All articles tagged with #missing person
The body of 67-year-old Glen 'Mo' Spence, who had been missing from Alabaster since August 13, was identified by the Shelby County Coroner on Sunday after being found in a wooded area near water in Pelham. Preliminary examinations indicate no signs of foul play or trauma, though a full autopsy is pending. The discovery concludes a nearly two-month community-wide search effort.
Human remains discovered in a Frederickson forest have been identified as 36-year-old Tomorrow Dawn Dill-Pickett, who was missing for nearly a year. Her ex-boyfriend, Kendrick Bruce, is charged with first-degree murder, identity theft, and unlawful disposal of a body. Digital evidence, including suspicious online searches and financial transfers, links Bruce to her disappearance, though the medical examiner has not yet released the specific cause or manner of death.
Six months after Amy Hillyard vanished, a forensic review of her devices has identified five new hiking trails she researched before disappearing. Investigators are now using drones to search these specific areas in Oakland and Berkeley, marking a significant shift in the search strategy.
Thomas Gigler, a 56-year-old father of three from Redlands, California, is presumed dead after jumping overboard from the Carnival Panorama cruise ship on September 19. The incident occurred during a family trip marking his 15th wedding anniversary. Surveillance footage confirmed he left the vessel from the 11th deck, but authorities have not determined a motive. A massive search operation covering 1,707 square miles of the Pacific Ocean failed to locate his body, leading the U.S. Coast Guard to suspend operations on September 23.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton confirmed that human remains discovered in Caldwell County in September 2026 belong to Jason Landry, a 21-year-old Texas State University student who vanished in December 2020. DNA testing by the University of North Texas Center for Human Identification verified the identity. While the discovery closes a six-year search, investigators report no evidence of foul play and the cause of death remains undetermined.
A 56-year-old male passenger is missing after going overboard from the Carnival Panorama while it sailed from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to Long Beach, California. The incident occurred on the ship's seventh day, prompting a temporary lockdown and a multi-agency search. While the man has not been publicly identified in initial reports, later coverage identifies him as Thomas Gigler, a father of three. The motive remains unclear, and authorities are continuing the search.
A male passenger aboard the Carnival Panorama went overboard on the ship’s seventh day of a 7‑night cruise from Puerto Vallarta to Long Beach, triggering a lockdown while CCTV footage was reviewed and U.S. and Mexican authorities conducted a search; Carnival is assisting the family and the motive remains unknown as rescue efforts continue.
Four-year-old Gus Lamont vanished from his grandparents’ remote Oak Park Station in South Australia in late September 2025, triggering the state’s largest police search but yielding no clues; extensive ground and aerial searches, mineshaft probes, and AI-assisted image analysis found nothing, police later flagged it a major crime and narrowed suspects to a family member (not yet charged), with renewed searches in 2026 keeping the case open but unsolved.
A man has admitted to killing 10-year-old George 'Junior' Burdynski, who disappeared from Brentwood, Maryland, more than three decades ago, marking a breakthrough in a long-cold local case.
Russell Ashford, the father of Antoinette Forbes’s 10-year-old son, is jailed in Beaver County, PA on a Montgomery County, MD warrant for a probation violation. Authorities say no charges have been filed in Forbes’s disappearance, and there’s no public link between Ashford’s arrest and the case. Forbes was last seen in Northwest DC, with Forbes’ family noting her belongings left behind. Court records reviewed by 7News show Ashford was convicted of first-degree assault in 2021 after a violent incident with Forbes, which left her with serious injuries, and a custody dispute between the two extended through at least 2025. The defense and prosecutors have described ongoing custody conflicts and alleged boundary-crossing, while investigators caution that previous violence does not prove what happened in Forbes’s disappearance. Ashford remains in custody awaiting extradition to Maryland.
Beaver County authorities say a man named Russell Ashford—matching the name and birth date of Antoinette Forbes’s child’s father—is in custody, though DC police have not named him a suspect in Forbes’s disappearance. Forbes, a 53-year-old DC mother who was last seen Sept. 4 in the Nebraska Avenue NW area, remains missing as relatives and friends continue to search. The arrest comes as investigators review a years‑long custody battle between Forbes and Ashford, including a prior assault conviction, and no public link between the Pennsylvania custody case and Forbes’s disappearance has been announced.
A 70-year-old Royal Oak man who went missing during a week-long solo hike at Isle Royale National Park was found safe by backpackers; investigators will continue to review the circumstances of his disappearance amid rugged, remote terrain.
A 70-year-old hiker missing on Isle Royale since Sept. 5 was found alive and alert Saturday by backpackers. He was in rough shape but able to speak and asked for food and water; his family and the National Park Service thanked the responders and those who helped in the search.
53-year-old Antoinette Forbes, a single mother and Eli Lilly employee, was last seen September 4 at a DC home; she left behind her two phones, wallet, laptop, car and her dog Max, and the front door was unlocked. Her family says she did not leave voluntarily and police have launched an active missing-person investigation, asking the public for any information via 202-727-9099 or text 50411.
An 80-year-old Carolyn Taylor, who had been missing from Lincoln since Aug. 23, was found deceased Sunday near Hughesville Road in Purcellville. The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office says detectives are working to officially confirm the identity and that the death is under investigation, with foul play not suspected at this time; more than 300 officials and multiple search units were involved in the search.