Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A missing person is a person who has disappeared, and whose status as alive or dead cannot be made official as their location and fate is unknown. Laws related to missing individuals are often complex, since in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a person's assets until their death is considered proven by law. Some reasons for a person to be missing may be due to their own decision, accident, crime, or death in a location that they cannot be found - such as at sea...