Therefore, it can be said with certainty that the assignment of a certain status to a missing person is a measure that protects the rights of the person himself and his relatives, or those people who are in civil relations with him.
How long does it take for a person to be considered missing?
Civil Code Russian Federation designated, after which a citizen of the country can be recognized as a missing person (missing). This period is 12 months from the date of fixing his loss, that is, from the day when the relatives filed an application with law enforcement agencies. If after a year there is no news about the citizen, then this status will be given to him.
In order for the procedure of recognition as missing to pass, you need to go to court. This is done by an interested person, that is, a relative. After that, you can draw up a trust management agreement for property, pay off the debts of the missing property at the expense of this property, and pay maintenance to dependents, if any.
This procedure also has the opposite effect: if a person shows up or law enforcement agencies receive information about his whereabouts, then the previous court decision is annulled. Along with it, all documents confirming the management of the property of the missing person by other persons are also canceled.
After how many years is a person considered dead?
If a year must pass to assign the status of “missing”, then a person is considered dead after five years. This is also announced by the court if the following conditions apply:
- For more than 5 years there has been no information about the whereabouts of the person.
- More than 6 months have passed since the disappearance of a person who disappeared under certain circumstances (life-threatening, that is, accidents, man-made or natural disasters, etc.).
- A period of 2 years has expired after the disappearance of a combatant.
When the court decides that a person can officially be considered dead, his property is inherited in the same way as it would be in the event of a real death. Marriages are terminated, personal obligations cease to operate, inheritance is divided according to the law.
As in the case described earlier, the court can annul its decision if a person is found or information about the place of his stay becomes known.
Of course, this information will not be superfluous for anyone. But you must admit, no one wants to lose loved ones. Therefore, do not wait for the tragic moment, contact the specialists immediately if you suspect the loss of a relative or friend. The detectives of the private detective agency "Inspector" will help, as well as offer a number of other services.
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Stories of mysterious disappearances always excite the blood, because no one still knows what happened to the missing people, where they are now and whether they are alive at all. Going to work, a person usually expects that after the work shift he will return home safely, but history knows several chilling cases when people mysteriously disappeared from their workplace and after that no one ever saw them again.
Deborah Poe
A salesperson in a convenience store is a job fraught with potential dangers. But 26-year-old Deborah Poe needed money, so she took a job as a night clerk at a convenience store in Orlando.
On February 4, 1990, Poe had a regular night shift at the store, and last time she was seen at about 3:00. An hour later, the customer found the store empty and contacted the police.
Po's car was still in the parking lot, her wallet was inside, and there was no sign of a robbery or struggle. The Bloodhound took Po's trail behind the store, but it ended quickly, indicating that she had left in another vehicle.
The case took a bizarre turn when another customer claimed to have entered the Store between 3:00 and 4:00, but Po was not there. Behind the counter was a young man in a Megadeth T-shirt. The guy sold her cigarettes even though everything seemed unfamiliar to him. This mysterious man has never been found, and the police are not sure if he is connected to Poe's disappearance.
To this day, Deborah Poe is considered missing. And she's not the only young woman who has disappeared working alone in a convenience store...
Lynn Burdick
In 1982, 18-year-old Lynn Burdick took a job as a shop assistant in a small Florida mountain town. She worked alone on the evening of 17 April. At 8:30 p.m., there was half an hour left before the store closed, and Burdick's parents called to see if they needed to take her home. But no one picked up the phone.
Brother Burdick went to the store to check on her. There was no sign of Lynn anywhere, and the cash register was missing $187. No leads were found during the search operation, but police speculated that Burdick's disappearance was related to an incident that had taken place earlier that evening.
In less than an hour, an unidentified man attempted to kidnap a young woman from the nearby campus of Williams College. The student ran away from him, and the criminal disappeared. Later, a dark sedan matching the description of the suspect's car was seen heading towards the ill-fated store. Since it was located only 15 kilometers from the college, it is possible that this same person also kidnapped Burdick.
One potential suspect was a man named Leonard Paradiso. Paradiso was convicted of killing a young woman in 1984 and is believed to be responsible for a large number of other unsolved murders. He may have been in the area at the time of Burdick's disappearance, but died in prison of cancer in 2008 before he could be linked to other crimes.
Curtis Pichon
For 10 years, Curtis Pichon worked as a police officer in Concord, New Hampshire, but his tenure as a police officer ended when he contracted multiple sclerosis. By the age of 40, Pichon was forced to take a job as a security guard at the Venture Corporation plant in Seabrook.
