When your loved one goes missing, you need the expertise of a missing person investigation agency that has a track record of success. For over 30 years, the Lauth Missing Persons investigative agency has provided families with assistance in recovering at-risk missing children, missing teens, and missing adults. We are the most adept and top-rated missing persons investigations team for recovery and reunification of missing persons with an 85% success rate.
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Who We Are
The Lauth Investigations Missing Persons team has over 40 years combined experience working closely with families of endangered, at-risk missing persons. Our team regularly collaborates and cooperates with local, state, and federal law enforcement, missing persons organizations nationwide, and with national media. When your loved one is missing, it is not uncommon to hire a missing person investigator to conduct a concurrent investigation with law enforcement, and we hope to provide that context to your family.
Did you know…?
There are more than 20k missing person and 14k unidentified remains in the U.S. In order to combat this tragic statistic, we are dedicated to using diverse experience and applied methodology to close unsolved cases. Our firm uses only verified resources, and regularly networks with both national and international missing person organizations, nonprofits and law enforcement agencies.
What We Do
When your case is assigned to our team, your missing loved one becomes our priority. At Lauth, our missing person investigators know that each case is unique to its own circumstances. Your family will meet with a missing person investigator to establish behavior patterns, close friends and family, and schedule of the missing person to develop comprehensive leads. Our team is comprised of former military and law enforcement, and can apply their unique skillsets and experience to a diverse range of missing person investigations.
Kidnappings & Parental Abductions
A missing person investigator should have diverse background, skillsets and international experience to assist missing person families in times of crisis when abduction or kidnapping occurs. At Lauth, we have a a history of working inside the US and abroad with Hague collaborating countries we plan and organize high complexity cases in the US or Hague Treaty states. Hague Treaty countries have the goal to ensure the immediate return of children abducted to a contracting state. Our team shall immediately assess the threat and pursue solutions worldwide to recover abducted or kidnapped children.
Missing & Endangered Children (Runaways)
Each year, hundreds of thousands of missing children are considered to be runaways by the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and law enforcement. Many of these children are minorities and children forgotten in the shadows by law enforcement. Our team will never consider your child as a “runaway.” If your family faces the trauma of a missing child but reported as a “runaway,” our team considers your child at-risk and endangered and highest priority. A missing person investigator will prioritize your case and follow leads anywhere worldwide, like we have for over 30 years because we believe all children face unprecedented risk alone on the street.
Missing Children and Sex Trafficking
For over 30 years Thomas Lauth has been working with families of missing children. We see your child as endangered, not a runaway. The unfortunate truth is missing children can become a victim of sex trafficking within first 72 hours of their disappearance. The underworld of “pimps” and sex traffickers use savvy recruiting procedures of missing children by coercion or force. Sex traffickers do not adhere to boundaries with regards to sex, race, or socioeconomic background. We know the cruel and meticulous recruiting process that “pimps” and traffickers use to force children into their underworld. A missing person investigator can properly assess when your child is missing and endangered, and forced or lured into sex trafficking. By tracking social media and timelines, we can immediately work to locate and pursue a safe intervention and reunification for your family.
Missing Adults and Mental Illness
A missing person investigator is adept in the challenges posed by a search for missing teens and adults with mental illness, and Lauth’s investigators are no exception. We understand the first 72 hours are critical in resolving cases of missing persons with mental illness. If necessary, we engage law enforcement and attempt to get your loved one listed as endangered at-risk. We approach every case with empathy, and work with experts and families to develop immediate and comprehensive strategies for finding your missing loved one.
Unsolved Homicides
In such tragic events as missing loved ones, the case could evolve into an unsolved homicide. Therefore, when a loved one has gone missing under suspicion of foul play, even the best police departments can struggle with closure of unsolved homicides. Lauth understands bringing light to tragic circumstances can play a significant role in a family’s healing process. We use verified databases and proven methodology to explore un-vetted leads, identify witnesses, and analyze crime scenes. Our final product of information will be collaborated with law enforcement and we will work in tandem to seek justice for your family.
