule out
06:11the laundry list of suspects who were named over the years.
06:14There's no hard timeline on when or if charges will be filed.
06:19Number 24, Timothy Pitson.
06:21On May 11, 2011, James Pitson dropped his son Timothy off at school,
06:26but when he returned later that day,
06:27he discovered the boy was missing.
06:29I pulled up and I got out.
06:31His teacher goes, what are you doing here, Mr. Pitson?
06:32I'm like, here to pick Timothy up.
06:35Oh, he left 8.15 this morning.
06:36Shortly after 8 a.m., Timothy's mother, Amy Frye Pitson,
06:39had picked him up and taken him on a trip
06:41to amusement parks, resorts, and zoos.
06:44He was last seen two days later on security footage.
06:47On May 14, Frye Pitson's body was discovered in a motel room.
06:50She had taken her own life and left a note
06:53stating that Timothy was safe but would never be found.
06:55True to those words, no trace of him has ever emerged.
06:59In 2019, hope briefly resurfaced when a teenager in Kentucky
07:03claimed to be Timothy, but sadly, that turned out to be a hoax.
07:06What did the false hope he created do to you?
07:08It destroyed me for a week or two.
07:11Very unhappy.
07:15Very destructive.
07:17Number 23, Brian Schaefer.
07:19Ohio State University medical student Brian Schaefer
07:22went out with friends to celebrate the start of spring break in 2006.
07:25As the night progressed, Schaefer got separated from the group,
07:28and his friends assumed he had gone home without telling them.
07:31The following day, his girlfriend was getting concerned
07:34because she was unable to reach Brian.
07:37But when he failed to show up in the subsequent days
07:39and missed a long-planned flight, he was reported missing.
07:42Security footage from the bar's entrance captured Schaefer
07:45briefly interacting with two ladies, but showed no evidence of him leaving.
07:49The only other way out was through a construction zone,
07:52which would have been difficult for him to navigate,
07:54especially if he was intoxicated.
07:56This puzzling series of events has raised several questions
07:59about Schaefer's fate that authorities have not been able to answer.
08:02The people closest to Brian still hope that one day they'll learn the truth.
08:06Number 22. Asha Degree
08:08After putting their daughter Asha to bed on February 13, 2000,
08:12Harold and Aquilla Degree woke up the next morning to find her missing.
08:16Investigators at the time had reason to believe
08:18that she took some items with her out of the house,
08:23and that she left the house and walked south on Highway 18
08:27toward the city of Shelby.
08:28There were no signs of forced entry,
08:30and Asha's brother O'Brien was asleep in his own bed.
08:33Strangely, it seemed she had packed a bag and simply walked out of the house.
08:37Around 4 a.m., several motorists spotted her walking along a highway alone,
08:42and when one approached her, she fled into the woods, never to be seen again.
08:46Months later, Asha's bag was found at a construction site,
08:50containing items that didn't belong to her.
08:52For years, the case yielded no significant leads,
08:55until September 2024 when authorities classified her disappearance
08:59as a homicide and named two suspects.
09:04No one has been charged.
09:05Investigators took DNA from Roy and Connie Deadman.
09:09They also took a green car and several other items,
09:13including a camera, computers, and phones.
09:16Number 21.
09:17The Beaumont Children.
09:19It remains one of the most chilling mysteries in Australian history.
09:22On January 26, 1966, three siblings,
09:26Jane, Arna, and Grant Beaumont,
09:28left their home in Adelaide to visit the nearby Glenelg Beach alone.
09:31Nancy Beaumont thought her three children would be home by one o'clock.
09:36Increasingly panicked, she waited as bus after bus returned from the beach without them.
09:42Witnesses reported seeing them playing with a tall, thin, suntanned man,
09:46and later walking away with him.
09:48When the children failed to return home that afternoon,
09:50their alarmed parents contacted the authorities,
09:52but despite extensive searches in and around the beach,
09:55no trace of the kids was ever found.
09:58Over the decades, there have been countless suspects
10:00and theories surrounding their disappearance,
10:02but none have led to any concrete answers.