July 5, 2000 he went to the night shift. At 1:42 a.m., he called the fire department after his car inexplicably caught fire. No one ever found out the cause of the fire, but firefighters noticed that Pichon seemed unusually calm considering what happened to his car. After the fire was extinguished, he continued to work, but at about 3:45 a colleague noticed his absence. Pishon mysteriously disappeared, and no trace of him was found during the search.
Pichon also suffered from depression due to a battle with multiple sclerosis, so it was speculated that he was suicidal and went mentally deranged when his car caught fire. However, due to his illness, Pishon could not travel far to commit suicide, so his body had to be found near his place of work. The door and two vending machines at the factory were damaged, so it was possible that Pichon had run into a criminal.
A few years later, one of Pichon's former colleagues, Robert April, was arrested for a completely different crime. April was said to have claimed that he had killed Pishon. However, the charges against April were dropped, tk. no evidence linking him to Pichon's mysterious disappearance has ever been found.
Susie Lamplugh
One of the strangest disappearances in London history is the disappearance of 25-year-old real estate agent Susie Lamplugh. She was last seen at the Sturgis Estate Agents office on July 28, 1986, but she mysteriously disappeared when she went to show the house. potential client in Fulham. According to Lamplew's records, the client's name was "Mr. Kipper" and their meeting was scheduled for 12:45.
Lamplug never returned from this meeting, and her car was found about 2.5 kilometers from her home in Fulham. Witnesses saw her arguing with an unidentified person on the street that day before getting into another car. An investigation found no trace of Lamplugh, and she was pronounced dead in 1994.
Authorities thought Mr. Kipper was a serial rapist named John Cannan, who was released from prison three days before Lamplugh disappeared. He was nicknamed Kipper and looked like the unknown person Lamplugh was arguing with. In 1989, Cannan was convicted of murdering another woman and received three life sentences. One of ex girlfriends Kannana told police that he had spoken about the rape and murder of Lampew, and he was questioned about his involvement in her disappearance.
Even though the police had a strong case against Cannan, there was not enough evidence to convict him of Lamplugh's murder. Nevertheless, they publicly announced that Kannan, in their opinion, was the very criminal. Cannan remains in prison and denies that he killed Lamplug.
Lisa Geis
On the morning of February 27, 1989, employees of a company in Georgia came to their workplaces and found that the building was flooded. As it turns out, the flood was caused by a fire suppression system that went off at a workplace owned by 26-year-old programmer Lisa Geiss, who had been working the night before and could not be found anywhere. The fire and flood became a minor issue when a pool of blood was found at Geis' workplace.
Geis's car and wallet were found in a nearby woods, and police feared the worst when they found a bloody brick nearby. Due to flooding in the building and heavy rain outside, all evidence of the bloody scene was severely damaged.
The prime suspect was a recently fired employee. This employee may have broken into the building to make a mess and unexpectedly stumbled upon Geis. At the time, the suspect lived on a large property of his own with large quantity wells, and a few years later his ex-wife claimed that he once called them " good place even though the police searched many of these wells, they found no trace of Geis, and there is still no evidence linking the suspect to her alleged killer.
Brian Carrick
On the evening of December 20, 2002, 17-year-old Brian Carrick went to work as a stockman at a food market in Johnsburg, Illinois. The next day, Carrick's parents panicked because he never returned home and declared him missing. The police did not find a single witness in the market who could confirm that Carrick left work.
On the morning after Carrick's disappearance, one of the employees found a pool of blood in the food refrigerator. The manager, thinking that the blood had dripped from raw meat, ordered to wash the stain. However, drops of blood were found throughout the store, and DNA testing confirmed that it belonged to Carrick.
A few years later, a version appeared that Carrick's manager, Mario Cassiaro, was responsible for his disappearance. After their colleague Shane Lamb was arrested on a drug case, he turned in both Cassiaro and Carrick. According to Lamb, Carrick was procuring marijuana for Cassiaro and owed him money. When Cassiaro asked for Lamb's help to get the debt out of Carrick, things got out of hand. They accidentally killed him in the cold store and then disposed of the body.
In 2010, Cassiaro was charged with first-degree murder after Lamb agreed to testify against him in exchange for a reduced sentence. During the first meeting, the jury could not reach a unanimous conclusion, but in 2013 Cassiaro was found guilty and received 26 years in prison. He continues to maintain his innocence, and Brian Carrick's body has never been found.
