Category: Missing Persons

Lost Llama wandering around Loveland area

10/18/2017

By Susanna Speier
Denver Private Investigator Blogger

There is a spotted llama, anxiously wandering around Mahoney Park and the Bobcat Ridge Natural Area northwest of Loveland. It is believed to have wandered off a nearby ranch then gotten lost in the open space where it is now spooking horses and alienating any hikers who attempt to approach it. The Loveland Reporter-Herald's Sam Lounsberry characterized the llama as a "bad tempered" but sanguine and mild mannered are rarely traits of an animal that has spent three months wandering the open plains, trying to find its way home.

If you or any of your private investigator colleagues manage to uncover any leads on who the llama's owner might be, contact 970-416-2147 so the park service can try to reunite them and then let us know so we can feature you in next month's post.

New York's Prospect Park, by contrast, responds quickly to displaced animal reports. When a baby cow --believed to have escaped the Fourth Ave. and 16th street slaughterhouse -- was running around it was captured within days by the New York Police who shot it with a tranquilizer gun. The bull will be taken to Skylands Animal Sanctuary in Wantage, NJ, an official said."

A live video showed the creature standing in a soccer field, looking confused — as at least six officials closed in on him and four helicopters hovered overhead according to The New York Post.'The poor thing, he don’t know what to do — and neither do the cops! We need a cowboy, said neighbor Yvonne Felix, 42."

If you want to continue following the adventures of this baby cow, fans have created a Prospect Park Cow Twitter account.

I'm still alive, if you were wondering. I'm at Skylands Animal Sanctuary. pic.twitter.com/eX9zOG2cmM
— Prospect Park Cow (@ProspectParkCow) October 18, 2017

Not all those who wander are lost. The Japanese city of Nara is famous for it's Buddhist shrines and for its deer population. According to Washington Post reporter, Anna Fifield deer in Nara are recognized as the messenger of gods, so they walk everywhere at the Kasuga Grand shrine in Nara.

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Resolved and unresolved family mysteries

7/20/2017

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By Susanna Speier
Denver Private Investigator Blogger

Last month, in Switzerland, a couple was found seventy-five years after they disappeared. They were headed up the mountain to milk the cows and ended up staying there until the Tsanfleuron glacier near a ski lift above Les Diablerets resort at an altitude of 8,600 ft began receding seventy-five years after the search parties had given up.

Because their 1942 clothing and backpacks were so well preserved it was clear to local Swiss police that something was unusual. Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin were 37 and 40 at the time they went missing. According to Time Magazine, Udry-Dumoulin, who is now 79, and became an orphan when she was four, said she and her six siblings spent their "whole lives" looking for their parents, "without stopping." She told Le Matin that they hoped to give them "the funeral they deserved one day" thereby finally achieving closure, once the DNA results verified the identities.

The Independent ran a story about the funeral that enabled to two surviving children of the couple to finally get closure. Marcelene who was four the day her parents went missing said she had climbed that glacier three times after her parents had vanished and the nieces said they were "now happy they were finally able to mourn."

Sometimes closure never occurs, despite DNA results and other forms of objective evidence. Bay Area private investigator, Michael Spencer just published a book about his own private investigator experiences and the animated book trailer (which includes a voice over intro by Pursuit Mag, Editor-in-Chief, Hal Humphreys) tells the story of a blind and wealthy guy who meets with a private investigator to pursue the answers to unresolved questions he has about his wife's fidelity however none of the evidence Spencer provides can appease the man and finally Spencer has to tell him that it's time to close the case.

It is an unexpected and refreshing twist on the 1st person detective genre and registers as something like a mashup of Sam Spade and of NPR's StoryCorps. Hopefully more animated shorts from Spencer will follow.