This is a list of episodes of Disappeared, a television program broadcast on the Investigation Discovery network that documents missing persons cases. The program was first aired in December 2009, with subsequent seasons shown through 2013, and, after a three-year hiatus, resumed in 2016 through 2018. The show, again, returned in 2022 following a four-year absence.
Note: Episode subjects who are still actively missing are linked to their profiles at The Charley Project, a missing persons database. For persons subsequently found alive or deceased, names of subjects are linked to reliable news sources regarding their disappearance and discovery.
Found deceased after broadcast in 2012. Remains were found by a hiker in Delta County, near the Mesa County line. Lester Jones was arrested in 2014 and was convicted on December 27, 2016 of kidnapping and murdering her. He was sentenced to life in prison.[2]
Found deceased in December 2001, buried in the woods off Route 22 in Scarborough, Maine. Jeffrey "Russ" Gorman was convicted of first degree murder in Amy St. Laurent's death and sentenced to sixty years in prison.[3]
Found alive in 2011. She pleaded guilty to forgery and theft charges and was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay $6,000 in restitution.[5]
Found deceased in 2001, buried on a remote Texas ranch, 120 miles from San Antonio.[6] Gary Paul Karr was found guilty of extortion and other charges relating to the O'Hair cases and was sentenced to life in prison. David Rolland Waters was found guilty of kidnapping, robbery, and first degree murder, and was sentenced to 80 years in prison; he died in prison on January 27, 2003.
Found deceased in 2008, buried in sand beside the Suwannee River.
Her husband, Robert Glenn Temple, was convicted of her murder in 2011,[7] and died in prison in 2018.[8]
Found alive after broadcast, trying to enter US from Mexico in 2011. He pleaded guilty to two counts of theft and was sentenced in 2012 to twelve years in prison and was ordered to pay $460,000 in restitution.[9][10]
Found deceased after broadcast. On May 11, 2022, Drexel's remains were found. Raymond Moody has been charged with murder, kidnapping and first-degree criminal sexual conduct.[11] In late 2022 he pleaded guilty to murder, criminal sexual assault and several other offenses in her case.
Still missing, but possibly cremated. Ryan Alexander Duke, a former student at Irwin County High School, was charged with her murder in 2016; in April 2017, a grand jury indicted Duke in Tara’s murder. Bo Dukes (not related to Duke) was indicted for helping dispose of her remains, allegedly by burning. On March 26, 2019 Dukes was found guilty of all four counts he was facing in connection with Grinstead’s death. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. The trial for Ryan Duke, the man charged with killing Grinstead, was scheduled to start on April 1, 2019. Bo and Ryan confessed cremating Tara's body to the ashes. Despite pieces of a human skull and other bones being found on the pecan orchard indicated by them, no DNA was recovered due to the extensive damage by the fire.
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Found alive September 28, 2007, twenty feet down a roadside ravine, still strapped into the front seat of her car, which ran off the road near the Seattle suburb of Renton.
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Found deceased in 2013 after broadcast, by hunters three miles from where the Jamisons’ pickup truck and dog were found in 2010. No cause of death was determined, and the circumstances surrounding their disappearance remain unknown.
Found deceased after broadcast in 2017. Her remains were found in a wooded area south of Belton, Cass County. Kylr Yust, Kopetsky's ex-boyfriend and in jail for unrelated drug trafficking charges, admitted to strangling both Kara Kopetsky & Jessica Runions. Yust was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the voluntary manslaughter of Kopetsky and life in prison (30 years) for the second-degree murder of Runions in June 2021. At trial, Yust testified that his half-brother, Jessep Carter, was involved in the murders. Carter committed suicide in jail in September 2018.[18][19][20][21]
Found deceased after broadcast in the desert near Victorville, California, November 13, 2013. Charles "Chase" Merritt, a business associate of the patriarch Joseph McStay, was found guilty of all four murders and sentenced to death on January 21, 2020.[22]
Found deceased 2005, struck by several cars as she ran across Interstate 10. Samantha had no identification on her and she lay unclaimed at the San Bernardino County Coroner's Office. Her body was finally identified in April 2007.[26]
Found deceased in 2009, her remains were discovered three months later in rural farmland. Jesse Matthew Jr. was formally charged with her murder on September 15, 2015. On March 2, 2016, he pleaded guilty to first degree murder and abduction with intent of Morgan Harrington as well as Hannah Graham in 2014, and was sentenced to four consecutive life sentences without the chance of release or parole.[27][28]
Found deceased three weeks after disappearance, buried in a shallow grave near a lake in Orange County, Florida. Colleen was unidentified until DNA tests in 2011.
After broadcast, found deceased in October 2017. Denise Merrell Williams convicted in December 2018 of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and accessory after the fact;[30] in February 2019, she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, and an additional 30 years for helping plot the murder,[31] which was committed by her ex-lover and co-conspirator Brian Winchester.[32]
Found deceased in 2009. Victor Braun, convicted of her death, had dumped an oil barrel containing Danice’s charred, fragmented remains in Lyman Lake in the Arizona mountains some 400 miles away from the San Luis Valley.
After broadcast, found deceased in 2012 in a boulder crevice at 7,500 feet, in a remote area, about 18 miles into the wilderness Bob Marshall Wilderness Area south of Glacier National Park.
