Two RBA members join forces on search for missing person

Local Investigator Teams up with SEO Expert to Find Resolution for Family

In January 1993, 24 year old Vernon Kent Jones - a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina, known as Cameron to his friends - disappeared at approximately 6 p.m. after a day of New Year’s Eve partying in an apartment in Manhattan’s Lower East side. Over the years, Vernon’s heartbroken family has tried to conduct their own investigations (after the police were unable to make any headway) without success. In November of 2008, one of Vernon’s younger brothers reached out to Robert Rahn, President and Director of Investigations with Management Resources Ltd. of New York, to see if he could make any progress using new investigative tools and technologies.

Rahn, who typically handles civil and criminal investigative projects from a range of corporate and private clients, took on this Cold Case pro bono.

“It’s very, very difficult to pick up a case like this, especially after a long period of time when many leads have moved around or passed away. I realized when I started working on SEO for my own website, that we could utilize Search and Social Media, as well as advances in DNA profiling, to reach more people and get Vernon’s story out there; hopefully helping his family get some resolution,” says Rahn who has established a page for Jones’ case on his own website at, www.managementresourcesny.com/vernon-kent-jones.htm. Rahn, his partner Kim Anklin and SEO specialist Kathy Fealy of KF Multimedia & Web, Inc. will be posting photos, videos and age progression art on YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, LinkedIn and in optimized press releases.

Speaking at Search Engine Strategies, San Jose, CA:
Search for the Greater Good:Using Search to Find Missing Persons

Rahn, Anklin and Fealy, along with Lisa Buyer of The Buyer Group, a FL interactive PR and branding agency assisting in the missing persons case of Floridian Tiffany Sessions, www.tiffanysessions.com, will be teaming up to present their respective work with viral and social networking spaces to the attendees and major Search Engine companies at an upcoming national Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose, CA, in August; as a national, organized portal for Missing Persons could help break many cases.

“There are many resources dedicated to missing children, but not so much support for teens and missing adults,” says Rahn. “Our hope is to change that scenario, to help families and law enforcement professionals solve thousands of “cold” and new cases with the proper use of search & social media tools like Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.