Among those who keep track of slightly less high-profile missing-person cases, the story will be strikingly familiar.

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But I also see that there are two high-profile incidents of women going missing, and for a very long time.

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He has not been seen in public since the high-profile car accident, even missing his own tournament in California earlier this month.

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The BBC's Andrew Hosken said children's protection charities such as Kidscape had found that publicity surrounding cases such as that of missing Cambridgeshire schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman and other high-profile disappearances had increased parents' concerns.

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