Terrie Bea Ehrhart, age 23, vanished from Champaign, Illinois on May 10, 1981. Terrie was last heard from when she called her mother from a motel in Champaign. She told her mother that she would be home the following day to bring a Mother’s Day gift and a dress for her daughter. Terrie was never seen or heard from again. She was not reported missing until November 1981, and police eventually concluded that she was the victim of a homicide. They would not elaborate on any possible suspects or motives, but they did petition the court to allow the wiretapping of an unspecified home. Terrie’s mai ..read more

Brien Thomas Vogt, age 30, was last seen in Tacoma, Washington on April 8, 1984. Brien was born in Marin County, California on April 6, 1954 while his father was stationed in Northern California. The family had moved to Fairbanks, Alaska by the late 1950’s, where he appears in a newspaper as part of a kindergarten class. (Unfortunately, the students are listed alphabetically, not in the order of the photo, so I have no idea which one is Brien.) His two sisters appear in high school yearbooks in Alaska in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. Though I can’t locate Brien in the yearbooks, I did fi ..read more

Ira Elizabeth Shaw, age 15, disappeared from Austin, Texas on June 19, 1978. Ira, commonly known as Liz, had a summer job at the Lyndon B. Johnson library at 2313 Red River Street in Austin. She was last seen leaving the library at approximately 5:00pm. Her family had expected that she would walk to her aunt’s home, where she would meet her mother. She never arrived. Liz’s parents had divorced several years prior to her disappearance, but both still resided in the Austin area, and both were involved in trying to locate her. An ad was run in the newspaper for several days, asking anyone with i ..read more

Frank S. Passafiume, age 27, was last seen in Brooklyn, New York on April 14, 1976. There are literally no details available about his disappearance, but he did leave behind a son, who was only a month old when he disappeared. His son has no memory of him, but is eager to find out what happened to him. Frank may have lived at 244 Troutman St in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn at some point, according to public records. His son believes that Frank had lived in the Lawrence, Massachusetts area also at a time. Nothing is known about the circumstances of his disappearance, and there are ver ..read more

Sharon Christine Anderson, age 50, vanished from Everett, Washington on December 2, 2000. Sharon left her residence in Stanwood, Washington at 9:00am, telling her husband John that she was going to run some errands and do some Christmas shopping at the Everett Mall. She planned to return home by 4:30pm. The couple had plans to drive to Seattle that evening to have dinner and attend a motorcycle show. John awoke from a nap at 5:30pm, and was surprised she hadn’t woken him up. He then realized she hadn’t returned home. After several hours with no word from Sharon, her loved ones went out to loo ..read more

Sonja Kay Redbird, age 19, vanished from Dallas, Texas in 1975.  She was last seen in Anadarko, Oklahoma, where her family lived, in 1972. However, she was known to be living in Dallas after that time and was in contact with her family until 1975. Contact then stopped and nobody has heard from her since. Although the circumstances of her disappearance are not known, Sonja has been declared legally dead. Sonia is a member of the Kiowa Tribe and had several siblings. Her parents are deceased; her father having passed prior to Sonja leaving Oklahoma. Her father had children with two different pa ..read more

Scott Hayes, age 19, was last seen in Stafford, California on January 8, 1996. Scott resided with roommates in Stafford in 1996. Just after his 19th birthday, he told his roommates that he was going to Southern California to see a girlfriend. He proceeded to load all his belongings into his red GMC Sonoma pick-up truck, and drove away. The following morning, Scott’s truck was found along northbound Highway 101 in Redcrest, California, about eight miles south of his home. There was no sign of Scott at the scene, however a couple people came forward, believing they had interacted with him the p ..read more

Carl Darwin Moody, age 20-21, disappeared in late 1950 or possibly 1951. There is a lot of confusion surrounding Carl’s disappearance. His great-nephew just recently came across this family mystery while researching his genealogy, but because his relatives that are old enough to remember would have been so young at the time (and quite up in age now), nobody can remember much. It is known that Carl was living in Louisville, Kentucky in 1950; a newspaper article confirms that he was involved in a car accident there. According to the article, he received scrapes and bruises, and was taken to Nic ..read more

Hester Maynard Keith, Jr, age 47, vanished from Wake County, North Carolina on February 18, 1988. Hester, who often went by Maynard, was a partner in Rico Construction at the time of his disappearance. He lived with his wife and two children at 4407 Parkwood Rd in Garner, North Carolina. He has been described as a quiet man, who wasn’t the type to be involved in confrontations. He suffered from a muscular degenerative disease, which made him unable to walk more than about 50 yards at a time, but he seemed to live a pretty normal life. On the morning of his disappearance, he went to a construc ..read more

Anthony Guy Urciuoli, age 31, disappeared from Poughkeepsie, New York on January 24, 2001. Anthony lived with his parents in 2001, and left their home at approximately 11:30pm, after receiving a page. He told his parents that he was going to play pool with a friend and would be back in a few hours. Anthony never returned, and the identity of the person who paged him remains vague. When Anthony hadn’t returned, his family went out looking for him. They checked with Shark’s Pool Hall in Fishkill, New York, which was his usual billiards hangout, but nobody there recalled seeing him that night. A ..read more