Missing Persons and Elderly Adults
Lauth missing person investigators work with families to build comprehensive and expedient approaches on missing elderly adults within 24 hours of them reported missing. Lauth investigators use diverse experience and verified sources to pursue leads in the cases of vulnerable missing persons. We under the urgency of getting involved within 24 hours of your loved one missing to have a Silver Alert or Code Silver issued for your loved one. On all missing persons cases, we understand that cooperation in communities, social media, law enforcement, and family members play key roles in recovery and reunification.
Testimonials
We are glad that we found Thomas Lauth and his team regarding our missing daughter’s case.
Our 20 year old daughter who has mental illness ran away from home with some dangerous stranger who met her online. Police did not helped us. Instead, they helped her get away with a felon stranger. We can’t describe into words just how painful it is to deal with this horrible thing every moment. This is the worst nightmare any parents can have. We knew we had to find someone to help find our daughter.
We hired Lauth investigation company with a hope to locate and reunite with our daughter. CJ was very sympathize, good listener, always available even during mid night or early morning via phone, text or in person during the entire investigation. We were assured that she will locate and unite our daughter in this difficult case. We learned that CJ had a deep caring for any missing child or adult. She went above and beyond to investigate the person who brain washed our daughter. Within a week of my hiring CJ, she created a detailed report of the stranger who had a criminal and scamming background. As they keep changing their addresses, it was very challenging to locate our daughter’s whereabouts. Within a month, my daughter was located and reunited through CJ’s relentless work but it didn’t turned out as a happy ending i.e. my daughter refused to come home with us. However, we are assured by CJ that she will continue to advocate and just try to get her to see the light because she is heading down the wrong path. We have a deep faith in CJ knowing that she has a potential to change the outcome which will require some patience. The biggest credit we would like to give her is that she has created a trust with our daughter.
We will definitely come back here in near future to provide further update about the happy ending of the return of our daughter safely to our home.
Thomas Lauth and his team are, quite simply, incredible. Smart, creative, compassionate, efficient, and always there. When my friend’s daughter went missing, we engaged Lauth to find her, and they did. The nightmare Lauth helped shepherd us through didn’t end there, however. The next phase involved getting the endangered young woman to safety. I still marvel at the quick-thinking, creative solutions Lauth and his team of caring experts came up with in the seconds, minutes, hours and days that followed. Lauth also acted quickly to provide a deep list of contacts (mental health, social workers, lawyers, advocates, organizations in Indianapolis where we were) to help us secure the young woman’s complex needs. For our unexpected, volatile, chaotic and heartbreaking situation, it was so very good to have Thomas Lauth’s steady expertise to count on. Can’t ever thank him and his lead investigator enough. Good luck to you in your quest.
As a young man with neurocognitive impairment and MH difficulties, my son had been receiving intensive community based MH services and was accordingly, registered as a disabled and endangered missing adult. My local police department placed a statewide bulletin and registered him missing but very quickly, it became apparent that there was not going to be an active, aggressive investigative search for my son. A nonprofit organization recommended the services of a private investigator and Thomas Lauth was contacted.
Our daughter started slipping in her senior year of highschool. She became very secretive about her life, she was missing school, and seemed to be on drugs…On her 18th birthday, she left…
I wanted to take this opportunity to formally commend and recommend the services provided by Tom Lauth (Lauth and Associates). My family and I recently worked with Tom regarding my sister and nephew who had been missing for almost two years. Tom was the second investigator who worked the case. Based on the excellent service we experienced, I sincerely regret that we did not work with him initially. I found Tom to be extremely knowledgeable, professional, and emphatic. I immediately felt comfortable in confiding in him. In response, Tom offered a complete plan, with accurate cost disclosures and regular substantive updates.
Recently my son was missing and we had nowhere to turn, until we found you. He had taken off for work and never got there. No one knew where he was, the police couldn’t help us because he was of age. I called the missing children’s hot line. If any parent is in our situation I recommend highly that they call you.
