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Missing Cruise Ship Passenger Turns up Safe in Germany

By Dawn in Investigations, Missing Persons, Missing Persons Investigations, MSI Detective Services, witness statement at January 18th, 2012 | No comments

 

 

 

 

 

A German woman listed as missing from the Costa Concordia was located alive in Germany.

According to the Associated Press, Gertrud Goergens alerted police in Germany that she was alive and well. Goergens was removed from the official list of missing late Wednesday. There are still twenty-three passengers and three crew members missing.

Eleven bodies have been recovered. Currently, only one has been publicly identified as being crew member Sandor Feher, 38, of Hungary. The adult bodies, believed to be passengers, were all wearing life jackets and were found in the rear of the ship near an emergency evacuation point.

Jozsef Balog, a pianist who worked with Feher who was a violinist, told the Budapest newspaper Blikk that Feher was wearing a life-jacket when he decided to return to his cabin to pack his violin. Feher was last seen on deck en route to a lifeboat. According to Balog, Feher helped put life-jackets on several crying children before returning to his cabin.

I believe one thing that caught the attention of viewers as this story aired was how close the ship was to land. Read the full article »

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Va. College Student Visiting NYC Vanishes

By Dawn in Locate Investigations, Missing Persons, Missing Persons Investigations, MSI Detective Services, Private Investigator at January 12th, 2012 | No comments

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Ian Burnet studies engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. He came to New York City to celebrate the New Year holiday with friends and has been missing since Dec. 30 – no one has heard from him. Sources say the 22-year-old has a history of suicide attempts, according to NBC New York.

Ian left his Richmond, Va., home the day after Christmas and took a bus to New York. He was planning to rent an apartment for a week with friends, authorities said.

According to The New York Daily News, Burnet’s last known contact was a text with a friend on Dec. 30. He was seen that afternoon at the apartment where he had been staying on 139th St. and Riverside Drive. He left without his cell phone and did not say where he was going.

Ian’s mother, Nancy Burnett, said, “It’s completely out of character. We have no reason to think that he would do something like this.” The last time she heard from her son was via text on Dec. 27, after he visited Central Park, she said.

Concerned family and friends utilized Facebook and the online community Reddit to spread the word about Burnet’s disappearance. Burnet’s older brother Jamie, a Reddit user, responded to one user who asked, “Have you ever thought he DOESN’T want to be found?” and said, “Yes. There’s a very real possibility that he took his own life, and I’m trying not to think about it. He has a history of depression, and there have been scares before. But he didn’t leave any last messages behind, which would be extremely uncharacteristic … I’m hoping that’s not the case.” Read the full article »

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A Clerical Error Landed Kathleen Casey on the Streets

By Dawn in Background Checks, court cases, Criminal Background Check, Criminal Records, legal papers, MSI Detective Services, Police Records, Private Investigator at December 21st, 2011 | No comments

 

 

 

 

 

If you are an employer needing background checks performed on prospective employees, MSI Detective Services offers this service. Mistakes won’t be make like the ones you will read about in this story because we have the means to accurately check and cross-check information. For example, in the first story, our staff would have noticed that the birth date did not match the age of the individual, and even if it did, one of our Private Investigators would have pulled the police report to ensure they had the right person. Employers should also know that they are required by law to inform job applicants when they have been rejected because of negative information in a background check. This gives the applicant an opportunity to clear up any mis-information. So, unless you want a lawsuit on your hands, you are advised to do a proper background check and follow the law.

Out of work two years, her unemployment benefits exhausted, in danger of losing her apartment, Casey applied for a job in the pharmacy of a Boston drugstore. She was offered $11 an hour. All she had to do was pass a background check.

It turned up a 14-count criminal indictment. Kathleen Casey had been charged with larceny in a scam against an elderly man and woman that involved forged checks and fake credit cards.

There was one technicality: The company that ran the background check, First Advantage, had the wrong woman. The rap sheet belonged to Kathleen A. Casey, who lived in another town nearby and was 18 years younger.

Kathleen Ann Casey, would-be pharmacy technician, was clean.

“It knocked my legs out from under me,” she says.

The business of background checks is booming. Employers spend at least $2 billion a year to look into the pasts of their prospective employees. They want to make sure they’re not hiring a thief, or worse.

But it is a system weakened by the conversion to digital files and compromised by the welter of private companies that profit by amassing public records and selling them to employers. These flaws have devastating consequences. Read the full article »

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Japanese Scientists Use GPS Trackers to Measure Radiation

By Dawn in gps tracker, MSI Detective Services, Technology at December 19th, 2011 | No comments

 

 

 

 

Scientist, researchers, law enforcement and many other creative people are finding new ways to utilize GPS technology. This story is one of many examples of the new uses being discovered for the use of GPS Tracking Devices.

Earlier this year, Japan experienced one of its most devastating natural disasters. An earthquake measuring at an astounding 9.0-magnitude occurred on March 11, 2011, just off the eastern coast of Tohoku near the city of Sendai. The thrust created by the earthquake on the ocean floor resulted in a major tsunami, which caused a tremendous amount of destruction along the northern Pacific coast.

The earthquake also triggered a radiation leak and subsequent meltdown that occurred at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. The Japanese government called for a mass evacuation of the entire area surrounding the plant.

Prime Minister Noda recently declared an end to the nuclear crisis in Fukushima. In a televised address, he said, “The reactors are stable, which should resolve one big cause of concern for us all.”

For many of the people of Fukushima, the crisis is far from over. More than 160,000 people remain displaced, and even as the government lifts evacuation orders for some communities, many are refusing to return home for fear of radiation. I would also be afraid to return as governments aren’t always honest with their citizens.

In order to help alleviate some of these fears, scientists in Japan have taken a novel approach to measuring the impact of radiation in a forest affected by the nuclear crisis by enlisting the help of the local wild monkeys that live in the forests surrounding the nuclear plant. Read the full article »

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