The three children who went missing in Australia are the Beaumont siblings: Jane (9), Arnna (7), and Grant (4), who disappeared from Glenelg Beach, Adelaide, on Australia Day, January 26, 1966, in what remains one of Australia's most enduring unsolved mysteries, fundamentally changing public perceptions of child safety.
The children unfortunately remain missing. ——————————————————————— May 13, 2025, Lansdowne Station, Nova Scotia… The Pictou County District RCMP, with the assistance of the Northeast Nova RCMP Major Crime Unit, continue to investigate the disappearance of Lilly and Jack Sullivan.
No, the Beaumont children (Jane, Arnna, and Grant) were never found, and their disappearance from Adelaide's Glenelg Beach in 1966 remains one of Australia's most baffling cold cases, despite extensive searches and investigations over nearly six decades, including recent digs in 2025 that also yielded no results.
On Christmas Eve in 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder family's home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Five of the nine Sodder children were missing, and despite a thorough investigation, no bodies were ever found.
Tom Phillips and his three young children disappeared from the isolated rural Waikato town of Marokopa on 9 December 2021. New Zealand Police believe that the children were taken by their father to a location somewhere in the western Waikato, after a dispute with their mother.
Meanwhile the Phillips children are in the care of Oranga Tamariki, and the agency said they were all together and doing well.
William Afton, within what is implied to be the Spring Bonnie suit, had approached the five children - Susie, Fritz, Gabriel, Cassidy, and Michael - and had lured them into a back room. Back there, he had slaughtered all five, before stuffing them into the mascot suits.
While it's hard to definitively name the single longest missing child globally due to varying records, Marjorie West, who vanished in 1938 at age 4 in Pennsylvania, USA, holds a strong claim as a very long-term missing child, missing for over 87 years, representing a case that spans decades without resolution. Other prominent long-term cases include Mary Boyle, missing from Ireland since 1977, and Nicole Morin, missing from Canada since 1985, highlighting the enduring mystery in these and countless other unsolved disappearances.
In 1947, a church minister from Fayetteville told the Sodders a strange story. While Chief Miller had claimed that no remains were found at the fire scene in 1945, he privately claimed to have found “a heart” in the ashes, which he placed in an empty dynamite box and buried at the scene without reporting the discovery.
Madeleine was 3 years old when she vanished on a trip to Portugal, visiting from the U.K., with her parents and two siblings in 2007. The girl was later discovered to be missing from her bed along with an open window to the room where she had been sleeping. Madeleine has never been found and no body has been located.
Madeleine Beth McCann (born 12 May 2003) is a British missing person, who at the age of 3 disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Lagos, Portugal, on the evening of 3 May 2007. The Daily Telegraph described her disappearance as "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".
No, William Tyrrell has not been found, and his body remains missing a decade after his 2014 disappearance in Kendall, NSW, though recent inquests have focused on theories involving his foster mother, with police suspecting he died at the home and his body disposed of, a claim the foster mother denies. Despite extensive searches and a $1 million reward, no trace of the three-year-old, last seen in a Spider-Man suit, has ever been discovered, making it one of Australia's biggest unsolved mysteries.
Two-year-old DeOrr Kunz Jr. vanished from Timber Creek Campground in Idaho on July 10, 2015, while camping with his family. The case remains unsolved despite extensive searches and investigations.
The United States has the highest number of missing persons, with 521,705 people reported missing in 2021.
Authorities have stated that there is no evidence that the children were abducted, but they have "not ruled out" that the disappearance is suspicious. The case has captured widespread attention throughout Canada and internationally due to the unusual circumstances surrounding the disappearance.
Indigenous Manuel Ranoque, father of the two youngest of the four Indigenous children who were found alive after being lost for 40 days in the Colombian Amazon rainforest following a plane crash, speaks to the media before arriving at the Military Hospital, where the children were hospitalized, in Bogota on June 11, ...
During the fire, George, Jennie, and four of the nine children escaped. The bodies of the other five children have never been found. The surviving Sodder family believed for the rest of their lives that the five missing children survived. Fayetteville, West Virginia, U.S.
No one has ever been charged with Nick's abduction and likely murder. The case remains unsolved, though an open and active investigation. Colleen Nick has since become an advocate for missing persons in the United States, and founded the Morgan Nick Foundation (MNF), which supports the families of missing children.
In October, only three months before the house fire, a life insurance salesman arrived at the Sodder's door. After he was dismissed, the man had shouted to George that the Sodder home “[would go] up in smoke and [his] children [would be] destroyed.”
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., 20-month-old son of the famous aviator and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, was kidnapped about 9:00 p.m., on March 1, 1932, from the nursery on the second floor of the Lindbergh home near Hopewell, New Jersey.
A woman who went missing 52 years ago has been found alive and well after police released a grainy photograph as part of an appeal, solving one of Britain's longest-running missing person cases. Sheila Fox, now 68, disappeared from Coventry in 1972 when she was 16.
According to data from the 2019 United States Census, people who are Black or African American make up 13.4% of the United States population (QuickFacts). However, nearly 40% of missing persons are people of color (“Statistics,” Black and Missing). Black children make up about 33% of all missing child cases.
In Five Nights at Freddy's, there are at least 11 confirmed child victims of William Afton from two separate "Missing Children Incidents" (MCI) at different pizzerias, plus the death of William's daughter Elizabeth (Circus Baby), and the initial victim Charlie (The Puppet), totaling around 13 core victims central to the story, though other potential victims and experiments add to the overall tragedy.
The first Afton child to die is widely believed to be the Crying Child (sometimes called Chris or Evan Afton), who died from the "Bite of '83" at Fredbear's Family Diner after his older brother Michael put his head in the animatronic's mouth as a prank, leading to a fatal crushing. While some theories place Charlotte Emily (Henry's daughter) as the absolute first victim in the lore timeline, the Crying Child is the first of William Afton's own children to perish.
Games. The Bite of 87 is an incident which led a human victim losing their frontal lobe due to being attacked during the day by an Animatronic.