Joanna Parkes from the Isle of Man, against the advice of everyone around her, marries a narcissistic British Airways pilot.

Mihrican ("Jan") Mustafa, a 37-year-old Turkish-Brit mother disappears.

Mark Cummings, an 8-year-old boy vanishes from a high-rise estate in Glasgow, Scotland

Carol Taggart, a mother in Fife, Scotland

Jamie Lavis, an 8-year-old boy in Manchester, England

Surjit Athwal returns to the house where her family had arranged her murder, then disappears.

Louise Smith, after a childhood in and out of foster care, turns 16 and is only marginally supported by the government in halfway houses. Shady characters there draw her into a group of sociopaths who victimize her before causing her disappearance.

Debbie Griggs, a pregnant mother of three boys in Kent is taken from her children.

Adam Alexander