missing persons statistics are harrowing upwards of 600 000 people per year go missing in america
alone global statistics are hard to pin down but some reports indicate over 800 000 children per
year go missing while many of these people are found again many more are not so it should come
as no surprise that some of the people who vanish had high profile lives before they disappeared
number 10. richie edwards welsh band medic street preachers rose to fame in the 1980s
and 1990s and arguably the most famous song was if you tolerate this your children will be next
this came out shortly after the band suffered a great loss when lyricist and guitar player richie
edwards who had been with the band for six years disappeared edwards was known to have issues with
mental health and he cut himself in the past though not as part of a suicide attempt in
fact he famously cut the words for real into his arm with a razor in front of journalists after a
show in 1995 edwards was supposed to be headed to the united states as part of a promo tour
for their most recent album the dare the flight he vanished it was drawn a few thousand dollars
from the bank checked out of a hotel at 7am and was never seen again toll records showed that
he crossed a bridge which was a known spot for suicide attempt some time after but the records
show that he crossed at 2 55 am before it checked out his car was found at a gas station nearby
but no body was found speculation has continued that edwards faked his death sightings have
cropped up for years but nothing definitive has been proven 9. ambrose bierce ambrose beers wrote
what is still considered one of the greatest books of all time the devil's dictionary not to mention
his famous short an occurrence at outcreek he was celebrated and prolific and truly an american
original when he stated he was heading to mexico to chronicle the mexican revolution firsthand
people probably expected him to write something remarkable instead he vanished and was never seen
again there was another side to beerus that most of his readers probably never knew he was known to
be a drinker and also very acerbic with literally no evidence at all regarding what happened to him
numerous theories arose to fill in the gaps many of them colored by his already storied reputation
as a dark soul with a penchant for the dramatic and deadly nowadays you can find numerous theories
about what happened suicide murder execution and disease are all possibilities in the movie from
dusk till dawn 3 they suggested the man was a vampire so there's a lot of guesswork and
there's no real answers number 8. sean flynn for a time sean flynn was following in the footsteps
of his father errol flynn he had acted in a handful of films produced in europe however
he was most widely known as a photojournalist for his work as a freelancer during the vietnam war
his photographs appeared in time life and later he worked for upi he became famous or maybe infamous
for his high-risk photography right in the middle of a war zone and there has been no end to the
speculation that this was responsible for his eventual disappearance flynn parachuted alongside
u.s soldiers in pursuit of his famous images in 1970 he and another photojournalist were on
the trail of a viet cong highway checkpoint that they'd heard about they left cambodia bound for
saigon and a press conference with plans to see the checkpoint along the way no one ever saw them
again the defense intelligence agency reported that the vietcong had captured the men and given
them to cambodia's kimerouge who executed them but no bodies were ever recovered 7. joseph pickler
joseph pickler is most well known for playing brennan newton on beethoven's third and fourth
most movies about a lovable saint bernard he'd been acting since he was about age nine and had
appeared in several other movies and shows when his family decided he should return to washington
to finish schooling in 2006 he went missing police say the 18 year old left behind a suicide note
and though no body was found they obviously drew that conclusion however his family disagrees they
say the writing that the police found was just that writing they believe it was just poetry and
other such creative writing but the letter he left in his car which police found near a body of water
said he wanted to leave his belongings to his brother 6. lord lucan in the modern world not a
lot of people know the name lord lucan his proper name was richard john bingham the seventh earl of
luke and during his time he was quite a celebrity in the uk word is he was considered to play
james bond before sean connery got the role he didn't become a potential bond for no reason the
man drove in aston martin and quit his full-time job to become a professional gambler the major
issue with his decision was that he was also not a good gambler and he lost far more than he won
his debts were to the tune of a quarter million pounds bingham's wife eventually left him and took
the children bingo apparently lost his mind and would spar on his ex and record phone calls and
generally be a creepy weirdo about the whole thing this came to a head when his ex veronica duncan
was attacked with her nanny in their home the nanny was killed and duncan identified bingham as
the murderer the manhunt ensued bingham was never seen again 5. sweet jimmy robinson you may not
recognize the name sweet jimmy robinson and that's perhaps part of the tragedy of his disappearance
