missing persons

A 12-year-old girl who’d been missing for over a week was found Tuesday, Chelsea police said, soon after asking for the public’s help finding her. The girl had been missing since Jan. 20, police said Tuesday morning. She didn’t appear in her last class at her middle school and didn’t return home. But the girl was found Tuesday and...

As authorities continue to search for Ana Walshe, a missing mother of three, her husband, Brian Walshe, appeared in court on charges of misleading investigators.

Brian Walshe is charged with misleading police investigating the disappearance of his wife, Ana.

Blood, along with a bloody knife, were discovered by law enforcement in the basement of the Walshe family’s home, prosecutors alleged during Brian Walshe’s arraignment amid the search for his missing wife, Ana Walshe.

The husband of a missing Cohasset woman appeared in court Monday, where prosecutors revealed new details in their investigation into her disappearance.

Family members and police in South Florida are asking for the public’s help in finding a woman with Alzheimer’s who disappeared after she landed at Miami International Airport Saturday, after flying in from Massachusetts. Officials confirmed that 63-year-old María Teresa Velásquez landed safely after her flight, but she has not been seen or heard from since her arrival. Miami-Dade...

A 2-year-old girl and her parents are safe, police in Maine say, after months spent looking for them in an effort that included the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Lydia Hansen and her parents, Jill Sidebotham and Nicholas Hansen, were last heard from near Springvale June 28, when Sidebotham last contacted her family, saying she would be going…

Luke Bell, a rising country music star, has died at the age of 32. Before his death, the “Where Ya Been?” singer was reported missing during a trip to Arizona.

The Cold Case Unit on the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office has announced a new missing person project to dig deeper into investigating cases of people who vanished in the county over the past five decades. The new initiative, which was announced Wednesday, is being run in conjunction with the Cold Case Unit’s ongoing push to identify previously unidentified...

As of Tuesday, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is part of the search for 2-year-old Lydia Hansen, who, along with her parents, Jill Sidebotham and Nicholas Hansen, has been missing for more than two weeks. Sanford Police have been searching since July 2 for all three and a silver 2005 Volkswagen Jetta they were traveling in with…

A search is underway for a missing California college student who disappeared after canoeing in the Pacific Ocean, last known to be setting up clues for a treasure hunt he was organizing.

The FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for information on a man went missing in Massachusetts 16 years ago, the agency said Wednesday. John Bui Tran was last seen at a party in Randolph on April 2, 2005, then wasn’t seen again. Police in Randolph and Boston have since been looking for him, and the FBI released a missing person…

A pair of teenagers has been found after being reported missing Wednesday in Canton, Massachusetts, police said. Jordana Merryfield, 13, and Thomas Walsh, 14, had last been seen getting on a bus from Galvin Middle School headed to Canton Center, local police said. Authorities thanked the public for their help.

Police in Randolph, Massachusetts, issued a statement Tuesday on a mysterious two-day FBI dig in the town earlier this month, but didn’t say what they’d been looking for. It also remains unclear whether any clues were found, and the investigation is still ongoing, police Chief Anthony Marag said in a statement. He did reveal that the dig was part...

A forensic pathologist describes manual strangulation, Gabby Petito’s cause of death, as “up close and personal…very targeted toward the victim.”

Army officials said in a statement Sunday night that Jennifer Sewell, a soldier on the Texas base who was missing, has been located and is safe.

FBI investigators dug up a backyard in Randolph, Massachusetts for a second day on Thursday, looking for something but providing little information to the media and neighbors on Mitchell Street. “I’ve said to myself, what is going on? Do we have a murder? Or do we have something else, or nothing at all?” said one neighbor who didn’t want...

An FBI team continued digging in the backyard of a home in Randolph for a second day Thursday, with neighbors continuing to wonder what they were looking for.

The FBI is searching for specific evidence on Mitchell Street, but who or what their investigation centers around is still unclear.

The disappearance of Gabby Petito has drawn a frenzy of coverage and brought new attention to a phenomenon known as “missing white woman syndrome.”