How many of these were featured on Unsolved Mysteries? I can think of two that the show profiled who were found alive directly because of the broadcast - Craig, who had amnesia and saw himself and called his wife, and Alex Cooper, who had disappeared voluntarily to hide his past. Additionally, there is the woman with amnesia who was found in 2003, 30+ years after vanishing. Are there any others? Sadly, it seems when most Missing Persons cases are solved, it is because they have found the body and/or caught the killer.

Sadly Law Enforcement people have two phrases for Missing Persons,

"MISSING CORPSES" or "FUGITIVES"

:(

I don;t know the exact details but I think a very large portion of missing persons are murders.

There have been a few from UM that were solved with the Missing Person(s) being found.

Norene/Lorene/Dorene (can't remember her first name for sure) Roberts who was missing for several years and then heir to an estate was the subject of a segment around 1991 or 1992 and she was located.

Loretta Myers - the senior citizen with alzheimers who was taken away from her family by a guy who was likely some kind of golddigger/con artist was located.

Some missing children who were abducted by a parent were later located. Joey Moss comes to mind. There are others.

The prospects of whether a missing person lives depends a lot on the type of person missing.

Children (especially infants} tend to have a higher probability of being found being that they have some value to the abductor in keeping them alive. It is also very easy for abductors to keep a child hidden and kept secret from authorities. Kids are small and don;t require as much maintenance or risk of flight that a 25 year old male or female would. Most missing children that are murders are the result of parental accidents, parental infanticide or pedophilia.

Pregnant woman have a next to nil probablilit of being alive. The same probabolities go for elderly persons. Elderly people tend to have a greater chance of being victims of insurance/inheritance killings and fraud.

Adult males 20-45 have a 50-50 chance since there i strong possibilit that there disappearance may have been intentional. Adult males tend to also be involved in criminal behavior. Adult males tend to be more difficult targets for serial killers. Adult men tend to get into impromptu fights or domestic disputes that lead to unintential deaths.

Teenage boys, Women from 15-50, tend to have a lower chance of being alive. Teenagers usually don;t remain unidentified runaways for long. They usually get in contact with friends and family. Teenagers are extremely succeptible to accidental deaths and gang and drug violence. Sadly women tend to be prime targets of serial killers and robbers.

Based on a lot of this:

People like Tammy Lynn Leppert, Jeremy Bright, Angela Hammond are more likely to be murders. (Young women and teenagers)

People like AJ Breaux, Phil Breen, and Alex Spencer have all esurfaced as being alive (adult males, though Spencer was a little older) ( I think spencer surfaced??)


Shafaa, The Satanic Grancmother's kid were both recovered. Christopher Dayes child was also found (he died from natural causes)

Nyleen Kay Marshall, Rachel Runnion, Madelein McCann the Maple grandchildren have a very good chance of being alive. In fact the big problem might actually be that they are grown and look nothing like their composites and have no memories of there original parents. Madelein McCann may simply be in another part of the world such as Thailand or Eastern Europe.

Rachael Runyan was actually found dead twenty-four days after she disappeared.

Does anyone remember the case of Christi Jo Nichols who disappeared from Gothenburg, Nebraska in 1987? The babysitter came home, and she did not see Christy as the husband took her home. He also ended up waiting to report her missing, and he made it sound like she ran off. However, when her car and belongings were found it looked as though it had been neatly packed. I think the husband had something to do with it as there were allegations of abuse.

Rachael Runyan was actually found dead twenty-four days after she disappeared.

My bad. Thanks. I haven't seen the episode in a while. Did the UM episode says she was dead?

Patricia Snyder/Carlton the woman who had amnesia because of a brain bleed who wandered off several times. She was found 34 years after she disappeared.

Does anyone remember the case of Christi Jo Nichols who disappeared from Gothenburg, Nebraska in 1987? The babysitter came home, and she did not see Christy as the husband took her home. He also ended up waiting to report her missing, and he made it sound like she ran off. However, when her car and belongings were found it looked as though it had been neatly packed. I think the husband had something to do with it as there were allegations of abuse.
I do remember this one. To me it seemed pretty obvious he did it - the babysitter said his behavior was unusual that night in that he paid her in cash, when usually Christy would pay her with a check. Plus, he knew all the contents of the suitcase that he claims she took with her. If I remember correctly, the suitcase was later found in a field somewhere, but as far as I know this case was never solved.

