The World of Finding Missing Persons: Who Are the People Involved?
Every year, countless individuals go missing, leaving behind worried families and friends desperately seeking answers. The search for missing persons is a...
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Essential Strategies for Protecting Your Children Online in 2023
As missing person experts here at Lauth Missing Persons, we know that each year that passes makes it increasingly important that we safeguard our children...
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How to Avoid Vanishing in a National Park
You may have heard horror stories about outdoorsy, adventurous individuals who visit a national park and mysteriously disappear. This is because many hikers...
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Safe Travel Tips From an International Missing Persons Investigator
Unless purposefully setting out to drop off the radar, nobody jumps on an airplane with the intention of becoming a missing person overseas. However, it is...
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Petito Case Reignites Discussion on Missing White Woman Syndrome
If you’ve been following the fervent coverage of the missing person case of Gabby Petito, you’ll undoubtedly have heard about the disparity that occurs in...
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The Difficulties of International Missing Person Investigations
When a person goes missing, the onset of the investigation is already overwhelming for the family and loved ones of that missing person. Investigators who take...
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Hiring a Missing Person Investigator for Special Needs
There is an epidemic of people going missing in the United States that is on steady incline. It effects families across all classes, all races, all ideologies...
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The Big Business of Faking Your Own Death
Who would fake their own death? While we may find it hard to believe, it’s actually more common than we think. To fake your death is also called pseudocide or...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Protecting Your Child from Sex Trafficking
It’s a rather startling number. At any given time, there are between 100,000 and 300,000 children in the U.S. alone at risk for child sex trafficking. While...
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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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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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