Some left in the heat of a family argument and haven't been seen since, others were lost at sea and their bodies never recovered. Here are all the people from Bristol County who have vanished without a trace.
A Fall River man who admitted to beating, robbing and sexually assaulting his girlfriend will spend up to 10 years in prison for domestic abuse, according to the Bristol County D.A.'s office.
Two Fall River men have been arrested and $28,000 in cash and more than five and a half kilos of cocaine seized in a large-scale drug bust by a state police narcotics unit.
A SouthCoast man suspected of murdering his half-sister with a conch shell and other objects inside her New Bedford home in 2001 has been sentenced for a separate attack on another New Bedford woman.
A New Bedford man with a long criminal record — including a 2002 conviction for manslaughter, heroin distribution, and illegally dumping a human body in Nantucket harbor — is going back to prison for a violent domestic assault.
A New Bedford man will spend up to 20 years in state prison for stabbing his ex-girlfriend and molesting her daughter, who was under 14 years old at the time.
A 31-year-old man who was living in the woods in Fairhaven has been sentenced to three to five years in prison for strangling and assaulting his girlfriend in August 2020.
A city man with a prior manslaughter conviction will serve up to 12 years in state prison, after police found hundreds of grams of fentanyl hidden in a kids' bedroom in his apartment.
A New Bedford man who raped a 13-year-old girl on multiple occasions will be spending 10 to 12 years in state prison after his conviction by jury this week.
An 18-year-old Fall River woman will spend life in prison with the possibility of parole after she pleaded guilty to stabbing an elderly woman to death with a pair of scissors in 2019.