Glenn Miller played at the wedding reception and the bartender was Michael Rockefeller.
Nicky Wire- guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers. However it’s widely assumed he jumped off the Severn Bridge.
I believe it is only supposed that Ambrose Bierce died in Mexico. There is no proof, AFAIK, that he even made it.
I think the Madelyn Murray O’Hare (sp?) case is the most disturbing one that happened recently.
Mr. & Mrs. Lindbergh positively identified the corpse of their first born son.
No jokes, please. Too sad. 
On the History Channel, I heard about a World War 2 general who disappeared. He was part of the invasion of Italy, and after the troops had landed and secured the area he simply walked away from his men and was never seen again. He’s supposedly the only U.S. general to ever be declared Missing In Action.
Harold Holt, former Prime Minister of Australia, disappeared while swimming alone at a surf beach near his house south of Melbourne. This happened in 1967 (I think). No trace of him was ever found.
There have been many theories advanced as to how and why, including conspiracy theories suggestive of espionage and chinese submarines.
The event has since been commemorated in Oz by pub bands who rejoice in names such as “Harold Holt and the Sharks” or “The Harold Holt Memorial Swim Team Band.”
I saw a show lately that said 250,000 children disappear each year. I would guess that approximately as many dead beat dads also disappear each year. So since 1936 those two figures alone would account for quite a large number. Then there is the Bermuda Triangle, UFO abductions, etc. I don’t really mean to be cruel, but who would be keeping count? Most of the children are actually kidnapped by one of their parents, so do you count them all or just the ones that really vanished? I would be more interested in a number like 1 out of 300 than 4,518,908.
And since some of those children were last seen with females (mothers/legal guardians/other friends and relations), we should really start to wonder where all those dads are going.
Michael Rockefeller? Body was never found…
I have a Reader’s Digest book of weird shit (forgot the actual title, don’t feel like going to find it) that lists several occurances of people that just walked out into fields and such and disappeared.
We used to have that book, too. It contained (among others) the case of David Lang.
Well, dagnabbit!
Actually the hi-jacker gave his name as Dan Cooper, and D. B. Cooper was just some guy who was a suspect for awhile. D. B. Cooper just sounded so much better then Dan Cooper and the press never went out of there way to correct the error. Dan Cooper Scroll down for a brief CNN blurb about it.
Adolf Hitler’s body was never found.
Also we have several cases here in Hawaii. Somebody goes out hiking and never comes back. There are chillingly several stories of this type. In fact just yesterday there was a local news story about this guy who was last seen hiking on Molokai about 4 years ago. This woman was claiming that she saw him in a shopping market on Oahu. Then there was this guy back packing it on the Big Island, went into the Volcano National Park and was never seen again. Also occasionally you’ll hear about a surfer who disappeared. He goes out and just never comes back. Only rarely do you find anything from them, maybe a piece of a surfboard.
Also there’s a fairly famous case that was made into a movie. That sailing one … you know
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Although that was almost certainly murder!
Actually, it was - by the Russians, who did an autopsy, buried it, dug it up several years later, moved it a new grave, and finally dug it up, cremated it and disposed of the ashes.
See “The Death of Hitler” by Ada Petrova.
There is a fascinating (fictional) short story on Benjamin Bathurst, by an author whose name escapes me at the moment, which was reprinted in an Asimov anthology, “Space Mail.” It’s an alternative universe piece, and you find out what really happened to Bathurst - he got teleported into a parallel universe, where the U.S. rebellion failed, the French monarchy still existed, and Napolean was a loyal colonel of artillery in the French army.
Unfortunately, “Space Mail” is out of print, according to Amazon, but I’d recommend it for that story alone, if you come across a copy at a used book store.
The story is He walked around the horses by H. Beam Piper, you can also find it in his collection Paratime.
That’s it!! Thankx, detop!
Forgot to add - it’s the twist at the end that made it memorable. (which of course I won’t reveal 
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In “Ring of Fire” by Lawrence and Lorne Blair (an account of travel in Indonesia) an account was given of an interview with a tribesman who appeared to admit to killing and eating Michael Rockefeller.