Missing-persons field work is a licensed-PI service. We refer.
We do not perform private investigation field work in Florida.
When a missing-persons matter calls for a licensed PI, we coordinate with a Florida private investigator in our network who handles missing and locate work.
They run the case under their license, with their contract and their report.
Quinn coordinates the introduction; the licensed PI handles the case directly with you.
A blunt note before anything else: if your person is missing under circumstances that suggest danger, file a police report first.
We will help you understand the path between police, NamUs, and a private investigator, but the police report comes first when safety is in question.
How the referral works
- You contact us. Honest scoping conversation about what is known, what has been tried, and what the realistic path forward is.
- We help you place the case. Sometimes the right next step is police, sometimes NamUs, sometimes a licensed PI, sometimes a combination.
- We introduce you to the right licensed FL PI. A partner who handles missing and locate work and will tell you the truth about probability before taking your retainer.
- The partner engages you directly. Their license, their contract, their report.
What we do, what the partner does
- SleuthX (Quinn): consultation, scoping, partner introduction, and digital forensics, including last-known device activity, account access patterns, social-media history, and OSINT reconstruction. When the case has a digital trail, we work it.
- Licensed PI partner: investigator-database research, witness interviews, field locate work, scene investigation, court-records pulls, and the formal investigative report under their license.
Who this is for
Families looking for an estranged or missing relative.
Adopted individuals trying to locate biological family.
Long-term cold-case families seeking a private review of work police have already done.
Beneficiary-search matters in estate administration.
We will be honest if your matter is better handled by police, NamUs, or a non-profit search team, and point you toward them.
Why a referral, not direct delivery
Florida reserves licensed-PI activity for Class C licensees.
The partners we refer to know how to work with police, with NamUs, with attorneys, and with families.
We coordinate the introduction.
The partner does the work.
Cross-references
- Investigator referral hub
- Skip tracing and locate referral
- OSINT investigation services
- For individuals and families
If a PI and digital-trail analysis is the right path
When police, NamUs, and the free resources above have run their course and an estranged, cold, or digital-trail case remains, here is how an engagement works.
PI-partner field rates are set by the partner and vary widely. Short-fuse adult locates start in the low thousands; long-term cold cases with travel and witness interviews run materially higher, always with a written estimate and milestone caps before the retainer, and we do not mark up partner fees.
On the digital side, covering last-known device activity, account and social-media reconstruction, and OSINT, the SleuthX companion is examiner-delivered under our own engagement letter: a $5,000 refundable engagement retainer, then $400/hr flat.
Some cases are resolved on the digital side alone, once the right person looks at the data.
