Missing Person Investigations

Adults or teens often disappear due to disturbed mental health or threatened relationships with family or friends, or even encounter financial trouble. A person may go missing for a self-imposed exile away from his/her familiar environment or may leave home to live somewhere else under a new identity for whatever reason.

Teens can voluntarily disappear to escape domestic abuse by parents/guardians, to pursue dreams or plans not approved by the family or to live with / marry someone not approved by parents, guardians or society.

Joining a cult or any religious organization that requires ‘no outside world contact’ also causes to a person to disappear voluntarily.

Committing suicide, after moving away to an unknown location even under an assumed name to spare family members, also comes under this category.

A person can go missing to avoid discovery of a crime or apprehension by law-enforcement authorities.

This may occur due to abduction (for ransom, slavery, forced prostitution, murder with body destroyed /hidden). Inability to self-identify or remember home/family details or accidental death far from home without identification can cause involuntary disappearance.

Police-led searches are often limited by the narrow definition of the term “missing persons”. They tend to not act right away. And, by the time they do act, this might be too late. As well, they need to attend to hundreds of other cases according to the perceived level of importance. Reduced or insufficient resources can alsocripplethe effectiveness of police forces. Often, if a result is not achieved over a period of time, they stop the missing person investigation resulting in cold case filing.

For missing person investigations, professional private detective services firms can help where the police may stumble. Consider that really, only a professional private detective services can bring results fast.

Private investigators in the Philippines, such as OSI, are licensed and use various investigative methods, established standard operating procedures (SOPs), combined with specialized training to search for and locate missing people.

At OSI, our services in this area cover runaway children, possible or actual victims of abduction or violent crimes, as well as people with physical or mental disabilities who have disappeared, and more.

Our various techniques and methodologies include, but are not limited to:

Do not lose hope…as OSI has located every missing person we have ever been undertaken to locate and in thirty days, except two. In those two instances, it took several months as in both cased, the person was dying of cancer and confined to bed, thus not moving for months.