Kim Leggett
Kim Leggett, 21-year-old girl who worked as a secretary in Mercedes, Texas. On October 9, 1984 at 4:30 pm, a client saw Leggett talking to two unidentified men in a car park. About 15 minutes later, Leggett's stepfather received an anonymous phone call informing him that Leggett had been kidnapped for ransom.
At first he assumed the call was a prank, but soon learned that his stepdaughter was out of the office. Even though her car was parked, her belongings and wallet were inside, Kim Leggett disappeared without a trace. The Leggett family received a $250,000 ransom demand. The letter was written in her handwriting.
Leggett's stepfather was a pilot, and she was rumored to have been kidnapped because he refused to smuggle into Mexico. Leggett left a husband and a one-year-old son, and some suspicions also arose about her husband - he allegedly mentioned the disappearance of his wife in a conversation with friends when no one knew about it.
However, the two men who spoke to Leggett were never found. After the first ransom demand, no one contacted her family again.
Trevaline Evans
In 1990, 52-year-old Trevaline Evans was the owner of an antique shop in the small town of Llangollen in North Wales. On the afternoon of June 16, Evans mysteriously disappeared from the store. Her car was still parked nearby, and a sign on the front door said she would be back in two minutes.
Evans bought an apple and a banana from a nearby store at approximately 12:40 pm and was seen returning to the store. The banana peel in the wastebasket indicated that she had returned to her workplace but what happened next remains a mystery.
During the day, Evans was seen in various places throughout the city, including in the vicinity of her home. But if Evans returned to the store after a two-minute absence and then left again, why was the sign still on the door? In addition, both of her handbags and a jacket were left in the store along with other items she planned to take home that day.
Over the years, Evans has allegedly been seen in London, France, and Australia, but none of these reports have been documented. In parallel, on the day of the disappearance, an unknown man was seen in the store, but he was never identified. After 25 years, the disappearance of Trevaline Evans remains one of the most confusing cases in the history of the United Kingdom.
Kelly Wilson
In 1992, 17-year-old Kelly Wilson took a job at Northeast Texas Video in the small town of Gilmer. On the evening of January 5, she was working at a video store and went out to withdraw money from a bank around the corner. Nobody has seen her since. Wilson's car was later found in the video store's parking lot with a punctured tire, the girl's wallet still inside.
No new information about the disappearance emerged for two years until some rather horrifying conclusions were drawn. The city began to believe that Wilson was kidnapped by a satanic cult, raped, killed and ritually dismembered.
In January 1994, eight suspects were charged with murder. Seven of the people were from the local Kerr family, and the eighth suspect was Police Sergeant James Brown, who was investigating Wilson's disappearance. The suspects were also accused of sexually abusing their own children, some of whom told Child Protective Services that they witnessed Wilson's murder.
However, it soon became apparent that the children had fabricated their testimony, and there was no evidence to support the abuse or murder. Charges against Sergeant Brown and the Kerr family were dropped and the satanic cult rumors were dismissed. All suspects claimed no involvement in the disappearance of Kelly Wilson, which remains unsolved to this day.
Paul Armstrong and Stephen Lombard
In 1993, a California towing company came under the spotlight when two unrelated employees disappeared without a trace. Tow truck driver Stephen Lombard and bulldozer driver Paul Armstrong had no obvious connection to each other, but for some reason they both disappeared on the same day.
That morning, Armstrong was last seen at his home by a girlfriend and reported missing when he failed to meet her for lunch. Lombard was seen after lunch, when he went into the office for a salary. He was never seen again after that, and his pickup truck was soon found abandoned in a K-Mart parking lot with the keys inside.
The strangest thing about this story was that the owner of the company, Randal Wright, was in the midst of strange events. In 2009, Wright's wife, who lived apart from him, mysteriously disappeared from a country house in Mexico. She was never found, and Wright did not even bother to inform the Mexican authorities of her disappearance.
“Missing” - many received notices with such a phrase during the war years. There were millions of them, and the fate of these defenders of the Motherland remained unknown for a long time. In most cases, it remains unknown even today, but there is still some progress in clarifying the circumstances of the disappearance of the soldiers. Several factors contribute to this. Firstly, new technological possibilities have appeared to automate the search for the necessary documents. Secondly, useful and necessary work is carried out by search parties. Thirdly, the archives of the Ministry of Defense have become more accessible. But even today, in the overwhelming majority of cases, ordinary citizens do not know where to look for the missing in the Second World War. This article may help someone find out the fate of loved ones.
