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Missing Persons Specialists
PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS AUSTRALIA WIDE
Exceptional >98% Success Rate
Master licence number: 000110614
The Natural Investigative Skills re-visited - Article 1 in a 4-part series
THE SIX SENSES: FOCUSING ON SIGHT, SOUND, TOUCH, TASTE/SMELL (INTUITION) [i] The symmetrical beauty of nature is delivered to us in a myriad of ways, sometimes it is the repetitive pattern of a leaf generally indistinguishable amongst millions on a giant tree, each with its lifeblood of veins, or perhaps it is the wings of a butterfly, or the feathers of a bird duplicated either side of its centre line and perfect in almost identical beauty when viewed from either the left
Valentine Smith APM
Mar 1812 min read
Search and Rescue in Australia (circa 1924), and 100 years on. Otto Yuncken – A murder, a hero, a dynasty.
Photo: The rescue party riding out across a High Country plain with George in bandages and broken bones on the middle horse ‘At daybreak...
Valentine Smith APM
Apr 18, 20254 min read
Part Four: Missing Person Response – Gaps uncovered
The first police unit on scene took down basic initial details and commenced a land search of the navigable roads and tracks for some hours.
Valentine Smith APM
Jan 20, 20258 min read
Part Two: Missing Person Response – Gaps uncovered
PART TWO OF A FOUR PART SERIES INVESTIGATIVE RESPONSE – THE GAPS IN THE FIRST 120 HOURS INTRODUCTION: “If it looks like a duck and...
Valentine Smith APM
Nov 25, 20246 min read
Gunfire – In ‘The High Country’
Murdered or Lost - clarifying the missing? (Three years down the track) There have always been ‘lone wolf’ stories of mostly men who...
Valentine Smith APM
Sep 11, 20246 min read
‘The Lost Boy’ – Tragedy in the Outback…
Everything in life is a ‘Maybe, even where we think we have a considerable degree of control of direction and choice. Many things we do...
Valentine Smith APM
Mar 28, 20243 min read
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MISSING[i]– 35 Years in the Australian bush.
(Adapted front cover image of Tom Patterson’s 2022 book of the incredible story of Mark May) If there ever was one book that could be...
Valentine Smith APM
Jan 29, 20244 min read
We might as well be on the moon
CREDIT: MATT PALMER - https://mattpalmer.co Our Trip to Craigs Hut. By Pastor Christopher and Yolanda Eckels[i] Edited by Valentine...
Valentine Smith APM
Sep 5, 202311 min read
Paradoxical undressing
Paradoxical undressing is one of those strange things that an investigator can come across, more especially in the depths of winter.
Valentine Smith APM
Apr 26, 20234 min read
Not all who are missing are lost
Out of the Forest is a unique tale of survival. A young man is raised in grim circumstances, facing adversity in the most atrocious of ways.
Samantha Kiss
Dec 13, 20222 min read
Birdwatching - for bodies (Observations of wildlife to locate human remains).
As we get older some of us get great pleasure in ‘observing', from watching people in the street, to dog’s territorialising the park
Valentine Smith APM
Sep 6, 202213 min read
Losing Track
How many times do you think, hear or say, “I’ve lost track of where I am” or maybe it is more a case of “I’ve lost track of my thoughts”...
Valentine Smith APM
Jul 21, 20229 min read
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