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When loved-ones go missing, the lives of their family members are turned upside-down. As the days and months turn into years, some families are caged in by their grief, while others become proactive -- renewing police contacts, keeping up with the latest technologies, and educating themselves as they strive to become their long-term missing persons' advocates. By inspiring hope, as well as providing answers and practical advice, The Long Term Missing: Hope and Help for Families assists families in navigating the uncharted territory they never chose to enter.
Author Silvia Pettem also provides families with information to better understand how law-enforcement and related agencies work to solve missing persons cases. Along the way, she takes her readers behind the scenes, while emphasizing that every unidentified person is a missing person to someone else. With real cases, both solved and unsolved, the book also illustrates the resources available and the actions that family members, civilians, and law enforcement agencies can take to search for long-term missing persons, to identify previously unknown remains, and to bring the missing persons home.
The Long Term Missing: Hope and Help for Families inspires hope and gives answers as it empowers family members of long term missing persons to be proactive and to become their missing persons' advocates.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Why Finding the Missing is Important
Chapter 2. Categories of Long-term Missing Adults
Chapter 3. Children: Helping to Bring Them Home
Chapter 4. Proactive Police
Chapter 5. Civilian Searchers
Chapter 6. Celeste's Sister Sara: Found Alive in Mexico
Chapter 7. NamUs: An Investigative Tool
Chapter 8. Become Your Long-term Missing Person's Advocate
Chapter 9. Gather Information, Document, and Do the Research
Chapter 10. Pitfalls and Legalities
Chapter 11. Retrospect -- Inside a (Previously) Cold Case
Chapter 12. Final Words
About the author
Silvia Pettem
Summary
The Long Term Missing empowers families and gives them hope by providing them with the tools they need to become their longterm missing person’s advocate while proactively searching for their loved ones.
