Missing Child Alert: Heaven Ray Cox

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Snopes Staff Kim LaCapria

Nov 29, 2017 A mother's viral Facebook post reported that the 15-year-old girl was missing from her home in O ...

Ashley Flores

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David Mikkelson

May 14, 2006 Ashley Flores: missing child or Internet hoax?

Is Allisyn Nicole Still Missing?

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David Emery

Nov 26, 2018 Recycled social media posts from 2013 report that the young woman who supposedly went missing wa ...

Cargo Container Full of Young Black Women Discovered in Savannah?

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David Mikkelson

Mar 27, 2017 The "mainstream media" isn’t covering the discovery of a cargo container full of young black wom ...

Did 179 Children Go Missing in Indiana in the First 47 Days of 2017?

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Kim LaCapria

Feb 28, 2017 Many Facebook users misinterpreted a post about missing children in Indiana as suggestive of a w ...

Missing Child: Kyron Horman

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David Mikkelson

Aug 2, 2012 A now 15-year-old boy named Kyron Horman disappeared from his Portland, Oregon, home in June 201 ...

Fake Amber Alert: Plate 72B 381

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Barbara Mikkelson

Jul 15, 2009 A long-circulating report of an Amber Alert issued for three-year-old girl taken by man in a gre ...

Asha Degree

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David Mikkelson

Jan 17, 2001 Asha Degree: Missing child or Internet hoax?