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Parents Apologize After Teen Found Safe With Boy

Young Miss Nebraska is on her way home after going missing

(Newser) - It was about a boy. Authorities say the missing Nebraska teenager discovered safe in Indianapolis after a four-day search was with a male companion, reports the Indianapolis Star . And the parents of Miss Nebraska Teen Michaela Wells add that it was a 16-year-old boy with whom she ran away. What'...

Miss Nebraska Teen Vanishes
 Miss Nebraska Teen Vanishes 
Mar 5, 2014 3:03 AM CST

Miss Nebraska Teen Vanishes

Family says Michaela Wells took out trash and never came back

(Newser) - Family members are fearful and police are stumped after the disappearance of a beauty queen who apparently vanished while taking out the trash Sunday night. Michaela Wells, 2013 winner of the USA National Miss Nebraska Teen competition, told her family she was going outside around 8:30pm and she hasn'...

Pregnant Woman Missing in Hawaii; SUV Was Torched

Her dog, clothes have been found: reports

(Newser) - A private search party is looking for a missing pregnant Hawaii woman whose SUV was found torched two days earlier in a rural area. Carly Scott's mother reported her missing Monday. She told police a family member last saw the 27-year-old redhead Sunday night at her sister's home...

Cops Name Suspect in Student's '89 Disappearance

Florida police think suspected serial killer Paul Rowles murdered Tiffany Sessions

(Newser) - Florida police think they're close to closing a 25-year-old case involving a missing University of Florida student. The sheriff of Alachua County said today that it's "highly, highly probable" that suspected serial killer Paul Rowles murdered Tiffany Sessions in 1989, reports CNN . Rowles died in prison last...

Missing Man Survived for Month on Butterflies

Stephen Currie found 30 pounds lighter after month in Australia bush

(Newser) - Stephen Currie has a fairly delicate creature to thank in part for his survival, having been stranded for a month in the Australian bush amid 100-degree temps. Three weeks after police gave up the search for the man who went missing Dec. 29 in northern Queensland, Currie, 40, was found...

Soldier Who Went Missing During Layover Is Found

Matthew Segur has been located in Dallas

(Newser) - A happy but still somewhat vague ending to the story of a missing soldier. After finishing his second tour of duty in Afghanistan, Matthew Segur, 39, was headed home to Texas via Chicago. His British Airways flight arrived at O'Hare International Airport on Monday, but the flight he was...

Chance Photo Leads Family to Missing Son

AP used photo of man for cold-weather story

(Newser) - An upstate New York family was reunited with their missing son after a photo of him appeared in their local paper alongside a story about cold temperatures hundreds of miles away in Washington, DC. Nicholas Simmons, 20, disappeared from his parents' home on New Year's Day, but after an...

Skeletal Remains Found in Hunt for 2 Missing Women

Discovery revives interest in case of missing teen girl

(Newser) - A police hunt for two missing women in South Carolina has turned up a grisly find: human skeletal remains near the location of a 3-year-old missing persons case, Fox News reports. Police were looking for 20-year-old Heather Elvis and 24-year-old Jamie Lynn Cross, who both vanished in Myrtle Beach, when...

Going Missing in Wilderness Saved This Man&#39;s Life
Going Missing in Wilderness Saved This Man's Life
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Dec 21, 2013 7:02 AM CST

Going Missing in Wilderness Saved This Man's Life

Says his daughter, who says Dick Sturm wouldn't have seen a doctor otherwise

(Newser) - You would think that the "saved" part would come into play just once in the story of a Longview, Wash., man who survived for five days in below-zero temps in his truck after getting lost on a logging road and sliding into an embankment. Dick Sturm managed to do...

Bodies Found in Desert Are Missing Family: Cops

McStays disappeared from San Diego 3 years ago

(Newser) - Human remains found this week in the Southern California desert are believed to be a San Diego-area family of four who disappeared more than three years ago—and their deaths appear to be homicides. San Bernardino County Sheriff John McMahon confirmed that 40-year-old Joseph McStay and his 43-year-old wife, Summer,...

