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Dr. René Gapert

Some Personal Thoughts on Forensic Anthropology and Missing Persons Cases

My work as a forensic anthropologist in Ireland brings me into contact with the remains of those generally described as 'the missing.'...

Janne E. Gaub

What comes to mind when I say the phrase specialized police unit? Police dogs? Homicide detectives? The gang unit? Perhaps foot patrol or...

Noelannah Neubauer

Writers: Noelannah Neubauer (Postdoctoral fellow, University of Waterloo) and Busola Adekoya (PhD student, University of Waterloo) The...

Simona Ciobotaru

Social media has become very prominent as a tool in the search for missing persons. Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter,...

Lorna Ferguson

Previous research has predominantly examined the risk factors for ‘going missing’ by uncovering various demographic and...

Maureen Trask

When my youngest son, Daniel (28), went missing on November 3, 2011, I knew no one with a missing loved one, nor did I know anything...

Kara Moore

Writers: Dr. Kara Moore and Blake Nesmith Photo by Ehimetalor Akhere Unuabona on Unsplash One way societies recover missing people is by...

Sayeh Bayat

According to the Alzheimer Society of Canada, more than 500,000 Canadians are currently living with dementia, and this number is...

John Ng

This blog explores a project that John Ng is involved in regarding the current and potential role of crime analysts in missing persons work.

Michelle N. Eliasson

Missing persons research has relevance in victimological scholarship, and that with such research, we could begin to advance...