21 episodes
Missing Persons Uncovered Missing Persons Uncovered
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- Society & Culture
In the age of satellite imagery, CCTV monitoring and 24- hour surveillance, why are so many people going missing? And where have they gone?
Missing Persons Uncovered gets beneath the surface of an emergency nations are facing across the world. Every year 155,000 people go missing in theUK alone. What does it mean to go missing? Why do some people make the choice to disappear? And how can we protect our vulnerable loved ones better?
Caroline Humer and Karen Shalev Greene set out to hear first-hand experiences of those who have experienced missing persons cases, seeking the people behind the statistics. Listen in on revealing conversations with professionals and practitioners who are working to challenge myths and raise awareness around this much misunderstood social and personal issue.
Combining Caroline’s 20 years of experience working as a child protection expert with Karen’s 12-year academic mission to understand the world of missing persons and their protection, the team invites you to join them in sharing knowledge on how we can protect society’s most vulnerable people.
Find out more about all of our guests and the Missing Persons Uncovered project on the website missingpersonsuncovered.com
Episodes have been supported by the University of Portsmouth and First Factory.
The University of Portsmouth supports and carries out research to change our world for the better. You can find out more about projects like this at port.ac.uk/research.
First Factory is a Software Development Company built on honest, integrity and quality. They have committed to building technology solutions to help in missing persons investigations.
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What are families faced with when a person is missing?
Parental alienation is a label which is popularly used to describe a dynamic where a child rejects a parent. Karen Woodall is a psychotherapist who treats this problem from a relational perspective recognising that children who reject a parent are usually those who are hyper aligned to a caregiver who is causing them harm. Thinking about the issue from the experience of the child, offers a clearer understanding of this much misunderstood problem in family separation.
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Missing Young Girls in Nigeria used in Baby factories
In this episode, Karen talks to Ugochi Nkwunonwo about her recent research in baby factories in Nigeria. Young girls who are pregnant are stigmatised in Nigeria. To avoid shame they disappear and sometimes end up in baby factories where they give birth and lose their newborn. Not only is the young girl missing but the newborn is also missing as it has no identity.
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Sexual Exploitation and Missing
Karen and Caroline discuss how sexual exploitation can be a factor for a person to go missing. They talk about the pull and push factors and the need for collaboration between stakeholders.
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Missing Persons and OSINT ft. Kevin Metcalf
We all use open source intelligence when online but do we understand how easy it is to find people? Kevin Metcalf explains to us the amount of information is available online and how he uses it to help law enforcement finding missing persons.
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The use of geneology to identify missing persons ft. Kelly Kincaid
Kelly Hawkins Kincaid from Astrea Forensic shares with us how DNA markers are used to bring closure to long term missing person cases.
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Missing on a Night Out ft. Geoff Newiss
Geoff Newiss shares his findings from his research on "Missing on a Night Out". He reviewed missing persons cases going missing while on a night out and discussed that many encounter water which may result in fatalities.
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