How to Ask For an Investigator’s Help When Police Can No Longer Assist With Missing Persons
As much as we’d love to say that all missing person cases are solved by their police investigators, that sadly isn’t so. There is comfort in knowing that...
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Top 10 Unsolved Missing Person Cases
10. Karlie Gusé A more recent unsolved missing person case is that of Karlie Gusé. The night before she disappeared, Karlie Gusé was seen at a party with...
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Brian Walshe charged with misleading detectives in search for missing wife
Almost two weeks after she was reported missing, police are still investigating the disappearance of a Massachusetts mother who vanished in the early morning...
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How To Find A Missing Person’s In Your State Or Territory
In the digital era, our lives tend to be laid bare for everyone to see. This makes it all the more worrying when someone falls off the grid. There are a number...
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Kiely Rodni: Search still ongoing for missing teen
The Placer County Sheriff’s Office is still searching for 16-year-old Kiely Rodni, who disappeared from a campground in Tahoe, California almost a week ago...
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Looking For Missing Persons? Do This In The First 48 Hours
When television series The First 48 hit screens across the United States, Americans were introduced to the idea that the odds of solving a missing person...
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Indigenous woman still missing following plan to enter treatment
Aidan Spear, a 21-year-old Indigenous woman, was reported missing on February 22, 2022. She stands at 5’6”, weighs approximately 120lbs, with brown hair and...
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What Happened to Harmony Montgomery?
After the two-year anniversary of her daughter’s disappearance, the mother of Harmony Montgomery has spoken out. Crystal Sorey reached out to the media, and...
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Jason Culliton Still Missing from Indianapolis, PI Joins Search
In a time when pandemic restrictions and the continued turn of the globe already play a direct role in causing family members and friends to lose touch, many...
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Husband Dominic Remains Suspect in the Missing Person Case of Mary Badaracco
While the initial story presented to the police following disappearance of Mary Badaracco some 37 years ago seemed somewhat plausible, it quickly disintegrated...
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After 26 Years, Could a Documentary Lead To Answers For the Family of Morgan Nick?
On June 9, 1995, mother Colleen found herself facing the worst fear of any parent. Her daughter, Morgan Nick, was abducted from an Alma ballfield when only six...
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The Case of Maura Murray: Holding on to Hope When Missing Person Investigations Go Cold
On a fateful day in February of 2004, 21 year-old Massachusetts university student Maura Murray disappeared without a trace. A car accident had taken place...
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What to Do When a Loved One Goes Missing in a War Zone
A majority of Americans have enjoyed the life-long comforts of total border security and homeland security that protect them from the threats of the outside...
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Parents of Sarm Heslop Make an Emotional Plea for Further Investigation Into the Disappearance of Their Daughter
Almost five months after Sarm Heslop vanished without a trace, her parents, Brenda and Peter, have made an emotional appeal to the authorities investigating...
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Missing in Mexico: Families without Answers
When a loved one goes missing in the United States, their families file a missing person report in good faith that local law enforcement will conduct a...
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After 16 Years the Vanishing of Natalee Holloway Remains Unexplained
In May of 2005, Alabama teen Natalee Holloway’s future seemed brimming with bright promise. The straight-A student had just graduated from Mountain Brook High...
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The Search Continues for Missing Woman Monica Rose Downs
Although the Missing Endangered Person Advisory issued on June 24th for Monica Rose Downs has now expired, she remains missing—and the Gallatin County...
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How Fast Can a Private Investigator Find Your Missing Loved One?
More than 600,000 people go missing in the United States every year. Across all 50 states, across all age groups, no family is immune from their loved one...
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The Right Way to Find Missing People
What is the right way to find a missing person? When it comes to professional investigators like those in law enforcement or in private practice, the answer...
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Sarm Heslop still missing, boyfriend waited 9 hours to call Coast Guard
For the last month, people living on both sides of the Atlantic ocean have been gripped by the story of missing former flight attendant, Sarm Heslop. Sarm...
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Kirsten Brueggeman still missing, PI joins search for missing woman
The family of Kirsten Brueggeman has been anxious for answers in her mysterious disappearance for over two months. Kirsten was last seen walking away from the...
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Missing teen, Leah Conner, found dead, autopsy expected
St. Clair County authorities in Michigan have released very few details regarding the investigation into the disappearance and death of a teenager whose...
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Authorities, volunteers continue search for Jason Landry
Authorities are still searching for leads in the case of a missing Texas State University student who disappeared last December. Jason Landry, 21, was leaving...
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Mother Jessica Dietzel still missing one year later
A Georgia family is still searching for answers in the disappearance of a now 22-year-old mother Jessica Dietzel. Jessica went missing in mid-February last...
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Miriam Rodriguez: The Mother of All Advocates
In the past few weeks, the internet has become captivated by the story of a mother who sought out her daughter’s killers in what is being called the makings of...
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#SaveOurChildren Brings Awareness of Sex Trafficking in the Midwest
In recent weeks, U.S. marshals have recovered 72 survivors of sex trafficking in Indiana, Ohio, and Georgia during “Operation Homecoming” in tandem with a...
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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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LaShaya Stine, Still Missing After 4 Years
The family of LaShaya Stine is still waiting anxiously for answers in her mysterious disappearance. LaShaya was 16 years old and living in Aurora, Colorado...
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Letecia Stauch Arrested on First-Degree Murder of Her Missing Stepson Gannon Stauch
An arrest has been made in the disappearance of Colorado missing boy Gannon Stauch. Letecia “Tecia” Stauch has been arrested on first-degree murder charges in...
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Missing Person: Abdi Sharif
The search continues for missing Iowa teen Abdi Sharif, who went missing on January 17, 2020. A second organized search party is set to commence this week...
