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Pa. Woman Declared Dead Turns Up After 11 Years

Brenda Heist vanished after dropping off her children for school

(Newser) - A central Pennsylvania woman who mysteriously disappeared after dropping off her children for school 11 years ago has surfaced in Florida, telling police she traveled there on a whim with homeless hitchhikers, slept under bridges, and survived by scavenging food and panhandling. Brenda Heist, 54, had been declared legally dead,...

Gas Station Employee, 25, Likely Abducted: Police

Jessica Heeringa disappeared Friday night

(Newser) - Jessica Heeringa was working the night shift at a Michigan gas station when she went missing just before the 11pm closing time Friday night, the AP reports. Investigators think the petite 25-year-old mother was abducted, and family members believe she was lured away from the Exxon Mobil in Norton Shores...

2 Still Missing After Balloon Crashes Into Pacific

5 women rescued off Peru coast

(Newser) - A hot-air tourist balloon carrying seven people in Peru fell into the Pacific Ocean yesterday, and authorities say they have rescued five women while the craft's pilot and another man remain missing. An official says none of the people on the flight were wearing life jackets. Members of the...

Lost Teen Skier Survived by Building Snow Cave

Nicholas Joy found at Maine's Sugarloaf ski resort

(Newser) - A 17-year-old skier, reported missing Sunday and found alive and well at Maine's Sugarloaf ski resort today, survived two nights in the wild by building a snow cave for shelter, drinking water from a stream, and walking toward the sound of snowmobiles during the day, officials say. The Maine...

Peru Proves Missing Couple Are Safe, Gives Them Booze

'I may delete my Facebook,' writes Jamie Neal about the fuss over her 'disappearance'

(Newser) - Garrett Hand's mother can rest easy: After vanishing for more than a month while on a biking trip in Peru, her son has turned up alive. The simple explanation, which Hand and girlfriend Jamie Neal posted to Facebook on Wednesday: They were traveling through Amazon villages that had no...

Peru: Missing Calif. Couple Alive, Having a Blast

Pair in 'remote, paradise-like' Amazon region

(Newser) - A young American couple reported missing in Peru are alive and having the time of their lives, according to Peruvian authorities. The country's tourism minister says Jamie Neal and Garrett Hand are currently on a small boat heading up a jungle river in a "remote, paradise-like region,"...

California Couple Go Missing on Peru Bike Trip

News comes amid kidnapping warning

(Newser) - A young couple from California who were cycling in Peru haven't been heard from since Jan. 25, a disappearance that was followed by a Feb. 13 warning from the US embassy in Lima of kidnapping danger near the cities of Cusco and Macchu Picchu, Reuters reports. Jamie Neal and...

Family Goes Missing in Pacific After SOS

Family tried to make life raft out of cooler: Coast Guard

(Newser) - Two adults and two children, both under age 8, are missing at sea off the San Francisco coast, the Coast Guard says. The family was in a 29-foot sailboat named Charm Blow when it started taking on water yesterday afternoon about 65 miles off the coast of Pillar Point. One...

Missing Tourist Found —in LA Hotel's Water Tank

Foul play suspected in Canadian's death

(Newser) - The body of a Canadian tourist missing in Los Angeles for three weeks has been found in the hotel she never checked out of—in a water tank on the roof. The grisly discovery was made by a maintenance worker investigating complaints of low water pressure, the Los Angeles Times...

McCann Lookalike Not Maddy
 McCann Lookalike Not Maddy 
Feb 14, 2013 8:11 AM CST

McCann Lookalike Not Maddy

DNA test results confirm New Zealand girl not missing child

(Newser) - Turns out a lookalike in New Zealand is not the long-missing Madeleine McCann. The DNA of a Queenstown girl was sent to Scotland Yard for testing, despite local police's certainty that she wasn't the British Maddy, who went missing in 2007. "Following a DNA submission, we are...

Missing US Woman Found Dead in Turkey

Turkish news agency says Sarai Sierra was stabbed in Istanbul

(Newser) - Turkey's state-run news agency says a missing New York City woman has been found dead in Istanbul. Sarai Sierra, a 33-year-old mother of two, went missing while vacationing alone in Istanbul. She was last heard from on Jan. 21, the day she was due back home. The Anadolu Agency...

Man Detained in Missing American Tourist Case

He planned to meet Sarai Sierra on day she disappeared

(Newser) - Istanbul police today detained a man who exchanged online messages with Sarai Sierra, the American tourist who disappeared Jan. 21 , reports the AP . The man was brought in for questioning before police decided to arrest him, but they would not provide any additional information about him or the reason for...

Missing Tourist Spotted on Security Video

Sarai Sierra seen 2 days before she was due to leave Turkey

(Newser) - Officials are piecing together the last known movements of an American tourist who vanished in Turkey last week. Sarai Sierra was seen on security video eating alone in a mall food court in Istanbul, near where she was staying, two days before she was supposed to return home. On the...

American Tourist Missing in Turkey

Sarai Sierra had been staying in dangerous neighborhood

(Newser) - Sarai Sierra left for her "dream trip," photographing architecture in Istanbul, on Jan. 7. But when her return flight landed on Jan. 22, she wasn't on it. Now her husband and brother have joined in the search for the American woman in Turkey, USA Today reports. Sierra...

25K Missing in Mexican Drug War
 25K Missing 
 in Mexican 
 Drug War 
leaked list
Nov 30, 2012 7:48 AM CST

25K Missing in Mexican Drug War

Leaked list arrives day before Calderon's exit

(Newser) - More than 100,000 murders were recorded in Mexico during Felipe Calderon's presidency—and now, a day before he leaves office, a staggering new figure has emerged. Some 25,000 people have gone missing over the past six years, according to an unreleased list by the country's attorney...

Missing Woman Found Alive... in Freezer

She hid there to escape storms

(Newser) - A Tulsa woman took shelter in a deep freezer during severe storms last weekend—but the freezer itself turned out to be the bigger danger. It seems she couldn't get out, authorities say, and she went missing for five days until relatives headed to the 59-year-old's apartment to...

Tourist Participates in Search ... for Herself

She was declared missing after changing clothes

(Newser) - A tourist in Iceland generously volunteered her time to search for a missing woman, only to find out she was, in fact, the missing woman. The debacle began when the woman got off a tour bus at a volcano, then changed her clothes before re-boarding. Because the driver didn't...

Susan Powell's Father-in-Law: I 'Lusted' for Her

Steven Powell's diaries cite obsession with missing woman

(Newser) - The diaries of Susan Powell's imprisoned father-in-law have emerged, and they tell a story of "lust" for the missing woman. "The fact is, I can hardly control myself when it comes to her," Steven Powell wrote in an entry obtained by KOMO-TV . From ABC News : "...

7 Cameroon Olympians Go AWOL

Suspected of seeking economic refuge in Europe

(Newser) - Seven Olympians from Cameroon, having been eliminated in their respective sports, have gone missing from the Olympic Village, and they're said to have " absconded " to take economic refuge in Europe. The first to go MIA was reserve soccer goalie Drusille Ngako, who wasn't selected for the...

Police Get Tip in Teen's 1989 Disappearance

Anonymous tip prompts new search

(Newser) - Investigators think they may be on the verge of a breakthrough in a 23-year-old mystery. A team of 9-13 cadaver dogs will search a Massachusetts State Park on Saturday in search of the remains of Melanie Melanson, a local girl who went missing in 1989, just five days before her...

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