Missing Persons Uncovered

In the age of satellite imagery, CCTV monitoring and 24- hour surveillance, why are so many people going missing? And where have they gone?

Missing Persons Uncovered gets beneath the surface of an emergency nations are facing across the world. Every year 155,000 people go missing in theUK alone. What does it mean to go missing? Why do some people make the choice to disappear? And how can we protect our vulnerable loved ones better?

Caroline Humer and Karen Shalev Greene set out to hear first-hand experiences of those who have experienced missing persons cases, seeking the people behind the statistics. Listen in on revealing conversations with professionals and practitioners who are working to challenge myths and raise awareness around this much misunderstood social and personal issue.

Combining Caroline’s 20 years of experience working as a child protection expert with Karen’s 12-year academic mission to understand the world of missing persons and their protection, the team invites you to join them in sharing knowledge on how we can protect society’s most vulnerable people.

Find out more about all of our guests and the Missing Persons Uncovered project on the website missingpersonsuncovered.com

Episodes have been supported by the University of Portsmouth and First Factory.

The University of Portsmouth supports and carries out research to change our world for the better. You can find out more about projects like this at port.ac.uk/research.

First Factory is a Software Development Company built on honest, integrity and quality. They have committed to building technology solutions to help in missing persons investigations.

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Goodpods has curated a list of the 10 best Missing Persons Uncovered episodes, ranked by the number of listens and likes each episode have garnered from our listeners. If you are listening to Missing Persons Uncovered for the first time, there's no better place to start than with one of these standout episodes. If you are a fan of the show, vote for your favorite Missing Persons Uncovered episode by adding your comments to the episode page.

How is mental health and missing linked? ft. Galit Draizin-Itzhaki

Missing Persons Uncovered

05/10/23 • 30 min

In this episode Karen discusses with Galit Draizin-Itzhaki, psychotherapist, profiler for high-risk populations, the variety of mental health issues that often are related and lead to people going missing, whether it is children or adults. Karen and Galit address the difference between being bi-polar or schizophrenia and the importance of removing stigma from talking about it. We also discuss the warning signs and prevention strategies which professionals and friends and relatives should be mindful of.

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The use of geneology to identify missing persons ft. Kelly Kincaid

Missing Persons Uncovered

07/05/23 • 28 min

Kelly Hawkins Kincaid from Astrea Forensic shares with us how DNA markers are used to bring closure to long term missing person cases.

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What Help is There For Those At Risk? Ft. Bethan Hodges

Missing Persons Uncovered

09/22/22 • 27 min

In response to the missing persons crisis, a swathe of excellent collaborations and charitable organisations have risen to fill the gaps in public services and support police and families at risk of or living with missing persons cases.

Bethan Hodges of the UK charity Missing People chats with Caroline and Karen about how the 1986 case of Susie Lamplugh led to the foundation of the charity. She talks about the importance of strong community networks to protect vulnerable individuals and why it’s important that public services and people all work together to share information.

She explains how the Herbert protocol is an example of how concerned parties can register information with authorities in advance, should vulnerable individuals with dementia be at risk of going missing.

Bethan explains why charities can be essential in bridging the gap between police and families too, by facilitating conversation to build trust, or even between missing people and their families via the Textsafe network.

You can call or text the Missing People helpline on 116000 for support, advice and guidance.

We want you to share knowledge and empower conversations to help tackle the missing persons crisis. Find out more about all of our guests and the Missing Persons Uncovered project and find links to support on the website missingpersonsuncovered.com

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How abductions are treated in South America ft. Leticia Risco

Missing Persons Uncovered

04/12/23 • 28 min

In this first episode of series 2, Caroline talks to Leticia Risco who shares her vast experience dealing with different types of abductions in Argentina and South America. She highlights how many abductions include a component of violence and abuse. The need for better collaboration between professionals so as to protect the most vulernable.

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Providing a voice to the voiceless

Missing Persons Uncovered

07/31/24 • 29 min

Willie Fouche explains how in his Forensic Pathology Service they help identify individuals who have no forensic or digital identity. Many of the unclaimed bodies he encounters are stateless and can only be identified through collaboration and using multiple investigative techniques.

