Requested to assist in more than 400 searches involving the lost and missing (live and deceased persons)
Located numerous lost and missing persons with K9 partners (children, hikers, fugitives, convicted felons, disaster victims, elderly persons, homicide victims, suicide, etc)
Deceased persons cases we assisted in include: remains found in a 30 foot well, remains found in a grave which had been undisturbed for more than 13 years, deceased person found inside collapsed structures, deceased persons placed in landfills, victims and remains found involved in disasters, remains found in wooded and urban areas, victims of a fire/burned structures, and deceased persons and remains involved in airplane crashes.
Live person cases we have assisted with include: missing hikers who had been missing for more than 24 hours and lost in rugged mountainous areas, children found in wooded areas or at their friend's house, an Alzheimer's victim who walked away from their home, fugitives who ran from police or assaulted another person, vacationers who lost their way in the woods, and persons who were picked up from their last known point.
Some of the most notable cases we assisted with include the following: "Beauty Queen", "Runaway Bride", Patricia Endres (missing hairdresser), Hurricane Katrina Disaster; Mexico to search for a missing American, Ecuador to search for a missing student.