on february 7th 1961 robinson got the opportunity of a lifetime when he stepped into the ring with
katie clay the man we know today is muhammad ali he went toe to toe with one of the greatest boxers
in history for a total of 94 seconds it was ali's fourth match ever and robinson was a last-minute
opponent so he hadn't really trained for the bout at all not every boxer is destined for greatness
sure but robinson did try his record was only eight wins with 25 losses still he stuck with it
for seven years and he was good friends with ollie as well he told an interviewer back in 1980 that
he used to drive ali around in a pink cadillac and the champ would sometimes give him money when
he was down on his luck in 2009 espn was putting together an article on the 50 boxes who had faced
ali during his career they found 49 but robinson was missing and this was no lazy attempt police
and the fbi joined the hunt but turned up nothing not only could robinson not be found they couldn't
even find a trail robinson had no birthday that anyone knew they didn't even know his full name
or if he had any family there was no official documentation of sweet jimmy robinson existing
anywhere and he was gone never to be seen again 4. scott smith lover boy's hit working for the
weekend has been a pop culture staple since it was recorded in 1981. vh1 placed it 100
on their top 100 greatest songs of the 80s it has been in movies like click zoolander and was even
on the radio in grand theft auto vice city the canadian rock band featured scott smith on base
in his spare time he was an avid sailor and loved the water in the year 2000 he was sailing off the
coast of san francisco with some friends they were four miles from shore when a wave hit the
boat his passengers were below deck when the wave hit and it's presumed smith went overboard he was
not wearing a life jacket at the time that said neither the passengers nor rescue workers who
were called in later were able to find any sign of smith after two days of searching 3. jean spangler
dancer and actress jean spangler might have had a bright career ahead of her but would never know
she had started her career dancing and taking parts as extras in films she wanted to be a star
but on october 27 1949 she vanished and was never seen again unlike some disappearances
spanglers threw law enforcement for a real loop it wasn't that there were no leads if anything there
were too many her life was wrapped in intrigue and mystery but none of the paths they followed
had a satisfying conclusion when spengler left her house that evening she told her sister-in-law she
was going to work she called two hours late to say that she wouldn't be home until the next morning
spangler had not been scheduled to work that night at all her purse was found two days later
in a park the handle was torn there was a note inside that read kirk can't wait any longer going
to see dr scott it will work best this way while mother is away that was where the trail ran dry
spangler and her ex-husband were battling over custody of their young daughter he ended up
getting custody after spangler's disappearance the back dahlia killer was also active around
this time even the mob was suspected as a couple of known mobsters disappeared around the same time
but the mystery remains to this day 2. glenn miller one of the most famous big band performers
ever glenn miller joined the military during world war ii in a bid to help entertain the troops he
gave up a serious salary and for two years he performed and trained and boosted morale for
the troops abroad on december 15 1944 miller was flying from bedford england to paris france with
two other soldiers somewhere over the english channel the plane vanished neither miller nor
his companions were ever found the plane was not recovered either since they were not flying over
a combat area speculation that perhaps friendly fire took them out was offered up they were there
were even conspiracies that he was assassinated or that he was involved in espionage later an
raf navigator named fred shaw would recall seeing the same type of plane on the day and time miller
was in transit being knocked from the sky into the channel but it was never confirmed 1. rico harris
rico has achieved brief fame playing with arguably the most entertaining team in the world of sports
the harlem globetrotters he had only been with the team for a month when he was attacked by a road
rage incident and hit in the head with a baseball bat though he survived he never fully recovered
he suffered headaches and balance issues and was no longer able to play the game in the following
years harris's life spiraled out of control he was arrested numerous times for things like burglary
and public drunkenness but after a near-death experience brought on by an overdose he turned
his life around he went to rehab got clean and held down a job for seven years he met a girl and
moved to seattle to be with her he also relapsed into drugs on october 9 2014 harris decided to
drive back to california to talk to his mother and brother and bring some of his stuff back to
seattle he disappeared somewhere on the road he called his girlfriend at 10 45 to tell her that
he was tired and planned to get some rest in the mountains his car was found in a county parking
lot days later there were size 18 footprints located nearby but harris was never seen again