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Never Quit Looking is a global initiative dedicated to solving cases of missing persons, unsolved homicides, and unidentified remains. Our mission is to bridge the gaps in international law enforcement and investigation practices by providing a comprehensive, highly filterable, and standardized platform for sharing critical information about each case.

Our Concerns

Globalization has brought significant benefits, including faster communication, improved political cooperation, and widespread access to advanced technologies. Advancements that should enhance responses to missing persons, unidentified remains, and unsolved homicides.

Unfortunately, globalization has also created new challenges for law enforcement. The increased movement of people, goods, and data complicates investigations. Accessible transportation, expanding black markets, and open borders have made it easier for victims, criminals, witnesses, and evidence to move across international borders, leaving few traces for authorities to follow.

Vulnerable individuals, such as tourists, migrant workers, refugees, and those from regions affected by socio-economic instability, are at higher risk of exploitation and disappearance. High population density, increased crime rates, civil unrest, and large transient populations further increase this vulnerability.

In today’s interconnected world, missing persons or unresolved cases are more likely than ever to have a national or even international dimension. Yet, these cases are typically handled at the local level, creating significant barriers to resolution. Information is usually shared only in local languages with no consideration for later translatability, limiting its reach. The majority of databases focus on specific age groups or geographic regions. Databases that are global tend to emphasize cases from developed nations (EU, Canada, America). Many are not comprehensive, emphasizing only those cases with a known international element. People outside the immediate area may have valuable information but never hear about the case or would not know who to contact if they did want to contribute. It tends to be a decentralized and out-of-date approach with little consideration for the modern reality.

The lack of standardization in reporting cases exacerbates these issues. In many developing or war-torn countries, information is scarce or only published in local newspapers with no central database. Inconsistent data collection and sharing complicate translation and cross-referencing, hindering efforts to connect cases or identify patterns across borders. This fragmented system ultimately impedes the search for missing persons and delays closure for their families.

Our Global Vision

At “Never Quit Looking“, we are committed to bridging the gap in a globalized world, where the interconnectedness of people, places, and data offers as many challenges as it does opportunities.

Our vision is to create a comprehensive, standardized, and translatable global database that ensures vital information about missing persons, unsolved homicides, and unidentified remains reaches the right people—whether law enforcement agencies, the public, or concerned communities—anywhere in the world. By leveraging modern technologies, we aim to enhance cooperation across borders, promote a more unified approach to investigations, and foster a culture of shared responsibility.

Through detailed, highly filterable data that is easy to understand, share, and translate, we will connect the dots across regions, cultures, and languages. Our platform will empower individuals and agencies alike, ensuring that cases—no matter how complex—are pursued with diligence, precision, and a sense of urgency.

Our Mission & Impact

Never Quit Looking‘s mission is to provide an integrated, comprehensive, and standardized global database that empowers law enforcement, families, government agencies, and organizations worldwide to share, investigate, and resolve cases that transcend borders.

The ultimate purpose of “Never Quit Looking” is to provide a standardized, comprehensive, searchable platform for families, law enforcement, government agencies, and NGOs to research and share cases that remain unresolved domestically for 6 months or more to a global audience.

The Five Pillars:

  1. Comprehensiveness ➜ We are slowly covering dozens of databases across multiple countries, newspaper articles, and any other primary sources accessible. This information is gathered from both English and non-English sources. We carefully integrate the information gathered into a single offering that is both in-depth and exhaustive. Everything from basic demographics (height, weight, hair color, etc.) to vehicle descriptions, age progressed photos, and references to affiliated cases are included.
  2. Linguistic Simplicity ➜ We used our own experience as international expats (7+ years) and as ESL educators to design the case files around simple terms and phrases to improve the form’s translatability across all major languages. As a result, we have seen a significant inflow of visitors from Non-English speaking countries.
  3. Standardization ➜ We provide the international arena with a single platform that can be utilized by persons and agencies in any country. With our integrated and easily translatable in-take form and database, Never Quit Looking offers law enforcement and governmental agencies a way to standardize the process of gathering and sharing information across borders.
  4. Filterability ➜ We provide a substantial filtering system with 25+ options for sorting and narrowing down results within the database. This allows investigators and researchers the opportunity to identify global trends, to facilitate matching missing persons and unidentified remains, and locate related cases appearing across borders.
  5. Global Emphases ➜ We accept cases from all countries and in any of the languages recognized by GTranslate. The intake form is structured to ensure that the information can be easily translated into English for inclusion in the database. Once added, the database is designed to facilitate translation into any other language. Each case includes contact details for the relevant national office or agency, enabling individuals from outside the local area to share tips and information.

