2000s missing person cases

Colombian-French politician

Russian actor (1971-2002)

American businessman, record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer

American journalist (1963–2002)

criminal case

American computer scientist (1944–2007/2012)

Ukrainian journalist

Madeleine Beth McCann is a British missing person, who at the age of 3 disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Lagos, Portugal, on the evening of 3 May 2007. The Daily Telegraph described her disappearance as "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history". Madeleine's whereabouts remain unknown, although German prosecutors believe she is dead.

Pakistani Sufi spiritual leader, poet, author

Indian Kannada film actor, singer (1929–2006)

President of Serbia (1936-2000)

American actress and singer

former Algerian boxer

21st-century kidnappings

Italian artist (1974–2008)

Swiss environmentalist (1954-missing since 2000)

American professional wrestler

murder in Georgia, USA, 2007-03-08

Colombian politician

British unsolved death (1965-2003)

2008 death in Orlando, Florida, United States

American basketball player (1969–2002)

actor, dramatist, playwright, screenwriter (1941–2004)

stolen aircraft incident at Quatro de Fevereiro Airport

Belarusian journalist (1972–2000)

American actor (1987-2006)

group of humans

American murderer and fugitive

American murder of a girl

Iraqi general

Palestinian engineer

British mountain climber (1972–2006)

Brazilian priest and balloonist

explorer

American man who was found near a dumpster with no trace or memory of his past life

Honduran murderer

American photojournalist (1947–2001)

American woman who disappeared on the evening of February 9, 2004

German archaeologist

American racing driver

Afghan politician

journalist and humanitarian

2005 disappearance of an American teenager in Aruba

The Kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart occurred on June 5, 2002, when 14-year-old American girl Elizabeth Ann Smart was kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City, Utah by Brian David Mitchell.

2004 missing person case in the United States

American kidnapping victim and advocate

Indian actor

Italian journalist

Mexican lawyer (1964-2001)

"the ghost yacht" found off north-coast of Australia

murder of an American child by her neighbor

Disappearance of Brandon Swanson in Marshall, Minnesota, 2008

On 4 August 2002, two 10-year-old girls, Holly Marie Wells and Jessica Amiee Chapman, were lured into the home of a local resident and school caretaker, Ian Huntley, in Soham, Cambridgeshire, England. Both children were murdered – most likely by asphyxiation – and their bodies disposed of in an irrigation ditch close to RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. The bodies were discovered on 17 August 2002.

Emirati aristocrat

Uyghur journalist

Kurdish honour killing victim

Major crime in Singapore

Portuguese murder case

kayaker (1968-2007)

2006 disappearance of an American woman in Orlando, Florida, United States