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This is a quite hard question to answer, as if it's done correctly no-one will know and the person will simply vanish. And there is of course countless reasons

This is a quite hard question to answer, as if it's done correctly no-one will know and the person will simply vanish. And there is of course countless reasons why someone vanishes, but then again, there is a lot of missing people: https://www.statista.com/statistics/240387/number-of-missing-persons-files-in-the-us-by-age/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/240387/number-of-missing...

TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
Those numbers are astounding. Slightly south of half a million kids/teens go missing every year? And 150,000 adults? How many of these cases are never closed?
- catalogia 6y ago
  > The vast majority of child abduction cases in the United States are parental kidnapping, where one parent hides, takes, or holds a child without the knowledge or consent of another parent or guardian.[3] Depending on the state and the legal status of the family members, this might not be a criminal offense. In 1976, parental kidnappings in the United States stood at 60,000.[clarification needed] By 1984, it was between 459,000 and 751,000.[citation needed] In 2010, the US Department of Justice reported 200,000 cases of parental kidnapping; these comprised both domestic and international abductions.[4] > Fewer than 350 people under the age of 21 have been abducted by strangers in the United States per year between 2010–2017.[5] > The federal government estimated about 50,000 people reported missing in 2001 who were younger than 18. Only about 100 cases per year can be classified as abductions by strangers.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_in_the_United_State...
- thrill 6y ago
  There's a pretty good fiction book series called The Naturalist that uses these statistics as part of its discussion about serial killers.

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This is a quite hard question to answer, as if it's done correctly no-one will know and the person will simply vanish. And there is of course countless reasons

by capitol_ 6y ago

TheOtherHobbes 6y ago
Those numbers are astounding. Slightly south of half a million kids/teens go missing every year? And 150,000 adults? How many of these cases are never closed?
- catalogia 6y ago
  > The vast majority of child abduction cases in the United States are parental kidnapping, where one parent hides, takes, or holds a child without the knowledge or consent of another parent or guardian.[3] Depending on the state and the legal status of the family members, this might not be a criminal offense. In 1976, parental kidnappings in the United States stood at 60,000.[clarification needed] By 1984, it was between 459,000 and 751,000.[citation needed] In 2010, the US Department of Justice reported 200,000 cases of parental kidnapping; these comprised both domestic and international abductions.[4] > Fewer than 350 people under the age of 21 have been abducted by strangers in the United States per year between 2010–2017.[5] > The federal government estimated about 50,000 people reported missing in 2001 who were younger than 18. Only about 100 cases per year can be classified as abductions by strangers.[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_in_the_United_State...
- thrill 6y ago
  There's a pretty good fiction book series called The Naturalist that uses these statistics as part of its discussion about serial killers.