When Your Loved One Goes Missing Here Are the First Places to Check
Missing persons investigations are always a great source of distress. The disappearance of a loved one is a nightmare that none of us want to face. However...
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Missing Long Island Woman, Gabby Petito, Vanished While on Vacation with Boyfriend
What began as a quest for adventure has now turned to tragedy in the case of one Long Island family who is missing a daughter. Gabby Petito, 22, disappeared...
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Strange Circumstances in the Seychelles: The Sombre Story Of Annie and Robin Korkki
While the role of an international private investigator usually revolves around people missing overseas, at times a mystery arises in another form all...
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Alex Holden’s body identified in American River
Police have announced that they suspect “no foul play” in the death of a California man who was reported missing over a month ago. Alex Holden, 25, was...
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Guide to Social Awareness for Missing Persons
When a child or a loved one goes missing, immediately life changes as you know it, your entire world seems to fall apart. You feel isolated, confused and...
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Missing & Murdered Native American Women: An Epidemic?
Montana is a Rocky Mountain state that borders Canada and often referred to as “Big Sky Country” with numerous spectacular mountain ranges, western prairie...
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National Organizations Join Search for Sarah Galloway, Missing with Down’s Syndrome
(Sarah Galloway went missing March 21, 2019, from the front of her home in Picture Rocks, outside of Tucson Ariz.) Sarah Galloway, 38, has Down’s Syndrome and...
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Missing & Murdered Moms
There is an epidemic of missing and murdered mothers in the United States. Many missing and murdered moms get a great deal of press coverage, but for some...
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How PIs Find Missing Persons
Private investigators use a wide variety of tools and experience to find missing persons. As of April 30, 2018, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)...
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How to Write a Press Release
When you are in the midst of a traumatic experience, it’s hard to look beyond the immediate crisis. When a loved one goes missing, it’s hard to think about...
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Missing in Paradise
Couple vanishes while on vacation in Dominican Republic A romantic trip to the Caribbean sounds just like what the doctor ordered as the warmer weather...
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Missing Children: Infant Abductions
There are many different types of missing persons—adults with mental illness, homeless individuals, children, and runaways. Each type of case deserves to be...
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Police Identify Remains of Jabez Spann
Last week, Tawana, the mother of Jabez Spann, received the closure she’d been chasing since September 4, 2017. That Labor Day weekend was the last time she saw...
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Savannah Spurlock Missing for 6 Weeks
The search for Savannah Spurlock is entering its 6th week, as law enforcement continue to reconstruct the events that led up to her disappearance. On January...
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First 72: A Missing Person Investigator’s Race Against Time
If you watch a lot of crime dramas, either on television or on the silver screen, you might have heard a law enforcement character say something to the effect...
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Body Found in Search of Hania Aguilar
For many families across North America, the holiday season has begun—a season for spending time with family and reflecting on the blessings in your life. For...
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50 Facts About Missing Children & Adults
1. Approximately 2,300 children are reported missing each day in the United States, that one child every 40 seconds. 2. Nearly 800,000 people are reported...
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History of Missing Persons Law in the United States
Several federal laws in the United States are focused on the plight of unresolved missing persons and unidentified remains. Each law, the result of families of...
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PD, Barron volunteers continue search for Jayme Closs
The news cycles this week have been dominated by another missing persons case in middle America, where a familiar refrain is ringing out across the media...
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The Complexities of Missing Adults with Mental Illness
When we think of missing persons, we often think of victims who have likely befallen violence at the hands of another. Either they have been killed and their...
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Wild Country: Missing in the National Park System
When we hear of a person going missing without a trace, it’s often in municipalities, such as cities. The moment a loved one has realized the person is...
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Molly Tibbetts Case Shines Light on Other Less-Nationally Known Missing Person Case
A new website was launched Monday that has generated over 1,500 new tips received from people trying to help find missing University of Iowa student Molly...
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International Travelers Who Go Missing
In May 2009, New Jersey resident Joe Dunsavage vanished during his international trip to Honduras. He left his wallet, passport, and luggage in his hotel room...
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Beyond Our Horizons: Americans Missing Overseas
Americans across the country have a bizarre fascination with all things foreign. When it comes to international travel and foreign countries, attitudes can...
