Unlike many of the other entries on our list, Frank Morris’s fame is directly attributable to his disappearance. Morris was a career criminal who was convicted for numerous crimes throughout his life including armed robbery and narcotics possession, all despite having an above average IQ of 133. By 1960, Morris found himself locked up in the…
The most famous person to have ever disappeared in American history also may have never existed. A man calling himself D.B. Cooper hijacked a Boeing 727 traveling between Portland and Seattle on November 24, 1971. After he had the plane stop at Seattle-Tacoma airport to collect $200,000 in ransom and four parachutes, the alleged Cooper…
Union leader Jimmy Hoffa’s might be the most famous disappearance in American history. The longtime Teamsters head was very well-respected by his union members, but was also heavily involved in organized crime. In 1975 Hoffa, who had just gotten out of prison, was planning to meet with two Detroit mobsters as part of his quest…
Portrayed by Benicio Del Toro in Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas, Oscar Zeta Acosta was a Mexican-American lawyer and activist. He lived a crazy lifestyle as it was portrayed in the cult-classic film, but nevertheless, Acosta vanished in 1974 while traveling through Mexico when he was 39-years-old.
Jimmy Robinson had fought Muhammad Ali in Miami Beach on February 7th, 1961. Reporters tried everything to find out what happened to one of the lucky men to step in the right with the great one, but their hunt was only met by a dead end. In fact, he had no known data of birth,…
Canadian band, Loverboy, was one of the biggest rock bands of the early ’80s with hard-charging hits like “Hot Girls in Love” and “Working for the Weekend” which are still well-known and played around the world. Scott Smith was a founding member, staying with the group all the way until his strange disappearance at sea on November…
Ylenia Maria Sole Carrisi was the daughter of two famous Italian actors and was basically the Italian Vanna White, turning the letters on their version of Wheel of Fortune in the early ’90s. In 1994, while on a backpacking journey in Central America, Carrisi went missing near New Orleans. A security guard, when questioned about the case,…
Jean Spangler was a ’40s actress on the brink of becoming a star. One evening in 1949, she told her sister-in-law that she was going to meet her ex-husband, and then to a film shoot that would last into the night. She never returned. Later, her purse was found in a park with the straps…
The disappearance of Dorothy Arnold was the most-talked-about scandal in 1910 Manhattan. A wealthy socialite, the 25-year-old aspiring writer went out one day, telling her mother she was going to buy a new evening gown. She ran into a friend, whom she told that she was going for a walk in Central Park. That was…
Everyone knows the famous story of Amelia Earhart, one of the greatest aviators of her time, who disappeared in 1937 in an attempt to fly around the world. The thing is, though, that that’s not the whole story. Her plane didn’t simply vanish, as everybody thought for years; naval ships were receiving radio transmissions from…
