Case 259: Jamie Lavis

*** Content warnings: Child abuse, crimes against children, sexual assault ***When 10-year-old Zahra Baker was reported missing by her father and stepmum in Hickory, North Carolina, one Saturday afternoon in 2010, it sparked the largest missing persons investigation in the city's ...  Show more

*** Content warnings: Child abduction ***When 13-year-old Megumi Yokota failed to return home from her regular badminton practice on November 15 1977, her parents immediately raised the alarm.The police in Niigata, Japan, conducted one of the city’s largest ever investigations, b ...  Show more

In 1993, two-year-old James Bulger was abducted from a shopping center in Merseyside, England, by two ten-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. The case shocked the world with its brutal details and the shocking youth of the perpetrators, leading to an intense public o ...  Show more

3-year-old Jamie Bulger went missing at a shopping mall with his mother in Merseyside England. The whole community came together to find him until his body was discovered the next day. Police do an investigation to find the murderer and saw on security footage Jamie walking out o ...  Show more

When an infant goes missing from her crib in Kansas City, initial signs suggest the possibility of a rare stranger abduction. Investigators scrutinize several individuals as they attempt to determine whether a missing baby was truly kidnapped in this episode of Last Seen Alive. A ...  Show more

A missing 8 year old has the community frantic to find her. The missing persons case soon becomes a homicide. A note is discovered during the search that will prove pivotal to this crime.

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