Nan Trogdon

somebody somewhere knows what happened.

In the perfect world, there would be a detective assigned to missing person cases.

I think in a case like that,

I agree with this 48 hours thing.

That's just not right.

If a person is missing and a family member comes in, I think it should be actively investigated right then.

Cases grow cold typically in about 48 hours.

Well, by the time you've waited 48 hours, you've lost all kinds of evidence.

Another problem could be, especially in the smaller departments,

There's not enough manpower or enough hours in the day to investigate the crimes that come through.

And I know some of you probably heard that.

Right.

In the perfect world, there would be a detective assigned to missing person cases.

whether it's children, whether it's adults, and that could be their focus constantly.

Yes, yes, you are.

I know that my case, I picked it up when I was in homicide.

It was assigned to the Homicide Division probably five months after he was missing.

I got down to where I would work on it every Friday.

One of the family members came in and said, you're only working on this case on Fridays?

And I thought I'd done a great job clearing all my cases so I could work on it on Fridays.