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1975

* Jimmy Hoffa - Union leader.

1976

* Bradford Bishop - bludgeoned his spouse, three children and mother to death in 1976. He was indicted for the murders and is still at large.

1978

* John Brisker - former ABA and NBA player, disappeared after flying to Uganda.
* Mel Lyman - cult leader - 1978. Claimed to have died 1978 by cult members, but no body, death certificate, or other proof ever produced, date of death and burial place unknown ouside the "Lyman Family".
* Frederick Valentich disappeared after a mutual UFO-encounter

1979

* Etan Patz - schoolboy, disappeared while walking to New York City bus stop.
* Tommy Anthony DeSimone- A New York mobster
* Louis Cafora- An armed robber from New York
* Joanna Cafora- The wife of armed robber Louis Cafora

1980

* Rosemary Tonks - poet, about 1980.

1982

* Paul America - actor. After a failed attempt to reach Andy Warhol by telephone, he disappeared without a trace.

1983

* Emanuela Orlandi - a citizen of Vatican City.

1985

* Andrew Fluegelman - programmer, considered the father of shareware business.

1987

* Licorice McKechnie, a.k.a. 'Likky Lambert', singer-songwriter from the Incredible String Band, disappeared from L.A..

1989

* Jacob Wetterling, kidnapped on October 22 in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Was never found.

1991

* Sarah MacDiarmid - young female, disappeared from Kananook station in Melbourne, Australia.

1993

* George Berdynski (Burdynski?) - disappeared while walking through his neighborhood of Brentwood, Maryland.

1994

* Michael Anthony Hughes has been missing since his abduction from Indian Meridian Elementary School in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma by Franklin Delano Floyd (who claimed to be his father) on September 12th of that year. Floyd has claimed that Hughes is still alive somewhere in the U.S., but has not disclosed his location.

1995

* Whitey Bulger - leader of the Winter Hill Gang organised crime group. Fled FBI prosecution in 1995, included in the Ten Most Wanted list.
* Richey James Edwards - member of Welsh rock band the Manic Street Preachers.

1998

* Mikelle Biggs - child from Mesa, Arizona.
* Arlene Fraser - Scottish woman whose body was never found but is suspected to have been murdered by her husband Nat Fraser. The story has been covered extensively in the Scottish press since her disappearance.

1999

* Elisabeth (Elizabeth?) Chou - student in Ealing, west London.

2000

* Trevor Deely - bank official who disappeared in Dublin, Ireland. After his disappearance he became a household name following a blanket poster campaign.

2001

* Peter Falconio.
* Persons missing after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
* Niqui McCown disappeared after telling her mother she was going to do her laundry on July 22.

2002

* Bison Dele - former NBA player, thought to have been murdered in the Pacific Ocean by his brother, body never found.

2004

* Tooker Gomberg - Canadian politician and activist.

2005

* Natalee Holloway - U.S. teenager, disappeared in Aruba.
* Ray Gricar - District Attorney in Bellefonte, PA
* Charles Rutherford Jr. - Attorney who disappeared with his girlfriend in Lake Huron, her body was later found.
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