Types of Missing Persons Investigations Ocho Rios Jamaica 

Parental Abductions

In some cases, a parent or other family member may abduct a child. This can happen for a variety of reasons, including custodial disputes, mental illness, or revenge. Parental abduction cases require a quick and thorough response, as the safety of the child is often at stake. Often times, a local family law attorney may need to be involved to assist with obtaining court orders.

Missing Adults

Missing persons cases involving adults can often be complex and difficult to solve and typically fall into their own subset of categories, like drug addiction and mental health issues. Our typical missing adult case will involve a person who has underlying or unknown mental health issues, and has often attempted to self-medicate with alcohol and drugs. The acute danger occurs not only with the drug use, but the natural associations that develop with other drug users, drug dealers, and associated crimes like assault, rape, theft and extortion.

Older Missing Persons

Older individuals may go missing for a variety of reasons. In some cases, they may suffer from dementia or Alzheimer’s disease and become lost. In other cases, they may be the victim of foul play. Because of their inherent vulnerability, time is often of the essence when searching for older missing people. Often, this is a situation where we would try to involve the news media.

Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is a serious issue and often results in the missing of young people, especially teenage girls. We often utilize or contacts with local law enforcement, federal authorities, human trafficking task forces, and local anti-trafficking social organizations to find human trafficking victims and remove them from their abductors.

Homicide/Suicide/Accidental Death/Overdose

On rare occasions, a missing person case becomes a death investigation. Unfortunately, sometimes the missing person becomes a victim of homicide, an accident, or succumbs to months/years of drug use. Since many people that go missing have major emotional and mental health issues, they are also at a higher risk for suicide. With the widespread availability of narcotics such as heroin and especially fentanyl, overdose deaths are an all to common event.

Cold Cases

A cold case is a missing persons case that has gone unsolved for a substantial period of time. In some cases, the missing person may have been gone for years or even decades. Cold cases are often difficult to solve, but it is often worthwhile to have a fresh set of eyes to review the case and see if there are any possible new leads or avenues to follow up on.