Solved cases
This is a list of people who were previously listed above but have since been located.
• The biologist Margie Profet ceased contact with her family in 2002 and had last been seen in 2005. In May 2012 she was told by a friend about her "disappearance" and contacted her family. She had been living in an isolated location, suffering from a physical ailment that caused her severe pain, and had not realized she was considered "missing".
• Daniel Morcombe disappeared from the roadside near his Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, home in 2003. His remains were found in 2011; Brett Peter Cowan was convicted of murder in the case.
• Russian media magnate Leonid Rozhetskin disappeared from his home in Jūrmala, Latvia, in 2008, widely assumed to be the victim of a political murder plot. His remains were found in a Latvian forest in 2012 and positively identified in November 2013.
• The four members of the McStay family abruptly disappeared from their Fallbrook, California home under suspicious circumstances on 4 February 2010. After much speculation on their whereabouts, their bodies were found by a biker in the desert near Victorville, California on 13 November 2013. On 7 November 2014, police arrested Charles "Chase" Merritt, Joseph McStay's business partner, and charged him with the murders.
• Holly Bobo disappeared from her home in Parsons, Tennessee, in 2011. Her skull was found in September 2014.
• Hannah Graham was last seen at the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville, Virginia, on 13 September 2014. Her remains were found on 18 October 2014. Jesse Matthew was charged with her abduction.
• Gavin Smith (57), an executive with 20th Century Fox, was last seen leaving a friend's house in Oak Park, California, on 1 May 2012. In 2014 he was declared legally dead from the night of his disappearance. His body was found later that year by hikers in a rural area near Angeles National Forest. In early 2015 police arrested an imprisoned drug dealer whose wife Smith had been involved with and charged him with the murder.
• Lucy Ann Johnson disappeared in 1961 but was not reported missing until 1965. She was found alive with a new family in 2013.