missing person

A family in South Carolina pleaded for help Wednesday in finding Broadway dancer Zelig Williams, whose disappearance nearly two weeks ago has also drawn the concern of the broader theater community, including Hugh Jackman.

It took decades of work and numerous police agencies, but investigators now know what happened to 51-year-old Leola Etta Bryant after she vanished from a North Charleston bar in 1974.

Multiple law enforcement agencies are once again asking for help finding a missing Sumter mother and her 2-year-old son. Sophia and Matteo Van Dam disappeared from their home in June.

In 2009, while scouring the internet to piece together any information she could on her missing brother, Ruth Bueso came across an article in the Island Packet announcing he had died two years earlier. In her first email to Tim Donnelly and Daniel Brownstein, the former Island Packet reporters who had written the story, she attached a photo of her brother, 42-year-old Hector Bueso Mejía."Please, I need to know if he is the same person," she said.He was.