On any given day, 1,000 or more Ohioans are missing.
Their stories of missing husbands, wives, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters, fathers, mothers and close friends stretch across decades and much of Ohio.
Many remain missing weeks, months and even years after they first vanished. Left behind are their loved ones who long for resolution and struggle to make sense of what has happened or what understaffed police departments are doing to solve cases.
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After countless families have accused law enforcement of failing to adequately investigate disappearances, Dispatch reporters launched their own probe into how police search for the missing.
Interviews with dozens of families, advocates, and law enforcement officers along with a review of thousands of records including more than 1,200 missing persons cases spanning 96 years found police rarely use every tool at their disposal to bring missing Ohioans home.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Missing people in Ohio: Dispatch ‘VANISHED’ investigation into police
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