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FBI Joins Search for Mollie Tibbetts
Dalton Jack was at his construction job in Dubuque, Montana on the night of July 18th, 2018. He was working almost 100 miles away from his home in Brooklyn...
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The Media and Missing White Woman Syndrome
If you are a missing person, it helps to be white Jasmine Moody, a 22-year old Texas Women’s University student mysteriously vanished on December 4, 2014...
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NORRISTOWN MOTHER OF FOUR FOUND SAFE
For the last two weeks, the family of a missing Norristown mother have been fearing the worst. Jessica Guidici, 32, had been missing for eight days when...
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The Scope of the Missing Persons Phenomenon
When we hear the word “missing” we often think of missing children. When we walk into Walmart the faces of missing children stare back at us and the missing...
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Police vs. Private Investigation: The PI Advantage
For months, the family of 5-year-old Lucas Hernandez wondered if they would ever have answers in his mysterious disappearance. On the day he disappeared, he...
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Meet Missing Person Expert, Thomas Lauth
At Lauth Missing Person Investigations, we specialize in complex missing person investigations of endangered missing children and adults. The investigative...
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Armchair Detectives Use Facebook to Solve Cases
It has been over a decade since Facebook first broke ground in social media. Since its inception in 2004, Facebook has gone from connecting people in close...
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DENISE WILLIAMS INDICTED FOR HER HUSBAND’S MURDER
In the weeks following the capture of the infamous Golden State Killer, in which the survivors of the victims were finally given some closure, the family of...
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Police Unable to Connect Deaths of 3 Lumberton Women
Near the southern tip of North Carolina, where I-74 and I-95 meet, there’s a town called Lumberton. In 1995, the town became the two-time winner of the...
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MISSING PERSONS IN THE PARK: BIZARRE DISAPPEARANCES IN NATIONAL PARKS
Millions of people are visiting our beautiful national parks each year. They travel from one side of the continent to the other to see the breathtaking tall...
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Murder of Natalie Bollinger
Murder of Natalie Bollinger, Leaves Clues on Facebook Natalie Marie Bollinger, 19, was reported missing on Thursday, December 28, 2017. She had last been seen...
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Hiring an Independent Missing Persons Investigator
People go missing every day, and because of the complexity of a missing persons’ case under the eyes of the law sometimes it may be necessary to hire an...
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The Importance of a National Missing Persons Database: NamUs
Joseph Spears, 1973. A teen from Mississippi escaped from the Harrison County Youth Detention Center on July 31, 1973 at the age of 17 according to Associated...
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The Importance of External Investigations: Molly Miller and Colt Haynes
The Facts of the Case Molly Miller was last seen on July 8, 2013, from Wilson, Oklahoma. Molly’s disappearance has been classified as endangered missing. Molly...
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Teen Found Dead, Ex-Boyfriend Admitted to Committing Murder
The Ashley Doolittle Case 18-year old Colorado teen, Ashley Doolittle, was reported missing Thursday, June 9 after she never returned home at her expected 7:30...
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International Parental Abduction: What You Need To Know
Every 40 seconds in the United States, a child becomes missing or is abducted. Scary, huh? However, contrary to popular belief, many child abductions are not...
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Police suspect 16-year-old Detra Duncan could be a victim of human trafficking
16-year-old Detra Yvonne Duncan was last seen on Dec. 23 at about 10:30pm near the 200 block of Nacogdoches Road in San Antonio. The area where Duncan...
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21-year-old pregnant woman remains missing after nearly three months
Rochelle Thomas Stubblefield of Merrillville, In. was supposed to celebrate her 21st birthday on December 25 with friends and family. She was also supposed...
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Oklahoma father offers $10,000 reward for information about his missing son
Jim Will, the father of a missing man from Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, offered a $10,000 reward earlier this month (Jan 5) for any information leading to the...
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Missing Persons ID’d from NCIC
It’s a disturbing statistic. According to the FBI, there are some 84,000 reported missing people on any given day in the United States. At the same time, there...
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Social Media: 5 Ways It’s Transforming How Investigators Locate Missing People
It’s an alarming statistic. Approximately 2,300 Americans go missing every single day. This includes both children and adults. Even more disturbing, perhaps...
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