Missing Persons | Stolen Property (Theft) | Child Recovery

Kurtz Detective Agency Berlin investigates cases of missing persons: runaway children, missing heirs (heir tracing), and relatives who have lost contact. The more information you can provide, the higher our chances of success.

 

The same applies to missing property. In most cases this involves theft or burglary. By using various methods of criminal forensics, our Berlin detectives are often able to reconstruct sequences of events, follow the perpetrator’s trail and secure the missing property.

 

A long-established method in forensic tracking is the use of tracking dogs. Even Sherlock Holmes relied on the services of his mongrel Toby. Sherlock Holmes

Mantrailers (Human Scent-Detection Dogs) of the LKA Berlin

As a forensic tracking tool, scent dogs had somewhat fallen out of fashion in recent decades, their use tending to be limited to rescue operations. However, so-called mantrailing — searching for a person with human scent-detection dogs — has opened up new, sometimes spectacular possibilities in criminalistics.

 

Mantrailer dogs are capable of detecting the scent molecules that every person emits individually on scent carriers and of following the scent trail over enormous distances and time periods (odorology).

 

The abilities of mantrailers vary considerably depending on breed and training. There are reports of mantrailers that could reliably follow trails even after years — across motorways and even through rivers. Police estimates of capability are, however, much more conservative: they often speak of a maximum of three weeks, sometimes only a few days.

 

Nevertheless, mantrailing has proved itself so effectively that some state police directorates now use it and courts may regard it as strong corroborating evidence. The mantrailer dogs we deploy are the same ones whose capabilities are regularly used by the LKA Berlin for missing-person searches.

 

Kurtz Detective Agency Berlin works nationwide with a small number of selected mantrailers at various locations. If you have reached a dead end, call us and make use of the invaluable instrument of the canine nose: +49 30 5557 8641-0.

 

A very interesting contribution by Mario Seydel on the subject of mantrailing can be found in the commemorative volume for the 10th anniversary of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kriminalistik or in an abridged form at kriminalistik.info.