I can't remember the details but there was a family looking for their father in Canada. They did an update where we learned that the father was found. In an interview, he said that he was accused of a robbery decades ago and changed his name. As he approached retirement, he knew he wouldn't be able to prove his identity so he ran.

I can't remember the details but there was a family looking for their father in Canada. They did an update where we learned that the father was found. In an interview, he said that he was accused of a robbery decades ago and changed his name. As he approached retirement, he knew he wouldn't be able to prove his identity so he ran.

Wasn't that a traveling salesman-type guy with two identities, one under each name?

Was that the Clifford Sherwood case?

I do remember this one. To me it seemed pretty obvious he did it - the babysitter said his behavior was unusual that night in that he paid her in cash, when usually Christy would pay her with a check. Plus, he knew all the contents of the suitcase that he claims she took with her. If I remember correctly, the suitcase was later found in a field somewhere, but as far as I know this case was never solved.

The husband soooooo did it. I pray to God something is found during his lifetime so he has to pay. On the off chance he dies before coming to justice, he'll be taken care of.

I can't remember the details but there was a family looking for their father in Canada. They did an update where we learned that the father was found. In an interview, he said that he was accused of a robbery decades ago and changed his name. As he approached retirement, he knew he wouldn't be able to prove his identity so he ran.

That was Alex Cooper.

There were two different segments about psycho grandmothers who kidnapped their grandsons and the boys were both found soon after and reunited with their parents.

That was Alex Cooper.

There were two different segments about psycho grandmothers who kidnapped their grandsons and the boys were both found soon after and reunited with their parents.

UM seemed to feature a lot of psycho grandparents of the kidnapper variety (and there's always a satanic cult involvement accusation thrown in there somewhere). I guess it's that last-person-you-would-expect-to-kidnap-a-child aspect.

I can't remember the details but there was a family looking for their father in Canada. They did an update where we learned that the father was found. In an interview, he said that he was accused of a robbery decades ago and changed his name. As he approached retirement, he knew he wouldn't be able to prove his identity so he ran.

That was the Alex Cooper case.

I don;t know the exact details but I think a very large portion of missing persons are murders.
The vast majority of missing persons are actually people who have voluntarily left. That is why it can be difficult to get law enforcement to aggressively investigate these cases. They don't want to spend a lot of resources looking for someone who left and doesn't want to be found (as is his or her right).

There was one of a boy on Long Island (maybe 17 years old). UM presented it as a child abduction case, where the father had taken the boy from the Mom. In the end, it turned out the boy was not missing but wanted nothing to do with the Mom. Not much due diligence by UM.

I may be wrong on the age and location - pretty sure it was a boy.

Was that the Clifford Sherwood case?
you're right on with that one. what happened to clifford? his dad was a damn weirdo.

you're right on with that one. what happened to clifford? his dad was a damn weirdo.

Found this at: http://www.freewebs.com/missingcanadians/missing2.htm

"Clifford Edward Sherwood
Missing since October 21, 1954 from Verdun, Quebec Canada
Classification: Family Abduction

Date Of Birth: March 30, 1945
Age at Time of Disappearance: 9 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 4'0" (127 cm); 65 lbs. (30 kgs)
Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Brown hair; brown eyes.
Marks, Scars: Sherwood has a scar on the back of his left hand.
Sherwood disappeared on his way to school with his friend, Georges Gumbley. At the time, Clifford was living alone with his mother in Verdun. His father had the custody of Clifford’s four sisters and they were all living in the Vancouver area.
He is thought to have been abducted by his now-deceased non-custodial father. He was estranged from Clifford's mother and lived in B.C. when Clifford vanished.
Clifford had a distinct stutter and made a puzzling phone call to his aunt the next day. "He said: 'Auntie, Auntie Hilda!' Then the line went dead.
The military record of Clifford Sherwood's father was set to become public property in April of 2006 (he died in April of 1976). Mr. Sherwood enlisted in the army under another name and received his military pension under that name; also, he listed himself as a bachelor, and after his death, his daughter tried to have the file opened but failed because she couldn't prove she was his daughter.
This case was featured on the "Unsolved Mysteries" television series.
Neither boy has ever been located. No other information is known about Georges Gumbley."

There was also something at one site that stated that the family thought they had found his driver's license info. and him going by the name Edward Clifford Sherwood, but the address they gave them was old.