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The Best Episodes of Disappeared

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The Best Episodes of Disappeared

Disappeared is a gripping series that focuses on missing person cases. Each hour delves into one story, tracing the time immediately before the individual vanished...

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  1. 8.6/10(43 votes)

    #1 - No Exit

    S2:E4

    33-year-old Tanya Rider goes missing after her overnight shift at a grocery store in Bellevue, Wash. When her husband Tom contacts 911, emergency officials refuse to file a missing persons report because they think Rider may have left on her own. Tom must battle to get authorities to start a proper investigation, and when they finally do, detectives suspect he's involved.

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  2. 8.5/10(36 votes)

    #2 - Murky Waters

    S3:E3

    16-year-old Molly Bish arrives at her lifeguard job one morning and minutes later vanishes. The disappearance has police thinking that Molly drowned, but her mother's intuition leads to an investigation of a suspicious man in a white vehicle.

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  3. 8.5/10(35 votes)

    #3 - Heavy Metal Mystery

    S3:E16

    Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington promises to meet her father the morning after attending a Metallica concert, but she never shows up. Her panicked parents learn that Morgan left her friends during the concert and never came back. Witnesses paint a strange picture of her behavior outside the concert venue: she was erratic, belligerent, incoherent, and in the company of three young men. Even more bewildering are multiple reports of Harrington hitchhiking late at night on a dark road. Weeks and months go by without solid leads until forensics link Morgan’s disappearance to a violent crime in another city three hours away.

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  4. 8.4/10(32 votes)

    #4 - A Mother's Mission

    S3:E11

    Rebellious 18-year-old Samantha Bonnell vanishes during a night out with friends. Her mother begins a harrowing search with no help from police. When Bonnell’s suitcase turns up miles from where she was last seen her mother hopes it isn't too late.

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  5. 8.4/10(36 votes)

    #5 - Navajo Nightmare

    S9:E3

    Pepita Redhair, a 27-year-old Navajo woman, goes missing after her mother drops her off at her boyfriend’s house in Albuquerque, N.M.; the family takes matters into their own hands to find her, even enlisting the help of a medicine man.

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  6. 8.3/10(48 votes)

    #6 - Favourite Son

    S1:E6

    The investigation into Billy Smolinski's disappearance after he discovered his girlfriend had cheated on him. Detectives try to find out if she is behind the mystery.

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  8. 8.3/10(39 votes)

    #7 - The Secret Journey

    S2:E1

    Known for her quick smile and lightning speed on the soccer field, 17-year-old Brittanee Drexel from Rochester, N.Y., slipped off to spring break vacation in Myrtle Beach, S.C., without the consent or knowledge of her parents. On April 25, 2009, the night before she was supposed to come home, Drexel disappears. Video surveillance shows Drexel exiting a friend's hotel and her last known communication is a text to her boyfriend. But when police track her cell phone to an isolated rural area known for alligators and swamps, her family fears the worst.

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  9. 8.3/10(36 votes)

    #8 - Paradise Lost

    S2:E10

    While shopping for land in Oklahoma, Bobby and Sherilyn Jamison and their six-year-old daughter Madyson vanish. Mystified investigators uncover a series of disconnected leads pointing to drugs, family dysfunction, and even supernatural beliefs.

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  10. 8.3/10(50 votes)

    #9 - The Springfield Three

    S3:E10

    When Sherill Levitt, her daughter Suzie Streeter and friend Stacy McCall vanish from a house one night, the town of Springfield is left reeling. A violent criminal in the area says he knows where the women are buried, which only stirs up more questions than answers.

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  11. 8.2/10(34 votes)

    #10 - Mystery at the Border

    S3:E1

    The McStay family disappears from their San Diego home without a trace. There are no signs of foul play and no indication that they were running from anything. Could the McStays have intentionally walked away, or did something more sinister occur?

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  12. 8.2/10(29 votes)

    #11 - The Long Drive Home

    S9:E4

    Jason Landry disappears while driving home for the holiday break; PI and retired FBI agent Abel Pena does his own investigation and suspects Jason may have been the victim of foul play.

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  13. 8.1/10(27 votes)

    #12 - Game Over

    S3:E17

    Charlie Allen Jr. is excited for his future as a doctor and aspiring tennis professional. But he sends his family into a panic when he reports to his sister that people are after him. His parents try desperately to reach their son, but all attempts are futile. A few days later, police discover Allen’s backpack in a yard, his car abandoned in a campus parking lot, a link to a local break-in, and receive reports that he was seen running shirtless and shoeless along a wooded road. Police find no sign of foul play, but also no sign of Allen. As the investigation probes further, some wonder if the threat to Allen came from someplace much closer to home.

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  14. 8.1/10(28 votes)

    #13 - The Wedding Ring

    S4:E9

    Tina McQuaig was a 27- year-old wife and mother. On the evening of March 15, 2000, after work at the hospital, she called her babysitter to say she’s stopping at the grocery store on her way home. That was the last anyone heard from McQuaig. When her car was found four days later, her keys and purse were gone, as if she parked and walked away. As authorities probe McQuaid’s life, they discovered secrets that stun her husband and family.

