Missing....and still missing

Though D.B.Cooper is the most famous person to be vanished into thin air....Out of the 100 others, the following ones caught my eye and thoughts::

1.Jodi Huisentruit:

 

Jodi Sue Huisentruit (born June 5, 1968 – declared legally dead May 2001) was a television news anchor for KIMT.
On the day before she disappeared, Huisentruit participated in a golf tournament and then visited the home of Mason City resident John Vansice. According to Vansice, she came to his home to view a video tape of the birthday party that he had arranged for her earlier in the month.
At about 4:00 AM on June 27, 1995, KIMT producer Amy Kuns noted that Huisentruit had failed to report to work as scheduled, so she called Huisentruit's apartment. Huisentruit answered the telephone, explained that she had overslept, and said she was preparing to leave for the station. By 6:00 AM, however, she had still not arrived, and Kuns filled-in for her on the morning show "Daybreak." At about 7:00 AM, KIMT staff called the Mason City police.
When police arrived at Huisentruit's apartment they found her red Mazda Miata in the parking lot, as well as evidence suggesting there had been a struggle near that car. Among other evidence, Huisentruit's personal items, including her keys, were found strewn about the area and police reported recovering an unidentified palm print from her car.

2.April Fabb:

April Fabb (22 April 1955 - disappeared 8 April 1969) is an English schoolgirl who disappeared on 8 April 1969, when aged 13, between the villages of Metton and Roughton in Norfolk, England.
At around 1:40 pm on Tuesday 8 April 1969, Fabb left her home at 3 Council Houses, Metton to visit her sister's house in Roughton. Travelling by bicycle, she had a packet of ten cigarettes, 5 ½d and a handkerchief in the saddlebag, and was planning to deliver the cigarettes as a birthday present to her brother-in-law. Just after 2:00 pm, she was seen cycling along the country road towards Roughton.
At around 2:15 pm, her blue and white bicycle was found lying in a field by two Ordnance Survey workers. Despite an extensive police investigation and search of the surrounding area, no trace of Fabb was found, and the reason for her disappearance remains unknown.

3.Christopher Dale Flannery:

He was a criminal.Flannery left school at the age of fourteen and received his first criminal conviction later that year. At 17, he was convicted of housebreaking, car theft, assault against police, carrying firearms and rape and was sentenced to seven years imprisonment.
Not long after the attack on his family, Flannery moved into an inner Sydney apartment which was ironically close to CIB headquarters. On 9 May 1985 Flannery received a phone call from his boss, George Freeman asking for a meeting. Flannery, in leaving for the rendezvous, was unable to start his car. Flannery contacted Freeman who told him to catch a taxi. Flannery obeyed, and after exiting the Connaught onto Liverpool St was never seen again. It has been claimed by former gang associate Neddy Smith that police may be responsible for the disappearance of Christopher Flannery, as Smith noticed Flannery enter a police car with officers he knew on 9 May. The police officers had allegedly offered to take Flannery to meet with George Freeman.

4. Walter Collins

Walter James Collins, Jr. (September 23, 1918 – c. 1928) presumed murdered at age nine.