Search difficulties
In addition to factors contributing to success, there are those that make it difficult to search for missing people in the Second World War. Too much time has passed, and there is less and less material evidence of events. There are also no more people who can confirm this or that fact. In addition, the disappearance was considered during and after the war as a suspicious fact. It was believed that a soldier or officer could be captured, which in those years was considered almost a betrayal. A soldier of the Red Army could go over to the side of the enemy, and this happened, unfortunately, quite often. The fates of the traitors are mostly known. Collaborators who were caught and identified were tried and either executed or given long sentences. Others have taken refuge in distant lands. Those of them who have survived to this day usually do not want to be found.
Where to look for POWs missing in WWII
The fate of many Soviet prisoners of war after the war developed in different ways. Some were spared by the Stalinist punitive machine, and they returned home safely, although for the rest of their lives they did not feel like full-fledged veterans and themselves felt some guilt before the “normal” participants in the hostilities. Others were destined long road by places of detention, camps and prisons, where they ended up most often on unsubstantiated accusations. A certain number of soldiers released from captivity ended up in the American, French or British zones of occupation. These, as a rule, were issued by the allies to the Soviet troops, but there were exceptions. For the most part, our soldiers wanted to go home to their families, but rare realists understood what awaited them and asked for asylum. Not all of them were traitors - many simply did not want to cut down the forest in the Far North or dig canals. In some cases, they are on their own, contacting relatives and even signing foreign inheritances to them. However, in this case, the search for the missing in the Second World War of 1941-1945 can be difficult, especially if such a former prisoner changed his last name and does not want to remember his homeland. Well, people are different, as are their fates, and it is hard to condemn those who ate bitter bread in a foreign land.
Documentary trail
However, in the overwhelming majority of cases, the situation was much simpler and more tragic. AT initial period During the war, soldiers simply perished in unknown cauldrons, sometimes along with their commanders, and there was no one to report on irretrievable losses. Sometimes there were no bodies left, or it was impossible to identify the remains. It would seem, where to look for the missing in the Second World War with such confusion?
But there always remains one thread, pulling which, you can somehow unravel the history of the person of interest. The fact is that any person, and especially a military man, leaves behind a “paper” trail. His whole life is accompanied by a documentary turnover: clothing and food certificates are issued for a soldier or officer, he is included in the medical record. Here is the answer to the question of where to look for the missing. The Second World War ended long ago, and the documents are stored. Where? In the Central Archive of the Ministry of Defense, in Podolsk.
Central Archive of the Moscow Region
The application process itself is simple and free of charge. For the search for those missing in the Second World War of 1941-1945, the archive of the Ministry of Defense does not require money, and the costs of sending the answer are covered. In order to make a request, you need to collect as much personal information as possible about who is to be found. The more it is, the easier it will be for the Central Asian workers to decide where to look for the missing in the Great Patriotic war, in which storage and on which shelf the treasured document can lie.
First of all, you need a surname, name and patronymic, place and date of birth, information about where you were called from, where you were sent and when. If any documentary evidence, notices or even personal letters have been preserved, then if possible they should be attached (copies). Information about government awards, promotions, injuries, and any other information related to service in the Armed Forces of the USSR will also not be superfluous. If it is known in which the missing person served, the military unit number and rank, then this should also be reported. In general, everything that is possible, but only reliable. It remains to state all this on paper, send it by letter to the address of the Archive and wait for a response. It won't be soon, but definitely. Mandatory and responsible people work in the CA MO.
Foreign archives
In the Second World War of 1941-1945, with a negative answer from Podolsk, one should continue abroad. Wherever the roads of the hard times of the Soviet soldiers languished in captivity did not bring. Their traces are found in Hungary, Italy, Poland, Romania, Austria, Holland, Norway and, of course, Germany. The Germans kept the documentation meticulously, each prisoner got a card with a photograph and personal data, and if the documents were not damaged during the hostilities or bombings, there would be an answer. The information concerns not only prisoners of war, but also those who were involved in forced labor. The search for missing persons in the Second World War sometimes allows you to find out about the heroic behavior of a relative in a concentration camp, and if not, then at least his fate will be clarified.