10:05Sadly, both parents passed away without ever knowing the fate of their three children.
10:16Number 20.
10:17Ryan Chambers.
10:18This is a picture of Ryan Chambers,
10:21missing from Rishikesh, India, since August 2005.
10:28In June of 2005,
10:30Ryan Chambers embarked on a spiritual journey to India with his friend, John Booker.
10:34However, after a while, Booker noticed that Chambers wasn't getting much sleep
10:38and was beginning to act strangely.
10:40Then, in the early morning of August 24,
10:43the 21-year-old Australian simply walked out of his ashram
10:46wearing nothing but a pair of shorts.
10:48He left behind all his belongings and an eerie note reading,
10:51quote,
10:52''If I'm gone, don't worry, I'm not dead.
10:54I'm freeing minds.
10:56But first, I have to free my own.''
10:58No one has seen or heard from him since.
11:00An exhaustive search was launched,
11:02but after turning up nothing for years,
11:04Chambers was legally declared dead in 2023.
11:08Number 19.
11:09The Fort Worth Missing Trio.
11:11Rachel Trelisa, Renee Wilson, and Julianne Mosley were Christmas shopping
11:15in the Fort Worth, Texas Seminary South Shopping Center
11:18when they went missing.
11:19The girls failed to return to their respective homes,
11:22prompting their families to conduct a search.
11:24''Something's happened to them. I know it.''
11:27They found Trelisa's car in the parking lot,
11:29and it contained multiple gifts,
11:31indicating that the girls had returned to the vehicle at some point.
11:34Nevertheless, the trio was nowhere to be seen.
11:37Trelisa's husband later received a letter presumably written by her,
11:41stating that they were, quote,
11:42''Going to Houston to, quote, get away.''
11:45And they'd be back in about a week.
11:47But they never showed up,
11:49and have remained missing ever since.
11:51The families have since cast doubt on the letter's authenticity.
11:54''My goal is I would love closure before my mother dies.''
11:58''Because just like in 1974.''
12:00''You haven't given up hope, though.''
12:01''No, uh-uh.''
12:02Number 18.
12:03Brandon Swanson.
12:04On May 14th, 2008,
12:06Brandon Swanson of Minnesota was driving home following a night out partying.
12:10After veering off into a ditch,
12:12the 19-year-old student phoned his parents and asked them to pick him up.
12:15Swanson's parents remained on the phone with him for the next 47 minutes,
12:19but couldn't seem to find him at his supposed location.
12:22''He said he was fine, that he was not injured.''
12:25''And, you know, in fact, when we did find his vehicle, there was no damage to it.''
12:30Still on the call,
12:31Swanson asked his dad to meet him at a local bar.
12:34But soon after, he yelled out a curse word and went silent.
12:38Investigators later found that the young man
12:40was actually about 25 miles away from where he thought he was.
12:44It's believed he inadvertently fell into the Yellow Medicine River and drowned,
12:47hence the sudden cursing.
12:49Number 17.
12:51Bobby Dunbar.
12:52The story of Bobby Dunbar is a bizarre one.
12:55''You know, speculation was that he was taken.''
12:58''They assumed he was kidnapped.''
13:00Bobby disappeared on a family fishing trip on August 23rd, 1912.
13:05Authorities then found a boy matching his description with a man named William Walters.
13:10Walters insisted that the kid was actually named Bruce Anderson,
13:13which was corroborated by Anderson's mother, Julia,
13:16who claimed that she allowed her son to go on a trip with him.
13:19The case went to trial and Anderson was eventually handed to the Dunbars,
13:23with whom he lived the rest of his life.
13:25Unable to afford a lawyer, Julia lost her case and had her reputation soiled in the media.
13:31However, a future DNA test proved that the kid was in fact not Dunbar,
13:36lending further credence to Julia's story.
13:39Number 16.
13:40Margaret Fox.
13:41In 1974, Margaret Fox advertised her services as a babysitter,
13:46attracting the attention of one John Marshall.
