Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Missing persons: Facts everyone should know

Adam Quirk has worked with a number of law enforcement agencies in the past, such as the FBI and DEA. Even now, as a private investigator, Adam Quirk says that there are still some cases that hound and haunt him. Many of these are missing person cases.
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For this blog, Adam Quirk shares a few facts on missing person cases that he believes everyone should know.

• There are around 325 million people in the United States. At any given point in time, the 83,000 people who are reported missing, with nearly half (38,000) being people below 19 years old.

• Every year, 750,000 people are reported missing in the U.S.

• According to statistics, a child in the U.S. goes missing every 40 seconds. That’s approximately 2,300 children that go missing every day. Most commonly, children go missing because they either get lost, run away, or are abducted.

• Adam Quirk mentions that law enforcement emphasizes the first 24 hours as the most critical in finding a missing child.

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• People who have a hunch that persons they love are missing should report this to authorities immediately.

• In the U.S., people who have been missing for over seven years may be declared legally dead.

These cases are often given to private investigators.

A licensed private investigator, Adam Quirk previously worked for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Visit this page for more articles on law enforcement.

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