It is then repeated the following Sunday at 11pm.
The series is shown on Sky Real Lives (channel 278 or in HD on channel 243) on Wednesdays between 12th Augusust and 10th September 2009. The shows also features reconstructions of the events leading up to the disappearance and information from witnesses about what they saw. Many of the cases were high profile and the programmes look deeper into the headlines to highlight what happens when a child goes missing. The series looks at missing children of all ages and their stories. Children account for around two thirds of those reported missing. There are those that have been missing for months or years and their families are desparate to know what has happened to them. Some of those children missing have disappeared on more than one occasion and thankfully the majority are found within 48 hours. In the UK it is estimated that there are over 100,000 instances of children going missing every year – one every five minutes. The child may be a suspected teenage runaway,Ī younger boy or girl feared abducted, or a minor who has just Mixing interviews with filmed reconstructions viewers will find out more about the children themselves, meet the parents who are still searching for them and examine the circumstances behind their disappearance. The series looks beyond the shocking statistics, revealing the human stories behind some of these cases. She also talks to the police, psychologists and charities who are trying to find out why and where these children have gone. Lorraine Kelly meets the families and friends of those who have gone missing and uses dramatic reconstructions to retrace their last known steps. Changemyface helped with their investigations to produce age progressions of how the children would look now, some of them as adults.īen Needham who has been missing since July 24th 1991 on the Greek Island of Kos.Īpril Fabb who has been missing since 8th April 1969 in Norfolk
Also, in terms of those who are wanted, it is important to show how they could look with different hairstyles, beards, with or without glasses etc.Ī new TV series investigating the issue of missing children featuring families of those is currently being shown on Sky Real Lives and is also repeated on Sky One. The FBI recently produced a number of updated images of America’s most wanted… age progression techniques can be used to try and gain new information in ongoing law enforcement enquiries. Here’s another high profile missing person…. It’s great to have success stories but unfortunately, an age progressed image is normally a last resort tactic to trying to find someone and therefore by the time you’re an age progression has been requested, the chances of that person being found are less likely. Here is the recovery photo compared to the age progressed image. You may be wondering if age progression images actually look like the person when they are found, well here is one of my first cases that I did at missing persons where the girl who had been abducted by her father to Pakistan was eventually found. Many aged images have been produced by different artists and it’s important to remember – it’s an artist using the computer to create the image, not the computer creating it, so it can sometimes be subjective and not always precise. In the case of missing boy Ben Needham who disappeared off the island of Kos, an updated image will inform people that they are no longer looking for a two year old blonde haired boy, but that now he would be 19, resembling his parents at that age and no doubt with darker hair. All these factors contribute to the ageing process and help the public to visualise how she could look now. The nose has lengthened and the nasal bridge is more defined.
They have stretched the lower part of her face, using pictures of her mum and dad at the same age as a guide. They will have made the iris smaller to give the illusion of being older…not quite so wide eyed and baby like. Here, they have kept the distinctive abnormality of the iris, any distinguishing mark such as a scar, a mole, a crooked nose all help to identify one person from another. I expect you’ve all seen this – In Madeleine McCann’s case her parents went to America to have the age progression done and this helped to maximize publicity – it was first aired on the Oprah Winfrey show.