One year ago, a sheriff's dispatcher in Orange County, near Orlando, Florida, received a strange 911 call. A small child was missing -- and had been for a month.
For more than a half-century Jerry and Marilyn Damman wondered what happened to their 2-year-old boy, who mysteriously vanished into thin air outside a Long Island bakery.
The parents of missing English toddler Madeleine McCann on Friday unveiled a digitally enhanced picture showing what she might look like today if she is still alive.
One year ago, a sheriff's dispatcher in Orange County, near Orlando, Florida, received a strange 911 call. A small child was missing -- and had been for a month.
For more than a half-century Jerry and Marilyn Damman wondered what happened to their 2-year-old boy, who mysteriously vanished into thin air outside a Long Island bakery.
The parents of missing English toddler Madeleine McCann on Friday unveiled a digitally enhanced picture showing what she might look like today if she is still alive.
The murder of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu in Tracy, California, has brought America's Amber Alert program under the microscope. Sandra vanished in broad daylight on March 27.
Relatives of missing 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings have given DNA samples, and the mobile home where she lived is no longer off-limits as a crime scene, authorities in Florida said Friday.
Police searching for a missing 5-year-old girl are investigating whether the woman who reported her gone was at home at the time the girl vanished, an officer working on the case said Wednesday.
For nearly three decades, John Walsh's black leather jackets and swagger have made him a crime-fighting cultural icon. But when he returned this week to the Hollywood police station, he was once again the father of a murdered child.
The sister of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson made an emotional appeal Saturday for the safe return of her 7-year-old son, who disappeared after a double shooting Friday on Chicago's South Side.
Police are questioning a suspect in the killings of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson's mother and brother, according to published reports, and are searching for a boy missing from the scene.
Israeli police divers found a suitcase Thursday containing human remains that are believed to be the body of a missing 4-year-old girl, an Israeli police spokesman said.
British police were told in March this year that missing girl Madeleine McCann may have been kidnapped by a pedophile ring which followed her three days before her abduction, according to reports.
Parents of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann have learned for the first time of a possible sighting of the child just after her disappearance, and don't know whether Portuguese police pursued it, a family spokesman told CNN Wednesday.
Portuguese police are still investigating Madeleine McCann's disappearance a year after the British toddler vanished without trace from a beach resort villa, a senior detective said on Saturday.
Madeleine McCann has become an icon for missing children, her parents said Friday on the eve of the anniversary of the British toddler's disappearance from a Portuguese holiday resort.
The family of Madeleine McCann wants to see surveillance video footage from a French diner where a Dutch tourist reported seeing the missing British girl, a family spokesman said Thursday.
A Dutch tourist says she recently spotted missing 4-year-old Madeleine McCann at a French restaurant near Montpellier, McCann family spokesman Clarence Mitchell said Wednesday.
The family of missing British child Madeleine McCann released two sketches Sunday of a man who may be linked to her disappearance last May from a holiday resort in Portugal.
The parents of missing British girl Madeleine McCann have been named as prime suspects in the disappearance of their daughter, according to media reports.
The father of Madeleine McCann has returned to his job as a cardiologist in central England, nearly six months after he stopped work to conduct a massive and public search for his missing daughter.
Authorities are examining a photo taken in Morocco showing a child who appears to resemble missing British toddler Madeleine McCann, a spokesman for the girl's family told CNN Wednesday.
British and Spanish reporters claim they have found the girl in the photograph
who some believed might have been Madeleine McCann. London's Evening Standard says the girl is actually a 5-year-old from the village
of Zinat in Morocco, the BBC reports.
UPDATE: British and Spanish reporters claim to have found the girl that some believed might have been Madeleine McCann. London's Evening Standard says the girl is actually a 5-year-old from the village of Zinat in Morocco, the BBC reports. More to come...
The family of Madeleine McCann, the British girl who vanished in Portugal more than four months ago, will launch a massive advertising campaign aimed at keeping the search for her a public priority.
The parents of missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann will not use public donations raised to help find the little girl to fund their legal battle, a spokesman for the parents has said.
After questioning the parents of a missing British girl last week, Portuguese police will hand over the Madeleine McCann case to the prosecutor's office Monday, police chief inspector Olegario De Sousa told CNN.
