Mantrailer Deployment Saves a Life – a Case of Kurtz Investigations Düsseldorf

The missing son was due to sit his final exam at the Chamber of Commerce on Monday. But the prospect of it had driven him to despair, and so he disappeared on Sunday evening without saying goodbye. Only the letter remained, in which the slightly autistic young man expressed his fears regarding the forthcoming exam and the pressure he felt he could no longer cope with. He wanted to take his own life. According to his mother he had driven off in the family BMW. Unfortunately that model does not have a GPS module for tracking. The police were searching but currently saw little chance of success. As the only clue the family could give our Düsseldorf detectives were the use of two cash machines in Düsseldorf on Monday and on Wednesday – but that is already quite a lot, the investigators of Kurtz Investigations Düsseldorf thought. Keyword: Mantrailer.

 

The detectives explained the investigative principle to the family: using an odour carrier (for example worn socks, a pillowcase or even paper handled by the person) the scent-tracking dogs of our mantrailer specialist pick up the scent trace at the person’s last known location and follow it until they find the person sought. The method is now recognised as an investigative tactic in several federal states and is practised with striking success in particular in Berlin using private mantrailer specialists. Years of daily specialised training had made the three operational dogs of Kurtz Investigations Düsseldorf literal super-sniffers. Even bodies in metres-deep water, which had previously been transported for kilometres along rivers, can still be found by these mantrailers after months.

Despite the arguments put forward by our Düsseldorf private detectives, the family remained sceptical. Does that really work? With dogs? That sounds like a film. What if we drive the four hours to Düsseldorf especially, run around the city for several hours and in the end still do not find the boy? Then another day is lost! And the money! A mantrailer deployment is not cheap, that is true. €1,000–1,500 can easily be incurred per day. But you should not put a price tag on your own son’s life, the detectives of Kurtz Detective Agency Düsseldorf argued. One must also understand that mantrailer deployments are not everyday occurrences, whereas the dogs, on the other hand, require daily training. It is therefore a full-time job that is by no means paid for every day. Consequently the deployment costs must reflect this circumstance. The clients of Kurtz Investigations Düsseldorf accepted this, and so they hurried off to us in the Rhineland.

 

A few hours later the mantrailer handler of Kurtz Detective Agency Düsseldorf was already waiting at the agreed meeting point when the family arrived: it was the second cash machine at which the missing person had withdrawn money. As agreed beforehand the family brought a plastic bag containing the missing person’s personal items. A worn sock was finally used as the scent carrier and held under the nose of the first operational dog. After a short orientation the mantrailer picked up a trail and set off. On the way he repeatedly sniffed places on the pavement to follow the trail with precision. After half an hour’s walking the first operational dog ran out of steam and the second one took over.

 

A few minutes later the mantrailer led the investigators of Kurtz Investigations Düsseldorf together with the family into a hotel in Düsseldorf-Oberkassel. The hotel staff were understandably not thrilled when the pack strode into their lobby, but after a brief explanation of the situation they were helpful and a hotel employee accompanied the Düsseldorf detectives during the further tracking inside the hotel. At a door on the second floor the mantrailer signalled that the trail led into this room. The investigators knocked in the hope that the person sought would open. But there was no response from inside. After a few minutes the hotel employee used his electronic master key and let the detectives of Kurtz Detective Agency Düsseldorf in together with the family. On the bed, face buried in the pillow, lay the missing person!

The first impression was alarming. The room smelled of alcohol, the sheet was stained with blood, the posture of the missing person was unnatural, and he showed no reaction. The detectives from Düsseldorf checked the pulse and gave the all-clear – it was stable. The cause of the blood quickly became clear: apparently the young man had tried to cut his wrists but had chosen the “wrong” direction for the cut and thus had only lost a little blood. Clotting had already begun. With some effort the formerly missing person could be woken, but in his condition a proper conversation was not possible. Only the absolute astonishment at seeing his parents and the obvious joy at that were written on his face.

 

The next morning, after he had sobered up, the young man told the clients of Kurtz Investigations Düsseldorf how close it had been. For if they had not come, he would have met that “gentleman” who had promised to help him with his suicide. The detectives of Kurtz Detective Agency Düsseldorf were glad to have averted that scenario and hope that the young man will in future banish such thoughts from his mind.

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