Are missing person homicides less likely to be solved due to 48 hour rule?

Sure. Evidence can very easily be destroyed, people can move a great distance away, peoples memories become clouded and distorted. Best this to have done would have been to take pictures, write stuff down, or even try to pursue leads yourself then give all information to the authorities with the investigation finally commenced.

Yes. Finding missing people is all about speed. I have a friend who’s a former cop and he was in charge of the department for finding missing people. He told me he found 28 out of the 29 cases he had in his career. Most, like you said, were kids running away from home usually. The one he didn’t solve was because the mother didn’t report that her kid was missing until the following morning, thus wasting valuable time.

Of course waiting (on purpose) saves a lot of trouble, since most cases are just false alarms. And there are usually many things going on at the same time in a police station, and the average bobby has to prioritise between a grandpa who probably took a long walk to the park and will eventually get home, a bank roberry with hostages, and a suspicious-looking car that could be anything between a Lebanese family innocently moving falafels and the next Oklahoma bombing.

But I knew a guy who was murdered and his body was found a couple of weeks later, thus fogging the investigation. His girlfriend insists that if the police had acted faster he might still be alive today – they actually weren’t allowed to do anything legally since he was a grown-up and a girlfriend has no right to start an investigation just like that.

No, That is just a plot used in TV shows.

86% of percentages are made up on the fly

I think the fact that the detectives don’t actually have a dead body makes it more difficult, not the 48 hour rule.

It has been 8 days and her father who can barely walk (and did not take his car) has not been seen, no credit card or bank activity, no meds.

Thanks everyone for the input. The family suspects a woman grifter who was milking him for money and he told his daughter he was going to ask for his “loans” back. The grifter up and moved 24 hours after he went missing.

That was what made me wonder if the case will ever be solved and if any evidence will ever be found or is ever found on missing persons cases that are discovered to have been foul play.

Oh, my. That sounds very bad, @Dog. I hope it turns out all right for your friends, but the sound of that is very disturbing.

@Jeruba Sadly today marks 2 weeks. Even the police now suspect foul play. I just hope the guilty party tips their hand and is caught.

I’m sorry, @Dog.

Thanks @Jeruba. I spent much of last week with them helping any way I could. But even so a person feels so helpless.