USA TODAY examined the disparities in how audiences respond to social media posts about missing children and found not all cases get the same level of engagement. Using 375 video posts from the ...

A third of the almost 300,000 U.S. girls and women reported missing in 2020 were Black. That's according to the National Crime Information Center. Yet those cases are often marginalized or ignored by ...

Oklahoma has the largest percentage of missing people in America, with Louisiana and Arkansas also above average, the latest federal statistics show. The data also points to wide regional variation, ...

Thousands of people are reported missing in the United States each year. And while not every missing person case will get widespread media coverage, the fight to locate them — whether alive or dead — ...

Children are disappearing from northern Ohio in record numbers, with more than 1,000 minors reported missing so far this year. More than 45 children have gone missing in the Cleveland-Akron area this ...

It topped a 2004 letter to the editor written by Marcia Williams. Her letter read, in part: Please help me find my son, Terrance Williams. On Jan. 12, my son was driving to Naples from Bonita Springs.

Native American advocate Loris Taylor gets dozens of social media notifications about missing people every day. After two years of working to get a national alerting system to help bring them home, ...

This story originally aired on Oct. 12, 2024. It was updated on Jan. 7 and June 7, 2025. On Highway 93, en route to Missoula, it's hard to miss this billboard and Jermain Charlo's haunting gaze.

Authorities are questioning the account of a California mother in the disappearance of her 7-month-old son, after discrepancies surfaced in her statements to investigators. On Saturday, Aug. 16, the ...

The federal government is trying to catch up with a crisis of missing Native American women. But no one is addressing the problems that arise when they’re found. Ashley, right, trying to wake up her ...