Missing Person News

Naketa Leiba: The search for missing Florida teen continues

By theGrio

3:40 PM on 02/06/2012

VIDEO - The search for a 17-year-old girl from Miramar, Florida who went missing last Wednesday afternoon continues...
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Georgia woman missing for 5 months with no media coverage

By Kunbi Tinuoye

8:37 AM on 01/18/2012

theGRIO REPORT - Thirty-five-year-old Shandell McLeod was last seen outside her house located in a quiet suburban neighborhood in Lithonia on the 24th of September...
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Black and missing: Media too often ignores minority victims

By Natalie Wilson

3:11 PM on 01/17/2012

OPINION - When we hear the term missing persons, most people conjure up images of Chandra Levy, Caylee Anthony or Natalee Holloway...
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Jakadrien Turner mother: Texas teen wrongfully deported to Colombia back in US

By theGrio

8:10 PM on 01/06/2012

DALLAS (AP) - Jakadrien Turner, a Texas teenager who was deported to Colombia after claiming to be an illegal immigrant, was back in the United States on Friday...
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Teen locked in school for nine hours reunites with family

By theGrio

8:55 AM on 12/16/2011

PHILADELPHIA - Thirteen-year-old David Fields was reunited with his family early Friday morning after being locked inside Roosevelt Middle School for about nine hours Thursday...
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Missing Detroit girl's dad pleads for her return

By theGrio

1:37 PM on 12/06/2011

DETROIT (AP) - A man who told police his 2-year-old daughter was kidnapped during a carjacking last week said Tuesday that he believes she's alive and just wants her returned safely...
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Grandma of missing Ariz. girl pleads for attention

By theGrio

2:39 PM on 10/21/2011

PHOENIX (AP) - The grandmother of an Arizona girl missing for more than a week pleaded Thursday for more attention from police investigators and the national media...
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Mitrice Richardson's mother files suit against LA county

By theGrio

2:49 PM on 08/22/2011

VIDEO - "I would hate to wake up to a morning report, girl lost somewhere with her head chopped off," Latice said to the Sheriff department...
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Missing boy found sleeping on school bus

By theGrio

10:33 AM on 08/16/2011

PHILADELPHIA - Police say Karyim was sleeping in one of the buses used in the camp program...
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New clue found; may help find a missing Detroit girl

By Sherrina Navani

1:48 PM on 07/26/2011

VIDEO - It has been more than two days since five year old Mirah Trenice Smith went missing from her Detroit house...
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Missing teen last seen at Atlanta airport

By Ollie Montgomery

9:37 AM on 06/03/2011

VIDEO - Security images show that the teen did land in Atlanta and passed through customs, but from there he wasn't seen again...
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DC mom laments stunted search for missing daughter

By theGrio

9:52 AM on 05/11/2011

WASHINGTON (AP) - Caroline Frazier has spent months dreading that her 18-year-old daughter may be buried 70 feet deep in a mammoth landfill...
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Police: Body found in Md. river is missing NC teen

By theGrio

6:54 PM on 04/21/2011

BALTIMORE (AP) - Phylicia Barnes, from the small North Carolina city of Monroe, disappeared Dec. 28 while visiting her older half-siblings...
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Body found in river may be missing Atlantic City mom

By theGrio

4:21 PM on 04/19/2011

NBC PHILADELPHIA - Atlantic City Police are on their way to Philadelphia to determine if a body pulled from a river is that of a missing New Jersey mother...
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Family fears fate of NC teen missing for 4 months

By Donna M Owens

9:24 AM on 04/11/2011

theGRIO REPORT - Bonnie Briscoe could barely hold back the tears when talking about her niece, Phylicia Barnes...
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More possible remains of Mitrice Richardson found

By theGrio

4:07 PM on 02/14/2011

LOS ANGELES - In a search of more than four hours, the team found eight bone fragments that they believe came from Richardson but need to be tested for DNA before authorities can be certain...
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Mom wants relationship with long-lost daughter

By theGrio

11:02 AM on 02/08/2011

NEW YORK (AP) - The mother of a 23-year-old woman snatched from a New York City hospital when she was an infant says their reunion was a miracle but their relationship is difficult...
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Frigid weather darkens hope for missing Texas tot

By theGrio

10:14 AM on 02/08/2011

VIDEO - A police spokesman says the search for Joshua Davis of New Braunfels was switched to a "recovery effort" Sunday morning...
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16-year-old daughter of Atlanta deputy is missing

By theGrio

11:40 AM on 02/01/2011

VIDEO - Atlanta's Fulton County Deputy N. Dorsey's 16 year-old daughter has not been seen by family or friends for five days and everyone is deeply concerned...
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Philadelphia police search for missing mother

By theGrio

10:16 AM on 01/31/2011

PHILADELPHIA - Ronda Garnett left work early because she wasn't feeling well. She was headed to her mother's home to pick up her children but never made it...
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