Search attempts: various questions about how search-and-rescue work in general, in the cold, and at night ( Read more... )

I have tried to look into this, but the subject matter is odd enough that it is hard to google ( Read more... )

Setting: Scotland. The man went missing in 2003; his wife wants him presumed dead in 2014 ( Read more... )

I am finding a lot of material about reporting a missing child, but not much for the experiences of a missing/lost child who has just been found. The keywords I used included: missing children, Massachusetts runaway, Massachusetts missing children, missing children stories/experiences, how do the police process a lost child, what do I do if I find ( Read more... )

So I got bitten by a plot bunny for a story with slight but important supernatural elements. Basically, my MC lives in a town with reportedly haunted woods around it, where spooky things supposedly happen. MC is assaulted (by two human criminals) and left unconscious in the woods. When he regains consciousness, he limps back to his family's house, ( Read more... )

Setting: Japan, late 1990s ( Read more... )

Location: Anytown, USA, circa 2010
Searched: tags (various law enforcement, missing persons tags), Google (various arrangements of 'how to take a kidnapping victim's statement' & 'procedure after rescuing kidnapping victims')
Character: 16-year-old boy
Situation: My character was kidnapped from his hometown and taken to a city a few hours away (say ( Read more... )

Setting: Space. There are aliens and starships and a galaxy-wide war slash zombie invasion.
Search terms tried: I looked up evacuation procedures and death in absentia, but there seems to be a time frame of years of the latter, not days/weeks, and in any rate "well, she's not here, so she's probably dead" won't cut it for the characters involved.

If ( Read more... )

Setting/Story Details: late 1990s in Tokyo, Japan. Two boys aged around 3 or 4 (unrelated children, but their parents are friends) are kidnapped from their respective homes within a few hours of each other. The parents make a police report, but no ransom letter is ever received. (Not quite sure whether this part is really relevant, but three out of ( Read more... )

I'm not entirely sure how to look for this ( Read more... )