Search for Missing Persons by Detectives

In Germany, around 6,000 missing person cases are officially recorded each year. In January 2014, the BKA had 6,200 reports on file; these include current missing persons as well as older cases, as unresolved cases are stored for a period of 30 years. The clearance rate is 50 per cent within one week, 80 per cent within one month and almost 100 per cent within the first year; only 3 per cent could not be resolved within the first year (analysis April 2015). Approximately two thirds of the missing persons are female. However, these rates only include missing persons who were found alive. For unfortunately far too many others, any help came too late. If there is an acute threat in a missing person case, you should, in case of doubt, not wait for official investigations to begin, but additionally seek professional assistance from our detectives. Kurtz Investigations Nuremberg specialises in locating missing persons: +49 911 3782 0154.

Various Reasons for Missing Person Cases. Running Away and Abduction – Search for Motives and Perpetrators

The possible reasons for disappearance are diverse; for example, around 95 per cent of missing children run away (multi-year empirical value of the BKA) due to heartbreak, poor school grades or stress with parents or guardians. Debtors disappear in order to avoid meeting their payment obligations, or people realise from one day to the next that they can no longer continue in this way and simply want to leave their previous life behind. In most cases, there are personal motives for disappearing from view; external influence is comparatively rare. One of the first steps in the search for missing persons for our Nuremberg detectives is therefore to determine a possible motive that led to the voluntary disappearance of the person sought. However, an illness such as dementia can also be the cause of a person’s disappearance, as the following case illustrates:

Disappearance Due to Illness-Related Confusion

Wilhelmine Franzen (name changed) had become a widow early in life, at the age of 45, and after the death of her husband had to return to work in her trained profession as a nurse. Every morning she travelled by bus to Nuremberg Central Station and from there by train to Fürth to her workplace. At the age of 65, she took her well-earned retirement and devoted her free time to shared activities with relatives and friends.

Now Wilhelmine is 76 years old, and many of her siblings and friends have already passed away. She often feels lonely and then gets on a bus or train and simply goes for a short trip or visits acquaintances or former colleagues who live some distance away. One day, dementia begins, barely noticeable. Even her nieces and nephews and the few remaining friends do not notice it or attribute it to age-related forgetfulness. Then comes the day when Wilhelmine boards the train again to travel to Fürth, but during the journey loses her orientation, changes trains several times and after a few hours finds herself somewhere in the middle of nowhere at a small provincial railway station. She had already forgotten the reason for her journey while still on the train. She now wanders confused and helpless through a city completely unfamiliar to her, while her relatives can neither reach her by telephone nor find her at her home.

Detectives of Kurtz Investigations Nuremberg: Specialists in Person Searches

If you are missing a relative – regardless of the reasons – please contact the investigators of Kurtz Investigations Nuremberg as soon as possible: +49 911 3782 0154. Our detectives address the matter on a case-specific basis and, above all, immediately, in order to bring the relative back as quickly and unharmed as possible. In doing so, we frequently rely on the highly efficient method of mantrailing (person searches using highly specialised tracking dogs).