The answer is usually short. The archives report on the settlement, in the area of which a serviceman of the Red or Soviet army. Information about the place of pre-war residence, the date from which the fighter was removed from all types of allowance, and the place of his burial are confirmed. This is due to the fact that the search for those missing in the Great Patriotic War by last name, and even by name and patronymic, can lead to ambiguous results. Additional confirmation may be the data of relatives to whom the notification should have been sent. If the burial place is indicated as unknown, then usually it is a mass grave located near the indicated settlement. It is important to remember that casualty reports were often compiled on the battlefield, and they were written in a not very legible handwriting. The search for missing persons in the Second World War of 1941-1945 can be difficult due to the fact that the letter "a" resembles "o", or something like that.
search engines
In recent decades, the search movement has become widespread. Enthusiasts who want to clarify the fate of millions of soldiers who laid down their lives for their Motherland are doing a noble deed - they find the remains of fallen soldiers, determine by many signs their belonging to one or another part, and do everything to find out their names. No one knows better than these people where to look for the missing in the Second World War. In the forests near Yelnya, in the swamps of the Leningrad region, near Rzhev, where fierce battles took place, they are carefully excavating, transferring its defenders to their native land with military honors. Search teams send information to government officials and the military, who update their databases.
Electronic means
Today, everyone who wants to find out the fate of their glorious ancestors has the opportunity to look into the commander's reports from the battlefields. And you can do it without leaving your home. On the website of the archive of the Moscow Region, you can familiarize yourself with unique documents and verify the veracity of the information provided. From these pages breathes a living history, they seem to create a bridge between eras. Searching for the missing in the Great Patriotic War by last name is simple, the interface is convenient and accessible to everyone, including the elderly. In any case, you need to start with the lists of the dead. After all, the "funeral" could simply not reach, and for many decades the soldier was considered missing.
If the disappearances of ordinary people often become just statistics, then the disappearance of celebrities remains in history. Inventors, children of magnates, politicians and pilots disappeared, giving rise to a trail of versions and conjectures with their disappearance.
Roald Amundsen
The legendary Norwegian polar explorer, the first to conquer the South Pole, the first person to visit both poles of the Earth, “Napoleon of the polar countries”, Roald Amundsen, in an interview on June 7, 1928, said about high latitudes: “There I would like to die, only let death come to me like a knight, will overtake me in the performance of a great mission, quickly and without torment.
The day before, his friend and companion on the Antarctic expeditions, Sverre Hassel, had died at Amundsen's estate. Amundsen did not want such a death for himself. Probably, it was precisely because of the thirst for risk that Amundsen agreed to participate in the expedition to rescue his old enemy Nobele, whose airship crashed over drifting ice.
It was decided to carry out the search expedition on the Latham seaplane. At 4 p.m. on June 18, 1928, he took off from the Norwegian Tromsø, but after a few hours, radio contact with the aircraft was cut off.
After the disappearance of the polar explorer, different versions of what happened began to appear - from an accident for technical reasons to the most incredible. The Norwegian aviator Riiser-Larsen, in his memoirs, spoke about a certain stoker who claimed that he communicated with Amundsen during a telepathy session.
In August 1928, a seaplane float was found, in October a gas tank was found, identified as a gas tank from a Latham. Where Roald Amundsen and his four companions disappeared is still unknown. The last expedition to search for a polar explorer was carried out in 2009, but did not lead to anything.
Michael Rockefeller
Michael was not the "golden boy" of his father - the richest citizen of America. He studied at the university, served in the army - everything, like people do. And then, while his father was busy with politics (at that time he was the governor of New York), he went on an expedition to New Guinea.
The place, I must say, is very exotic - the descendants of billionaires get here infrequently. Michael in the tribes was greeted with disposition, willingly changing their ritual and household artifacts for the shiny rattles brought by him.
But Michael, of course, did not want to take samples of the same type. He wanted the rarest, and therefore the best and most expensive. Those valuable artifacts that Rockefeller Jr. dreamed of were in a lost tribe of asthmatics ...
Before setting off on his last journey, Michael Rockefeller even went to see a shaman. He told him that he saw the mask of death on his face. It is not known for certain what Michael thought, but probably something like "I'm going to a tribe of cannibals - they have a death cult - their masks will become mine."
A grim omen was the indignation of local residents about the overload of the catamaran. They warned Michael about possible trouble. Michael did not heed - and went swimming.
