All news on the topic: Missing persons

Carlee Russell, the nursing student who said she was abducted after spotting a toddler along a busy road, has admitted she made up the entire story - and asked for forgiveness

A link to a Crime Aid PayPal account collected $63k in the search for Carlee Russell - but now that she's returned home in a bizarre twist of events, officials say the money will not be refunded to donors

A body has been found after a man went missing while he was paddle boarding in a pond near former US President Barack Obama's house on Martha's Vineyard in Edgartown, Massachusetts

Kerry Needham wants officers here and on the Greek island of Kos to prove their claim her son Ben, who disappeared in 1991, died in an accident. The mum is still clinging to hopes he is alive

Authorities in Georgia have issued an amber alert for a missing one-year-old, believed to be travelling with and armed man. Ta’yonni Johnson is said to be in 'extreme danger'

Carlee Russell's kidnapping claims are being met with doubt and online harassment due to suspicions arising from her leaving behind her expensive wig

An urgent police search is underway to locate missing siblings Amelia Tilley, 14, and her brother Jacob, 12, who were last seen going to a cinema on Friday evening

Carlee Russell, who went missing for two days earlier this month, has been sacked from her job in Alabama. She claims she was kidnapped, but police found no evidence she was

Carlee Russell's alarming tweets show her emotional state and troubled relationship might have played a role in the events surrounding her disappearance in Alabama

Robert Owens Jr., from New Jersey, disappeared during a geocaching trip in Louisiana. His remains were discovered in a wooded area, as his daughter shared her sorrow on social media

Phillip Perks' body was discovered in a storage unit at the Penarth and District Scouts hut a day after he was bailed by South Wales Police following his arrest over historic abuse allegations

Gloucestershire police have issued an update on missing First Dates star Patrick 'Paddy' White, confirming he has now been found

Esteban Sylvester, 12, was found dead inside the family home in Shelbyville, Tennessee, by his distraught dad. Investigators later established the boy had been strangled to death

Police say they found searches for the local bus station, if you had to pay for amber alerts and the hit Liam Neeson film 'Taken' on Carlee Russell's phone made in the days before her disappearance

At a press conference, cops didn't accuse Carlee Russell of maliciously lying, but admitted they were now struggling to believe her story - and said they have witheld some evidence due to her mental health

Sonia del Carmen Hernández Alvarado, 76, went missing from her home in Petrohué, a village in Chile just under 300 miles south of the capital, Santiago, in an area known to have pumas prowling nearby

Carlee Russell claims stopped to help a toddler, who was in a nappy, walking on the side of a highway in Alabama on July 13 at around 9.34pm before she mysteriously vanished moments after calling police

There is no evidence that Carlee Russell saw a lone toddler walking down a highway before she disappeared, police said. Carlee went missing for 49 hours earlier this month

Carlee Russell disappeared after calling police to report an unaccompanied toddler walking down the side of the highway in Hoover, Alabama, before screams were heard and she vanished

A mother named Patricia Sylvester is missing along with her 4-year-old son, Rafael, for whom an endangered child alert has been issued. Her other son, 12, was found dead in his home

Missing two-year-old Émile Soleil was last seen on July 8 before he vanished without a trace while staying with his grandparents in Haut-Vernet, in France, with the search called off last Wednesday

Carlee Russell was driving home from work along the interstate when she pulled over, calling police to report a toddler on the side of the highway. However, when they arrived minutes later, neither Carlee or the toddler were anywhere to be seen

The 15-year-old boy was reported missing on late on Saturday afternoon after he experienced difficulty when he entered River North Esk in Edzell village, Scotland

Amina Alhaj-Omar, 25, was discovered in a "remote area" behind a BP petrol station where she was last spotted on Wednesday after the Ohio State University student went missing on June 10

David Wolstenhulme's wife has appealed to Greek authorities to search again around the area a signal from his mobile phone was last recorded when set off for a hike