Missing Persons Investigations

Timeline depends on what information you have when the case starts. With a recent address, phone, or social media activity, EJR investigators can often locate someone in DFW within 48-72 hours. Cases with limited information — someone who disappeared years ago, used aliases, or actively avoids being found — can take weeks of database work, surveillance, and field interviews. We provide an honest timeline estimate during the free initial consultation.

Yes. Police agencies are constrained by jurisdiction, caseload, and statutory authority. They typically cannot dedicate sustained investigative time to non-criminal missing persons cases. EJR Agency has resolved cases law enforcement closed years earlier, often by combining database work, persistent witness interviews, and field surveillance across jurisdictional lines that police cannot easily cross.

Costs vary by case complexity. Database research and skip tracing for someone with a recent footprint can run a few hundred dollars. Field investigations involving surveillance, witness interviews across multiple cities, and extended database work typically range from a few thousand dollars upward. EJR provides a detailed cost estimate during the free initial consultation — before any work begins.

Yes, locating someone is legal in Texas as long as the investigation uses lawful methods. Texas-licensed investigators can use public records, database searches, social media analysis, surveillance in public spaces, and witness interviews. What we cannot do is impersonate law enforcement, hack accounts, or access protected records illegally. EJR operates strictly within Texas and federal law on every case.

Discretion is fundamental to our work. EJR investigations are conducted without alerting the subject of the search. We do not make direct contact unless and until you authorize it. Once located, we provide you with the information and let you decide whether and how to make contact.

Yes. While EJR is headquartered in Dallas, missing persons cases regularly cross state and even international lines. We coordinate with investigators nationwide and travel for cases when warranted. Many cases originating in DFW lead to subjects who relocated to other Texas cities, other states, or occasionally internationally.