Missing with Marni Hughes

The last time Ava Grace Baldwin’s father saw her, she was 6. Eight years later, he believes his ex-wife took her and has been hiding her for years.

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Chelsea Grimm embarked on a cross-country trip in September. However, after changing her mind and planning to return home, she suddenly vanished.

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A rural Oklahoma community is desperate to find a farmer who simply disappeared one day, rattling the community and leaving them searching for answers.

Bruce Benson, a farmer who never lived outside the one-mile area where he grew up, disappeared one day, and his wife can’t find any clues as to where the 69-year-old might be.

Benson’s new boots sit by his chair, as if waiting for him to come home. He was getting all the wear he could out of his old pair, a source of pride for his wife, Maxine Benson.

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Fifteen years after Barbara Blount disappeared, her family still wonders who is behind the disappearance of a beloved family member who vanished from her home. The 58-year-old has been legally declared dead, but her family still has no idea what happened to her.

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The case of a missing 11 year old girl in North Carolina has gained both national and international interest.

 Madalina Cojocari was last seen before Thanksgiving. She can be seen on video footage from around 5 p.m. Nov. 21 getting off a school bus. Her mother and stepfather, though, waited three weeks to report her missing. What happened during those three weeks is a question that still does not have an answer, and Madalina is nowhere to be found. If police are any closer, they’re not saying so — at least not yet. Most of what is known about this case comes from court records, some of which raise more questions than answers.

Both of Madalina’s parents, Diana Cojocari and Christopher Palmiter, are now in jail and facing charges, though not for anything that specifically happened to Madalina. In North Carolina, parents and guardians are required to report the disappearance of their child in a timely manner. For Diana Cojocari and Palmiter, though, by the time they did report that Madalina had disappeared, it was weeks later, and only after her school started asking questions about her whereabouts.

Court records indicate that a counselor and a school resource officer made attempts to reach Madalina’s mother, and that they even dropped by the home after Madalina had been absent for more than 10 days. On Dec. 15, Diana Cojocari showed up at the school without her daughter, saying that Madalina had gone missing.

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Indiana University student Lauren Spierer was last seen barefoot and alone after a night out with friends. Spierer's family is still searching for answers more than 12 years after her disappearance.

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On a hot July day, a group of friends and family took to the water in innertubes to remember Kortne Stouffer, whose disappearance remains a painful mystery that haunts her family.

 “This is just kind of one of my favorite days of the year because we get to celebrate her. And we get to keep her name and memory out there and do something that she loved to do,” said Kortne’s sister, Kerstin Jennings.

The family has been looking for Kortne since she vanished in 2012. Kortne’s father, Scott Stouffer, said even people he doesn’t know have joined the effort to find Kortne

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Maria del Carmen Lopez, a U.S.-Mexico dual citizen, was abducted from her Mexican home while gardening in February. Now, she’s being held for ransom

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Tonya Whipp vanished — her purse, phone and beloved dog all left at home. Her boyfriend says she wanted space, but her family says that doesn't add up

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Nakyla Williams was last seen entering a gray pickup truck before disappearing in 2021. Now, her family believes she's been trafficked

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