After wide-eyed English toddler Madeleine McCann vanished in May from her family's seaside vacation apartment in Portugal, her parents, Gerry and Kate, stepped in front of television cameras and made wrenching, heartfelt pleas for her return.
The mother of missing child Madeleine McCann has been named a suspect in her daughter's disappearance and could be arrested, a family spokeswoman said Friday.
The parents of missing child Madeleine McCann have launched a new channel on YouTube to allow people to post videos, images and information about their missing children.
A 15-year-old girl who had been missing for nearly a year was found Wednesday, locked in a small hidden room under a staircase in a West Hartford, Connecticut, home, police said.
Two very relieved and beaming families hugged their sons at news conferences Saturday, the day after the two missing boys were found -- one after four days, the other after four years.
Police believe the mother of a 5-year-old boy and her boyfriend staged his abduction -- which led to an Amber Alert -- to cover up his death as a result of "physical abuse and trauma," Sheriff James Hayes said Tuesday.
A 14-year-old girl sat huddled with her mother in a South Carolina courtroom Monday evening as a judge denied bond for the man accused of kidnapping her and holding her in an underground bunker for 10 days.
Police are looking for 8-day-old Abigale Lynn Woods after a woman allegedly stabbed the infant's mother and slashed her throat before taking the child from her rural Missouri home, investigators said Saturday.
A district attorney said he plans to seek the death penalty against a Purcell, Oklahoma, man who was arrested after the body of a girl was found in his apartment.
In March 2003, missing Salt Lake City, Utah, teenager Elizabeth Smart was found alive after being kidnapped and held captive for nearly nine months. Almost three years after her ordeal, the 17-year-old high school senior's life is getting back to normal, and she works as a quiet activist for missing children.
Louisiana officials working to rebuild families torn apart by Hurricane Katrina are being especially challenged in trying to locate some 500 foster children still unaccounted for by guardians.
Authorities are searching for a convicted sex offender suspected of taking an 8-year-old girl from her home near Reno, Nevada, according to the Lyon County Sheriff's Office Saturday.
As I write, Shasta and Dylan Groene, beautiful 8- and 9-year-old sister and brother, remain missing. We learned they were gone on May 9, along with the distressing news that their mother and brother were murdered along with a family friend.
Hoping to generate new leads in a case that has puzzled investigators, authorities on Monday announced a $100,000 reward for information leading to the safe return of the two missing children in Idaho or for information that could lead to those responsible in their presumed abduction.
Authorities have ruled out a purported sighting of two missing Idaho children at a Bonners Ferry, Idaho store, said a spokesman for the Kootenai County Sheriff's Department.
The coroner's office concluded Thursday the victims of a triple homicide in this quiet Idaho town died of blunt force trauma to the head -- a crime that has puzzled investigators and left two young children missing.
A man sought for questioning in an Idaho triple homicide contacted authorities Wednesday, and deputies hope he can help lead them to two missing children, a sheriff's spokesman said.
An Amber Alert has been canceled for two Florida children allegedly taken from their home in Kissimmee, Florida, by their father, police said Thursday.
In 1981, when the decapitated head of his abducted 6-year-old son was discovered, John Walsh pledged to turn his grief into action. More than two decades later, Walsh is a well-known victims' rights advocate and host of the long-running TV show "America's Most Wanted."
Police in Stockton, California, on Thursday night said a 12-year-old Guatemalan girl, who was the subject of an Amber Alert, has been found in nearby Tracy, California.
The father of a missing 9-year-old Florida girl made a tearful plea for public help in locating her Saturday, as authorities announced a $25,000 reward for information about her whereabouts.
Authorities late Friday said a Kansas woman who had a miscarriage earlier this year confessed to strangling a pregnant Missouri woman in her home and then cutting the baby from her womb -- a crime the local sheriff described as the most gruesome he had ever seen.
Authorities believe an infant girl found at the home of a Kansas woman is the same baby taken from her mother's womb Thursday after the mother was killed in Missouri.
Hours after Georgia's version of the Amber Alert went out in the abduction of three children, a motorist thought he recognized the kidnapping suspect's vehicle Thursday night on Interstate 75 and dialed 911 on his cell phone, authorities said.
The man sought by the FBI in the abduction of three girls and the slayings of four people apparently shot himself while being pursued Thursday evening, police said.
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