Category
page 1Missing person cases in California

Julian Sands
British actor (1958–2023)
Patty Hearst
American kidnapping victim
Steve Fossett
American businessman, record-setting aviator, sailor, and adventurer

Mark Salling
American actor and musician (1982–2018)

Jim Gray
American computer scientist (1944–2007/2012)
Shad Gaspard
American professional wrestler, actor and basketball player (1981-2020)
Scout Taylor-Compton
American actress and singer
death of Elisa Lam
disappearance and death of a Chinese-Canadian student in Los Angeles, California, US in 2013
kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard
American kidnap victim
Aimee Semple McPherson
Canadian-American evangelist and media celebrity (1890-1944)
Wineville Chicken Coop Murders
series of kidnappings and murders in Los Angeles and Riverside County, California
Lindsey Pearlman
American actress (1978-2022)
Black Bart
English-born outlaw
Yuba County Five
unsolved deaths/disappearance of five California men
Jean Spangler
American actress

David Kenyon Webster
American journalist (1922–1961)
Lew Welch
American poet (1926–1971)
Keddie Murders
unsolved 1981 American quadruple homicide in Keddie, California
Theophilus London
American rapper and singer
Steven Stayner
American child kidnapping victim (1965-1989)

Gertrude Tompkins Silver
WASP pilot (1911-1944)
Taisha Abelar
author and anthropologist
Philip Taylor Kramer
American bassist (1952-1995)
Weldon Kees
American artist (1914-1955)
kidnapping of Colleen Stan
kidnapping that happened between 1977 and 1984
Andrew Fluegelman
American publisher (1943-1985)
Michele Avila
Student, murder victim
Florinda Donner
American writer and anthropologist
Jack Black
author
Arlis Perry
American murder victim

murder of Kristin Smart
American woman who disappeared in 1996
Murder of Blaze Bernstein
Antisemitic and anti-LGBT hate crime
Yda Hillis Addis
first American writer to translate ancient Mexican oral stories and histories into English
murder of Dorothy Jane Scott
Unsolved murder in the United States
murder of Laci Peterson
highly publicized criminal case in the United States
Murders of Kerry Graham and Francine Trimble
murder of two American teens