13:49Marshall contacted Fox and told her to meet him in Mount Holly, New Jersey.
13:53The young girl traveled there on a bus and was never seen again.
13:57The authorities were immediately contacted
13:59and they traced Marshall's number to a supermarket payphone, which raised suspicions.
14:04The Fox family also received a phone call from a stranger,
14:06demanding $10,000 for their daughter's safe return.
14:10Unfortunately, this call could never be traced and the man was never identified.
14:15Despite investigators' efforts, the case eventually fizzled out,
14:19with no one finding Fox or figuring out the identity of Marshall ever since.
14:29Number 15.
14:33George Mallory and Andrew Irvin.
14:36The story of George Mallory and Andrew Irvin captures the horror of mountain climbing
14:40and the endless allure of Everest.
14:42Both men took part in the ill-fated British Mount Everest expedition of 1924,
14:47hoping to be the first people to reach the top.
14:50They were last spotted about 800 feet from the summit, but promptly disappeared.
14:55The men were soon presumed dead and publicly mourned as heroes of Britain.
15:00Their whereabouts remained a mystery for the next 75 years,
15:03until the Mallory and Irvin Research Expedition located Mallory's preserved corpse in 1999.
15:09I heard out of my radio, which was in my down suit, I just heard
15:13hobnail boot quickly unzipped it and said, what?
15:16It was found with a puncture wound in the forehead,
15:18suggesting that he had fallen and accidentally struck himself with his ice axe.
15:22The sky was a really talented climber.
15:26It took a great degree of skill and confidence to
15:31go with that limited amount of gear to that distance.
15:34It wasn't until 2024 that partial remains of Irvin's body were found.
15:39Number 14.
15:40Marjorie West.
15:41Called the Great Unsolved Mystery of the Missing by The Guardian,
15:45the story of Marjorie West is a fascinating one.
15:48West was picnicking with her family on May 8th, 1938 when she went missing.
15:53The story goes that West's sister Dorothea left her unattended to,
15:56but upon her return, the child was gone.
15:59A massive search was undertaken involving thousands of people,
16:03but the effort was unsuccessful.
16:05Then-Police Commissioner P.W. Foote believed that
16:08West had been playing hide-and-seek when she got lost.
16:10However, a man named Harold Beck later wrote a book positing that
16:14West was kidnapped and grew up with her captors as Sylvia London.
16:18Beck claimed that London eventually confessed to being West,
16:21but she passed away in 2009.
16:24Number 13.
16:25Frederick Valentich.
16:26Australian pilot Frederick Valentich was a student in the country's Air Training Corps.
16:30In the evening of October 21st, 1978, Valentich was flying over Bass Strait,
16:36which separates mainland Australia from Tasmania.
16:39During the flight, Valentich contacted Melbourne Flight Service to report
16:42an unidentified aircraft that was following him.
16:45Delta Sierra Juliet, there seems to be a large aircraft below 5,000.
16:49The craft had bright lights and seemed to be hovering right above him.
16:53Just after telling Flight Service that it wasn't an aircraft,
16:56a loud scraping noise was heard over the radio.
16:59Valentich was lost and his plane was never recovered.
17:02Flying a single-engine airplane over water,
17:04lost communication in such strange circumstances,
17:08I put an alert phase on the airplane.
17:10Ufologists believe that the pilot was abducted by a UFO,
17:14while others posit that he was unknowingly flying upside down
17:17and saw his own reflection in the water before crashing.
17:21Number 12.
17:22Evelyn Hartley.
17:23Teenager Evelyn Hartley was tasked with babysitting the daughter of Viggo Rasmussen,
17:28one of her parents' colleagues.
17:29Hartley arrived at the house as planned,
17:31but when she failed to check in later that evening,
17:34her father Richard gave her a call.
17:36There was no response, so he traveled to the Rasmussen house himself.
17:39He found a wild sight,
17:41as items were thrown everywhere and the furniture had been moved.
17:45There were also signs of a break-in,
17:47including a torn-off window screen, pry marks, footprints, and blood.