Case files are predominantly compiled from government websites, national databases, personal websites dedicated to missing persons, and social media.

Impact:

  1. Compiles data about cases from around the world into a single location for use internationally or where the case might involve multiple countries.
  2. Provides an easily searched, easily translated, easily accessed database that can be readily used by persons regardless of language or nationality.
  3. Establishes a detailed, well-researched, and frequently updated database for increased reliability.
  4. Offers extensive filters for easy case identification where limited information about a case is known.
  5. Identifies cross-border trends and patterns.
  6. Facilitates the identification and comparison of relevant, global missing persons cases with unidentified remains.
  7. Increases exposure of unresolved cases to a diversified, international audience.

Other Services:

In addition to offering the “Never Quit Looking” database, we provide families and authorities with a clean, easy to share poster with the relevant details in English and in the native language.

At this time, we are developing a series of pre-translated forms for submitting a missing persons case.

We also serve as consultants and speakers at public events. We are interested in speaking to your audience (online or in person). Email Us or use our Contact Form.

Value Statement

We believe strongly in protecting the rights on the innocent and bringing justice to the victims. To that extent, our work is guided for five core values:

  • Privacy: We believe that every person has the right to privacy and the protection of their information where possible. This includes our users, the victims, and persons involved in a case.
    • We also believe that all people are innocent until proven guilty, especially when those speculating are not directly involved with the situation. We do not and will not encourage accusing or doxing persons not formally identified by police as eyewitnesses or suspects. The rights of the victims of crime are significant, but so too are the rights of the victims of the justice systems.
    • With regards to our users privacy, feel free to review our privacy policy.
    • For the victims, we have policies in place to assist those who wish their cases to be removed; to eliminate the publication of information regarding children where cases are resolved or where the information is not public information; and to minimize sharing cases where there is suspicion the victim is purposefully in hiding.
  • Objectivity: We make every effort to eliminate bias or supposition in our case analyses. We establish the facts as they have been established and attempt to provide an in-depth summary of all known information. However, we avoid conjecture regarding events or persons not established as a fact or supported with sourced materials.
  • Reliability: Our articles and case files are all sourced by professional primary or secondary materials. Our core sources are law enforcement; governmental; and reputable charities, NGOs, and alternative databases. We also supplement our information with journal articles and newspaper articles. Where information is questionable or sources conflict, those instances are noted and sources provided. All of our articles are sourced and offer reference lists at the end of the article. We make every effort to ensure cases are updated and closed stories are removed. We also maintain a list of closed files for users to compare against images or articles that may be shared online to identify if that case remains open. With this said, we do our best but are depending on information provided by 2nd or 3rd parties – consequently this database is intended for general information purposes only and is not to be relied upon for official purposes. Please contact the officials involved for formal requests.
  • Fairness: Cases are processed in the order in which they are received or at random as we come across them in our own research. Cases are selected regardless of particular features of the case or personal characteristics of the victim. We attempt to cover a variety of countries, establishing a diverse database.
  • Honor & Respect: We make every effort to demonstrate honor and respect for both the victim and their family. To that extent we avoid graphic or inappropriate imagery and provide warnings where information may be distressing. We seek only to preserve the memory of the victim and to share their story while simultaneously facilitating the search for justice in their case.
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