Missing is a docuseries that uncovers the untold stories of people who vanished, bringing to light compelling cold cases that never received the attention they deserved. Missing seeks to correct that while uncovering clues that bring us closer to the truth.
One March morning in 1999, 14-year-old Leanne Marie Hausberg walked out of her Brooklyn home and was never seen again. ABC7 New York's Kristin Thorne, determined to help the bereft family, reopens the cold case, following key clues.
When young Chelsea Michelle Cobo vanished in 2016, her mother became a private eye of sorts, uncovering her daughter's secrets and imperiling her own safety along the way to get to the truth.
A cheerleader from small-town Pennsylvania vanished after becoming trapped in a sex-trafficking nightmare in NYC. Her desperate mom confronted dangerous pimps as surprising clues emerged on social media. Now, ABC7 New York's Kristin Thorne is on the case.
On Oct. 24, 1978, Ethel Louise Atwell of Newark, New Jersey, went to work on Staten Island and never returned home. Workers heard the 46-year-old scream from the parking lot. By the time police arrived, Ethel had disappeared. In August 1978, only two months before Ethel's disappearance, another nurse was found buried in a shallow grave not far from where Ethel parked her car. Several children also disappeared from Staten Island in the 1970s and 1980s. Could Ethel's disappearance be linked to these other cases? Investigative reporter Kristin Thorne returns to the woods with Ethel's family in search of hidden clues in this terrifying cold case.
Kassandra Ramirez was a 25-year-old aspiring chef who disappeared from the Bronx in September 2018. Her family says one week before Kassandra disappeared she testified to a grand jury that she was raped by a family friend a few months before. Eyewitness News investigative reporter Kristin Thorne hit the streets of the Bronx to try to get answers for Kassandra's family only to find that the biggest clues in her disappearance could be not only on Long Island, but 1,200 miles away in Kansas.
Dr. Sneha Anne Philip lived in the shadow of the Twin Towers but did not work there and was not supposed to be there on Sept. 11, 2001. She was last seen shopping across the street from the World Trade Center the night before 9/11 and was never heard from again. Investigative reporter Kristin Thorne takes a deeper look at Sneha's life and whether it's possible that she did not die in the 9/11 attacks. Did something happen to the 31-year-old doctor the night before the event that changed the course of history? Is it possible that Sneha is still alive?
On a snowy day in February 1977, Leslie Guthrie left her home in suburban New York in a car with her two small children, only to never be seen again. Leslie's family says just before they disappeared, Leslie was having problems in her marriage. Could Leslie have taken Julie, 6, and Timmy, 3, and started a new life? Could they have joined a cult -- something Leslie had been reading about? Could their car have gone off the road and sunk deep to the bottom of one of the many murky bodies of water surrounding her house? Leslie's family and Tim Guthrie Sr., Leslie's husband, have gone in circles for decades trying to answer those questions. Reporter Kristin Thorne investigates this heartbreaking and mysterious cold case.
One of the last phone calls William "Billy" Smolinski made before disappearing in August 2004 was to a man who was also romantically involved with a woman Billy had been dating. Billy left a voicemail telling the man to "watch his back." Police believe Billy was murdered, but by whom? And where is his body? For two decades, Billy's heartbroken parents have been trying to find him. His case has even inspired a federal act, "Billy's Law," signed by President Joe Biden. Investigative reporter Kristin Thorne finds that the pieces of the puzzle lie across Connecticut -- witnesses who saw strange things happen at the time of Billy's disappearance. Kristin also tracks down persons of interest in Billy's disappearance and pushes them for answers.
Their bones may have been found, but their identities are still missing. Inside an office of the New York City Medical Examiner, dozens of clay faces are perched on shelves. They're the faces of people whose skeletons have been found in New York City but have never been identified. One was in the woods, plants growing through the bones and clothes, a wallet concealing a key clue. Another was hidden in plain sight under the George Washington Bridge. A third was found entombed in a wine cellar in one of Manhattan's poshest neighborhoods. The facial reconstructions represent what the people may have looked like when they were alive. Investigative reporter Kristin Thorne shows us these challenging anthropology cases - the cases represented by the faces in their office. Officials are hoping to solve the mysteries of who these people were, and exactly how they died.
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