The BEST episodes of Disappeared

Every episode of Disappeared ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Disappeared!

A person suddenly and unexpectedly disappears; no trace, no clues, nothing but the lingering mystery they leave behind. According to the FBI's National Crime Information Center, there are now 110,484 active missing persons cases in the U.S., 53% are juveniles under the age of 18. Most of us have heard of the high-profile cases, such as Natalee Holloway, Stacey Peterson, and Chandra Levy. But have you ever heard of Mae Catherine Rocker, Alexis Peterson or Thomas Jay Kerr? Probably not. They are just a few of the hundreds of thousands of people in this country who one day, simply Disappeared. Most missing person's stories have never been told...until now. Disappeared is an exciting series that investigates the disappearance of these victims, who are here one minute, gone the next. Each episode focuses on one victim's story, as told through the perspectives and actual voices of their closest friends and family and the investigators trying to solve the case. Through interviews with family, friends, police, and searchers, each episode recounts the actions, thoughts, circumstances and motivations that led to each person's disappearance. Experience the victim's final hours until they vanished. Watch interviews with experts, from psychologists to forensic specialists to psychics, who will offer new insights into what may have happened in each case, whether the person was a victim of foul play or a runaway. Disappeared will take you inside the world of the missing, where a person can vanish without a trace, investigators race against the clock to solve a mystery, and the victim's anguished family and friends are left to wonder what in the world could have happened.

Last Updated: 11/20/2024Network: Investigation DiscoveryStatus: Ended
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8.50
6 votes

#1 - A Family's Curse

Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/2011

Disappeared examines the case of Ray Gricar a Pennsylvania district attorney who vanishes after a short drive. The case gains national attention when a link is drawn to the Penn State child abuse scanda

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8.50
6 votes

#2 - Soul Searcher

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/21/2011

Disappeared examines the case of 23-year-old Leah Roberts who vanished after leaving her North Carolina home to do some soul searching on a cross-country trip.

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8.39
59 votes

#3 - No Exit

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/25/2010

Tanya Rider goes missing after her shift at work and police zero in on her husband.

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8.39
18 votes

#4 - Secrets of a Son

Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/11/2011

Disappeared examines the case of Steven Koecher a clean-cut Mormon from Utah whose abandoned car was discovered just outside of Las Vegas in a well-to-do neighborhood. After publicizing the case reveals few leads, investigators look into a possible link to another missing person case and a long road trip Steven took sometime before his disappearance.

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Vanished in the Heartland
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8.38
8 votes

#5 - Vanished in the Heartland

Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/5/2022

When Dee Ann Warner, a successful businesswoman and mother disappears, her family initially suspects her husband. However, he insists that she just took-off and left herself.

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8.36
11 votes

#6 - The Sweetest Man in the World

Season 10 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/26/2022

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8.17
6 votes

#7 - Long Lost Love

Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/4/2013

Eighty-one year old Bob Harrod is overjoyed when he marries his childhood sweetheart after sixty years apart. But days before his new bride moves in, Bob vanishes. Police cannot locate him and soon find a strong motive for foul play: Bob is a millionaire.

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The Long Drive Home
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8.14
7 votes

#8 - The Long Drive Home

Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/28/2022

Jason Landry disappears on December 14, 2020, while driving from campus at Texas State University to his hometown of Missouri City for the holiday break. They find his car wrecked on the side of a country road, but no trace of Jason.

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8.08
12 votes

#9 - Disappearance in the Desert

Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/14/2022

Daniel Robinson arrives at his work site in the desert in Buckeye, Arizona, and reportedly acts strangely just before taking off in the middle of his shift, never to be seen again.

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8.07
27 votes

#10 - Last Stop

Season 9 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/3/2018

Thirteen-year-old Tabitha Tuders vanishes while walking to her bus stop in Nashville, Tenn.; police think she's a runaway, but there are disturbing circumstances surrounding her disappearance, leaving her family desperate to find the truth.

