Kidnapped American children

Evelyn Grace Hartley was an American teenager who mysteriously disappeared on October 24, 1953, from La Crosse County, Wisconsin. Her disappearance sparked a search involving 2,000 people. In the year following her disappearance, investigators questioned more than 3,500 people though as of 2026 the case remains unsolved.

Pocahontas (, ; born Amonute, also known as Matoaka and Rebecca Rolfe; 1596 – March 1617) was a Native American woman belonging to the Powhatan people, notable for her association with the colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia. She was the daughter of Wahunsenacawh, the paramount chief of a network of tributary tribes in the Tsenacommacah (known in English as the Powhatan Confederacy), encompassing the Tidewater region of what is today the U.S. state of Virginia.

Elizabeth Ann Gilmour is an American child safety activist and commentator for ABC News. She was thrust into the national spotlight at age 14 when she was abducted from her home in Salt Lake City by Brian David Mitchell. Mitchell and his wife, Wanda Barzee, held Smart captive for nine months and repeatedly raped and assaulted her until she was rescued by police officers on a street in Sandy, Utah.

21st-century kidnappings

eldest of the five children of John Paul Getty, Jr. (1956-2011)

American rapper and member of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony

victim of homicide (1974–1981)

American living in Mormon, Tolkepaya, and Mohave societies after childhood kidnapping

American child kidnapping victim (1965-1989)

kidnapping victim and later sheriff's deputy

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.

American kidnapping victim and advocate

American murder case

kidnapping and murder victim (1986–1996)

1912 disappearance of a 4 year old American boy

American actress, singer and dancer

1989 missing person case

writer and singer of Columbus, Georgia

American comedian, actress and podcast host

American sex trafficking survivor

formerly unidentified child murder victim whose body was found in Arizona 1960

victim of Homicide

girl who was kidnapped and murdered in 2013

American kidnapping victim

American kidnap victim

American murder victim (1906–1911)