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  15. 8.1/10(32 votes)

    #14 - The Road Not Taken

    S4:E11

    Nineteen-year-old Ginni Wood embarks on a 1500-mile spring break road trip from North Carolina to Texas to visit her best friend Kelly Gaskins. Wood speaks to her mother upon arrival, but then disappears along with Gaskins and her boyfriend Ervin Williams. Investigators soon realize that Ervin is wanted back in North Carolina on charges of assault and arson. The girls’ families wonder if Ervin is involved in their disappearance, or if he’s a victim himself. When police learn that the three kids may have crossed the border into Mexico, they question where to turn for answers.

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  16. 8.1/10(38 votes)

    #15 - Vanished in the Night

    S9:E1

    26 year old Kirsten Brueggeman was last seen in Indianapolis, Indiana on January 2, 2021. At 2:00 am she was seen walking through the YMCA parking lot on North Shortridge Road. Kirsten hasn’t been seen or heard from since.

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  17. 8.1/10(26 votes)

    #16 - New Mom Missing

    S9:E8

    Successful lawyer and new mum Ciera Breland disappears after she and her husband visit his mother in Georgia. It emerges her perfect life isn’t what it seems.

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  18. 8.0/10(29 votes)

    #17 - A Father's Quest

    S4:E3

    Leah Peebles recently moved from her parents’ home in Texas to Albuquerque, NM, for a fresh start after years of struggling with drug addiction. Though she came from a supportive, tight-knit family, Leah had turned to drugs to cope after being molested as a toddler and raped as a teenager. Clean for the first time in years, Leah is eager to start her career as a hairstylist and get her life on track. But just a few weeks after arriving in Albuquerque, she steps out one night for a date and never returns. When the Peebles family feels the police are too slow to respond, Leah’s father decides to take matters into his own hands and hunt for her himself. He discovers Leah has fallen back into drugs and, worse yet, has turned to prostitution to support her habit. Rumors abound and the Peebles fear Leah has fallen victim to foul play. As he traverses Albuquerque’s underworld, seeing things he never thought he would, Mr. Peebles remains determined to search until he can bring her home.

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  19. 7.9/10(38 votes)

    #18 - Spirited Away

    S7:E3

    Twenty-one-year-old Kortne Stouffer vanishes from her bed one night following a couple of scuffles with neighbors and friends. Investigators pursue various leads, but the young woman is nowhere to be found, and her family clings to an endless hope.

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  20. 7.9/10(32 votes)

    #19 - Just Out of Sight

    S8:E8

    Military veteran Michael VanZandt disappears one night in Hermosa Beach, Calif.; police suspect a group of strangers may be involved, while VanZandt's loved ones are haunted by suspicions about his thrill seeking make-up.

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  21. 7.9/10(28 votes)

    #20 - A Date with Danger

    S8:E13

    Nancy Moyer isn’t home when her kids come back from visiting their dad. Police look into her background, and find a more complicated life than anyone knows. But when a random murder occurs nearby, the question becomes could the cases be connected?

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  22. 7.8/10(41 votes)

    #21 - The Last Truck Stop

    S1:E3

    Investigating the disappearance of Michele Whitaker who vanished after hitching a ride from a truck stop.

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  23. 7.8/10(26 votes)

    #22 - Gone at 17

    S2:E13

    When 17-year-old Kara Kopetsky doesn't come home from school one day, her family panics. Foul play is suspected and a series of unsettling clues surface. But the leads grow cold until a month later when another local teenage girl goes missing.

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  24. 7.8/10(30 votes)

    #23 - Secret Rendezvous

    S3:E2

    At midnight, Patti Adkins leaves her shift at the Honda factory and vanishes. Investigators learn of a mysterious relationship and a secret trip that was supposed to happen that night. As clues emerge, detectives piece together a troubling picture.

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  25. 7.8/10(26 votes)

    #24 - Wrong Side of the Tracks

    S4:E14

    Jackie Markham, a feisty trucking company manager, picks up a prescription near her home and vanishes. Markham’s friends and family are certain the 51-year-old workaholic would never abandon her responsibilities to her job or her adored children and grandchildren. A boyfriend reports that Markham made a mysterious phone call the night she vanished, warning him that a rival suitor was at her house and drunk. He claims to have raced to her house, but found her gone. The sheriff has his doubts, but then her purse is found in a ditch in a rough neighborhood not far from a serial killer’s lair, and the case takes a much darker turn.

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  26. 7.8/10(28 votes)

    #25 - Every Mother’s Son

    S7:E5

    20-year old Bear Diaz has diabetes, leaving him weak and vulnerable. When he vanishes in the night with his TV, backpack and cash, investigators must consider foul play. Then Skylar Tosic disappears, leaving people wondering if the cases are linked.

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Best Episodes Summary

"No Exit" is the best rated episode of "Disappeared". It scored 8.6/10 based on 43 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 10/25/2010. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Murky Waters".