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8.07
15 votes

#11 - Murky Waters

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/17/2011

Molly Bish arrives at her lifeguard job and minutes later vanishes. Did she drown? or is the suspicious man in the white car to blame?

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8.06
16 votes

#12 - Spring Break Nightmare

Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/21/2011

Disappeared looks at the case of fifteen year-old Colleen Orsborn of Daytona Beach who vanished shortly after skipping school in order to go the the beach. The investigation to find her takes a dark turn when a witness links a serial killer to her disappearance.

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8.06
33 votes

#13 - Into the Mist

Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/22/2018

Stephanie Crane, aged 9, leaves a local bowling alley but never arrives home; years later, authorities hope that advances in evidence testing may finally solve the mystery.

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8.00
11 votes

#14 - New Mom Missing

Season 10 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/2/2022

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7.97
78 votes

#15 - Secret Rendezvous

Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/2011

After Patti Adkins leaves her shift and vanishes, Investigators learn of a mysterious relationship and piece together a troubling picture.

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7.90
10 votes

#16 - A Vanishing on the Border

Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/19/2022

32 year old Kimberly Avila was last seen in Brownsville, Texas on May 13, 2017. She disappeared after being dropped off by her sister in downtown Brownsville, close to the Mexican border.

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7.86
7 votes

#17 - At the Crossroads

Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/4/2013

On July 7, 2007, 18-year old Jarrod Johnston walks away from his grandmother's home in Mississippi. His Dad sees similarities between his own sister's disappearance 25-years earlier and his son's. It becomes hard to hold out hope his son will ever return.

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7.85
39 votes

#18 - Last Words

Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/8/2018

Logan Schiendelman vanishes, and authorities find his car abandoned; multiple tips claim seeing Logan, but searches turn up nothing; with no evidence of foul play, questions surface and police are forced to examine his family's controversial past.

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7.84
19 votes

#19 - Wrong Side of the Tracks

Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/30/2012

Jackie Markham, a feisty trucking company manager, vanishes from her Florida home without a trace of violence. A boyfriend's tale suggesting she departed with a rival suitor appears to crumble - just as her purse is found near the lair of a serial killer

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7.81
16 votes

#20 - Midnight Walk

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/12/2011

Disappeared looks at the case of Lily Aramburo in Miami who vanished after leaving her fiancé's condo wearing only a nightgown and carrying two bungee cords. Given Lily's history early investigators focus on drugs, but after several years pass a re-evaluation has focuses attention on Lily's fiancé.

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7.81
21 votes

#21 - Heavy Metal Mystery

Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/18/2011

Disappeared examines the case of Virginia Tech junior Morgan Harrington who disappeared after leaving a Metallica concert. She was last seen hitchhiking some distance from the concert. After several leads go nowhere, investigators discover skeletal remains on a farm ten miles from the concert arena.

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7.79
24 votes

#22 - Missing Valentine

Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/24/2011

Disappeared examines the case of housewife and mother Patricia Viola who vanished shortly before Valentine's Day after talking to her mother on the phone. Her family and investigators in Bogota, New Jersey, do not give up on the search even though there are few leads and clues.

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7.78
18 votes

#23 - Girl Interrupted

Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/5/2016

Days after recent graduate Jennifer Kesse goes missing, her car is found abandoned near her home. Police search miles of terrain and interrogate dozens of suspects, yet a decade later her disappearance remains one of Florida's most baffling crimes.

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7.76
21 votes

#24 - Hometown Hero

Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/20/2012

Margaret McEnroe disappears from her home, leaving behind her infant daughter alone in her crib. Local cops know Margaret as a hero firefighter, with a fiery temper but strong maternal instincts. How could this loving mother disappear without a trace?

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7.75
16 votes

#25 - The Vortex

Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/19/2012

Police believe Ben McDaniel disappeared during a dangerous underwater cave dive. But the best divers in the world search for his body and are convinced that he is not in the cave. Baffled, investigators start questioning the nature of his disappearance.

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