Backpackers Who Disappeared

In 1989, a 20-year-old backpacker named Charles HorvathHorvath began a months-long, cross-country hitchhiking trip in Canada. He reached British Columbia and stayed at a campground in Kelowna before vanishing.

Horvath contacted his mother, Denise Allan, stating he would meet her in Hong Kong for his 21st birthday. When Allan did not hear from him after some time, she worried, especially since Horvath kept in touch until then. Allan traveled to British Columbia to search. At the campground, she found he left his tent and all his belongings.

Allan posted missing persons flyers about her son. She returned to her hotel room and found a note. The note read, "I seen him May 26. We were partying and two people knocked him out. But he died. His body is in a lake by the bridge." Divers searched the lake but found no body. After Denise contacted the police again, she told them they searched the wrong side of the bridge, so they searched again. A body surfaced, but it was a local resident who committed suicide. Horvath's body remained missing, but a witness said he attended an all-night party before he disappeared.

Dutch touristsKris Kremers and Lisanne FroonBoth in their 20s, the tourists traveled to Panama to study Spanish. They vanished on April 1, 2014, after hiking near the townBoqueteThe girls' bodies are unfound. Locals found small bone fragments and a backpack believed to belong to one of the women. Police found a pelvic bone and a hiking boot with a severed foot inside. DNA tests confirmed suspicions, yet the reason for the disappearance stays unknown. Police think the girls might have gotten hurt and died lacking food and water.

A camera found in the backpack gave clues. It held photos from the ten days the pair vanished. Cellphone data shows the girls tried calling 911 hours after one photo. No cellphone signal existed. The camera also showed a strange picture: red plastic stuck to a twig. This photo was taken eight days after the girls disappeared. At least 90 photos came from total darkness ten days after the girls vanished. Who took them?

Twenty-three-year-old Aubrey Sacco did not return home after her solo, week-long trek in Nepal.Langtang National ParkBackpacking across Asia in 2010, Sacco maintained contact with her parents. After days of silence, Sacco's mother notified the U.S. Embassy in Kathmandu. The embassy stated civil unrest in Nepal might have delayed their daughter. Three more days passed without word from Sacco. Then, her father and brother flew from Colorado to Kathmandu to join the search. Between May and July 2014, over 200 people searched the Himalayan Mountains near the Tibetan border. They searched the main trail, both river banks, small paths, and hidden monasteries in the hills, but they never found her.

Scott MacLennan led medical trips in Langtang for ten years. He joined Sacco's father's search. MacLennan believed abusive army soldiers acting as park rangers caused Sacco's death. In July 2010, three French women reported soldiers at a check post near Sacco's vanishing place sexually assaulted them. This is a strong possibility, but it remains just one theory.

Some locals suggest Sacco drowned crossing the river in Kathmandu's difficult terrain. Others claim they saw Sacco board a helicopter in Langtang Village. Some think a hunter killed her; others say her disappearance was a sacrifice. Some believe witches worshipping the Hindu goddess of death, Kali, killed Sacco. Sacco remains unfound, regardless of what happened.

Caroline Clarke and Joanne Walters were only 22 years old.The women vanished in April 1992 after leaving a backpackers' hotel in Sydney, Australia. Both women took short-term jobs to fund their backpacking. They managed to keep in touch with their families in Britain.

Before Walters and Clarke disappeared, Walters told family she planned to travel to Darwin, Northern Territory, and China before returning home. Clarke wrote to a friend detailing plans to travel to Western and Central Australia. The women disappeared later. Australian immigration records show neither left the country. Their bank accounts and phones showed no use since that day.

Two months passed. Both families failed to hear from the girls. Police launched a nationwide search. They set up a hotline. Calls swamped it. People claimed the girls cooked in Mount Isa or were seen in Alice Springs and Yulara in the Northern Territory. September brought the bodies of Clarke and Walters in the Belanglo State Forest. Walters carried fourteen stab wounds. Clarke had ten gunshot wounds. Police think Ivan Milat used her for target practice. Milat was convicted in 1996. He is thought responsible for seven disappearances.

In 1997, Judy Smith joined her husband Jeffrey Smith for a business trip to Philadelphia. Jeffrey attended a conference, so Judy sight-saw the city alone and never came back. Five months later, hikers found her.The body was partially buried., decomposing body in an isolated mountain area in North Carolina—over 600 miles from Philly.

Police could not determine how Judy Smith died; they thought it was murder. They ruled out robbery since Smith still had her wedding ring and $167 cash. A blue backpack was found at the scene, even though Smith carried a red one. Evidence suggested Judy traveled there on her own. Witnesses put her in Asheville and said she was in a good mood. She told witnesses her husband was a lawyer, but a friend said Judy's marriage was hard and she wanted to leave temporarily. Her adult children from another marriage thought Judy loved Jeffrey and would not leave on purpose. No one figured out why a woman with family would vanish alone or how she ended up dead on a mountain hundreds of miles away.

This happened in 2000., 27-year-old Brenda Searle planned to meet her Dutch boyfriend Andre Van Der Vooren in Chichen Itza, an archaeological site in southern Mexico. Searle flew to Mexico alone as a global backpacker but neverHe made it.After her disappearance, her credit card was used to withdraw over £1,000.

Searle's family, friends, and co-workers organized a search. Eight friends flew to Mexico to search, and eight months later, Searle was found murdered. Police arrested a Cuban man who used her credit card, leading them to her remains hidden under a shrub on a random road.

Arthur Angé disappeared.Arthur was last seen in Dhaka City after disappearing in January 2017. Friends guessed he was arrested trying to cross the border from Bangladesh or India into Myanmar, but authorities have no information. Police stated they knew nothing about Arthur and that if he crossed the border, they would know.

Arthur's friends and family started a Facebook page calledArthur Whereareyou.they used it to search, but as of April, they received no leads.

In September 2008, 21-year-old Britt Lapthorne went missing in the Croatian seasideShe went to the resort town of Dubrovnik.. She went out at a club for young travelers; it was the last place anyone saw Lapthorne. LapthorneShe left her passport and papers behind., which was unusual for a seasoned traveler.

Three weeks later, Britt's body was foundHe was found in Boninovo Bay.. Police think she did not enter the water on purpose given the weather that day, but they never solved why she vanished.

Shane Marsden sent a worrying text to his mother when heA 28-year-old tourist went missing.He wrote " in March of 2017.I'm sorry.Police still cannot find the 28-year-old. Some think he traveled to Thailand from New Zealand after breaking up with his girlfriend. His parents did not know their son was in Thailand until police traced his phone.

Anyone with information should contact Gloucestershire police. This case is still developing.