It ended almost fatally. The raft capsized and people barely made it to shore. These places were also famous for their cannibal crocodiles, so Michael's associates were still lucky. Rockefeller himself disappeared.
The official version of the reasons for the disappearance of the world's richest heir has not yet been approved. It is believed, however, that he was eaten by cannibals, asthmatics, to whom he went for artifacts.
If so, then this can be taken as the last tribute - the cannibals of New Guinea eat a person out of great respect for him.
Raoul Wallenberg
This man was posthumously awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2012 and is an honorary citizen of Australia, the United States, Hungary, Canada, and Israel. Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg deserved such an honor by saving tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from being sent to the camp. He was last seen in Budapest on 18 January 1945 with his driver. Later, evidence appeared that the diplomat was seen in the Lefortovo prison by other foreign prisoners, and after that the new leadership actually confirmed that Raoul Wallenberg was in the Soviet Union as a prisoner. True, how the fate of the diplomat ultimately developed remained a mystery. The trace of Wallenberg is lost in 1947, when he was in one of the prisons.
According to the version described in the memoirs of KGB General Sudoplatov, Wallenberg was arrested on the personal order of Bulganin, and in 1947 he was killed on the orders of Molotov. According to the general, Raoul Wallenberg was given a lethal injection, and his body was burned in the crematorium of the Donskoy Monastery.
There is also a version that Wallenberg is still alive. Former prisoners of the Ozerlag, the Poles Tsikhotsky and Kovalsky, claimed that they communicated with Wallenberg at one of the transit points. According to other testimonies, he was also seen in other camps and the Vladimir Central. The Poles also claimed that he was still alive in October 1959.
In addition, members of the Swedish commission who came to Moscow in 2000 in connection with the Wallenberg case did not rule out that he might still be alive.
Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa was the personification of what is usually shown in American films of union bosses. He made his way to the people from the very bottom of the social ladder and in 1952 became the leader of the freight transport union.
By 1957, corruption in his department had reached such a level that the US Senate established a special committee headed by Senator John McClellan, but it was only in 1964 that Hoff managed to “nail down”. He would have been sentenced to 8 years for attempting to bribe a member of the Grand Jury, the same year he received another 5 years for fraud with pension fund funds. However, out of 13 years, Hoffa served only five - in 1971, Nixon, by his power, reduced Hoffa's term to the served.
Hoffa was released, he was given a serious pension of two million dollars, but was forbidden to engage in trade union activities.
Then Hoffa decided to start where he came from and decided to return to the Detroit organization. However, he did not manage to carry out his plan. On April 30, 1975, Jimmy Hoffa disappeared without a trace. He was last seen in a restaurant parking lot in the Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Township around three o'clock in the afternoon. Before that, he called his wife from a payphone and said that he had been “thrown”. Hoffa's open car was found in the parking lot, but there was no trace of him. The disappearance of Hoffa is still considered a "talk of the town" in the United States, the story is played up in films and TV shows.
Sigismund Levanevsky
In 1937, at a meeting with Stalin, Sigismund Levanevsky stood up and said: "Comrade Stalin, I want to make a statement." "Statement?" Stalin asked. “I want to officially declare that I do not believe Tupolev, I consider him a pest. I am convinced that he deliberately makes sabotage aircraft that fail at the most crucial moment. I won’t fly on Tupolev cars anymore! ” sat opposite. He became ill.
This scene, described in the memoirs of another hero pilot, Baidukov, put the planned transarctic flight in jeopardy.
They decided to fly on an experimental aircraft DB-1. The next day after the start, Levanevsky reported on the radio about the failure of the right engine and bad weather conditions. He did not go on radio again. And no one saw him or the plane again.
There are different versions of what happened, but none of them has yet been confirmed. The search area for the aircraft stretched from Yakutia to Alaska. Last year, the Russian Geographical Society expedition found the wreckage of an unknown aircraft in Yamal, but there is no official confirmation that it was Levanevsky's aircraft.
Vladimir Alexandrov
Vladimir Alexandrov was a talented person - in science and in life. He spoke to English language with a Texan accent beloved by Americans and was the soul of the company. On business trips abroad, he did not live in hotels, but with his foreign friends. He was appreciated for his extraordinary charisma and openness.
Aleksandrov was a theorist of "nuclear winter". In 1983, he and a group of scientists presented a report in which he convincingly proved that even the use of 30% of those existing at that time would endanger life on Earth, and the planet would not be able to return to its previous state.
