Disappearances

These disappearances are probably murders.

The disappearances of seven female college students have seized the nation's attention.

Her father's constant disappearances made her distrustful around men.

The disappearances in the Bermuda Triangle are inexplicable.

I can't explain those disappearances, but it wasn't me.

Some speculate that unknown and mysterious forces account for the unexplained disappearances within the Bermuda Triangle, such as extraterrestrials capturing humans for study; the influence of the lost continent of Atlantis; vortices that suck objects into other dimensions; and other whimsical ideas.

There is no evidence that mysterious disappearances occur with any greater frequency in the Bermuda Triangle than in any other large, well-traveled area of the ocean.

Poverty, drugs, alcohol, frequent disappearances of young women and the absence of law enforcement are all issues plaguing the Pine Ridge Native American Reservation in South Dakota.

Nevertheless, from interviews with 178 detainees who had been released, he said monitors have documented more than 900 cases of arbitrary detention, many of them tantamount to enforced disappearances.

Numerous murders and disappearances happened in the area.