Nine-year-old Walter Collins disappeared from his home in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles on March 10, 1928.[37] Initially, Christine Collins and the police believed that enemies of Walter Collins, Sr., had abducted their son.[38] Walter Collins, Sr. was convicted of eight armed robberies and was an inmate in Folsom Prison.[39][40] The police searched a nearby lake in the hope they would find young Walter’s body.
Walter Collins' disappearance received nationwide attention and the Los Angeles Police Department followed up on hundreds of leads without success.[15] The police faced negative publicity and increasing public pressure to solve the case,[42] until five months after Walter's disappearance,[15] when a boy claiming to be Walter was found in DeKalb, Illinois. Letters and photographs were exchanged before Walter's mother, Christine Collins, who worked as a telephone operator, paid for the boy to be brought to Los Angeles. A public reunion was organized by the police, who hoped to negate the bad publicity they had received for their failure to solve this case and others. They also hoped the uplifting human interest story would deflect attention from a series of corruption scandals that had sullied the department's reputation. At the reunion, Christine Collins claimed that the boy was not Walter. She was told by the officer in charge of the case, police Captain J.J. Jones, to take the boy home to "try him out for a couple of weeks," and Collins agreed.
Three weeks later, Christine Collins returned to see Captain Jones and persisted in her claim that the boy was not Walter. Even though she was armed with dental records proving her case, Jones had Collins committed to the psychiatric ward at Los Angeles County Hospital under a "Code 12" internment – a term used to jail or commit someone who was deemed difficult or inconvenient. During Collins' incarceration, Jones questioned the boy,[15] who admitted to being 12-year-old Arthur Hutchins Jr., a runaway from Illinois, but who was originally from Iowa.[43][44] A drifter at a roadside café in Illinois had told Hutchins of his resemblance to the missing Walter, so Hutchins came up with the plan to impersonate him. His motive was to get to Hollywood so he could meet his favorite actor, Tom Mix.[42] Collins was released ten days after Hutchins admitted that he was not her son,[45] and filed a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department.[15] This aspect of the case is depicted in the 2008 film Changeling,[7] although in the film Hutchins does not confess until after Mrs. Collins has been released.
On September 13, 1930 Collins won a lawsuit against Jones and was awarded $10,800 (approximately $147,000 in 2011 dollars[46]), which Jones never paid.[15] The last newspaper account of Christine Collins is from 1941, when she attempted to collect a $15,562 judgment against Captain Jones (who was then-retired) in the Superior Court.

5.Madeleine McCann:

 

Madeleine McCann disappeared on the evening of Thursday, 3 May 2007. She was on holiday with her parents and twin siblings in the Algarve region of Portugal. The British girl went missing from an apartment, in the central area of the resort of Praia da Luz, a few days before her fourth birthday, and has still not been found. Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, have said that they left the children unsupervised in a ground floor bedroom while they ate at a restaurant about 120 metres (130 yards) away.

6.Michael Anthony Hughes:

He was 6 years old.
Evidence emerged that Franklin Floyd may not have been who he claimed he was and, in turn, cast doubt on his parental link to Michael. In 1975, Floyd used the name 'Trenton B. Davis' while living in Oklahoma City. He lived with a little girl who he stated was his daughter "Sharon Marshall". During the subsequent decade, the pair moved around under different aliases until 1988 when Sharon, then aged seventeen, gave birth in Tampa, Florida to her son Michael, whom Floyd claimed as his child. Following Michael's birth, he and Sharon married despite Floyd's previous statement that she was his daughter. The Florida murder victim, Cheryl Ann Commesso, was a friend of Sharon's; the two had worked together as exotic dancers. Earlier, Sharon had been an excellent student in high school and had been offered a scholarship to college. Floyd and Sharon left Florida after the murder.
In 1990, while she and Floyd were both wanted for questioning in the Commesso case, Sharon herself was killed in a hit-and-run accident in Oklahoma. Although Floyd was the prime suspect for the crime, he was never formally charged. He disappeared soon after Sharon 's death, leaving a two-year-old Michael in the care of social services. After being placed with foster parents, it was found Michael was developmentally delayed and prone to emotional problems although he made progress over time.
Floyd was arrested on a parole violation six months after he left Michael and a DNA test proved he could not be the boy's biological father. Despite this, Floyd demanded custody of the child when he was released from prison although his appeals were denied. It was six months after he was refused custodial rights over Michael that he abducted the child from his elementary school classroom. Police DNA tests later revealed that Sharon was not Floyd's daughter either and it is believed that she, too, might have been abducted by him as a child
Floyd entered Indian Meridian Elementary School in Choctaw, Oklahoma on September 12, 1994 and went to the office of James Davis, the school principal, where Floyd claimed he was the father of the then six-year-old Michael, who was in First Grade. Floyd then told Davis he was armed and forced the principal to take him to Michael's classroom.
Once Michael was in his custody, Floyd forced both him and Davis into the principal's pick-up truck and ordered the principal to drive out into the country. In a wooded area, Floyd handcuffed Principal Davis to a tree and fled with the boy.
Five hours later, the principal was rescued. For the next two months, there was no sign of either Franklin Floyd or Michael Hughes. Police swore out an arrest warrant on the charge of kidnapping. Eventually, Floyd was arrested in Louisville, Kentucky, but the child was not with him and no trace was found of him.