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We've all seen the tragic stories, but would you call the police if you spotted that missing kid? TODAY National Investigative Correspondent Jeff Rossen conducted an eye-opening experiment.

A massive search for a 6-year-old Tucson, Ariz., girl who vanished Friday night resumed Sunday morning. Scores of police, FBI agents and deputy U.S. marshals combed the city’s east side for first-grader Isabel Mercedes Celis. Officials tried to determine if the girl was kidnapped or just wandered off. Isabel’s parents last saw her in bed at 11 p.m. Friday, and they discovered her missing when they woke up around 8 a.m. Saturday, Tucson police spokeswoman Sgt. Maria Hawke said.

A young Brooklyn boy who vanished while walking home from a day camp in one of the safest parts of the city was killed and dismembered by a stranger he had turned to for help after getting lost, police said Wednesday.

In 1987, an anguished, trembling Joy White pleaded for someone to help her find her infant daughter.

The father of three missing Michigan boys has been charged with three counts of parental kidnapping, police said Tuesday.

Police in Pasadena, California, issued an Amber Alert for missing 3-year-old Dylan Kurihara. He was last seen with his father on Saturday, but his father "does not recall being with the child due to his level of intoxication," police said.

The intense search for Chelsea King ended Tuesday when authorities unearthed a body in a shallow grave near the lakeside park where the teenager had gone running last week.

The mother of a 13-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome who was missing in New York City for 11 days says her son spent the entire time in the subway system.

Investigators have no clues three days after a 7-year-old girl vanished on her way home from school, a sheriff in north Florida ...

The 6-year-old Colorado boy who is believed to have set adrift a helium balloon Thursday, prompting ground and air searches, has been found alive, authorities said. He was found in a box in the attic at his family's Fort Collins home, according to authorities.