Missing Persons

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.

The NYPD is asking for help finding a 16-year-old mother and her 3-month-old daughter who were last seen leaving their Bronx apartment more than a week ago. It’s not clear who filed the missing persons reports in the case of Melissa and Josmely Gonzalez. The two left their Grand Concourse home around 9:30 p.m. on Sept. 29 and haven’t...

Three young people were reported missing in one day on Long Island, according to police, with one being found the next day. In Nassau County, the missing persons investigative team said a 14-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl went missing after they left home on Monday morning. Jonathan Romero was last seen riding his bicycle on Broadway in New Cassel…

As awareness of missing person cases increases nationwide, friends and family of 30-year-old Lauren “El” Cho, who disappeared near Joshua Tree National Park in California in June, are asking people to bring the same energy to finding her. “Where is my sister?!” a sibling posted on Facebook in August. Since early July, the family has run a page called “Missing…

Brian Laundrie’s family lawyer says federal investigators confiscated a phone from his North Port, Florida, home where he left it before he went missing.

Widespread news coverage of a woman found dead in western Wyoming helped searchers in an unrelated case find a man’s body not far away, officials said. A team with a search dog looked for four hours Tuesday before finding the body of a man matching the description of Robert ‘Bob’ Lowery, according to a Teton County Search & Rescue...

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.

Two teenage cousins were reported missing on Long Island Tuesday morning, and both have expressed thoughts of suicide in the past, police said.

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.”

Police in Utah released body cam video from officers’ response to a call about a disturbance involving missing New York woman Gabby Petito and her fiance Brian Laundrie.

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.