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CHAPTER VIII
My Missing Person Is Still Missing, Now What Do I Do
If you absolutely can not find the person you are looking for or if you make a career out of locating missing persons, you will invariably run into a few cases that just become a dead end. You go back and forth; you check and recheck your leads. You sit back and study your checklist and there is just no where else to look. Sometimes people do just disappear.
We've discussed people joining the ranks of the missing because they want to. Sometimes they just do not want to be found and will go to great lengths to keep it that way.
Some individuals will dump their identity completely. New name, different social security number, different birth date and sometimes under very extreme circumstances they will even alter what they look like surgically.
We've all heard about the witness protection program. Those people have totally new identities and stories to go with them. Most times, no further contact is allowed with family members of witnesses, due to the possibility of someone giving out information to someone who should not have it. Obviously, if your person is in the witness protection program you are not going to know it or where they are.
If someone has changed their identity on their own, depending on how thoroughly they've covered up, you may not be able to locate them. Another possibility is our missing person may be deceased. If they are the victim of foul play, they may not have been found.
They may not have been identified or possibly they may not have even been reported missing.
If you come up against something like this and you have exhausted all possible avenues that you know you have available to you, then it may in fact be time to consider hiring a professional.
