A California family’s yearlong search for their daughter, who they were led to believe went missing after checking out from a hospital against medical advice, has ended with the tragic discovery that she had been dead and decomposing in the hospital morgue the entire time, according to a lawsuit filed earlier this month. Jessie Peterson,...
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Yacht maker says 'indescribable' crew errors led to fatal Sicily shipwreck
The CEO of a manufacturing company responsible for building the yacht that sank off the coast of Sicily this week blamed a series of “indescribable, unreasonable errors” by the crew for the vessel’s demise. Reuters reported that Giovanni Costantino, CEO of The Italian Sea Group, which includes Perini Navi, the Italian high-end yacht maker that...
Missing climber sought in Glacier National Park days after last being seen
The search for a missing climber at Glacier National Park is now on its fourth full day. Grant Marcuccio, 32, from Whitefish, Montana, was reported missing to park rangers on Sunday evening by people who were with him earlier in the day. “Marcuccio separated from his party while hiking from Heavens Peak to McPartland Peak,”...
Tech billionaire Mike Lynch identified among bodies recovered from Italy superyacht catastrophe
The Italian coast guard on Thursday confirmed that billionaire tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch’s body was among the four recovered from the water yesterday after his superyacht sank off the Italian coast on Monday. The 184-foot British-flagged Bayesian carrying English entrepreneurs, lawyers and tourists capsized and sank off Sicily in bad weather early Monday, when divers...
Missing Colorado hiker found alive days after disappearing during 'spiritual' quest without cell phone
A Colorado hiker was found alive four days after she disappeared in the backcountry during a “spiritual” retreat with a group of campers who did not bring cellphones, authorities said. Gina Chase, 53, of Victoria, Canada, was located uninjured on Saturday in the search area near Lone Cone, Colorado, the San Miguel County Sheriff’s Office...
Moment luxury yacht sinks off coast of Italy caught on camera, with 6 presumed dead
British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch and Morgan Stanley International chairman Jonathan Bloomer are presumed dead along with four others who were aboard a luxury superyacht that sank off the coast of Italy on Monday morning, according to a report. Lynch and Bloomer were among the six people still missing, which include Lynch’s 18-year-old daughter Hannah,...
Human remains found on husband's property in search for Michigan woman missing since 2021
Investigators searching for a Michigan woman, who has been missing for more than three years and is presumed dead, have found human remains during a search of a property that belongs to her husband. The family of Dee Warner reported her missing on April 25, 2021, Michigan State Police (MSP) said. On Sunday, state police...
'Will to survive' helped missing 89-year-old hiker through 10-day ordeal in Idaho wilderness
An 89-year-old missing hiker lived nearly 10 days in the wilderness of Idaho through his “will to survive,” authorities said. “Bing Olbum has been found and is home,” the Custer County Sheriff’s Office in Central Idaho said on Aug. 11. “It is an extraordinary outcome for this incident!” Olbum left from the Hunter Creek Trailhead...
Utah mom kept missing daughter, 5, hidden in cult 'compound' for months with help from adult sons: prosecutors
A Utah woman is accused of kidnapping her then-4-year-old daughter in January 2023 and evading law enforcement for 18 months, with help from her adult sons, before she was finally caught. At the time when Kimberly Dell Davidson-Drolet, 53, allegedly kidnapped her daughter, she and her now-estranged husband, Laurence Drolet, were in the process of...
Florida woman found in South Carolina days after car discovered on train tracks
South Carolina authorities on Friday announced they found a 27-year-old Florida woman three days after she went missing in a rural area of Allendale County on Aug. 13. The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) said Jessica Rapsys, of Jacksonville, had been found “safe” but did not provide further details about where or how authorities...