In 1985, Vladimir Alexandrov took part in a conference in Spain. Before returning to Moscow, he decided to take a walk, left the hotel and disappeared. Nobody saw him again. Main version disappearance - a physicist was kidnapped by special services.
Louis Leprince
We all know that the first film was made by the Lumiere brothers, but it's not. The first film, however, with a running time of just over two seconds, was shot in London by the French inventor Louis Leprince. The film was called Roundhay Garden Scene. It came out seven years(!) before the official birth of cinema.
Louis Leprince saw his main competitor for the priority of the inventions of the American Thomas Edison. And if Leprince was forced to get into debt for further work, then Edison was showered with loans like confetti. However, Leprince Edison overtook.
Before his disappearance, the Frenchman traveled to America, where he planned to find funding and, apparently, found it. Immediately upon his return from the States, he went to visit relatives in Dugen, and from there he planned to go to Paris, take a train to London and patent his invention. In Dugen, he boarded a Parisian train and ... disappeared.
Versions of the disappearance, as usual, are different: from a conspiracy of competitors (along with Leprince, his equipment was lost) to the fact that Leprince staged a hoax of his disappearance, since his developments reached a dead end, and it was necessary to pay the debts.
This story would not be complete without one more interesting fact. In 1902, Alphonse, the eldest son of Lepres, arrived in New York to meet with Edison. The next day, he was shot dead in a hotel room. The door to the room was locked from the inside, but no weapons were found near the body.
Rudolf Diesel
The financial crisis of 1913 finally ruined the inventor Rudolf Diesel, but he still had hopes for a successful outcome. On September 29, 1913, he boarded the steamer Dresden in Antwerp and went to London to open his new factory. Rudolf Diesel was never seen again.
There are several versions of the disappearance. According to one - Rudolf Diesel fell from the ship during a heart attack. The body of a person similar to him was caught on September 30, but there is still no unequivocal recognition that the caught drowned man was Diesel.
There are several reasons for this. Firstly, the Diesel family somehow managed to fix the financial issue. Allegedly, they sold the patents of the disappeared head of the family. However, if everything was fine with the patents, why didn't Diesel himself sell them to save his family from starvation? The diesel engine was no longer the "miracle of the century." He was skillfully copied and his device was known.
Secondly, a lot of witnesses were interviewed in the disappearance case, but only three of them were competent: two friends of Diesel and a steward. All of them are united in their testimony, but Rudolf's friends could simply follow a pre-prepared legend, and the steward was simply bribed.
On the night before his disappearance, Rudolf Diesel locked himself in his cabin, finished preparing for bed (lay out his pajamas and hung a wound clock by the bed). His hat and cloak were found on deck.
It is also indicative that Diesel's surname was not in the passenger lists of the ship, and of the "things of Rudolf Diesel" found on the ship, there is not a single item that would belong to him with 100% certainty. No wallet, no passport, no notebook, no drawings.
Everything seems to indicate that the inventor did not enter the ship, and all the witnesses, including Diesel's children, could be interested in hiding the truth.
In May 2013, in one of the houses in the American city of Cleveland, Ohio, there were. The police arrested three brothers on suspicion of involvement in their kidnapping. The house where the women were found was a few kilometers away from where they were last seen. One of the kidnappers, 52-year-old Ariel Castro, worked as a school bus driver. According to media reports, 16-year-old Amanda Berry went missing on April 21, 2003. On this day, she called her sister and said that she would be driven home from the Burger King restaurant where she worked. A year later, in the same area of Cleveland, 14-year-old Gina DeJesus disappeared on her way home from school. Michelle Knight, now 32, went missing 12 years ago. The police believe that these girls were abducted and forcibly kept in the house where they were found.
In 2010, in Ukraine, 10 years later, a resident of the Kyiv region, Tatyana Menzheres, found her daughter Olga, who was kidnapped at the railway station in Kyiv on March 6, 2000 at the age of four. Tatyana saw her daughter in the Internet edition of the program of the All-Ukrainian charitable project "Child Tracing Service", which broadcast a story from one of the boarding schools in Odessa. The girl could not recognize her mother, the woman had to undergo a DNA examination and prove her relationship with Olya for two years. According to the memoirs of the girl herself, she first lived in Odessa with her grandmother, who called her Diana Sklyarenko and forced her to beg for money from passers-by, then because of repeated beatings, the girl ran away and ended up in a gypsy camp, receiving a new name - Nina Burdyuzha. The girl continued to beg, for which she was detained by police officers, after which the teenager was taken to a boarding school, where they actively began searching for her relatives.
