This is a list of solved missing person cases in the 2010s.
2010
DatePerson(s)AgeCountry of disappearanceCircumstancesOutcomeTime spent missing or unconfirmed2010Isabella Ruth Miller-Jenkins7United States / NicaraguaIsabella's non-custodial mother, Lisa Miller, abducted her and took her to Nicaragua in 2010. Lisa returned to the United States in early 2021 and turned herself in. Eighteen-year-old Isabella filed an affidavit in Nicaragua, stating that she was happy and wished to stay there until she was ready to return to the United States.Found alive11 years2010Joseph McStay40United StatesThe McStay family abruptly disappeared from their Fallbrook, California, home under suspicious circumstances on February 4, 2010. Their bodies were found by a biker in the desert near Victorville, California, on November 13, 2013. Almost a year later, on November 7, 2014, police arrested Charles "Chase" Merritt, Joseph McStay's business partner, and charged him with the murders.Murdered3 years 9 monthsSummer McStay43Gianni McStay4Joseph McStay Jr.32010Faiza Ashraf26NorwayFaiza Ashraf was a Pakistani-Norwegian woman who disappeared in at Haslum in Bærum on February 3, 2010, after being kidnapped. After February 10, 2010, Ashraf's body was found in Asker after the police were told the location of it.Murdered7 days2010Mackenzie Cowell17United StatesMackenzie Cowell was a high school student who went missing after last being seen leaving the beauty school she attended in Wenatchee, Washington, on February 9, 2010. She had told classmates she would be back in 15 minutes. Her body was found four days later on a river bank. A beauty school classmate was charged in her death and pleaded guilty to manslaughter.Murdered4 days2010Andrew Koenig41CanadaAndrew Koenig was an American actor who went missing after last being seen in Vancouver, British Columbia on February 14, 2010, and using his cellphone on February 16. On February 25, 2010, a group of 11 of his friends and family members found his body hanging from a tree in Stanley Park in downtown Vancouver through an act of suicide.Roberts, Soraya (February 28, 2010). "'Growing Pains' actor Andrew Koenig hanged himself from tree in Vancouver's Stanley Park: source" . Daily News (New York).Suicide11 days2010Ilenia Vecchiato28Italy28-year-old Ilenia Vecchiato, a part-time beautician based in Bologna who offered sexual services, was reported missing by her parents on March 10, 2010. Upon his arrest, Ramon Berloso confessed to murdering Vecchiato. After picking up Vecchiato, Berloso drove her to a villa owned by an elderly couple he had worked for, offering to have sex there. However, upon reaching the villa, Berloso instead hit Vecchiato on the head with an iron bar before shooting her in the head with a crossbow bolt. Berloso then stole €10,000 from Vecchiato, as well as her mobile phone and credit card, before burying her body on a riverbank near Tapogliano. Berloso also killed 24-year-old Diana Alexiu with the same weapon before placing her body in the same location. While incarcerated, Berloso fatally wounded himself on August 5, 2010; he died 15 days later.Murdered4 months2010Khalid Khawaja58–59PakistanPakistan Air Force and Inter-Services Intelligence officer who was kidnapped by the Asian Tigers militant group on March 30, 2010, while making a documentary on Colonel Imam. His body was later found in Mir Ali.Murdered1 month2010Shelley Armitage31United KingdomBradford sex worker Shelley Armitage was last seen in Rebecca Street in the city centre on April 26, 2010. Two days later she was reported missing to police. On June 2, police announced that some of her remains had been found in the River Aire. She had been murdered by serial killer Stephen Griffiths.Murdered37 days2010Shannan Gilbert24United StatesGilbert, a 24-year-old escort, was last seen alive in the early hours of May 1, 2010 in Suffolk County, New York. Her body was discovered in marshland in December 2011. Although strong physical and circumstantial evidence suggsts Gilbert had been murdered, her cause of death was listed as undetermined.Undetermined19 months2010Zoe Nelson17United KingdomNelson was a Scottish college student who disappeared while in the company of her boyfriend, Robert Bayne, on May 22, 2010. The next day, her burned remains were found in a wooded area outside Wishaw. Bayne was later convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.Murdered1 day2010Suzanne Pilley38United KingdomSuzanne Pilley was a woman who disappeared on May 4, 2010, in Scotland. On June 23, 2010, David Gilroy, her former boyfriend, was detained by Lothian and Borders Police under Section 14 of the Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995 in connection with her disappearance. Later that day, he was arrested and charged with her murder, and on March 15, 2012, he was found guilty, revealing that she had been murdered.MurderedNot found2010Paula Leclair64CanadaOttawa woman Paula Leclair went missing on May 20, 2010. She was murdered by serial killer Camille Cléroux. Her buried body was found in June 2011.Murdered1 year2010Suzanne Blamires36United KingdomBradford sex worker Suzanne Blamires disappeared on May 21, 2010. Three days later, the police arrested a man after CCTV footage showing him murdering Blamires in his block of flats was seen by the caretaker. The following day, human remains were found by a member of the public in the River Aire in Shipley, West Yorkshire, and they were confirmed as being Blamires's on May 28. She had been murdered by serial killer Stephen Griffiths.Murdered1 week2010Diego Fernández de Cevallos69MexicoMexican politician and member of the National Action Party who was abducted on