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News Articles: missing person

This image provide by the Fresno County Sheriff's Office, shows Tiffany Slaton, of Jeffersonville, Ga., when she was rescued in Fresno County, Calif. on Wednesday, May 14, 2025 after being reported missing in the High Sierra for three weeks. (Fresno County Sheriff's Office via AP)

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Missing hiker from Georgia found safe after surviving weeks in snowy California mountains

Tiffany Slaton, a 27-year-old Georgia woman who went missing for nearly three weeks in a remote wilderness area, was found safe Wednesday inside one of a closed resort's cabins.

May 16, 2025
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  • Associated Press
Audrey Backeberg was 20 years old when she disappeared from Reedsburg in July 1962, according to this bulletin from the Wisconsin Department of Justice.

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Police found a missing woman 60 years after she disappeared. She wants to stay hidden

Sauk County Sheriff's Office says Audrey Backeberg, now in her 80s, is living outside of Wisconsin. The detective who managed to track her down says she "had her reasons for leaving" in July 1962.

May 06, 2025
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  • Rachel Treisman
On March 10, a member of civil defense canine unit searches for Sudiksha Konanki, a university student from the U.S. who disappeared on a beach in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, the prior week.

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  • World

What we know about the search for a U.S. student missing in the Dominican Republic

Sudiksha Konanki is a Virginia resident and a student at the University of Pittsburgh. She was vacationing in Punta Cana with five others when she went missing last week.

March 12, 2025
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  • Ayana Archie
Travis Timmerman, a U.S. citizen who had entered Syria from Lebanon on a Christian pilgrimage and had been detained for several months, speaks with reporters in Damascus on Thursday, after he was found in the village of Thihabiyeh east of the capital following the fall of longtime Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

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Missing American Travis Timmerman found wandering barefoot outside Damascus

The 29-year-old said he was detained earlier this year after crossing into Syria on foot from Lebanon and held in prison until the fall of Assad. Timmerman's family called it a "Christmas miracle."

December 12, 2024
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  • Hadeel Al-Shalchi and
  • Bill Chappell
Maria Gomez-Perez

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A missing 12-year-old Georgia girl is found in Ohio after her community galvanized to locate her

12-year-old girl whose disappearance galvanized a Georgia community has been found in Ohio. Hall County Sheriff Gerald Couch says Maria Gomez-Perez was found Thursday in Dover, Ohio. She was in the company of a Guatemalan man who is now jailed on a rape charge.

July 26, 2024
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Daniel Robinson, 24, was last seen leaving a job site in Buckeye, Ariz., on June 23, 2021. Three years later, his father, David, continues the search for him.<br/>

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Daniel Robinson vanished 3 years ago. His father still hopes for his safe return

Despite leads from the public that have poured in over the last three years, there have been no solid answers regarding the 24-year-old geologist’s disappearance in Arizona on June 23, 2021.

June 29, 2024
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  • Jonathan Franklin
A woman whose remains were discovered roughly 40 years ago by children in Southern California has been identified as Maritza Glean Grimmett. The remains, which were discovered in 1983 in what is now Lake Forest, Calif., were positively identified by investigators in the Orange County, Calif., Sheriff’s Department.

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After 41 years, a missing woman has been identified. Police want to know how she died

The mom whose remains were discovered in 1983 in what's now Lake Forest, Calif., was positively identified Friday by authorities as Maritza Glean Grimmett, says the Orange County Sheriff’s Department.

June 19, 2024
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Antonio Wiley and Tonya Mosley.

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You think you know true crime podcasts? Wait till you hear Tonya's story.

When a daughter or sister disappears how does a family move on without closure? Host Brittany Luse is joined by Fresh Air co-host Tonya Mosley and and her nephew Antonio Wiley. The two produced She Has A Name, a documentary podcast that unravels the disappearance and death of Tonya's half-sister, Anita Wiley. Brittany, Tonya, and Antonio get into how Anita went missing, and how their show breaks the stereotypes of true crime podcasting.

Want to be featured on the show? Record your response to Brittany's question at the end of 'Hey Brittany' via voice memo and send it to ibam@npr.org.

May 28, 2024
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  • Brittany Luse,
  • Corey Antonio Rose,
  • and 4 more
Emma Tetewsky was found conscious and alert at Massachusetts' Borderland State Park on Monday, a week after she was reported missing. She was rescued by police after hikers spotted her vehicle stuck in the mud.

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A woman is found alive and stuck in the mud a week after she went missing

Hikers found the woman at Borderland State Park in Massachusetts, and police used all-terrain vehicles to rescue her.

July 06, 2023
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  • Ayana Archie
Chatham County Police Chief Jeff Hadley speaks to reporters in Savannah, Ga., on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022, about the investigation into the suspected death of missing toddler Quinton Simon. Hadley said investigators believe the 20-month-old boy is dead based on interviews and evidence collected since the child was reported missing on Oct. 5.

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FBI confirms remains in landfill belong to Georgia toddler

The FBI has confirmed that the bones found in a Georgia landfill are those of a toddler who had been reported missing last month. The agency said Monday that it used DNA analysis to confirm that the bones belonged to 20-month-old Quinton Simon.

November 29, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Misrach Ewunetie, 20, is a Princeton University undergraduate student who was last seen on campus Oct. 14. She is 5 inches and 4 feet and weighs 130 pounds.

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  • National

Princeton University intensifies its search for a student missing since last week

Misrach Ewunetie, 20, was declared missing after her family told university police they had not heard from her in days.

October 20, 2022
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By:
  • Ayana Archie

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