17:51The baby was found unharmed upstairs, but there was no sign of Hartley.
17:56A witness reported seeing two men driving away with a young girl,
18:00adding credence to the theory that Hartley was kidnapped in a break-in.
18:04Number 11.
18:05He Jiankui.
18:06In November 2018,
18:08this Chinese biophysicist made world headlines
18:11when he announced he'd created the first genetically edited human babies.
18:22His claim was met with widespread condemnation
18:25due to serious ethical issues with his experiment.
18:28His research was suspended,
18:29he was fired from SusTech,
18:31and then he disappeared.
18:37South China Morning Post reports that the researcher's employer
18:40is dismissing claims he was detained.
18:43In December, it was reported that he was sequestered in an apartment under guard.
18:47One year later, he was sentenced to three years in prison.
18:50He was released in April 2022
18:52and is now working on gene therapy for rare genetic diseases.
18:56It's game over for He Jiankui,
18:58who thought he could tweak life and get away with it.
19:02Number 10.
19:02The Sodders.
19:04A devastating fire erupted in the Sodder household on Christmas Eve 1945.
19:09The Sodder parents and four of their nine children escaped,
19:12but the other five weren't so lucky.
19:14The easy theory is that the children died in the fire,
19:17but the story contains many twists that cast some doubt.
19:21No evidence of the bodies was ever found.
19:23Furthermore,
19:24patriarch George Sodder spoke negatively about his then-fascist native Italy,
19:29prompting a theory that the Sicilian mafia had burned the house and kidnapped the children.
19:33Years later,
19:34a photo of an older man was mailed to the Sodders,
19:37purportedly depicting a now-grown Louis.
19:40They agreed that the man harbored a resemblance to their missing child,
19:43and they both held on to this hope until their deaths.
19:47Number 9.
19:48Lauren Spearer.
19:49In 2011,
19:5020-year-old Lauren Spearer was attending Indiana University
19:53and studying textiles merchandising.
19:56On the night of June 2, 2011,
19:58Spearer went out with some friends to Bloomington's Kilroy Sports Bar.
20:01She left the bar around 2.30 a.m.
20:04and was last seen leaving a friend's apartment at 4.30.
20:07She remains missing to this day.
20:17Various theories have been put forth,
20:19including abduction and a fatal overdose,
20:21as Spearer had reportedly consumed alcohol and drugs.
20:24One theory is that Lauren was kidnapped by a biker gang
20:27after collapsing in the street on the way to her apartment.
20:30Despite thousands of tips and attempts by police
20:33to tie her disappearance to other crimes in the area,
20:35Lauren Spearer's whereabouts remain unknown.
20:50One of the strangest and creepiest stories involving a disappearance
20:54has to be that of 28-year-old German man Lars Mittank.
20:57In June 2014,
20:58Mittank was vacationing at Bulgaria's Golden Sand seaside resort with friends.
21:02When it was time to leave,
21:04Mittank was left in the country owing to a ruptured eardrum,
21:07which prevented him from flying.
21:09He checked into the Hotel Color Varna by himself,
21:11where he reportedly began to act paranoid.
21:14He even called his mother and told her that four men were looking to get rid of him.
21:18The last time anyone saw Mittank,
21:20he was running through Varna airport in fear,
21:23hopping a fence and fleeing into the nearby woods.
21:26He hasn't been seen since.
21:28The source of his fear and his current whereabouts remain unknown.
21:34On February 9, 2004,
21:36Murray, a nursing student at the University of Massachusetts Amherst,
21:40emailed her professors claiming there'd been a death in the family.
21:43It is a real mystery.
21:46One minute she's here, one minute she's not.
21:49And there's just so many theories.
21:51Her parents have since stated that no such death occurred.
21:54She looked into hotels in Vermont,
21:56loaded her car with clothing and toiletries,
21:58and packed up her belongings in boxes.
22:00After leaving campus,
22:01she purchased alcohol and withdrew $280 from an ATM.
22:05Murray crashed her car around 7 p.m. that night.