9 Years Later, Missing Wis. Girl Found in Mexico

Connie McCallister and her 3 kids may make it home for Christmas

(Newser) - A Wausau, Wis., family may get an emotional Christmas gift this year: the return of their daughter and sister who's been missing for more than nine years. Connie McCallister, now 26, disappeared when she was 16 after she went to a party with her boyfriend, then 22, in 2004....

Miss. Family Missing After Bizarre Call, Fiery Crash
Family Missing After
Bizarre Call Found Dead
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Nov 5, 2013 1:17 PM CST

Family Missing After Bizarre Call Found Dead

Bodies in abandoned house near burned car

(Newser) - An entire family who went missing in Mississippi under strange circumstances has been found dead: Three bodies, believed to be those of of Atira Hughes Smith (also referred to as Atira Hill), 30; her husband Laterry Smith, 34; and her son, Jaidon Hill, 7, were found in an abandoned house...

Kansas Man Dies in Desert After Writing Notes to Family

Why David Welch was in Utah remains unclear

(Newser) - A sad, strange tale out of Utah: A 54-year-old man who set off from Kansas on an unexplained road trip crashed his vehicle in remote Utah, and it wasn't until seven weeks later that a hiker spotted the wreck with David Welch's body inside, reports CNN . But there'...

Questions Persist After Missing Hiker Found Dead

Jo Elliott-Blakeslee found a mile from companion's body

(Newser) - Craters of the Moon National Monument got a special OK to search for missing hiker Jo Elliott-Blakeslee during the shutdown. And on Tuesday night, the 63-year-old's body was finally found during a helicopter search, about a mile from where that of her hiking companion was located on Sept. 25....

SF Hospital Body in Stairwell Story Just Got More Horrifying

Worker reported seeing the woman a week before she was found: sources

(Newser) - It was pretty shocking when the body of a patient who had been missing for two weeks at San Francisco General Hospital was found in a stairwell last week . Even more shocking: A worker at the hospital had reported seeing a woman passed out in the same place a week...

Lost 72-Year-Old Survived on Algae, Frogs for Weeks

Gene Penaflor got separated from hunting partner in California forest

(Newser) - A pretty incredible tale of survival out of northern California, where a deer hunter lost in the Mendocino National Forest survived for 19 days. The most incredible parts: temperatures fell as low as 25 degrees; Gene Penaflor was at one point temporarily unconscious after falling down a steep slope; he'...

Body Found in Hospital Stairwell Is Missing Patient

She disappeared from room last month

(Newser) - A body discovered in a San Francisco hospital stairwell was that of a female patient at the facility who disappeared more than two weeks ago, hospital officials said today. San Francisco General Hospital Chief Medical Officer Todd May said officials were still awaiting confirmation on the identity from the medical...

Search for Missing Woman Stymied by Shutdown

And more unfortunate fallout...

(Newser) - One potentially tragic consequence of the government shutdown: With 16 employees of Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho now on furlough, the search for a missing woman last seen there has slowed dramatically. Jo Elliott-Blakeslee, 63, went hiking with Amy Linkert, 69, on Sept. 19; they were reported...

Even With Car's Discovery, Cold Case May Go Unsolved

DNA testing of remains under way

(Newser) - South Dakota police now have a 1960 Studebaker Lark and "skeletal remains" tied to a 1971 cold case . What they may never have is full resolution. There are strong indications that the car found in a creek on Monday is the one Pam Jackson and Cheryl Miller were in...

Fisherman Finds Car of Girls Missing Since 1971

South Dakota teens were last seen in Studebaker

(Newser) - A breakthrough in a case that has baffled South Dakota police for 42 years: The car that two girls missing since 1971 were last seen in has been found in a creek, the Argus Leader reports. Pam Jackson and Sherri Miller, both 17, were in the 1960 Studebaker Lark when...

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