how many missing people do you know of in real life?

[notnowmarmaduke]

Just wondered - we are always saying how common it is, but how many of us know many missing people? Of course you might be closely associated with a missing person and not know it, as people don't necessarily talk about it, or might just not know themselves.

I have only known two people reported as missing, long term. one friends father, who was the classic went out for a pint of milk and was never seen again. ( 30+ years now). One runaway teen never found (15+ years)

Apart from that I have known a few runaway teens who were found, and two people reported as missing who I know went into witness protection

Also, have you ever been reported missing?

I'm going off topic slightly but does anyone know why a missing person investigation becomes a murder investigation when no body has been found? I've always wondered!

None

A distant friend from uni went mising but was found a few days later after a lot of searches. A friend's husband went missing and was found dead by uicide a few days later.
I hope I wont meet any more.

I've just clicked on that missing person's link. There are so many found but " unclaimed".
That's so sad, there are some way back to the 70's.
Surely some must be recognised. Heart breaking 💔

I suppoe if there is evidence of foul play? Let's say blood, CCTV footage of sorts, witnesses, confession?

Just 1. A school friend has been missing since 1996.

They believe she was murdered but never found her body 😭

My friends dad went to work and never came home, he was traced to a flight to Malaga, this was 35 years ago. I know the McCanns socially, everyone knows about their dd

I don't think you need a body to prove murder. Things like DNA evidence, witness statements, CCTV etc. can all help to secure a murder charge.

I'm just thinking of a few high profile cases where there hasn't been any overwhelming evidence but the status has changed to a murder investigation. I suppose the police don't reveal everything to the public

No, there's a lot they keep quiet, and a lot of times, people drop themselves in it by revealing things in interviews that only the murderer could possibly know about.

My aunt went missing in 1954. She was a young adult at the time. Her body was eventually found and my dad had to identify her as his parents couldn't cope with it. It stayed with him for the rest of his life and due to forensics in those days being less advanced they never found out what really happened, it was an open verdict.

My maternal grandparents had a very stormy relationship, with both of them cheating on each other, and my grandfather walked out on the family in 1946, to be with another woman. Nothing was heard from him for decades. When I was a kid, my mum assumed he was dead as he had always been in quite poor health.

It subsequently turned out he'd had a son with the new partner, who knew nothing about his dad having another family until 1987. At my grandfather's birthday party that year, he got drunk and let slip that he'd had kids with someone else. His son soon managed to track down my uncle, and it came as something of a shock to discover he was still alive.

My uncle refused to have anything to do with him, but my mum buried the hatchet and met up with him a few times before losing touch again. I only met him once, when I was 13. He'd lived a very eventful life by all accounts.

I didn't know much else about him until recently. As he was born in Dublin, it entitled me to an Irish passport, and I applied for it in 2017. I needed to provide a bunch of birth and marriage certificates to prove my lineage, and while getting all the documents I needed, I discovered he died in 1994.

Oh, and one of my mum's primary school classmates went missing in 1949. It turned out she was murdered by a paedophile, although it was kept very quiet at the time.

Never personally known anyone go missing. And never known anyone who committed suicide.
Never known anyone die of drug overdose.

When I was at school my friends mum went missing. She was found not long after murdered by my friends dad. My friend and her sister went to live with their grandparents and we never saw them again. It was before the days of social media and mobile phones so we had no way to keep in touch really as didn’t know the grand parents address. Her dad was recently released from prison because it ended up being charged as manslaughter but doesn’t seem right that he’s out.

We also had a teacher go missing over the Xmas holidays one year. He was found washed up a few weeks later. They think he’d had a bit to drink at new year and fell in to the river on his way home. He was a really popular teacher.

After I was raped, I had a complete mental breakdown went to a hotel took a massive overdose. I remember turning on my phone and getting a text to say I was now officially classed as a missing person. Thankfully I got better

My uncle (age 21 at the time) has been missing presumed killed since World War 2.
His ship was torpedoed and went down in the North Atlantic. No casualties were ever found and the ship is designated a Commonwealth War Grave .
His Mother never recovered and was crying out his name on her death bed (I was told) xx

I hope you're in a much better place now...sending love your way xx

Thank you so much! It’s taken a few years and a lot of counselling but I’m much better now 🩵

Just thought of another one

I was 13/14 and in the UK when a school friend said she was going to new Zealand to see family (an aunt,uncle and their 4 primary school age kids) in the 6 week holidays

Off they went,touching down and the aunt and kids came to meet them,leaving uncle at the house

Got back,and he had vanished-leaving a note on the kitchen table saying not to contact him but all his stuff (clothes/passport/bits and bobs) and his car where still there

40 years of marriage and he ended it like that-they never saw him again

She said it was like he'd just vanished in a puff of smoke

One is Stephen Clarke who vanished on a supposed walk with his mum on Dec 28th 1992. Both went in the loos and he never came out. Or rather she waited and never saw him.
Parents were arrested a few years ago but not charged. They suspect them of killing him and dug their garden up but found nothing. Both ex cops.

Not known anyone who has officially gone missing and never found, but where I live some different silly cow of a teenage girl seems to go missing every week, always found "safe and well" aka hiding at a mate's house hours to a day or so later, done deliberately for attention because mum wouldn't give them money for vapes, took the phone off them, turned off the WiFi or whatever shite and they threw a wobbly. Pathetic.

No evidence against the parents at all as far as I read and they've been cleared. The police investigation into this case was absolutely diabolical according to his sister

Mark Bishop went missing at the same time as Nicola Bulley but very few have heard of Mark Bishop. It is thought an older man going missing will not grab the public in the same way a younger mum will. Nicola pulled on the heart strings of the SM users, her photo and details were posted and tweeted tens of thousands of times in 24 hours. Many women could relate to her her day and the case played on their fears. Mark Bishop and many others like him sadly just pass the public and the media by.

Yes, me too. I’m so sorry for what that scumbag did. x