The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday it is searching for a U.S. Marine who went swimming in high surf off Puerto Rico’s northeast coast while on vacation. Officials identified him as 26-year-old Samuel Wanjiru from Massachusetts and said he was visiting the island with his family. He went missing Wednesday afternoon after going into the water at La Pared beach …
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Tennessee teenager Sebastian Rogers has been missing for more than a month since he left his bedroom in Hendersonville on Feb. 26, barefoot and with a flashlight. The Sumner County Sheriff’s Office issued an Amber Alert for Sebastian, a 15-year-old boy with autism, last month after he was last seen in the area of Stafford Court. “Honestly, we don’t know …
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Nashville authorities say Riley Strain’s death was likely “accidental” and not the result of foul play, according to local news. Workers along the Cumberland River in West Nashville found Strain, a 22-year-old University of Missouri senior who went missing on March 8 after going out downtown, in the water on the morning of March 22. The Metro Nashville Police Department …
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Brianna Maitland was eager to get some rest after her shift washing dishes at an upscale Vermont inn on the evening of March 19, 2004. She had an early-morning shift the next day working at a diner and had to get back to her friend’s house, where she was staying at the time, to get some sleep. The 17-year-old had …
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A Michigan man pleaded guilty Friday to kidnapping and killing a 2-year-old girl whose disappearance last summer led to a 100-mile search that stretched from the state capital to the Detroit area. Rashad Trice, 27, admitted that he took Wynter Cole Smith from her home in Lansing as part of a dispute with a former girlfriend who was the girl’s …
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The body of an experienced hiker was found at the base of a waterfall after she went missing days earlier during a Northern California hike. Monterey County Sheriff Tina M. Nieto confirmed during a news conference on Friday that the body of 30-year-old Caroline Meister was found by search and rescue teams around 10:45 a.m. PST at the base of …
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Nashville, Tennessee, police said on Friday they found the body of Riley Strain, a University of Missouri senior who went missing on March 8 after going out downtown. Authorities said Strain’s body was recovered from the Cumberland River in West Nashville on Friday morning, about 8 miles from downtown. Police said on X that no foul play-related trauma was observed, …
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The mother of a U.K. woman who vanished from her American boyfriend’s yacht in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2021 sent an open letter to President Biden on Friday, demanding he do something about the “failures” of police in the tourist hot spot, known for gorgeous beaches and a leisurely island life. Sarm Heslop vanished overnight between March 7 and …
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Forty-seven years ago, before her hair turned white and she had no need of a wheelchair to march around Argentina’s most iconic square, Nora Cortiñas made a promise to her son who disappeared: She would search for him until her last breath. Her commitment sums up the driving force of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, a human rights organization created …
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Two TikTok users assisting with the search for missing college student Riley Strain found his credit card near the Cumberland River in Nashville while they were livestreaming, according to a spokesperson for the Strain family. TikTok users @nobodyleftbehind13 and @annaclendening were filming their search live from Nashville on TikTok along with a third user who helped organize the stream, @rileylively, …
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