disappearance
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Casias' disappearance featured prominently in a growing online conspiracy theory earlier this year about the deaths and disappearances of at least 10 people with ties to US scientific research.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026
Casias had been an administrative assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where the first atomic bomb was developed and where nuclear weapon work continues, her family told local news outlets after her disappearance.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026
Taken together, the appearance reframed Colbert’s exit from CBS not as disappearance, but as migration.
From Salon • May 23, 2026
The disappearance prompts Jing-nan himself, disguised as a Filipino migrant, to go undercover as a plant employee.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
When the girl’s stepfather, Henry Smith, noticed her disappearance, he suspected foul play and set out to search for her in the woods near the Negro community of Egypt Town just outside of New London.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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