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Missing Persons and OSINT ft. Kevin Metcalf

Missing Persons Uncovered

07/19/23 • 31 min

We all use open source intelligence when online but do we understand how easy it is to find people? Kevin Metcalf explains to us the amount of information is available online and how he uses it to help law enforcement finding missing persons.

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When They Are Found ft. Suzannah Drury

Missing Persons Uncovered

11/03/22 • 30 min

In the final episode of this series, Karen speaks with Suzannah Drury of charity Missing People UK.

Often it can be seen as the end of the story when a missing person is returned, but that’s far from the truth as we find out. Suzannah explains how vital it is that returned persons and their loved ones are able to access the right support in order that they can reintegrate with life and move past the underlying issues that caused the missing episode.

She and Karen discuss how people are found, as well as the absence of after-support for adults, and pioneering schemes that could challenge this problem.

We want to you share knowledge and empowering conversations to help tackle the missing persons crisis. Find out more about all of our guests and the Missing Persons Uncovered project and find links to support on the website missingpersonsuncovered.com

Find out about Missing People UK and access support on their website here.

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Search and Rescue for Missing Persons ft. Dr Craig Collie

Missing Persons Uncovered

10/20/22 • 28 min

Dr Craig Collie is a Search and Rescue Volunteer and academic in the field of Missing Persons. It’s not all helicopters and sniffer dogs though. Craig takes Karen through the decisions police forces have to make when searching for a missing person and how search and rescue teams can be a vital support in this.

He also discusses how different bodies collaborate with police, often across borders, to assist in search missions and how analysts have worked out some metrics for predicting the behaviour of missing persons with different mental health conditions.

Craig also discusses the role that families can and should play in the search and rescue process as well as the kinds of protocols that nations put in place for large scale missing persons events, such as natural disasters.

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How the Media and Publicity Can Help Find Missing People ft. John Bischoff

Missing Persons Uncovered

10/06/22 • 27 min

You might have seen “Missing Person” billboards and posters, but there’s a lot more to using publicity in order to seek people who have disappeared.

John Bischoff is Vice-President for the Missing Children Division of the National Center For Missing Exploited Children (NCMEC). He talks with Karen and Caroline about the relationships they’ve established to help make publicity campaigns successful.

They discuss the importance of media campaigns to gather information from a community and to empower worried families and loved ones in the search. In addition to the power of posters, John explains how information databases and analytics services can provide non-profit support in spreading a message, in addition to social media platforms and community alerts.

He also talks about the particular challenges of running campaigns across a nation as big as the United States, and why this can be so powerful in safely finding missing people.

And when someone is found? The care this media team offers stretches to respecting and protecting the privacy of an individual so they can continue with their lives and move on.

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Missing Young Girls in Nigeria used in Baby factories

Missing Persons Uncovered

05/08/24 • 36 min

In this episode, Karen talks to Ugochi Nkwunonwo about her recent research in baby factories in Nigeria. Young girls who are pregnant are stigmatised in Nigeria. To avoid shame they disappear and sometimes end up in baby factories where they give birth and lose their newborn. Not only is the young girl missing but the newborn is also missing as it has no identity.

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FAQ

How many episodes does Missing Persons Uncovered have?

Missing Persons Uncovered currently has 28 episodes available.

What topics does Missing Persons Uncovered cover?

The podcast is about Society & Culture, True Crime, Research, Documentary, Podcasts and Missing.

What is the most popular episode on Missing Persons Uncovered?

The episode title 'Search and Rescue for Missing Persons ft. Dr Craig Collie' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Missing Persons Uncovered?

The average episode length on Missing Persons Uncovered is 29 minutes.

How often are episodes of Missing Persons Uncovered released?

Episodes of Missing Persons Uncovered are typically released every 13 days, 23 hours.

When was the first episode of Missing Persons Uncovered?

The first episode of Missing Persons Uncovered was released on Jul 25, 2022.

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Missing Persons Uncovered