2020s missing person cases

On February 1, 2026, Nancy Guthrie (née Long), the American 84‑year‑old mother of NBC News journalist and Today co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was kidnapped from her home in Catalina Foothills, a suburb of Tucson, Arizona. Evidence recovered at the residence indicated that Guthrie had been taken against her will, and Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos stated that he believed she had been abducted.

On January 4, 2023, Ana Walshe, a Serbian-American real estate executive, was reported missing by her employer and, separately, by her husband, Brian Walshe. Ana was last seen early on January 1 at the couple's home in Cohasset, having had dinner with Brian and a family friend on New Year's Eve.

Russian jurist and opposition leader (1976–2024)

Ebrahim Raisolsadati, better known as Ebrahim Raisi, was an Iranian cleric and politician who served as the eighth president of Iran from 2021 until his death in a helicopter crash in 2024. A protégé of supreme leader Ali Khamenei and a Principlist, Raisi was the second and most recent Iranian president to die in office after Mohammad-Ali Rajai.

Chinese female tennis player (1986-)

British actor (1958–2023)

Korean lawyer, Mayor of Seoul (1956-2020)

Hind Rami Iyad Rajab was a five-year-old Palestinian girl in the Gaza Strip who was killed by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the Gaza war, which also killed six of her family members and two paramedics coming to her rescue.

American professional wrestler, actor and basketball player (1981-2020)

Malawian economist and politician (1973–2024), vice President of Malawi (2014–2019, 2020–2024)

Chinese whistleblower and lawyer

South African high jumper (1982–2024)

head of Zaporizhzhia Oblast Administration since 2024, head of Melitopol in 2020-2024

Ukrainian photojournalist

2021 homicide case in Utah and Wyoming

Chilean-American novelist, filmmaker and blogger (1968–2024)

killing of German-Israeli tattoo artist

Canadian-born Israeli peace activist (1949–2023)

Malian politician (1949-2020)

March 2021 kidnapping and murder of a woman in South London, England

Syrian activist (1977-2024)

Pakistani mountaineer

submersible pilot; former head of France's Deep Submersible Program

Belarusian lawyer and political activist

kidnapped Israeli family in 2023 Israel–Hamas war

pro-Putin militant and war correspondent of American origin in Donbass

2023 murder in Hong Kong

British journalist, producer and presenter (1957–2024)

American actress (1978-2022)

Military Advocate General of the Israel Defense Forces

Japanese manga artist (1974–2024)

Palestinian physician

Malawian teacher and politician (d.2024), First Lady of Malawi (1999–2004)

Belarusian political activist

Russian-Israeli researcher (born 1986)

American rapper and singer

Thai political activist

Chinese journalist, YouTuber, former CCTV television presenters

British journalist, writer, editor

Israeli hostage taken by Hamas in 2023

French adventurer

Paraguay politician

Brazilian indigenist (1980–2022)

Equatorial Guinean association football player (1990–2023)

Japanese baseball player

Chinese businessman and whistleblower

Honduran fugitive

Icelandic mountaineer

train attack in Kaduna State, Nigeria

American football player

crime occurred in Italy

Israeli-Moldovan rabbi

English rugby union footballer

Austrian writer

murder of a British journalist and a Brazilian indigenous expert on June 5, 2022

Disappearance of a U.S. army soldier

Somali civil servant (1996–disappeared 2021)

A resident of Kibbutz Be'eri who was kidnapped during the Kibbutz Massacre in a surprise attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 , by Hamas terrorists.

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