Kids run away all the time. Some of them stay gone for years. Very few of them, however, stay gone forever. This list is of Charley Project cases classified as runaways where the child has been missing for a minimum of twenty years.
I’m using my own classifications here, not the NCMEC’s, because their classifications are often wrong — they’ve got Mitchell Darlington listed as a runaway, for example, when he almost certainly drowned.
- Jorge Acosta, 12, missing since 1992
- Lurline Michelle Bergeron, 14, missing since 1991
- James Eric Bess, 14, and Chipley Charles Sanders, 13, missing since 1984
- Sandra Breed, 16, missing since 1964
- Niki Diane Britten, 15, missing since 1969
- Mary Jo Burnette, 16, missing since 1984
- Shawna Chavez, 14, missing since 1994
- Rose Lena Cole, 15 or 16, missing since 1972 or 1973
- Melinda Karen Creech, 13, missing since 1979
- Kenneth Allen Daily, 16, missing since 1985
- Brenda Sue Davidson, 13, missing since 1974
- Krystyn Rae Dunlap, 17, missing since 1994
- Martha Wes Dunn, 15, missing since 1990
- Duane Edward Fochtman, 15, missing since 1986
- Nerissa Franklin, 15, missing since 1989
- Helen Marie Green, 13, missing since 1971 or 1972
- Shaunda Renne Green, 13, missing since 1983
- Karen Marie Hughes, 12, missing since 1983
- John Christopher Inman, 17, missing since 1993
- Danny Lee Jones, 15, missing since 1974
- Christopher Matthew Kerze, 17, missing since 1990
- Christine Marie Kingsley, 17, missing since 1995
- Janet Ann Kramer, 13, missing since 1971
- Desiree Lynette Lopez, 17, missing since 1996
- Meredith Ann Medina, 16, missing since 1989
- Alishia Dachone Miller, 13, missing since 1989
- Jerome Eugene Morris, 14, missing since 1990
- Scott Michael Morris, 14, missing since 1978
- Jennifer Lynn Pandos, 15, missing since 1987
- Aaron Michael Pate, 17, missing since 1992
- Cynthia Lorraine Perry, 17, missing since 1985
- Jennifer Rae Perry, 13, missing since 1993
- Shaliegh Sharrie Phillips, 12, missing since 1988
- Taranika Michelle Raymond, 13, missing since 1995
- Jason Donald Reynolds, 17, missing since 1993
- Eva Marie Ridall, 15, missing since 1977
- Angela Arlene Robles, 16, missing since 1996
- Froelan Rosales Jr., 15, missing since 1989
- Carlota Maria Sanchez, 12, and Elsie Eldora Luscier, 13, missing since 1979
- Beverly Sharpman, 17, missing since 1947
- Aron Holmes Silverman, 17, missing since 1993
- Stevey Howard Sommerville, 14, missing since 1990
- Mary Ann Ruth Switalski, 16, missing since 1963
- Misty Dawn Thompson, 15, missing since 1993
- Deborah Lee Tomlinson, 16, missing since 1973
- Darci Renae Warde, 16, missing since 1990
- Renata Sharisse Myles Whitehead, 14, missing since 1996
- Heide Dawn Wilbur, 16, missing since 1991