All cases profiled in this section feature individuals who were missing and have been located. Investigations may continue in certain instances (i.e. homicide).
Certain cases are not listed in this section at the request of the victim's family members or law enforcement officials.
Additional Resolved Cases are available through the link at the bottom of the page.
Jennifer R. Long
Long, 16, was abducted from Kansas City, Missouri on January 22, 1998. Wesley Ira Purkey was convicted of her murder in October 2003 and sentenced to death. He cooperated with investigators in Long's case and her remains were found in January 2004. Further details are unavailable.
Source Information: The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Long Thanh Vo
Vo, 54, disappeared after being checked out of Olive View Hospital in Sylmar, California on May 7, 2003. He was recovered in late 2003. Further details are unavailable.
Source Information: The Los Angeles Police Department Online
Amy Karimatu Conteh
Conteh ran away from her Silver Spring, Maryland home on December 15, 2001, her sixteenth birthday. She was located in December 2003 when she turned eighteen and decided to contact her family.
Source Information: The Doe Network
Opal Jo'Dace Jennings
Jennings was abducted from her grandparents' front yard in Saginaw, Texas on March 26, 1999, when she was 6 years old. In 2000 a child molester, Richard Lee "Ricky" Franks, was convicted of her kidnapping. Franks admitted to investigators that he picked up Jennings on the day of her abduction, but he said he later released her and did not know her whereabouts. He later retracted his statements, but was convicted anyway and sentenced to life imprisonment for the kidnapping. He will not be eligible for parole for 35 years.
In December 2003, a child's skull was found in a remote area about ten miles from Jennings's home. More bone fragments were located after an additional search of the area where the skull was found; the bones were scattered over a 300-400 foot area. Investigators determined that Jennings died from a crushing blow to the head, and her death has been ruled a homicide, but it cannot be proved whether she was sexually assaulted due to the decomposition of the remains. Charges have not been filed against Franks or anyone else in connection with Jennings's murder.
Source Information: The Houston Chronicle
Steven Mark Hicks
Hicks, 19, vanished while hitchhiking in Coventry Township, Ohio on June 18, 1978. He is believed to have been a victim of the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, who was responsible for the murder and cannibalism of over a dozen young men in the 1970s and 1980s. Dahmer was eighteen years old at the time Hicks vanished. Hicks's remains were found in Dahmer's family's home in Bath Township, Ohio in 1991.
Source Information: The Doe Network
Karen Yvonne Cornelison
Cornelison, a 54-year-old Altzheimer's Disease sufferer, wandered away from her Coarsegold, California home on April 3, 2003. Seven months after she was reported missing, on November 23, 2003, her skeletal remains were found about a mile from her home. Cornelison's death is under investigation, but she is not believed to have been a victim of foul play. Further details are unavailable.
Source Information: The Fresno Bee
Courtney, Jennifer and Joshua Marren
Courtney, Jennifer, and Joshua Marren, 3-year-old triplets, were abducted along with their older siblings Katharine and Timothy, from Chicago, Illinois on July 9, 1988. They were taken by their non-custodial mother, Carol Ann Marren. All five of the Marren siblings were located safe fifteen and a half years after their abductions, in December 2003. Further details are unavailable.
Source Information: The Doe Network
Miguel and Herlinda Alcaraz
Miguel, 8, and his sister Herlinda, 4, were abducted by their non-custodial father, Efren Vargus Alcaraz, from Las Vegas, Nevada on November 12, 1994. The children were found safe in December 2003, nine years after their disappearances. Further details are unavailable.
Source Information: The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Alden James Muma
Muma, 16, was last seen departing his Casnovia, Michigan residence on August 14, 2001. He never returned. He was originally thought to be a runaway, but he was barefoot when he left his home.
Muma's remains were found in the woods not far from his home in December 2003. His death is under investigation.
Source Information: Operation Lookout
Billy Jaymes Como
Como voluntarily ran away from Bangor, Maine on March 28, 2003. He was last seen boarding a bus in that city. He was supposed to take the bus to his home in Shreveport, Louisiana but never arrived.
Como was located safe in December 2003, nine months after his disappearance. Further details are unavailable.
Source Information: The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Richard Lee Cloyd Jr.
Cloyd, who lived in Poway, California, was last heard from when he called a friend on his cellular phone on June 7, 1999. He said he had had an argument with his employers about back payed owed him and would be going to the friend's house. He never arrived and was never heard from again.
On November 3 of that year, a body was found in La Paz County, Arizona. Through the efforts of the Doe Network, the MPCCN's sister site, the remains were identified as Cloyd's four and a half years later, in December 2003. He was eighteen years old when he died. His death is under investigation.
Source Information: The Doe Network
Lynne Louise Feliciano
Feliciano, 53, was last seen in Vero Beach, Florida on July 29, 1996. She was making a bus trip across the country from her son's home in Florida to her daughter's home in California. Feliciano's luggage arrived at the intended destination but she never did. In 1998, repairmen who were working on a billboard on Interstate 10 in Culberson County, Florida found partial skeletal remains behind it. The bones were identified as Feliciano's in 2003, by DNA testing. The cause of death is unclear, but foul play is a possibility. Her death remains under investigation.
Source Information: The Press Journal
Ana Lilia Rangel
Rangel, one year old, was abducted by her non-custodial father on October 30, 1980. He took her and her mother to Mexico, supposedly to visit his relatives, but left Rangel's mother in Monterrey and disappeared with Rangel. Rangel's mother searched for her for the next twenty-three years. She was located in December 2003, when she applied for a Texas Identification Card. Rangel, who is now twenty-five and pregnant, had been living with her father and a woman she thought was her biological mother. Her location has been confirmed and she spoke to her mother over the phone. No charges have been filed in her case.
Source Information: NBC4 Columbus
David H. Lemmer
Lemmer, 48, disappeared from Plainville, Massachusetts on July 21, 1996. He cared for his elderly father whom he lived with, then said he was leaving and would be back shortly. Lemmer never returned to his home and his car was later found abandoned.
Lemmer's bones were found in the woods in East Greenwich, Massachusetts in November 2002, over six years after he disappeared. The skeleton is not complete and authorities are uncertain what caused Lemmer to die. With the remains was his wallet, which was intact. Investigators believe he may have committed suicide, but they cannot prove their theory due to the decomposed condition of the body.
Source Information: The Providence Journal
Ariane Sayuri Miyasaki
Miyasaki was 13 when she ran away from her Culver City, California home on January 5, 1999. She ran with a female friend, who was shortly afterwards located in San Diego, California, alone. Miyasaki was found safe in November of 2003.
Source Information: The National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Alvin Sinquefield
Sinquefield, 82, disappeared without a trace from his Atmore, Alabama residence on October 26, 2002. His remains were found in November 2003, over a year after his disappearance, by squirrel hunters about six blocks from his home. Sinquefield's death is under investigation; the cause of his demise is unknown.
Source Information: WFSA 12
Robert Edward Mayotte
Mayotte, 11, was last seen playing outside his Ashland, Wisconsin home on September 17, 1988. He vanished without a trace that evening. He had no history of running away and an extensive search turned up no sign of his whereabouts, so investigators believed for years that he had been abducted.
In November 2003, two of Mayotte's friends confessed that on the evening of his disappearance, he accidentally shot himself with a shotgun they were playing with and died. His friends panicked and buried him in the woods, and kept their secret for over fifteen years. The men, now in their mid-twenties, led police to the grave. Testing is expected to confirm that the skeletal remains are Mayotte's. No charges have been filed in his death.
Source Information: The Duluth News Tribune