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page 11980s missing person cases
Andrés Pastrana Arango
President of Colombia from 1998 to 2002
Murder of Junko Furuta
Junko Furuta was a 17-year-old Japanese high school student who was abducted, raped, tortured, and murdered. Her abuse was mainly perpetrated by four male teenagers—Hiroshi Miyano (18), Jō Ogura (17), Shinji Minato (16), and Yasushi Watanabe (17)—and took place over a 40-day period starting on 25 November 1988.
Bambi Woods
American pornographic actress
Enrique Camarena
DEA agent murdered by cia (1947–1985)
North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens
abduction of Japanese citizens by North Korea from 1977-83
death of Azaria Chamberlain
1980 fatal dingo attack in Australia
Bizzy Bone
American rapper and member of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
Naomi Uemura
Japanese mountain climber
disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi
Vatican teenager missing since 1983
Tara Calico
American missing person
Steven Callahan
American sailor and writer
Tulasa Thapa
Sex worker
Alaíde Foppa
poet, writer, feminist, art critic, teacher and translator (1914-c.1980)
Abduction of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee
Korean abduction
Cotah Ramaswami
Indian cricketer (1896-1985)
Glico Morinaga case
unsolved 1984–1985 extortion case in Japan directed at the industrial confectioneries Ezaki Glico and Morinaga
Vladimir Alexandrov
Russian mathematician
Keddie Murders
unsolved 1981 American quadruple homicide in Keddie, California
Hristo Prodanov
Bulgarian mountain climber (1943–1984)
1982 kidnapping of Iranian diplomats
1982 unsolved kidnapping incident during the Lebanese Civil War
Sakamoto family murder
1989 murder in Japan
Terry Waite
English humanitarian
Dominick Napolitano
American mobster (1930–1981)
Anthony Spilotro
American mobster (1938–1986)
Abd al-Karim Ubeid
Lebanese imam
Abilio Diniz
Brazilian businessman (1936–2024)
Duncan MacPherson
Canadian ice hockey player
Lisa McVey
kidnapping victim and later sheriff's deputy
Disappearance of Suzy Lamplugh
British estate agent
Andrew Fluegelman
American publisher (1943-1985)
James L. Dozier
United States general
murder of Jacob Wetterling
1989 murder in the United States
Boris Weisfeiler
Russian mathematician
Venus Xtravaganza
American performer, escort, and dancer (1965–1988)
Kassim Ouma
Ugandan boxer
murder of Helle Crafts
Danish flight attendant murdered by her husband, airline pilot Richard Crafts
Ahmad Motevaselian
Iranian diplomat
murder of Karen Price
Welsh murder case
Federico Caffè
Italian economist (1914-1987)
Julio Iglesias, Sr.
Spanish gynecologist (1915–2005)
Michele Avila
Student, murder victim
Michael Spilotro
American mobster (1944-1986)
Brian Keenan
Irish writer
Dawn Olanick
homicide victim found in Blairstown, New Jersey, United States
Disappearance of the boy of Somosierra
case of a missing Spanish child
Antonio Bardellino
Italian mob boss (1945-1988)
disappearance of Melissa Brannen
1989 missing person case
Hana Gaddafi
daughter of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
Madame Max Adolphe
Supreme Head of the Tonton Macoute
Tammy Lynn Leppert
American actress and model
Thomas A. Mutch
American geologist and planetary scientist (1931-1980)
Al Indelicato
American mobster (1931–1981)
Ursula Herrmann kidnapping
homicide
Giarre murder
crime occurred in Italy
Baalu Girma
Ethiopian journalist and novelist
murder of Dorothy Jane Scott
Unsolved murder in the United States
murder of Marcia King
unsolved 1981 murder case
Peng Jiamu
Chinese biochemist (1925–1980)
Lori Erica Ruff
American identity thief (1968–2010)
Stompie Seipei
young UDF activist (1974–1989)