In 2009, after 27 years of searching, Briton Avril Grube found her kidnapped son, 30-year-old Gavin Paros. Liverpool resident Avril Grube divorced her Hungarian husband in 1982. By the time of the divorce, Gavin was three years old. The court decided to leave the boy with his mother. Ex-husband Avril visited his son on weekends. When both of them did not return on one of their visits, Avril had a suspicion that the missing had urgently flown to Hungary. The police took over the case, but the search turned up nothing. The idea to start searching through social media the Internet originated with Avril and her sister in March 2009. Avril's sister Beryl Wilson entered her nephew's details into a search engine and received in response the address of Gavin Paros's Facebook page. The user's profile stated that he was born in Liverpool, the date of birth, the name of his mother and contact numbers were indicated. Gavin also searched for his mother for five years. He left the information on the network, not really expecting it to work. After several telephone conversations, mother and son met. Gavin told his mother that he worked as a plasterer and had a wife and three small children.
In 2008, in Latvia, in Daugavpils, after 16 years, a teenager was found who was abducted from a stroller left at a supermarket at the age of one and a half months. As it turned out, all this time he lived in the neighborhood from his real parents. The case of the missing child was solved by accident: the woman with whom he had lived all these years ended up in a pre-trial detention center, the teenager was handed over to social service employees. Starting to collect documents for the boy, officials discovered that he did not have a birth certificate. After lengthy clarifications, the woman admitted that the child was adopted. She said that the boy was brought at the age of one and a half months by her now deceased husband from Dagestan, calling him his illegitimate son. Despite the large number of inconsistencies in the story and circumstantial evidence pointing to the woman's involvement in the kidnapping of the baby, the investigators failed to prove her guilt. DNA analysis fully confirmed the relationship of the lost child with the parents who have been looking for him all these years.
In January 2007 in the United States in the state of Missouri in the city of St. Louis, Sean Hornbeck was found missing in October 2002 after he went on a bike ride in his hometown of Kirkwood in Pennsylvania. It was possible to find the boy in the process of searching for another missing child. Ben Ownby, 13, from Franklin County, Arkansas, did not return home on January 8, 2007. During the search, police found a Nissan car belonging to a pizzeria worker, Michael Dalvin. The car fully matched the descriptions of the car in which Ownby was seen kidnapped. During a search of the suspect's apartment, both boys were found. As the investigators found out, the criminal was not afraid of exposure and even allowed children to play on the street.
The kidnapper was for the kidnapping of two teenagers and abuse of one of them.
On March 2, 1998, 10-year-old Natasha Kampusch was abducted by electrician Wolfgang Priklopil in Strasshof, Austria, a suburb of Vienna. Girl . All this time, the abductor kept the child in an equipped shelter measuring five square meters in the repair pit of the garage, periodically allowing him to walk in the courtyard of his own house, and supplied him with books. During one of the walks on August 23, 2006, the girl managed to run away to the neighbors, who immediately called the police. The kidnapper, having learned about Natasha's escape, committed suicide by throwing himself under a train.
The story of his kidnapping a girl, published in 2011.
On June 10, 1991, 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dagard was abducted in the United States. From the reports of that time it is known that two unknown people in a gray sedan car drove up to Dagard at the time when the girl was walking to the bus stop, and then dragged her into the car. until, on August 27, 2009, she showed up at a police station in Concord, California, along with her kidnappers, the Garridos. The investigation found that the kidnapped girl was repeatedly abused by 58-year-old Philip Garrido and gave birth to two children from him. The Dagard family considered their daughter dead all these years.
In 1987, Saru Brierley, an Indian, got lost at the station at the age of 5, lagging behind his brother and mistakenly boarding one of the trains that was going in the opposite direction from the boy's residence. From fatigue, he fell asleep and woke up only after 10 hours in a completely different part of the country. For 4 months, Saru tried to return home, constantly facing danger and even being enslaved for a while. When the authorities released the boy, he was placed in foster care with guardians from Tasmania. Only 25 years later, Sar managed to remember the details of the past and the name of his hometown, after which the man contacted the police, who helped him find his real family.
The material was prepared on the basis of information from RIA Novosti and open sources