Each and every day in America, more than 1,000 children run away from home and every day more than 1,000 children are abducted mostly by estranged parents. It's a fact - these types of cases are on the rise in private investigative practice. This manual is designed with a specific focus to help you bring these types of cases to a successful and happy close and locate. There has been several manuals written on handling missing children cases but none of them are pointed and focused to the types of problems and solutions private investigators have. The location of a runaway or abducted child has special problems and are sometimes most difficult but this manual gives you step-by-step procedures and techniques for the investigation of abducted children and runaway children and it's specifically designed for the private investigator. This excellent manual and sourcebook is brimming with sources, resources, techniques, step-by-step investigative checklists, investigative forms, and laws pertaining to missing children and even shows you how to conduct an investigation of an abducted and/or runaway child in a foreign country. You'll gain the knowledge needed to work these types of specialized missing children cases by one of the country's top experts on the subject