Josh Mankiewicz

Now we do have those resources, and yet it sometimes takes like, it feels like it takes an act of God to get them deployed.

Nan, I don't want to make you the target for everybody who has anything to say about law enforcement, because I thought

The work that we documented that you did was exceptional and heartfelt, and you're retired now.

But why do you think it is that in so many jurisdictions, when parents, for example, walk in and say, my child is missing or my adult child is missing, what they're told is, why don't we wait and see if they come back?

Because they're an adult and they don't have to get in touch with you right now if they don't want to.

That's one of the things that sort of we run into again and again and again, which is like, should police departments even be the vehicle for looking for missing people?

Because they're not really that well set up to do that.

Yeah.

First of all, no police officer comes out of the academy saying, I really want to work in missing persons, right?

You know, this is not the most desirable assignment within law enforcement, and that kind of is a problem because you're going to need somebody on this who's going to work pretty hard.

Kent Jacobs vanished from Hope Mills, North Carolina in March of 2022.

Nan worked on his case tirelessly.

Which is a huge thing when you have other cases.

Rachel, you did something that I always advise families to do, which is you didn't wait for the police.

No, I did not.

Tell me what you did and sort of how people maybe could learn from that.

And he wasn't some well-known guy.

This was all stuff that you guys generated.

I mean, what you're describing is the kind of reaction that almost everybody wants.

You're definitely describing a department that was more engaged than we frequently hear about.