his property in Pedro Escobedo on May 14, 2010. His kidnappers demanded $100 million for his release, but later decreased the amount, and De Cevallos was released on December 25, 2010.Found alive7 months2010Megan Amelia Waterman22United StatesA victim of the Gilgo Beach serial killings, Waterman was last seen alive on June 6, 2010. Her body was discovered in December 2010.Murdered5 months2010Cherry Walker39United StatesCherry Walker, the 39-year-old mentally challenged babysitter of Kimberly Cargill's son, was murdered by Cargill on June 18, 2010. Earlier that day, Walker had been served with a subpoena to testify at a custody hearing for Cargill's son, and Cargill feared that she would lose custody if Walker showed up to testify. Walker's body was discovered the day after her murder and was identified four days later. Cargill was later convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death by lethal injection.Murdered1 day2010Lyle McCann78Canada The McCann couple, from St. Albert, Alberta, Canada, went missing after going on a road trip on July 3, 2010. Their bodies were never found. In January 2017, Travis Vader was sentenced to life imprisonment for their manslaughter. MurderedNot foundMarie McCann772010Tiara Pool21United StatesThe 21-year-old wife of a Navy sailor, was murdered on July 7, 2010 by David Kelsey Sparre with whom she first met through Craigslist. After having sex with Pool, Sparre killed Pool by inflicting an estimated 89 knife wounds on her body, which was found four days later.Murdered5 days2010Eliza Samudio25BrazilA Brazilian model and actress murdered by goalkeeper Bruno Fernandes. She is believed to have been murdered by strangulation on or about 10 June and subsequently dismembered and buried beneath a layer of concrete.Murdered1 month2010Lorenzen Wright34United StatesAn American professional basketball player, who disappeared on July 19, 2010, and was found dead on July 28 in Memphis, Tennessee, in a wooded area. The case was ruled a homicide. On November 9, 2017, Lorenzen Wright's ex-wife, Sherra Wright Robinson, was arrested in connection with the Lorenzen Wright murder, days after Billy R. Turner, a landscaper, was indicted on first-degree murder charges.Murdered9 days2010Sarah Scazzi15ItalyOn 26 August 2010, a teenage girl went missing in Avetrana, Italy. Her cousin, aunt and uncle were convicted of killing her.Murdered2 months2010Amber Tuccaro20CanadaTuccaro was a Canadian First Nations woman who vanished from Fort McMurray while travelling towards Edmonton for a vacation. Her remains were found on September 1, 2012, but her killer has not been apprehended.Murdered2 years2010Natasha Lynn Montgomery23United StatesA victim of serial killer Cody Legebokoff. Montgomery was a 23-year-old mother of two who disappeared on or about September 1, 2010. Although her body has never been found, DNA evidence conclusively links Legebokoff to her disappearance.MurderedNot found2010Amber Lynn Costello27United StatesA further victim of the Gilgo Beach serial killings. Costello was last seen alive on September 2, 2010—ostensibly while traveling to meet a client who had offered her $2,500 for sexual services. Her body was discovered on found on December 13, 2010.Murdered3 months2010Cynthia Frances Maas35Canada35-year-old Cynthia Frances Maas was last seen alive on September 10, 2010. Her body was found in a Prince George park the following month. Maas died of blunt force trauma to the head and penetrating wounds. She had a hole in her shoulder blade, a broken jaw and cheekbone, and injuries to her neck consistent with someone stomping on it. In September 2014, serial killer Cody Legebokoff was convicted of Maas's murder, as well as those of two other women and a teenage girl.Murdered1 month2010Zahra Baker10United StatesBaker was an Australian schoolgirl who was killed by her American stepmother in Hickory, North Carolina, on September 24, 2010. Her body was later dismembered and the remains scattered, with Baker's skull found in April 2012, and identified in February 2013.Murdered2 years2010Linda Norgrove35–36AfghanistanNorgrove was a Scottish aid worker who was kidnapped by Taliban militants in Afghanistan's Kunar Province on September 26, 2010. She was moved to a mountain hideout, where she remained for a little over a week before being located. However, she died from injuries sustained during the rescue attempt.Died from injuries from rescue attempt10 days2010Yara Gambirasio13ItalyGambirasio disappeared after visiting the sports centre in Brembate di Sopra on November 24, 2010. Her body, showing a wound to the head and many small cuts, was found on February 26, 2011. DNA found on her body led to the arrest and conviction of bricklayer Massimo Bossetti, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for her murder.Murdered4 months2010James Nolan46Republic of IrelandIrish criminal who was convicted of rape and false imprisonment. He was last seen at the Wellmount Clinic in Finglas, on November 30, 2010, where he collected methadone; sections of his body were found at Dollymount Strand in February 2011. Nolan's brother, Thomas, later confessed in his suicide note that he had killed his brother.Murdered70 days2010Joanna Yeates25United KingdomA landscape architect from Hampshire, England, who disappeared on December 17, 2010, in Bristol. Her body was discovered on December 25, 2010, in Failand, North Somerset.Murdered8 days2010Hailey Dunn13United StatesHailey Dunn was an American teenage girl who went missing from her hometown of Colorado City, Texas on December 27, 2010. Her remains were found in March 2013.Murdered3 years 3 months
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