Missing Women

A Vermont woman, who was reported missing Saturday, was found shot to death just days later, according to police. Vermont State Police received a report Tuesday around 1 p.m. of a human body found inside a large container on a sand bar in the Missisquoi River near Big Falls of Missiquoi State Park in Troy, a release noted. On Wednesday afternoon, the Chief Medical Examiner’s Office in Burlington conducted an autopsy and confirmed the identity of the body as 29-year-old Kayla Wright, a Derby resident who had last been seen...

A Texas judge Thursday ordered Jesse Matthew, a suspect in the disappearance of University of Virginia student Hannah Graham, held without bond pending his extradition to Virginia.

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said he was “stunned” today by the announcement that Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau would surrender himself and all his followers to authorities after he realized he’d started a trending hashtag on Twitter that even First Lady Michelle Obama tweeted.

Shekau, a purveyor of workplace violence and kidnapper of little girls, was quoted as saying, “With progressives in Hollywood and Washington aligned against us, what choice did we have? Look,

In a rare venture into foreign policy, Michelle Obama on Saturday condemned the abduction of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls by terrorists and said that she and President Obama had been personally touched by what she called an “unconscionable” act.

“In these girls, Barack and I see our own daughters,” the first lady said in the weekly radio address that is normally delivered by her husband. “We see their hopes, their dreams — and we can only imagine th

Frustration and despair over the fate of hundreds of schoolgirls kidnapped by Islamic extremists in northern Nigeria is forcing families to organize the rescue themselves.

"We are trying to search for our daughters on our own," said a mother of one of the girls, asking to remain unidentified out of fear of causing her daughter further harm. "Soon we will be heading to the forest.

Kenneth Lanning says long-term missing person cases are the most difficult and emotionally draining for law enforcement.

Authorities scouring the Cleveland home where officials say three missing women were held for nearly a decade have found ropes and chains, the police chief said.

Neighbors claim they witnessed three naked woman crawling on their hands and knees with dog leashes around their necks and three men controlling them several years ago, the Daily Mail reports.

One neighbor says a naked woman was seen crawling on her hands and knees in the backyard of the house a few years ago.

Three women who vanished separately were found alive in a house near downtown Cleveland. Authorities arrested three brothers.