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Professional Private Investigators Association of Colorado

MEMBER SUBMISSION:

INVESTIGATING AN INTERNATIONAL MISSING PER-
SONS CASE
BY: JORDAN SMITH

It was hot, it was humid, it was been contacted through an online
jungle-y. It was 90 degrees. We community ofPrior to flying to
were close to getting arrested or Nicaragua, I had been contacted
at least deported by the Nicaragu- through an online community of
an National Police. But, we had a private investigators by a family
case to investigate. seeking assistance with finding
her brother, who we’ll call Abio-
Prior to flying to Nicaragua, I had
dun, who had disappeared in Nic-

“All they knew was that he’d recently graduated from college in the United States, and
decided to go backpacking through Costa Rica and Nicaragua”.

aragua. All they knew was that he’d recently graduated from college in
the United States, and decided to go backpacking through Costa Rica
and Nicaragua. He’d been in constant contact with the family until a few
weeks previous, and then dropped off the map. The only other piece of in-
formation the family had was that they knew he had been experimenting
with ayahuasca.

I gave the family a few ideas on things she could try on her own:
Private investigators by a family seeking assistance with finding her broth-
er, who we’ll call Abiodun, who had disappeared in Nicaragua. All they
knew was that he’d recently graduated from college in the United States,
and decided to go backpacking through Costa Rica and Nicaragua. He’d
been in constant contact with the family until a few weeks previous, and
then dropped off the map. The only other piece of information the family
had was that they knew he had been experimenting with ayahuasca.

I gave the family a few ideas on things she could try on her own:
VICTIM STEPS

When you first suspect that someone is missing, it’s critical to file a police
report, even if you’re not fully sure the person actually is “missing”. It turns
out that in this case the family had already notified local police in the US,
though they could not do much. They had also contacted the US State De-
partment in Nicaragua to inform them of what had happened. The State
Department was able to mobilize the Nicaraguan National Police (“NNP”).

The rest of these steps should be done after discussion with law enforce-

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