A few weeks ago my 17 year old daughter ran away from home. This was not the first time she has done this. I contacted the police and they tried to look for her. I knew they would not be able to find her, she has gotten very street smart. I can’t describe into words just how awful I felt during this horrible ordeal. There were so many horrors that ran through my mind. I knew I had to find someone to help find my daughter.
Thomas Lauth, an investigator who specializes in missing children and adults, has been one of the most reliable and imaginative investigators we have found to date. Thomas Lauth’s experience with our organization, as well as work he has done for the National Center for Missing Adults, has proven to be invaluable in the locating of abductors and bringing children and adults home.
Thomas Lauth’s credentials indicate that he has a high success rate at locating individuals and we have also found this to be true. He not only utilizes various resources to help locate individuals, but he frequently follows up with them after they are located to see how they are transitioning. We will continue to utilize Thomas Lauth’s services in the future. His assistance with this orgranization and the many families will once again be able to hold their loved ones in their arms. We highly recommend the services he provides to these families of missing persons.
Lauth In the Media
What We Know About the Missing Teen Whose Parents Were Shot to Death
What We Know About the Missing Teen Whose Parents Were Shot to Death
13-year-old Jayme Closs vanished from her rural Wisconsin home around the same time her parents were killed Monday. Over the past few days, haunting images of a teen girl with curly, sandy blonde hair and a dimpled smile named Jayme Closs have been almost inescapable…
ESSENCE Special Report: How D.C.’s Disappearing Girls Highlight The Nation’s Black and Missing Problem
How D.C.'s Disappearing Girls Highlight The Nation's Black and Missing Problem
Black women and girls are going missing and it’s not just in Washington, D.C. It’s happening in Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, Atlanta, and other urban areas around the country…
Western Pa.’s missing adults easily fall off police radar
Western Pa.’s missing adults easily fall off police radar
Lonnie Green was watching TV at his brother’s home in the Hill District when he got up and stepped out. He left through the front door, and his family hasn’t seen him since.
Activists call for dedicated missing persons unit, Cleveland, Ohio
Activists call for dedicated missing persons unit, Cleveland, Ohio
Two weeks after the discovery of 10 bodies and a skull in the of suspected serial killer Anthony Sowell, a debate rages over whether Cleveland devotes enough resources to finding missing people.
What We Know About the Missing Teen Whose Parents Were Shot to Death
How D.C.’s Disappearing Girls Highlight The Nation’s Black and Missing Problem
Western Pa.’s missing adults easily fall off police radar
Activists call for dedicated missing persons unit; cities that have them caution against high hopes
FBI missing persons cases: 43 unsolved cases that need leads
43 unsolved cases that need leads
Thomas Lauth said the combination of factors in Petito’s case — the multiple states involved, videos of the couple arguing and a 911 call about her fiancé slapping her — made for headlines.
The National Center for Missing Adults Funding Was Slashed by the Feds, but Volunteers Are Keeping It Alive, Pheonix New Times
The National Center for Missing Adults Funding Was Slashed by the Feds, but Volunteers Are Keeping It Alive, Pheonix New Times
For 15 years, the National Center for Missing Adults helped track the thousands of adults who go missing in this country every year — and did its best to reconnect them with their families.
Is Olisa Williams still alive?, The Ann Arbor News
Is Olisa Williams still alive?, The Ann Arbor News
The story told by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is chilling – Olisa Williams was 1 year old when her father took her to an Ann Arbor park in 1982.
LAPD, family both trying to find man missing 4 1/2 years
LAPD, family both trying to find man missing 4 1/2 years, Daily News, Los Angeles, CA
A 27-year-old bachelor, Robert Anthony Spellman frequently worked out at a Sherman Oaks gym, then stopped at his mother’s house for dinner before heading to his own home in Woodland Hills.
Do you know where they are? 43 missing persons cases the FBI needs help solving
The National Center for Missing Adults Funding Was Slashed by the Feds, but Volunteers Are Keeping It Alive, Pheonix New Times
Is Olisa Williams still alive?, The Ann Arbor News
LAPD, family both trying to find man missing 4 1/2 years, Daily News, Los Angeles, CA
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