missing person
Whereabouts currently unknown
A missing person is someone whose whereabouts are unknown and who may be in danger or whose disappearance is unexplained.
The term is used especially in law enforcement contexts, where a missing person report or case triggers an official search.
Police issued an alert for the missing person last seen near the train station.
The designation covers a range of situations from runaways and kidnapping victims to people who have wandered off due to dementia or gotten lost in the wilderness.
- disappearanceAct of going missing
- abductionUnlawful seizure of person
- lostUnable to navigate
- runawayOne who flees
- searchAct of seeking
unsolved · forensics · dental records · amber alert · cold case · fugitive · next of kin · police · vanished · without a trace · last seen · search and rescue · have you seen · John Doe · kidnapping · detective · hiker · evidence
- crime investigationdetective, whodunit, investigation, detectives, investigator
- true crimetrue crime, cold case, crime docs, unsolved mystery, murder mystery
- crime newscrime scene, court reporter, court reporting, breaking news, arrest report
- public noticeslegal notice, public hearing, court summons, eviction notice, foreclosure notice
- missing personsdisappearance, vanished, vanishing, abductees, search party
- noticesnotice, formal notice, final notice, advance notice, public notice