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(This is the continuation of our story from last week’s post; please see previous post for earlier details)

When Jared’s father was back in Thailand, he resumed the search for his son. He approached a second private investigation agency, which this time, was us. He told us the complete story of how everything happened, and gave us every detail he could about his wife and what he knew about her.

Our search was very hard, as it is always one of the most difficult tasks for a private investigator to find missing people, especially people who are hiding out. Needless to say, we spent about 3-4 months in the investigation, and finally, we caught a break and located both the Jared and his mother.

Unfortunately, the mother’s drug habit had become more pronounced. She had taken the habit of leaving her child with her mother, who, despite an advanced aged and being a widow, was doing her best to take care of a healthy and active baby boy while worrying for her daughter’s safety. When we talked to her and explained the situation, she was relieved that we would be taking Jared to his father, as she understood that his father loved the boy and would take good care of him.

We then went to the father and explained the situation to him. While he was greatly saddened by the situation regarding his wife, his priority was the boy and getting him away from the bad influence of his mother.

Fortunately, we did not encounter his mother when the father went to pick Jared up, and while there was some confusion with the boy at first, he was able to recognize his father after a while. To try to describe the reunion of father and son would be to be a disservice to the whole moment, but suffice to say, it was one of the most heart-warming moments we have ever seen in our line of work.

Now, father and son have gone back to the dad’s home country, so as to avoid any more trouble with Jared’s mother in the future.

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With the holidays just around the corner, it’s really appropriate that this happened. It’s really a welcome break from the usual run of cases we get. As we’ve stated in previous posts of this nature, there are really very few instances in this life that we’ve seen such a profound moment like the reunion of two loved ones.

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Before we end then, I’d just like to briefly describe things Jared’s father could have done to prevent all this:

1. Have a background check on the wife. He should have had a background check done before committing to anything.

2. Hire a private investigator early in the game. If he had hired a PI, then he would have been better able to keep tabs on his wife, and probably would not have needed to undergo all those months of searching – a GPS receiver in the car would have given considerable amount of leads to investigators should the mother have tried to hide.