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The Last Place You'd Look
True Stories of Missing Persons and the People Who Search for Them
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2011
Summary
What happens when a non-custodial parent kidnaps her son? Or a college student vanishes after a night out with friends? Or a middle-aged man seemingly drowns in calm waters? What do family members, friends, and law enforcement do when a beloved goes missing? Here, Moore explores an array of missing persons' scenarios, using real life stories, to uncover the various ways that people go missing, the efforts made to retrieve them, the emotional fallout for family and friends, and the difficulties and challenges such cases present for all involved. She covers parental abductions, intentional disappearances, stranger abductions, the missing and mentally ill, runaways, foul play, and other situations where people go missing. In addition, the criminal justice approach to missing persons is discussed, as Moore looks at the science of missing persons (DNA, forensic dentistry, etc.), resources for family and friends, national organizations such as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and other groups involved in searching and recovering loves ones. Here, readers will discover how people are found, how missing persons' cases are treated, and how and why some stories have happy endings and others do not.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-1-4422-0368-6
ISBN-Online
978-1-4422-0370-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
238
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Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 01: Land of the Missing: It’s a Big Ugly World Out There for Families of the Lost No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter 02: Two Brothers: A Federal Marshal Confronts the Unthinkable No access Pages 19 - 28
Chapter 03: The Police: A Report Card on Police and Missing Persons Cases No access Pages 29 - 50
Chapter 04: Yesterday and Today: DNA, Dental Records, and Other Forensic Tools No access Pages 51 - 66
Chapter 05: Running Away from It All: Missing by Design No access Pages 67 - 82
Chapter 06: Parental Abduction: Stories of the Parents Left Behind No access Pages 83 - 96
Chapter 07: The Mentally Ill and Substance Abuse: The Forgotten Missing No access Pages 97 - 116
Chapter 08: Far and Away: Disappearances Abroad No access Pages 117 - 134
Chapter 09: A Story of Rumors, Gossip, and Innuendo: A Family’s Tragedy Feeds the Gossip Mill No access Pages 135 - 148
Chapter 10: Foul Play Suspected: What Happens When All Hope Is Gone No access Pages 149 - 172
Chapter 11: The Searchers: The Nationa lCenter for Missing and Exploited Children, Project Jason, Search and Rescue, Private Eyes, and Others No access Pages 173 - 194
Chapter 12: Happy Endings: These Loved Ones Came Home No access Pages 195 - 208
Resource Guide No access Pages 209 - 214
Bibliography No access Pages 215 - 222
Index No access Pages 223 - 232
About the Author No access Pages 233 - 238
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