Angela “Angel” McManes disappeared from Jal, New Mexico, in May 2019, leaving behind her glasses, phone, money, cigarettes and essential diabetes medication. Because Angela sometimes traveled for extended periods, she was not reported missing for about a month. Her abandoned belongings convin

A college student was driving home for winter break when one wrong turn carried him onto a lonely gravel road outside Luling, Texas. Shortly after midnight, Jason Landry’s crashed Nissan Altima was found abandoned on Salt Flat Road. The headlights were still on. The keys were in the ignition.

Fay Rawley was a wealthy farmer, landowner, former bank president, and township supervisor from rural Illinois. On November 8, 1953, he left Macomb in his new emerald-green Cadillac and disappeared. Investigators later focused on a nearby strip mine. Sheriff Virgil Ball believed Rawley had been

On October 25, 1999, Leona Kinsey disappeared from La Grande, Oregon. She had told a friend she planned to meet a man at Albertsons. She never came home. Her purse, pager, cigarettes, medication, and beloved pets were left behind, while her GMC Jimmy was discovered days later in the store parkin

“I’m right here.” In the early morning hours of August 9, 2013, Brandon Lawson’s truck sat abandoned along a lonely stretch of Highway 277 in rural Texas. His brother and a sheriff’s deputy were nearby—but Brandon could not be found. His final calls described people chasing him, a field in th

Her car was found. Wendy Khan was not. On June 1, 2018, Wendy’s contact with her daughter suddenly ended. Days later, her Nissan Sentra was found abandoned in Mankato with a tire punctured by a blade. Her belongings and cats remained behind—but her purse and phone were missing. Wendy has neve