22:08And when police arrived at 7.45,
22:10she was nowhere to be found.
22:12There was no injury.
22:13So they searched on foot and in vehicles.
22:16Basically what they were looking for was,
22:18A, a person walking,
22:19or B, footprints in the snow.
22:20They found none.
22:22The responding officer found a few suspect items in the car,
22:25including driving directions to Vermont
22:28and blank accident report forms.
22:30Of Murray herself,
22:31there was and has been no trace.
22:34All I have left is the public.
22:38Because I'm not getting any help anywhere else.
22:41I'm asking for help from my daughter.
22:43Number 6.
22:44The Springfield Three
22:45This missing persons case,
22:47in which Cheryl Levitt,
22:48Stacey McCall,
22:49and Susie Streeter all disappeared,
22:51has remained unsolved since 1992.
22:54The story begins at Levitt's home in Springfield, Missouri,
22:56where the women spent the night
22:58after attending high school graduation parties.
23:00The girls leave the party just after 2 a.m.
23:02Cops believe Stacey and Susie
23:04walked through the front door of Cheryl's house
23:06on Delmar Street about 15 minutes later.
23:09That's where the mystery begins.
23:11When a friend arrived at the house the next morning,
23:13all three were missing,
23:15despite their cars being parked outside.
23:17Authorities say there was no sign of a struggle.
23:20In fact, the front door was unlocked,
23:22the TV was on,
23:23their clothes were still there,
23:25their purses and personal items untouched.
23:27The friend found a broken porch light,
23:29and she reportedly received an obscene phone call while there.
23:32Levitt's dog was also visibly agitated.
23:35When McCall's mother later arrived to investigate,
23:38she found a, quote,
23:39strange message on the answering machine,
23:41but this was accidentally deleted.
23:43It was a brief call,
23:44and the person didn't identify themselves.
23:47It was a male voice that made sexual innuendos,
23:50and she hung up,
23:51and immediately received a second call
23:53with also making sexual overtones.
23:55Unfortunately, the crime scene was so badly contaminated
23:59that it prevented a proper investigation.
24:01But until then,
24:02these families will continue to live one day at a time,
24:05hoping for the best,
24:06but knowing the worst could be just around the corner.
24:12When this 24-year-old British woman disappeared
24:14the morning of March 21, 2011,
24:16she was working for the Disney Wonder Cruise ship.
24:19The ship set sail from Los Angeles on Sunday,
24:21March the 22nd for the Mexican Riviera.
24:24The alarm was raised last Tuesday
24:26when she failed to turn up for her shift.
24:29The following day,
24:29the vessel docked in Puerto Vallarta,
24:32and the Mexican Navy and US Coast Guard
24:34were deployed to search the seas.
24:36Coriam was last seen on CCTV footage
24:39talking to someone on one of the ship's internal phones
24:41at 5.45 a.m.
24:42She was clad in extra-large clothing
24:44and appeared visibly distressed by the call.
24:47She hung up,
24:48walked away,
24:49and was never seen again.
24:50Investigators believe that Coriam went overboard,
24:53but how she went overboard remains a mystery.
24:56Some believe she jumped,
24:57others believe she was pushed by a rogue wave,
25:00and her parents believe she was thrown into the ocean.
25:06What investigations found out,
25:09and that's the frustrating side that we face, really,
25:12and that's partially because of the problems
25:14of where the ship was registered.
25:17The official investigation has received loads of criticism,
25:20and Disney Wonder has even been accused
25:23of covering up her disappearance.
25:24Just don't know what happened to her, do we?
25:26That's the worst.
25:27Number four, Zeb Quinn.
25:29It's a loss without closure,
25:30with plenty of clues,
25:32but no resolution.
25:33On January 2nd, 2000,
25:3518-year-old Zeb Quinn met up
25:37with his friend Robert Owens.
25:38After Quinn received a notification
25:40on his pager, however,
25:41he appeared frantic
25:42and allegedly sped away in his car.
