How Private Investigators Can Assist in Locating Missing Persons or in Personal Safety and Surveillance
The road to a person becoming missing is often a complicated one. Before being directly targeted, many individuals require support to ensure their personal...
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Have you seen Timothy Perez? Texas man believed to be “missing voluntarily” by Round Rock police.
For over three months, the parents of Timothy Perez have been making the same drive across Texas in search of their missing son. Robert and Sandra Perez make...
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A Missing Girl and a Polaroid: The Mysterious Disappearance of Tara Calico
At 9:00 am on September 20, 1988, a hazel-eyed 19 year-old named Tara Leigh Calico set off on a bike ride from her home in the sleepy New Mexico town of Belen...
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REVEALED: The hidden methods investigators use to find missing people
Revealed: The Hidden Methods Private Investigators Use to Find Missing Persons The true crime world is fascinated by tales of missing persons. Netflix, Hulu...
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Barry Morphew Arrested in Disappearance of Wife, Suzanne Morphew
The family of Suzanne Morphew has finally seen movement in the case of the missing Colorado mother who disappeared one year ago. Her husband, Barry Morphew...
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Missing Mother Kadence Hooper, two sons found alive and safe
Missing person investigators in Alabama have recently closed the search for a missing mother and her two children following initial reports that they might be...
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Have You Seen Crystal Marie Fry? Family Still Searching for Missing Mother
Have you seen missing mother, Crystal Marie Fry? For months, her family has been searching for answers following Crystal’s disappearance amid distressing...
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United Airlines executive, Jake Cefolia, still missing
In Chicago, Illinois, the search is still underway for a missing United Airlines executive who went disappeared on August 6, 2020. Jake Cefolia, 49, is the...
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Remains of Vanessa Guillén identified, suspect charged.
The family of Vanessa Guillén had their worst fears confirmed last week when the Army officially identified human remains as belonging to the missing Fort Hood...
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When Fitness Becomes Dangerous: Three Women Who Went Missing While Exercising
It’s not uncommon for women to jog alone. Unfortunately, it’s also not uncommon for women to go missing while jogging or exercising. Millions of women exercise...
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Into the Breeze: The Disappearance of Tiffany Daniels
Tiffany Daniels, 25, mysteriously vanished on August 12, 2013, from Pensacola, Florida. She was last seen leaving Pensacola State College where she worked as a...
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Coronavirus: Citizen journalists disappearing following criticism of Chinese government
The coronavirus has reportedly killed more than 1000 Chinese residents since the outbreak of a new coronavirus, restricting travel and forcing the quarantines...
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Roman Lopez: Missing boy’s death being investigated as “suspicious”
Law enforcement is remaining tight-lipped on the subject of a case that has mystified the town of Placerville, California. Eleven-year-old Roman Anthony Lopez...
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The Disappearance of Tricia Reitler and Many Others
In March 1993, Tricia Lynn Reitler, 19, was a freshman psychology major at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. Teachers described Tricia as a...
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Search Continues for Kenneth Jimson
The family of 63 year-old Kenneth Wayne Jimson is still waiting for answers in his mysterious disappearance from Shelby, North Carolina almost two years ago...
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Mysterious Disappearance of Arizona Woman with Down Syndrome
(Sarah Galloway, 38, has Down Syndrome and went missing from Tucson, Ariz., on March 21, 2019.) On March 21, 2019, Sherry Galloway, 66, got out of the shower...
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Police Make Arrest in Missing University of Utah Student Mackenzie Lueck’s Disappearance
Mackenzie “Kenzie” Lueck, 23, is a vanished Monday, June 17, 2019, from Salt Lake City, Utah. She last contacted her family during the early hours of June 17...
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Journalist Goes Missing While on Assignment
An automotive journalist took a motorcycle for a test drive, and that was the last anyone heard from him… Davey G. Johnson, a journalist missing on assignment...
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Maleah Davis: EquuSearch to continue search for missing girl
Authorities and investigators in Texas have renewed vigor in their search for four-year-old Maleah in Texas, following allegations the prime suspect knew of “a...
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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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Fast Facts on Missing Children
Americans are captivated by missing child stories, haunted by the nagging specter of “What if this happened to my child?” The year 2018 was punctuated by a...
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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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How to Create a Missing Person Flyer
A missing person poster can be our first awareness of a famous missing person case. When we see missing person cases in the news, we become fascinated on an...
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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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Families of Missing Persons Face Ambiguous Loss
It is said, ambiguous loss is the most traumatic of human experiences, and when someone you love goes missing, it is a trauma unlike any other. Ambiguous loss...
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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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Two Hart children remain missing, police investigate family’s home life
What does it mean for a child to fall through the cracks? It’s a phrase we often hear following a tragedy involving children, like the one that killed six...
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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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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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What to Do When a Loved One Goes Missing
According to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), there are 86,927 active missing persons cases as 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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Reality of Sex Trafficking
Corinna Slusser, 19, was last seen at the Haven Motel in Queens, New York the morning of September 20, 2017. New York Police Department (NYPD) fears she was...
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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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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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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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