missing persons

By Biometrica staffer Over Memorial Day weekend in 1996, Kristin Denise Smart, a freshman at California Polytechnic (Cal Poly) in San Luis Obispo, mysteriously disappeared in the middle of the night when she was walking back to her dormitory after a party....

By Deepti Govind At Biometrica, one of our key areas of focus is missing persons. We've repeatedly published pieces on this tragic epidemic — from the intersection of internet vigilantism and missing persons of color, to federal government measures, to how the...

By Aara Ramesh Over the last few weeks, the case of Gabrielle “Gabby” Petito has commanded the lion’s share of the internet and news media’s attention. Petito, a 22-year-old lifestyle vlogger (video blogger) from Long Island, was reported missing by her family...

By Deepti Govind Child abductions are, thankfully, rare in the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in its "Inside the FBI" podcast on May 25, Missing Children's Day. But when it does happen, the statistics tell a terrifying story:...

By a Biometrica staffer Today, May 25, is International Missing Children's Day. Over one million children are reported missing every year, the International Centre For Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) says on its website. In 2020, the National Center For Missing &...

By Charlotte Spencer It is estimated that more than 600,000 individuals go missing in the United States every year. While many of those missing are found relatively quickly, thousands disappear, for different reasons, whether by choice or not, for more than a year,...

For first responders and investigators, some of the most compelling cases are not the ones that got away, but the ones that disappeared without a trace. They are the people missing for decades, the bodies that were never found, the searches that...

By Gaétane Borders, Ed.S. If you're a missing African American child, you're very likely to get less media coverage, and be an oft forgotten statistic, than a missing white girl. Girl at play photo: © Akesin - Dreamstime.com African American children make...

Everybody gets email, all the time. Copyright Vkraskouski | Dreamstime.com By Kevin King According to reports, people across the world will send and receive 269 billion emails in 2017. Internet Live Stats, which is the accepted global standard for such matters, and part...