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A renewed push by New York police investigators to solve the nation’s oldest missing-teens case has yielded significant new leads — including the possibility of previously unknown witnesses to their disappearance, Rolling Stone has learned. For the first time in the history of the 51-year-old cold case, special investigators from …

Hannah Kobayashi’s family said they found and made contact with Hannah, who has been missing since early November. In a statement shared with Rolling Stone, the family said, “We are incredibly relieved and grateful that Hannah has been found safe. This past month has been an unimaginable ordeal for our …

On Nov. 8, Hannah Kobayashi, a 30-year-old woman from Honolulu, Hawaii, landed at the Los Angeles International Airport. According to a now-private Facebook post from her sister Sydni Kobayashi, Hannah was scheduled to catch a connecting flight from LAX to New York City, where she planned to spend time with …

Hannah Kobayashi was declared a “voluntary missing person” after a video emerged of her crossing the U.S. border into Mexico on foot several weeks ago. The Los Angeles Police Department announced the reclassification and development at a news conference on Monday, Dec. 2 (via the Los Angeles Times). “We reviewed …

Last August, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul called for a meticulous reexamination of the oldest missing-teens case in America following a Rolling Stone investigation detailing decades of police incompetence and misfeasance. Fifty-one years ago this week, 16-year-old Brooklyn resident Mitchel Weiser and his 15-year-old girlfriend Bonnie Bickwit disappeared in connection …

Megan Kingsbury and her sister Madeline used to spend hours together, taking long walks, relaxing by the lake, or trying out new coffee shops in the towns where they lived, a few hours apart, in Minnesota. Both voracious readers, they’d chat about their favorite books or about Madeline’s two young …

We all have issues with our parents, be them related to love, money, neglect or other grievances and wrongdoings, real or imagined. But the story of Stephen Pandos is more extreme than most. He spent a decade trying to prove that his mom and dad were responsible for the unsolved …

Joran van der Sloot, who for years has been the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of high schooler Natalee Holloway, has pleaded not guilty to 2010 federal charges that he had allegedly extorted Holloway’s family. Van der Sloot was extradited to the U.S. from Peru, where he is serving …

Ashley Easterling’s son had been missing for 40 days when she says she got a call from a stranger offering to help find him. She dropped off her 30-year-old son, Robert “Alex” Easterling, at an acquaintance’s house in Pickens, Mississippi, on April 20, 2022, and he had not been seen …

Their stories are achingly similar. A young Native American woman goes to a house party, or drinks with friends, or just ventures out into the Montana night. She doesn’t come home. Law enforcement, after untangling questions of jurisdiction, conducts a search. Sometimes the bodies are recovered, the cause of death …