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MISSING PERSON INVESTIGATION |
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 A missing person is a person who has disappeared for an unknown reason. Missing persons photographs may be posted on bulletin boards, postcards, and websites, along with a phone number to be contacted if a sighting has been made.
Many different types of people are reported missing, from the very young to the very old, boys and girls, men and women, people who are running away and people who have drifted out of contact, people from all walks of life, under different circumstances, with different experiences while they are missing.
People disappear for many reasons. Some individuals choose to disappear alone; most of these soon return. About 10% of missing persons in the United States never return, however.
Below are the reasons:
- Leaving home to start again in a new place under a new name.
- Becoming the victim of kidnap.
- Abduction (of a minor) by a non-custodial parent or other relative.
- Seizure by government officials without due process of law.
- Suicide in a remote location or under an assumed name (to spare their families the suicide at home, or to allow their deaths to be eventually declared in absentia, which may allow survivors to collect insurance).
- Sold into slavery, serfdom, sexual servitude, or other un-free labor.
- To avoid discovery of a crime or apprehension by law-enforcement authorities. (See also failure to appear).
- Victim of murder (body disguised, destroyed, or hidden).
- Mental or neurological illness can cause someone to become lost, or they may not know how to identify themselves.
- Death by natural causes or accident far from home without identification.
- Disappearance in order to take advantage of better employment or living conditions elsewhere.
- Joining a cult or other "religious" organization.
- To escape domestic abuse.
- To avoid war or persecution during a genocide.
- To escape famine or natural disaster.
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Missing Person Investigation 
