Have you or someone you know ever gone missing?

[fortwildernessishome]

Not NH so weird thsg it has happened similarly in a different college town. This one was in Texas.

That is weird. I was sure you were talking about the case up here.

 

[Paula Sedley-Burke]

My best friends eldest brother and wife. They dissapeared one day their house was left empty. At the time I meet my friend it had been 10 years. My best friends parents were very upset. My best friend didn't remember him much there was quite an age gap. Then out of the blue they came back after 18 years with grandchildren. They had been isolated by the wife's parents. Convinced them that my friends parents were evil and invited them to live in this community with their church.. It sounded like a cult type thing.

 

[lullwater]

Has anyone had good results with an organization or investigator to find missing persons?

My estranged brother sold his house 2 years ago and has seemingly disappeared. I received the results from a skip-trace service last month and the last contact they could find was a post office box 100 miles away west of Boston that was set up the same month he sold his house. The scary thing is that my wife had a house she owns fraudulently sold last year; a fake id was created and someone impersonated her in the closing. He does enjoy long solo backpacking treks and has mentioned hiking the entire Appalachian Trail. Maybe he’s traveling the world.

I can understand my brother maybe not contacting me, but he would at least periodically contact our mother. I’ve been pushing her to file a missing person’s report, but don’t expect much from that.

 

[Bilberry]

Wow... I grew up in Pasco county and never heard about this!

Yeah, it was obviously a big event for me, and the then small town we lived in. Elisa sat behind me in class from what I recall. As other articles mention the killing was quickly forgotten. The area was growing greatly with the school struggled to make room for all the new students. The school planned to put up a memorial, but instead turned the area where her body was found into a parking lot the next year. The memorial was lost.

Sadly, the next year another classmate was murdered. She was in a different classroom from me though, and she didn't go missing.

 

[Kaytie]

Well, there was that one time my parents' friends came over with their seven kids, so I "snuck" into their car when they left. Way, way before cell phones, but they called my parents when we got to their house. My dad picked me up that night. Hey, what's one more or less kid in large families?

Then there was the time in college my parents thought I was missing, because I was never home when they called.

 

[DVC-Don]

My kids sitter went missing from college in Albany, NY back in the 1990's. Got off the bus at the campus one evening and never seen again.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/suzanne-lyall-missing-since-1998-after-leaving-her-job/

 

[Marchand63]

My xH disappeared one Saturday night but we found him in a motel on route 1 in Saugus. I got the house.

 

[willowsnn3]

One of my brothers (now deceased) many years ago just disappeared from a group home where he was living. He was schizophrenic and off his meds I guess. One day about a year later I was driving and spotted him walking down the road, hardly recognized him as his hair was really long and had a long beard. I pulled along side him and called his name, he just looked at me then got in the car. My older brother and his wife took him in after that and took good care of him making sure he got medical help & all.

When my youngest daughter was around 3yrs old we thought she had wandered off or been taken. We lived in a subdivision but it was kinda rural with huge lots and wooded areas. It was on a Saturday afternoon, kids had been playing outside all day, dh and I working around the yard when we noticed we didn't see her anywhere. We looked everywhere outside, had the neighbors looking and police came out and was getting a search party ready. I went inside to find a picture of dd and when I passed by one of the bedrooms I heard a noise....it was dd waking up from an "unscheduled" nap!! She had crawled up in the narrow space between the bed and the wall so we didn't see her when we searched the house. Everyone was so relieved when I walked outside holding her.

 

[Kaytie]

My xH disappeared one Saturday night but we found him in a motel on route 1 in Saugus. I got the house.

Fern's? It may be gone now.

 

[xjillianpaige]

When my youngest daughter was around 3yrs old we thought she had wandered off or been taken. We lived in a subdivision but it was kinda rural with huge lots and wooded areas. It was on a Saturday afternoon, kids had been playing outside all day, dh and I working around the yard when we noticed we didn't see her anywhere. We looked everywhere outside, had the neighbors looking and police came out and was getting a search party ready. I went inside to find a picture of dd and when I passed by one of the bedrooms I heard a noise....it was dd waking up from an "unscheduled" nap!! She had crawled up in the narrow space between the bed and the wall so we didn't see her when we searched the house. Everyone was so relieved when I walked outside holding her.

Something very similar happened to my brother when I was a kid. We were at a big party at one of the houses up the street and the kids were playing hide and go seek. My brother hid under the bed and fell asleep. The whole neighborhood was searching for him and finally someone happened to look under there and there he was.

We also had a close call when my brother nearly disappeared in Kindergarten but didn't! They had afternoon kindergarten at the time, so my parents put him on the bus and then ran out to do errands. Well, he never got off the bus at school, so the school called my parents to find out where he was. They also called me down to the office to ask me if my parents put him on the bus (I assumed so, but wasn't sure because I had been at school since the morning as I was in 3rd grade). This was before cell phones, so my parents didn't get the messages until a few hours later! It turns out he fell asleep or was daydreaming or something (this was before bus drivers were required by law to check the bus) and stayed on the bus until it was parked on the other side of town. He pried open the doors and started walking until someone saw him and took him into her home. She called the police and they brought him to the elementary school nearby. He said it wasn't his school but they didn't believe him until the secretary said he wasn't a student there. That's when he told them what school he went to and they drove him there. He crossed some pretty major roads and wasn't in a very nice part of town - so we're very lucky to still have him.

 

[penn19]

My xH disappeared one Saturday night but we found him in a motel on route 1 in Saugus. I got the house.

 

[lilia78]

A young boy my oldest daughters age (she also dated him when they were 16-17) was abducted and sexually assaulted from just south of our small town in 2006. He was held for 3-4 days but managed to escape. The guy that did it is one of Canada's most evil pedophiles. The young boy and his family have done at lot since then to help organizations to teach children safety. When he turned 18 he asked for his name to be released (it was under a publication ban as he was a minor when it happened) so he could openly talk about his story, he was granted his name release in January 2016. He is an incredibly brave young man and those days that summer completely changed him, his family and our community forever.

 

[Lilacs4Me]

Almost - like 3 degrees of separation. It is a current case. Her name is Danielle and my cousin was friends with her in high school. They are still frantically looking for her. It's so sad.

"Danielle Ann Stislicki was last seen leaving her job at Metlife in Southfield about 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2, 2016. Her parents said she planned to meet a friend for dinner, but never arrived."

http://www.hometownlife.com/story/n.../11/redford-vigil-set-missing-woman/96431934/

They are afraid she is the victim of Human trafficking. Apparently, it has become a big issue in the Detroit area in the past few years since it is in close physical proximity to the Canadian border.

 

[pryncess527]

I was just a kid, but one of my friends from middle school/high school had a sister who disappeared from the side of the road after getting a flat tire in 1987
Her body was located in 1989.
Her murderer was arrested & convicted in 2005

Her family were members of our church and so the entire church community was involved in the search for her, and in supporting them emotionally as time wore on without her being found. It really wore on the family. They were already political refugees who came to the US after the father was imprisoned by the North Vietnamese. They had already suffered so much as a family, it was really hard to watch them go through this.

 

[jaybirdsmommy]

My parents had a friend who was "missing" for almost a year. That was the official explanation. Unofficially, he had died in a house fire (drunk, lighted cigarette, there wasn't much left) and with no close family or dental records it took them a long time to officially identify his body.

Kind of sad, since everyone knew it was him.

 

[AndreaDM]

No, but there sure are days when I'd like to go missing...