The Missing

FBI murder rates average 8% less than CDC murder rates nationally.  One reason is that murders in federsl fscilities or jurisdictions (prisons, military bases) are not reported by atate or lical police. But the FBI murder rates are for some states higher than CDC rates.  It appears that because FBI data is based on initial charges, deaths later determined to be justifiable or excusable homicides are corrected when CDC reports data.

I am suffering insomnia and I suddenly realized thst there is another category of murders that are not reported annually: the missing 

There are a startling number of remains found, often by hunters, of people who have been missing for years.  In some cases, their deaths can be determined to be homicides and perhaps even murders even when the remains are discovered decades later.  But they will not be included in annual FBI rates because their deaths have not been discovered.   Ditto for CDC rates. 

One of many cases 5/28/25 Fox News:

"Martinsson vanished on Jan. 17, 1982 after going shopping in a yellow Volkswagen Rabbit she had borrowed from her host family. Ten days later, authorities found the car in Boise City, Okla. with a man and woman inside.

"The man, 31-year-old Henry Lee Coleman of Los Angeles, had previously served ten years in prison after being convicted of rape in Oklahoma and was wanted in San Bernadino County, Calif. on a robbery warrant. The woman, 26-year-old Sabrina Ann Johnson of Seattle, had been picked up by Coleman before they drove east.

"Coleman was convicted of auto theft and sentenced to five years in prison, but authorities could not tie him to Martinsson's death."