missing persons

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.”

As the FBI continues to search Gabby Petito’s fiancé Brian Laundrie, there are growing calls for there to be more attention placed on missing person cases that involve people of color. NBC New York’s Antonia Hilton reports.

A report says 710 Indigenous people were reported missing in the state over the past decade.

A former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI explains why he thinks Brian Laundrie’s parents will soon be summoned to a grand jury.

Robinson, Smith and relatives of Jelani “JJ” Day, an Illinois State University graduate student who has not been seen since August, all have something in common: They’re Black people who are exasperated after pleading with authorities to do more to find their loved ones.

Carmen Bolden Day wants to know what happened to her son, Jelani Day.

The Laundrie family says they have not heard from Brian since Tuesday, but the Petito family insists he is in hiding.

North Port Police Public Information Officer Josh Taylor told CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith” that investigators “are speaking with the family, currently, we are not speaking with Brian.”

Joe Petito, the father of missing 22-year-old Gabby Petito, explains why he’s urging her fiance to work with authorities in their search for his daughter.

A sheriff in Tennessee says at least 22 people are dead any many are missing after record-setting rain caused devastating flooding that swept away homes

The mainly female volunteers who fan out to hunt for the bodies of murdered relatives in Mexico are themselves increasingly being killed, putting to the test the government’s promise to help them in their quest for a final shred of justice.