Mary Seow (also referred to as Xiao Mali / 蕭馬利 in some Chinese reports) was a Singaporean widow who went missing for nearly five years and was later found living as a “McRefugee” (homeless person sleeping in 24-hour McDonald’s outlets) in Hong Kong. What happened in her caseAround 2010–2011, Seow (then in her mid-50s) was Read more…

Andrew Thompson was about 3 years old when his mother, Melinda Stratton, abducted him from Australia in March/April 2008 amid a bitter custody dispute with his father, Ken Thompson (a former NSW deputy fire chief). They flew to Frankfurt, Germany, and disappeared. Interpol alerts were issued across many countries. Ken Thompson searched intensively. In 2010 Read more…

Barbara Briley (71) and her 5-year-old great-granddaughter La’Myra Briley went missing during a Christmas Eve 2016 road trip and were found alive several days later after becoming stranded in a remote wooded area in Virginia. What happenedThey left Mays Landing, New Jersey, on the morning of December 24, 2016, driving a silver Toyota RAV4 toward Read more…