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Lori Vallow Daybell arrested, fights for reduced bail
The nation has been feverishly following the dramatic events that surround the disappearance of two Idaho children, whose mother and stepfather fled the state...
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Who is Paul Flores? The Last Person to See Kristin Smart Alive
As true crime continues to climb the cultural ladder into mainstream culture, there has been a wave of true crime documentaries, television shows, and podcasts...
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Into the Night: The Bizarre Disappearance of Student Brandon Swanson
Shortly after midnight on May 14, 2008, Brandon Swanson mysteriously vanished in Marshall, Minnesota. Brandon had been celebrating the end of the spring...
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Vanished: Missing Beauty School Student Deanne Hastings
On a frigidly cold night in November 2015, Deanne Hastings vanished. Her disappearance would open a life struggling with bi-polar and leave a family with...
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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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Remains of 6-year-old Faye Swetlik found
The search for a six-year-old girl from South Carolina is over after police identified the remains of missing Faye Swetlik, who disappeared while she played in...
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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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J.J. Vallow & Tylee Ryan: UPDATE
For the past two weeks, the true-crime world has had its eyes fixated on missing minors, Joshua “J.J.” Vallow and Tylee Ryan, and the mysterious string of...
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Vandals Write Cryptic Message on Billboard of Missing News Anchor Jodi Huisentruit
On New Year’s Eve, vandals defaced a billboard of KIMT anchorwoman Jodi Huisentruit, from Mason City, Iowa. The billboard is among three in Mason City, that...
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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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New evidence seized in Kristin Smart case
For practically a quarter of a century, Kristin Smart’s family has been through some unimaginable turmoil. Kristin Denise Smart disappeared in May of 1996, and...
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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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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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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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Found: The Bizarre Abduction of Sherri Papini
The story of Sherry Papini, 34, is one of the most bizarre kidnapping cases in recent years. On November 2, 2016, Sherri, vanished without a trace in Northern...
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Former Harlem Globetrotter Vanishes: Where Is Rico Harris?
Former Globetrotter, Rico Harris, 42, vanished without a trace from the Cache Creek Regional Park in northern California on a warm evening on October 10, 2014...
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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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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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How Missing Person Organizations Benefit Us All
Tragedies can affect communities and society as a whole. Sometimes it only takes one person to make a difference that impacts us all. (Morgan Nick vanished on...
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Adults Have the Right to Go Missing but That Doesn’t Mean They Don’t Need Help
Most of us are aware of our inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But for most American’s there is a lesser-known right . . . the...
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Missing Persons: How to Set Up a GoFundMe Campaign
The development of crowd-funding platforms such as GoFundMe has elevated an individual’s ability to see their financial goals realized. Whether the goal is...
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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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America’s Homeless Are Going Missing
The numbers are staggering. According to the Housing and Urban Development (HUD), there were approximately 554,000 homeless people living somewhere in the...
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The Many Missing in War Torn Countries
Most Americans have never and will never experience the devastation that occurs in the aftermath of war on their homeland. It is hard to quantify the scale of...
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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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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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Search for Pregnant and Missing Chicago Women Continues
Their due dates have passed, but these women have still not been found… The ticking of the clock is resonating as a heavy blow in Chicago, as communities...
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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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The Disappearance of Madeline McCann
The disappearance of Madeline McCann is arguably the most internationally famous missing child case since the Lindbergh baby vanished in 1932. The story...
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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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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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Parents on Alert Following Closs Case
Jayme Closs vanished October 15, 2018 and found alive 88-days later in rural Wisconsin. Photo courtesy WOKV TV. The recent disappearance of Jayme Closs, 13...
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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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Top 5 Most Unbelievable Child Abduction Cases
But Jayme Closs’s story is not solitary in the true-crime world. Here are the stories of five other cases of child abduction where the child was eventually...
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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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Jayme Closs’s Captor Charged with Homicide, Kidnapping
Jayme Closs’s harrowing story of survival has captured the attention of the entire nation. The 13-year-old Wisconsin teen went missing almost three months ago...
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Support for Families of the Missing and Mentally Ill
Missing and mentally ill persons are some of the most vulnerable in our society. When a loved one goes missing, those closest to them become law enforcement’s...
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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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Devastated: Missing Persons in Natural Disasters
Many individuals who lived through natural disaster in the year 2018 lost loved ones to violent forces of nature. National news has been inundated, not only...
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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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How to File an Insurance Claim for a Missing Person
The FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC) contains over 89,000 active missing persons cases (as of May 2018). That’s over 89,000 families who are left...
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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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Why Are Cases of Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women Being Ignored?
Indigenous women in this country are more likely than any other group to be raped or murdered. The salt in this gaping wound is they are also least likely to...
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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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Mother of Missing Hollywood Actress Elaine Park Describes Nightmare
It’s every parent’s worst fear their child may be harmed while venturing into the world on their own. But, what parent could imagine “not knowing” where her...
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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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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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Scammers Use Phone Ruses for Fake Kidnappings
You receive a phone call and hear the voice of someone you don’t recognize. They tell you they have your child and will kill them unless you pay a ransom. They...
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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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Missing Persons and the Law
Missing persons and runaway cases are among the most challenging issues facing law enforcement today. A detective must consider a number of variables when...
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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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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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How to Protect Yourself While Running
Hundreds of thousands of Americans choose to run in order to stay active and healthy. However, for many women this average, daily routine can be deadly. Over...
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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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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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Mental Illness And The Missing: The Connection
Mental illness is a much bigger problem than many people realize. According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, one in four adults experiences mental...
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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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Cambodian entertainer Chansotheavy Young returned safely to San Diego
29-year-old Chansotheavy Young, a Cambodian national currently on a music tour in the United States, has been returned safely to her manager in San Diego after...
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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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