25:45Two days later,
25:46after being treated at the hospital for injuries,
25:48Owens called in sick for Quinn.
25:50It's very complex,
25:51as you've reported on.
25:52Mr. Owens was a person of interest
25:54in the Quinn disappearance from 2000,
25:58and those kind of things do make the case,
26:03you know,
26:03it does make the case much more complicated.
26:06On January 6th,
26:07Quinn's car was found abandoned
26:08with bizarre lipstick drawings
26:10on the back windshield
26:11and a live puppy stuck inside.
26:13His mother has some hope.
26:14He could have been kidnapped
26:16and is still alive.
26:17In July 2017,
26:19Owens was charged with first-degree murder
26:21in the death of Quinn,
26:22but ultimately pleaded guilty
26:23to accessory after the fact.
26:25He is also serving life in prison
26:26for ending the lives
26:27of the Food Network's Christy Schoen
26:29and her husband J.T. Codd in 2015.
26:31We're able to bring Jason Owens to justice.
26:34He's removed from society.
26:36He's going to die in the custody
26:38of the state of North Carolina.
26:40As for Quinn,
26:41his remains still haven't been found.
26:44Number three,
26:45Harold Holt.
26:46In December 1967,
26:48Harold Holt was serving
26:49as the 17th Prime Minister of Australia.
26:52Holt was an avid outdoorsman,
26:54but nearly 60 years old,
26:56and his personal doctor
26:57had recently advised him against swimming.
26:59On the afternoon of December 17, 1967,
27:02Holt went for a swim
27:04at Australia's Cheviot Beach,
27:05despite rough waters.
27:07He was quickly swept out to sea,
27:09and a massive search
27:10was undertaken in the area.
27:12Rescuers trundled their way
27:13to the search scene
27:14from surrounding communities.
27:16Police and military divers
27:17deployed to Cheviot Beach by helicopter.
27:20Crowds silently lined the roadway.
27:22Despite the country's best efforts,
27:24no one was able to find
27:26any trace of Holt.
27:27A governmental inquiry
27:28was never launched
27:29owing to the wishes of Holt's family.
27:31This detail, among other factors,
27:33has led to numerous conspiracy theories.
27:44Despite countless claims to the contrary,
27:46the official ruling stands
27:47that Holt died in a tragic drowning.
27:53Number two,
27:54D.B. Cooper.
27:55The story of D.B. Cooper
27:57is one of the most famous
27:58unsolved mysteries of all time.
28:00A story involving air theft,
28:02a cinematic escape,
28:03and an ambiguous outcome.
28:18Cooper is the pseudonym
28:19of a man who hijacked
28:20a Boeing 727 in 1971
28:22and extorted $200,000 in ransom.
28:25After securing the money,
28:26Cooper opened the door mid-flight
28:28and jumped out into the cold dark night,
28:31never to be seen again.
28:40The only trace of Cooper
28:42remains a small cache of ransom bills
28:44that was recovered in 1980.
28:54The rest of the money
28:55and D.B. himself
28:57remain missing.
28:58Many FBI agents claim
28:59that Cooper likely died in the jump,
29:01but then again,
29:02they could just be trying to save face.
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29:34If there's one unsolved story
29:36more popular than that of D.B. Cooper,
29:38it's that of Amelia Earhart.
29:39Earhart was a popular and renowned aviator
29:42and the first woman to fly solo
29:43over the Atlantic.
29:53In 1937,
29:55she and navigator Fred Noonan
29:56attempted to circumnavigate the globe.
29:58However,
29:59they disappeared over the Pacific near Hawaii
30:02and were never heard from again.
30:10Countless theories have been put forth
30:12regarding their ultimate fate,
30:13but no consensus has ever been made.
30:26It's most likely that Earhart and Noonan
30:28ran out of fuel and crashed into the Pacific
30:30while desperately looking for Howland Island.
30:32It's a boring answer,
30:34but the most realistic often are.
30:36Which of these disappearance cases
30:37would you most like to see solved
30:39in the near future?
30:40Let us know in the comments below.
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