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Found alive in 2011 in Mexico. 15-year-old Chioma ran away with her 20-year-old boyfriend, Andrew Joshua Tafoya. He pleaded guilty to concealing a child and was sentenced to two years in prison.[36]
Still missing, but presumed dead. After broadcast, Robert Jason Owens, the last person to see Zebb alive, had been indicted in the homicide of Zebb Quinn. Owens has already pled guilty to the murders of Food Network Star television contestant Cristie Schoen, her husband J.T. Codd, and their unborn child.[38][39]
Found deceased in 2005. Her mummified remains were found in a trunk in a New Orleans apartment. Her boyfriend, John Morgan, was convicted of her murder in July 2009 and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.[40]
Found deceased in 2011, buried under the house of Bradley Tocker.
He was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of McGrath, fraud, and theft, and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.[41]
Still missing, but confirmed to be dead; in 2022 her boyfriend at the time, Ronald Roldan, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. As part of a plea deal with prosecutors, Roldan agreed to go on the record with his account of the murder. He claims they got into an argument in their Ashburn apartment, and he pushed her. She fell and hit her head on a windowsill. He says he put her body into a Christmas tree disposal bag and dumped her in the trash compactor at their complex.
Found deceased after broadcast in 2013. His remains were found beneath a sheer cliff in the Superstition Mountains near Phoenix, Arizona, wedged in an inaccessible crevasse.
Found deceased July 2001, likely fell through a snow drift and broke his leg while crossing a creek, dying of associated injuries and hypothermia. His remains were washed down the creek and into a small cascade where they were hidden in the rocks for years.
Still missing. In April 2018, three men: Warren “Phil” Welch and David Pennington (both deceased), and Ronnie Busick, were implicated in the murders of Bible and Freeman.[44] Police uncovered Polaroid photos of the girls bound and gagged which had been kept by Welch, Pennington, and Busick as "trophies."[44] Busick was arrested on April 22, 2018 and released in May 2023.[44]
Still missing, but declared legally deceased. Myron C. Wynn was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Wykel and was sentenced to twenty years in prison.
Found deceased. Scott’s bloodstained knifetorn clothing and body parts were found in a brush area at Nuaailua Bay near Keanae. Steven Capobianco, Scott's ex-boyfriend, was convicted of second-degree murder in her death and in March 2017 was sentenced to life in prison.[45][46]
Found alive. In June 2014, Lauryn was seen at a grocery store in Shoreline, Washington by a cashier who was a childhood friend. Lauryn's father confirmed that it was his daughter.[47] A notice later added at the end of the Disappeared program states that Lauryn "returned home on 18 October 2014".
Found deceased after broadcast. Remains found on March 7, 2018. While Morris was still a missing person, Enrique Arochi was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping her.[48][49]
Still missing, but presumed dead. On May 16, 2018, Jeffrey Willis was found guilty of Heeringa's kidnapping and murder[51] and received a life sentence without parole.[52] On November 2, 2017, Willis had been convicted of the 2014 murder of Rebekah Bletsch,[53] receiving a life sentence without parole.[54] On November 27, 2017, Willis' cousin Kevin Bluhm had pleaded no contest to being an accessory after the fact for helping Willis dispose of Heeringa's body and was sentenced to five years probation.[55][56][57]
Found deceased from presumed natural causes in January 2016, prior to broadcast. His remains were found in several locations in the southern portion of the South Mountain park, Arizona.[58]
Still missing. On December 12, 2016, Garland Eugene Lankford, former boyfriend of Hanna, was charged by North Charleston Police with obstruction of justice in connection with the 2005 disappearance of Brandy Hanna.[61]
After broadcast, found deceased on May 18th, 2018. Her remains were located in the bushes in Hobble Creek Canyon, above Springville. Her death is being investigated as a homicide.[63]
Found deceased on November 16, 2018, buried in the former back-yard of Carlos Andrew Rodriguez.[64] Carlos Andrew Rodriguez charged with murder on November 17, 2018,[65] and in July 2019 he confessed to the murder.[66]
Still missing. Franks' car was recovered in September 2020. It had been hidden in the garage of Gerald Rutledge, an elderly and incapacitated Saginaw man, for whom Franks' former girlfriend (Kendra, deceased September 2016) was a caregiver at the time of Franks' disappearance. There was a spot of blood on the driver's seat, and DNA testing showed it was Franks' blood.[67]
Found deceased after broadcast. Her remains were found by volunteers near the Cardinal Pointe area of Lake Eufaula, Pittsburg County, Oklahoma in March 2018, but went unidentified until February 2020. Her purse was found earlier in February 2017, about a mile from the remains.[69] Cody Ketchum was found guilty of the First-Degree murder of Holly Cantrell and of destroying evidence on March 14, 2024.[70]
Found deceased after broadcast. His remains were found about 15km away in Rains County, in a wooded area off U.S. Highway 276 and east of East Tawakoni in November 2022, but went unidentified until May 2023.[71]
Found deceased after broadcast. Warner's remains were found on August 17, 2024, in a resealed anhydrous tank on her husband Dale Warner's Paragon Road property. He was charged in connection with her death on November 22, 2023.[72]
