xROCKIEx, on 16 July 2012 - 08:17 PM, said:
What are the chances, if someone has been gone that long, of them being found alive?
Very slim, and if you talk with investigators working on cases like this that's what most of them will tell you, that chances are slim to find this person alive but we still need to know what happened to him/her.
Lady Kasey, on 16 July 2012 - 09:58 PM, said:
What do you do when you work on them? Are you an investigator for the police in your province?
Independant investigator. Basically what I do is I call the police department working on the case, tell them about my background ( student in criminology at Laval, worked as an independant investigator/researcher on numerous cases, been working on missing person cases since many years, collecting data etc. ) and I share information I have found about cases that might be related to this particular case, info about crimes in the area, etc. Some investigators/officers are reluctant to talk about a case with an "outsider", but you'd be surprised to see how many of them are actually ready to talk about it over the phone and glad to do so. Most investigators here are asking me name of my teachers, the classes I'm taken, etc. The fact I study in criminology helps a lot, I guess some of the investigators feels like they are talking to one of "them".
I shared important information in the Kristen Modafferi case ( the possibility that she might have been a victim of serial killer Joseph Naso, an obscure killer from the area where Kristen disappeared in 1997 ), I also found interesting link between a case in Alaska and one in New Mexico, things like that. To me it's simply the best way to kill time; researching a cold case, researching the area and history of the city/county where the case took place, trying to establish links and connections between cases, talking about it with the detectives working on the case.....With school, my job and my girlfriend I don't have much time to work on cases now ( sadly ), but I always try to make 4 or 5 phone calls a month. At one point it was 2 or 3 a week, my phone bills were terrible.
The only problem I have is that I live in Canada. Most of the cases I have an interest for or worked on are from the United States, so the fact I live in another country is often problematic. In many occasions investigators told me about a certain area, a certain place etc., but because I live in Canada my options are very limited.
That's why I'm trying to focus on cases from my Province right now, I feel like I can really make a difference. However I have over 60 cases ( all of them from the US ) on my mind, and my plan is to move to the US one day, after getting my PHd and establishing a name for myself here in Quebec or Montreal. That's my goal, and I'm gonna do it. No doubt.
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