Missing Persons

With over 100,000 missing persons cases actively worked on a given day in the United States alone with tens of thousands people vanishing every year under suspicious circumstances, SeekingOldFriend.com wanted to help people searching for missing loved ones and friends.

Our "Free" to use member system can also be used to designate the person you are looking for as missing when you register. Just select the option as missing under the status of person category.

Add your loved one's or friend's picture, your picture or both along with a message to the person. Visitors from around the world are welcome to use the system to post information about a missing person.

Your profile along with information about the missing person may help bring closure to years of searching if someone leaves you information via the email link or the blog on your SeekingOldFriend.com's personal profile page. View an example profile.

Try out our search form to see how easy it is for your profile to show up in a search. Enter one example keyword or phrase at a time into the search box.

Example Keywords: missing, Jane Doe (person's name), Atlanta, Los Angeles, California, brown hair, 5-5 105 pounds) or even the profiler's name which is Missing Example as the name used. (It would be Your Name after creating your profile). A person missing or a person with info may run across your name and profile on the internet.

Important, Cold and Sad Facts About Missing Persons:

What Should Take Place If A Person Has Been Missing More Than 30 Days? Find Out Below

• The numer of missing persons and unidentified human remains in the United States has reached an overwhelming volume that many experts now refer to as "a mass disaster over time." Think about the 100,000 missing persons cases worked on an average day across the United States with tens of thousands people vanishing every year under suspicious circumstances. That volume of missing persons over a period of years adds up to hundreds of thousands cases paralyzing the efforts of law enforcement agencies across America. 
• Over 40,000 sets of human remains that cannot be identified through conventional means are held in the evidence rooms of medical examiners, coroners and police departments throughout the country. 
• Apparently unaware of NIJ's Free DNA Missing Persons Identification Project for human remains, many public officials in cities and counties across the United States continue to bury or cremate unidentified remains without an attempt to collect DNA. They may be burying the last possible link to helping a family locate a loved one if he or she disappeared under suspicious circumstances. 

The DNA collected and with the assistance of any state or local law enforcement agency can be sent free of charge to the National Institute of Justice's DNA Identification project called Center For Human Identification (CFHI) located at the University of North Texas Health and Science Center in Fort Worth to be tested and stored in CHFI's database.

CHFI's main mission is to identify the DNA of human remains by matching reference samples provided by families of missing persons that are also stored in their important human identification database.

The CFHI will also at no charge perform examinations on human remains to determine the manner and cause of death.

There is no excuse for any city or county across America to continue to bury or cremate unidentified remains without first contacting CFHI for help in obtaining a DNA analysis that can be helped to give families who spend a lifetime searching and hoping to find a loved one a chance to find closure.

An Example of CFHI's Importance:

A cold case detective heard about CFHI and sent in a femur bone from the remains of an unknown female found in Montana to collect the DNA for the database. In Washington State, authorities reviewing a missing person's report while investigating a murder case decided to track down the missing person's mother and sent a family reference sample to CHFI for the human identification database.

There was an initial database match made from the efforts of these forward thinking law enforcement officers in different states and further DNA tests from other family members brought a bittersweet ending to the family's 21 years of searching and wondering.

Remaining unidentified for 21 years after she was discovered in a shallow grave near Missoula, Montana, the family finally knew what happened to their daughter and sister, Marci Bachmann, who had run away from her home in Vancouver, Washington at the age of 16.

What Can You Do To Locate A Missing Person:

• Important Action To Take If A Person Has Been Missing Over Thirty Days in The United States: Make sure a family reference DNA sample from a close relative or a missing person's personal items such as a comb or tooth brush is sent by your local law enforcement agency to CFHI. While there is a finality and the thinking of the worst outcome possible to taking this important step, years of searching and not knowing can be its' own form of torture. 
• People choose to disappear for many reasons and are declared missing by their families. One male chose to be thought of as missing because he has the HIV virus. Use websites such as SeekingOldFriends.com to create profiles and add pictures where someone may see the profile prompting them to contact you. (Note: You are welcome to create multiple profiles here at SeekingOldFriends.com to create different search scenarios.) 
• Hire a private investigator to look for credit card or social security card usage from the missing person and a possible name change. Recommendation: Hire a private investigator that has access to databases that are available only to Law Enforcement and Licensed Investigators. 
• Make sure coroners, medical examiners and local law enforcement agencies in your area of the United States are aware of the Free DNA services offered by the Center of Human Identification (CHFI). Even the government knows many officials in cities and counties throughout the United States still bury unidentified remains without doing a DNA analysis due to ignorance or for the mistaken reason of thinking their city or county cannot afford to do the DNA analysis. 

We encourage you to Register and create a Free profile here at SeekingOldFriends.com that can be viewed by visitors from around the world.

It's a big world yet a small world at times and someone with information about a missing loved one or friend may run across your profile.