Rhode Island is small enough to drive across in under an hour. Bridges over Narragansett Bay, old mill towns beside dark rivers, coastal campuses, marinas and suburban roads — places where it feels like nobody could disappear for long. Ten people did. Today we're covering the Most Mysterious Disappearances in Rhode Island history: a man convicted of murder who left a sporting-goods store with his wife after buying two sweatsuits and eighty pounds of exercise weights, their car later found abandoned in the middle of the Newport Bridge with the keys, identification and wedding rings still inside — his wife's remains surfacing months later while Adam Emery himself has never been found; a ten-year-old sent on a half-mile walk to buy milk and clams in Pawtucket whose body washed ashore fifteen miles away fifty-four days later, followed thirty-one years afterward by an arrest based on DNA evidence that ultimately proved too ambiguous to sustain the charge; an eighteen-year-old Roger Williams University freshman who vanished from campus days after receiving a threatening phone call, his guitar, Walkman and glasses still inside his dorm room, with only a boot containing partial remains eventually recovered from an island in Narragansett Bay; a Warwick mother known for feeding ducks at Apponaug Marina whose poodle appeared abandoned two days after she vanished and whose truck was later found sitting in a hospital parking lot — her remains finally recovered from the woods of West Greenwich two and a half years later, with a man now charged with her murder; an eighteen-year-old whose mother's car was found in the breakdown lane of Route 10 and whose body was discovered the same night in Spectacle Pond only yards beyond the guardrail, yet no one has ever been charged; a twenty-year-old bookbindery worker whose Mercury Capri was found at four in the morning on Route 2 with the engine running, headlights and heater still on and her purse untouched — her body located hours later less than half a mile from home; a twenty-seven-year-old Woonsocket mother last seen getting into a car near the Blackstone River whose disappearance was not reported for six weeks, leaving investigators trying to reconstruct a trail that had already gone cold; a twenty-four-year-old woman who disappeared after watching Fourth of July fireworks in Woonsocket and was later identified as one of the victims of serial killer Jeffrey Mailhot, her remains recovered from a landfill in another Rhode Island town; another Woonsocket woman Mailhot confessed to killing whose murderer is known, convicted and serving life — but whose remains have never been located; and two little girls taken from their Warwick home by their mother in 1985, disappearing into new names and a new life for more than thirty years before investigators finally located both daughters alive as adults in Houston, Texas.

Ten cases. Nearly four decades, from 1985 to 2024. Bridges, highways, marina docks, college dorms, mill-city streets and dark stretches of Rhode Island water. Some ended with convictions. Some produced bodies but no killer. Some produced a killer but no body. And one ended thirty-one years later with two missing children opening a door as grown women.

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