"This was an abduction, not just a missing person, " Chief Daniel Shaw told the station.
Johnny Gosch is still officially considered a missing person by police, and his disappearance remains an open case.
The case is being investigated by Dorset Police as a missing person inquiry.
More than 60 police officers are working on the investigation which is being treated as a missing person inquiry.
Mr Baker's family and friends had heard nothing from him and a missing person appeal was made by police.
It is categorized as a missing person's case, and authorities have no evidence suggesting Jason is no longer alive.
In 2010, Damien's case was changed by the police from that of a missing person to a suspected murder investigation.
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Like so many people, the Jolkowskis mistakenly believed there was a 24-hour wait before police would accept a missing person's report.
At first the police treated Ashley as a runaway, but when she didn't come home, she was reclassified as a missing person.
The nephew wanted to make sure the body was not found so that it remained a missing person case, not a murder investigation, authorities said.
Due to heavy caseloads, law enforcement officials are frequently not afforded the continuous training and education that could help them in the search for a missing person.
He filed a missing person's complaint on the morning of February 27, telling authorities that his son hadn't returned from going to the store the previous evening.
Police discovered Hugo's body floating in Reed Pond, which is on land owned by the Ministry of Defence, while they carried out a missing person search for him.
In 2010, a Suffolk County police officer and his cadaver dog were investigating a missing person case along Ocean Parkway when they happened upon the first skeletal remains.
Crown witness Lee Winyard said he believed the car they arrived in was the same as the one that featured in a missing person poster relating to Ms Spence's disappearance.
Thomas said that Gavett filed a missing person report with the New York Police Department shortly after terrorists hijacked commercial airliners and flew them into the city's World Trade Center towers.
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April's disappearance has prompted one of the biggest searches for a missing person in recent times, and involved hundreds of volunteers from the Machynlleth area, across Wales and parts of England.
The Modesto Bee, in an editorial, blasted Condit for his "duplicity" and "abhorrent" behavior, saying it hindered the police investigation into Levy's disappearance, which authorities are treating as a missing person case.
The myth of "a waiting period" to report a missing person still lingers, and many families are turned away by officials and forced to begin their journey on their own without any direction or support.
In the incident which led to the teenager's conviction, a green beam was shone at the aircraft which was about 2, 000ft (610m) over a populated area of Torquay while it was searching for a missing person.
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The IPCC is also investigating how the police dealt with a missing person report made by Mr Somers' family on 31 July and complaints made by his family about the way their telephone calls to the police were handled.
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It wasn't until Tuesday that Antony Kinyua -- Alexander Kinyua's father -- called a Harford County detective assigned to a missing person's case and told him about a gruesome discovery made by another of his sons, the charging document states.
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Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera said authorities are treating the incident as a missing-person case because so far, there's no evidence the young people were kidnapped.
The IPCC investigation found the area sergeant had not been informed and, according to the force's own policy, a young missing person should never be risk assessed as low.
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