The missing person search seeks to locate parties who may or may not want to be found. The missing person search is used to find long lost friends, lovers, and relatives. Locate searches are also used in cases of adoption, as you may need to find your birth parents to learn of your medical history, or you may be a biological parent (birth mother, birth father) looking for children given up at birth for adoption.
Get started by choosing a type of service from the Missing Person Search Options grid at the bottom of this page.
There are several levels of inquiry to missing person search. In some cases, such as finding long lost friends, lovers, and relatives who have just drifted away, you may have a fair amount of information about them already, such as last known address and date of birth. For other types of locate searches, you may not have any such vital data or the information you have may be decades old. These cases are more challenging, but they are solvable.
A couple of factors determine the level of difficulty in a missing person search where there is little more than a name to start with. The first factor is how common is the person’s name. If the last name is Smith or Jones and the first is fairly common, the task is more difficult. The second factor is name changes. Women generally change their names when they get married. This presents some of the more difficult locate projects, especially when the date of birth is unknown.
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The real-time missing person-the friend or relative or child that has disappeared recently requires-different strategies than those described to this point. In these cases our agents in the field must “pound the pavement” to find the missing person. We also employ high tech measures and discreet sources to obtain information leading to the missing person.
The chart below describes the various services we offer for a missing person search. For a free consultation or to get started right away on your missing person search, call us for service throughout California and the US at (800) 487-0947 or e-mail us. You can also order your missing person search investigation online by going to our online order page or downloading our fax form.
| Search Level | Description | Cost |
| Level One (Attorney skip-trace) |
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Fixed Fee- $125* |
| Level Two |
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Fixed Fee- $250* |
| Level Three |
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Average cost: $500 and up |
*Some persons with common names, evasive behavior or extremely active profiles may require an additional research fee of up to $125.
How do we locate missing persons?
We have access to thousands of databases nationwide with millions of names and addresses. These include driver records, consumer profiles, social security data, post office forwarding data, mailing lists, magazine subscriptions, voter records, utility records, reverse telephone directories, real property records, and a host of other public and proprietary databases. (Some states restrict access to certain databases.)
