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: 9/20/2026Network: Investigation DiscoveryStatus: Ended
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#1 - 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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#2 - The Last Truck Stop

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/25/2010

Investigating the disappearance of Michele Whitaker who vanished after hitching a ride from a truck stop.

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#3 - California Leaving

Season 7 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/22/2016

Former Harlem Globetrotter Rico Harris is driving from LA to Seattle and mysteriously vanishes. When his car is found abandoned in a remote area, investigators and his loved ones embark on a journey that grows more baffling as time passes.

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#4 - Road to Nowhere

Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/24/2016

College student Bryce Laspisa is driving to visit his parents, but something mysterious is troubling him. When his car is found crashed and abandoned in a remote California park, investigators and his family try to make sense of Bryce's baffling behavior.

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#5 - 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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#6 - 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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#7 - 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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#8 - 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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#9 - Crime & Punishment

Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/2012

When Terrance Williams goes missing, his family fears he may have been picked up for driving without a license. But when they find his car has been towed by a police officer with no record of an arrest, an investigation reveals a disturbing case since the police officer was the last witness in an eerily similar disappearance.

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#10 - Memory Lane

Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/14/2011

Disappeared looks at the case of Amber Gerweck who vanished after leaving her home in Michigan. He car is later discovered over 600 miles away in Georgia. As her parents search for her, she eventually turn up in Illinois suffering from a serious case of amnesia.

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#11 - The Springfield Three

Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/7/2011

Disappeared looks at the 1992 case of Sherrill Levitt, Suzie Streeter and Stacy McCall who vanished from their house in Springfield, Missouri.

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#12 - 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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#13 - 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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#14 - 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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#15 - The Most Hated Woman in America

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/1/2010

Madalyn Murray O'Hair disappeared in 1995 with two members of her family and over a half-million dollars.

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#16 - 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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#17 - 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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#18 - The Wedding Ring

Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/2011

Disappeared examines the case of wife and mother Tina McQuaig of Jacksonville, Florida, who disappeared after leaving her job at a pharmacy. Her car is discovered parked at a Wall-Mart. Police discover evidence of infidelity and after they discover a body focus their investigation on the man who the believe was her lover.

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#19 - 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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#20 - 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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#21 - Moment of Truth

Season 9 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/17/2018

When 70-year-old retired firefighter Michael Chambers goes missing, a bloody crime scene in his garage indicates foul play; then, authorities begin to believe that the crime scene may have been staged.

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#22 - Troubled Waters

Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/15/2018

While on a Caribbean cruise, 23-year-old Amy Lynn Bradley vanishes from her family's cabin and is never seen again; over a decades-long struggle, her family embarks on countless grueling searches, stopping at nothing to find their beloved Amy.

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#23 - The Silent Son

Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/1/2017

When 17-year-old Macin Smith doesn't come home from school, his parents worry is he in danger? A note hidden in his wallet leaves his family troubled. And police attempt to piece together the puzzle, while his family vacillates between hope and despair.

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#24 - Out of the Ashes

Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/21/2013

Lauria Bible attends a 16th birthday sleepover for her best friend Ashley Freeman in rural Oklahoma. That night, the house goes up in flames, and the girls mysteriously vanish. The clock is ticking to find the missing girls before it is too late.

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#25 - Radio Silence

Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/14/2013

Backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson was the go to person if someone was lost or missing in Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park, until the day he vanishes. Colleagues search for him in dangerous terrain uncovering unsettling secrets. What happened to Randy?