Our private investigation agency’s clients sometimes need to locate missing people for a variety of reasons, both legal and personal. When their calls, text messages, and emails come in, our private detectives in Norman, OK get to work attempting to locate the missing people they want to find. There are a variety of reasons people go missing, as well as the available methods to find them quickly. Upon arrival or via a phone or Zoom consultation, our legal professionals will review each available option, their associated costs, and the likelihood of success for each option.
Most Common Reasons People Need to Locate a Missing Person:
There are a variety of valid reasons why our clients come to our private detective agency in Watonga, OK seeking to find someone. The reasons can be simple or complex, urgent, or routine. The most common reasons we get requests to locate missing kids, teens and adults include, but are not limited to, the following:
Service of Process:
One of the most common reasons we receive requests to locate missing people is to then have our process server deliver court papers and other legal documents to them. Whether a divorce, child custody, small claims, eviction, or other legal case, sometimes plaintiffs do not know where the defendant/respondent is located and needs help to find them and serve them. Our skip tracing is the most common tool our legal experts use to track them down, but as we shall discuss later, there are many options to complete this successfully.
Child Abduction Cases by a Stranger:
When a stranger abducts a kid or teen, the situation is immediately serious and dire. Time is of the essence. Facial recognition, license plate checks, nationwide skip tracing, witness sightings, and other techniques to find them quickly. After seventy-two hours have passed, properly locating a person who has gone missing, especially via abduction by a perpetrator of kidnapping, becomes much less likely.
Identification of a Cheating Lover’s Mistress:
When an offended spouse of an unfaithful partner wants to know where their lover has moved to after a suspected affair or who lives at an unknown address they stayed the night at, our missing person private detective can help. We can run skip traces on the lover who is engaging in infidelity to find the person’s new address. Our private investigation agency can also run the mistress’s address through our nationwide skip trace system to see who lives at that address.
Parental Kidnapping:
When parents disobey child custody court orders and unlawfully abscond to another location with the kid or children without legal authorization, our child custody private investigator receives calls for assistance in helping to locate the kids. That way our process server can deliver court documents, and the deputies can then come help recover the children and return them to the parent or legal guardian who has the proper custody rights.
Silver Alerts/Missing Elderly Adults:
When older folks go missing due to Alzheimer’s, dementia, or some other malady of the mind, our skip tracers can jump into action. No one wants to have to worry about the safety and security of grandma or grandpa, but sometimes they can wander away and forget where they live, who they are, and even the names of their loved ones.Time waits for no man . . . or girl.
Reunifying with Former Classmates, Lovers, & Coworkers:
Our private eyes also receive plenty of requests for help locating old flame, long-lost classmates from high school or college, and even lovers who have not seen one another in decades. Our skip tracing and social media scans are usually the two best resources our private investigation agency in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma have at their disposal to locate missing people in these circumstances.
Locating Criminals to Bring Them to Justice:
Our criminal private investigator near me uses skip tracing, license plate checks, surveillance, social media scans, P.O. box checks, forwarding mail checks, and more to locate fleeing criminals. Whether the individual is a rapist or murderer or swindled their victims/our clients out of boat loads of cash, have no fear. You can easily locate a private investigator at our legal firm to help you catch the crooks and bring them to justice.
Our private eyes especially receive a significant number of requests for help with these cases, because police officers often do not investigate property crimes. When they do, they often fail to do a thorough criminal investigation, due to a lack of interest, human resources, finances, equipment, training, etc. To help speed things along and to get prosecutors to take their legal matter seriously, victims of crimes, whether property or offenses against people, find a private detective to secure their needed professional legal help.
Location of Clients/Former Clients:
Attorneys at law firms and other businesses will sometimes contact our private detective agency in Piedmont to get help locating their own clients. Whether they just need to pay them money they are owed or have some other pressing matter to discuss with them, when our clients need their contact information, our team can often help.
Finding Owners of Property for Real Estate Purchases:
Real estate agents and other real estate prospectors often prefer skip trace for real estate, a PI service we offer. Our agency can help to help them locate the owners of certain properties, whether they need an address, phone number, or other contact information. That way they can reach out to them and finish whatever unfinished business might remain.
Best Methods to Find a Missing Child, Teen, or Adult:
Whenever someone goes missing, there are plenty of ways that our missing teen private investigator can help find the lost person. Which tactic we utilize depends on the age of the missing individual and the circumstances under which he/she/they disappeared. Thus, some of our most typical methods for locating missing teens and adults include, but are not limited to, the following:
Nationwide Skip Trace Service:
Skip tracing is an extremely common, quick legal service our process server in Oklahoma City and private detectives can use to help track down someone who is missing. The process is inexpensive and often yields quick, accurate results. The only downside is if the person of interest (POI) has just recently moved, fled the country, is incarcerated, in a hospital, or recently died. Either way, our missing kids private investigator will nonetheless happily re-run skip traces for clients once a week for six months, if they need it.
