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

USA Today Article with Thomas Lauth Missing Persons

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