The family of Josh Rubin, the Ditmas Park cafe owner who's been mysteriously missing since October 31, has hired a private investigator to search for Josh and are offering a $5,000 reward to anyone with information leading to his whereabouts. more ›

Josh Rubin, the owner of Whisk Bakery Cafe in Ditmas Park who has been missing since October 31, may have been planning his disappearance, according to some new evidence from his neighbor. more ›

Josh Rubin, the owner of the recently opened Whisk Bakery Cafe in Ditmas Park, has been missing for over a week, and the neighborhood is rallying to help find him. Have you seen this man? more ›

Eight years after his 16-year-old son went missing, a Brooklyn dad discovered that thanks to a medical examiner's "mix-up," his son had been buried in an unmarked pauper's grave. The scandal began on June 27, 2003, when 16-year-old Cemal Cansev left his home on Brighton Beach to pick up his report card. He never returned, and father Sahil Cansev filed a missing persons report and began following dead end leads to his son's whereabouts. more ›

Two people went to the NYPD to try to report a missing person, but they say officers refused to take an interest in the case, and now it's believed the person in question has gone from "missing" to "murdered." Dmitriy Yakovlev is possibly a serial killer on trial for stealing the identities of New York jewelry importer Viktor Alekseyev, Russian translator Irina Malezhik, and Greenpoint mechanic Michael Klein. Alekseyev's dismembered body was found in garbage bags (alongside a vampire mask!) in the woods in New Jersey in 2006, but Malezhik and Klein and still missing. Yesterday, an associate of Yakovlev testified that he tried to warn cops about Yakovlev, but they weren't interested. more ›

It's too bad the NYPD doesn't have quotas for finding missing persons, because maybe then somebody would have noticed the dead pregnant woman decomposing in a car right outside a Bronx police station for over a week. Instead, it fell to a Mount Vernon detective, who was meeting with the NYPD about an unrelated investigation, to spot her corpse, which was in a white SUV less than 100 feet from the building. Detective Sgt. Robert Scott of the Mount Vernon police tells the Times, "As he was in his car, he observed the vehicle. He recognized the vehicle and its license plate, so it was very sharp detective work." more ›

A cyclist who was critically injured after getting hit by a car in East Flatbush shortly after midnight on April 14th finally died on Sunday. Police have been unable to identify the victim, who was hit by a Toyota Camry on Linden Boulevard at the corner of Schenck Avenue. The 21-year old driver stayed at the scene and was not charged, but the NYPD has just released this sketch in hopes of identifying the cyclist. more ›

Things aren't looking so good for the Medical Examiner's office. Back in 2002 a 27-year-old named Richard Massey disappeared in New York. According to the NY Post, the computer programmer had just moved here from England, reportedly started acting "bizarrely" and was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital. Allegedly, in prior weeks, he was scared someone was going to hurt him. He checked himself out of the hospital on December 19th, and was never seen again. more ›

A family from North Carolina has come up to New York in search of 19-year-old Erica Desai, who has been missing since January 20th—but some are speculating that she may just be AWOL. Desai was dropped off at her St. John's dorm on Utopia Parkway by her cousin after getting picked up from LaGuardia following her return home for the semester break. That was the last time she was seen. Her ATM card was used the next day to withdraw $150 from a midtown ATM. Surveillance tape shows the card being used by a woman that CBS-2 says is "obviously of Indian descent" (like Erica) along with an older black male. Her family swears that it can't be her. Her uncle said, "It was not her, it was somebody else. Well, we saw the video and somebody else withdraw the money from her account." Desai had just been expelled from school last month. more ›

A Bronx neighborhood was shocked by the discovery of human remains on the roof of an apartment building. Acting on a family's missing person report for their daughter, the police headed to an apartment on Marion Avenue in the afternoon and found blood in the bathroom. Then, WCBS 2 reports, "Police found [a] woman's burned body on the roof, there was no attempt to conceal it and that the arms and legs of the unidentified victim had been cut off and removed from the scene. So far, the limbs have not been recovered by crime scene technicians." It is feared the missing woman, Paulemont Manuella, and the murder victim are the same person. The police took the missing woman's boyfriend in for, per NY1, violating an order of protection against Manuella. One resident told NY1, "I'm sad. Something like that shouldn't happen to any human being. Regardless of how much you despise them or have problems or relationship issues or whatever." more ›