Social Media Scan:
Our digital private detective is adept at finding all kinds of information about people of interest across social media sites and other internet pages. Many people post where they live, work, activities they are participating in and sometimes the accompanying location they are at, and more. When coupled with skip trace services, our social media private investigations can likewise yield fantastic results.
License Plate Check:
When a client needs to know the owner of a vehicle, a license plate check will pull up the information. We can find the name and associated address of a particular vehicle, based upon information like the license plate number, VIN number, and make/model/color/year of the vehicle.
P.O. Box Check:
Sometimes people will get a post office box to use as their main address. They do this to help hide from creditors, plaintiffs in lawsuits, police, stalkers, and others who wish to find them. By going to the post office and submitting a special form, our murder private detectives can ask the postal workers to kindly provide the physical address associated with the post office box number. This is yet another tactic our legal team uses to track down people who do not want others to find them.
Forwarding Mail Check:
A forwarding mail check works similarly to how P.O. box checks operate, because the United States Postal Service requires our sexual assault private eye and process server to fill out the same form. Thus, when someone moves from one residential or office property to another and fills out the forwarding mail request form to have their mail sent to their new address, our investigative team can find out where the new address is located.
This does not work with post office boxes at private company locations, because those businesses often have special privacy policies that prohibit their employees from disclosing their clients’ personal physical addresses or other sensitive information. So, if the P.O. box is located at a UPS Store, process servers and parental kidnapping private detectives will find the staff denying them access to this information.
Facial Recognition:
Some companies and governmental agencies utilize facial recognition software to catch crooks and find missing persons. Our private detective agency in Mustang does not use facial recognition software very often, but when the need arises, we sure can.
CCTV Footage/Video Cameras:
Since video cameras are everywhere in today’s modern times, CCTV footage can help track people’s whereabouts. News agencies, private individuals, and businesses can also plaster the faces of criminal suspects and missing loved ones on social media and television outlets, spreading the word about someone people need to find quickly.
License Plate Scanners:
Governmental agencies also have license plate scanners that use satellites and scanners to detect where a particular vehicle license plate is and when. While not available to the public, they can come in handy when law enforcement or other governmental agencies need to track down a missing fugitive or other person of urgent interest.
Cell Phone Tower Data:
Cell phone tower data can also provide invaluable information about a person’s general whereabouts. Law enforcement officials, criminal defense attorneys, and prosecutors will sometimes request this information from phone companies to see if an individual was in a particular area at a given date and time.
Credit/Debit Card Usage:
Police can also request records from financial institutions to see when and where a particular person has used a credit or debit card. This is especially helpful for finding the whereabouts and tracking the criminal activity of credit and debit card thieves. This technique is also useful in finding other missing persons and criminals as they use their own personal credit and debit cards in various locations.
Eyewitness Accounts:
While sometimes inaccurate, eyewitness sightings can also help provide invaluable insights into a person’s whereabouts. Memories can fade quickly, but if our kidnapping private investigators work quickly and diligently to spread the word on social media and news sites and interview witnesses, this method can potentially yield excellent results.
Live/Real Time Cell Phone Tracking:
Police and other governmental agencies like the U.S. Marshals, NSA, CIA, and FBI, among others, can track a person’s live cell phone location. Unlike licensed private investigators at our private detective agency in Norman, Oklahoma, law enforcement officers (LEOs) have special governmental access to find missing people this way.
Previous Court Cases/Arrests:
One can also go to governmental websites in Oklahoma like the Oklahoma Supreme Court Network (OSCN). Police arrest information and court case forms like affidavits of service and summonses often list a person’s address. While there is no one hundred percent accuracy guarantee, this method is free and easy to access, and new updates on it could potentially come at any time.
If the people seeking to find someone also knows of a recent arrest, automobile accident, or other police incident report that the responding officer or police detective filed into the police department’s records, they can ask our accident private investigator to request the information from the appropriate governmental agency.
On-Foot Searching & Calling – Streets, Shelters for the Unhoused, Jails/Prisons/Hospitals:
Another tactic our private eyes in OKC to locate missing people is to go search for them on the street, at hospitals, jails and prisons, and homeless shelters, etc. There are ways to obtain this information discreetly, when needed. It takes more time and usually costs more, but this method can also yield highly beneficial results.
As you can see, there are many reasons people go missing, and just as many ways our missing children private investigators can help locate them. Whatever your need, you can give our resolute, professional legal team a call for assistance. We stand ready and willing to help you bring your lost loved ones back home quickly and safely. You will love our prices, friendly smiles, and amazing reputations.
