Missing Persons | Missing Property | Child Recovery and Mantrailing Leipzig

Kurtz Detective Agency Leipzig conducts investigations in cases of missing persons: runaway children, missing heirs (heir tracing), or long-lost relatives. The more information you can provide, the higher our chances of success.

 

The same applies to missing property. These cases usually involve theft or burglary. Through various forensic tracing methods, our Leipzig detectives are often able to reconstruct the course of events, track down the perpetrator, and recover the missing property.

Mantrailing as a Forensic Investigation Method

One of the oldest methods in forensic search work is the use of tracking dogs — even Sherlock Holmes relied on his mixed-breed companion, Toby.

 

Over the past decades, the use of dogs in forensic investigations had fallen somewhat out of fashion, being mostly limited to rescue operations. However, mantrailing, the search for persons using scent-tracking dogs, has opened up new and sometimes spectacular possibilities for modern criminology.

 

Mantrailing dogs can detect the unique scent molecules that every human emits and follow the trail over long distances and extended periods of time — a field known as odorology.

 

The abilities of mantrailing dogs vary significantly depending on breed and training. There are documented cases where such dogs successfully followed scent trails even after several years — across highways and even through rivers. Official police estimates are more conservative, often citing limits of a few days to three weeks.

 

Nevertheless, mantrailing has proven so effective that it is now used by several state police departments in Germany and can serve as strong circumstantial evidence in court.

 

Kurtz Detective Agency Leipzig collaborates with professional mantrailing teams at multiple locations across Germany. If you’ve reached a dead end in your search, call us — and make use of the remarkable capabilities of these four-legged detectives.

 

A very insightful article on mantrailing (in German) by Mario Seydel can be found in the anniversary publication of the German Society for Criminology or in a shortened version on www.kriminalistik.info.