We investigate it the same way each time. This time it may be different. Royal said juvenile cases differ from adult ones. With juveniles, one of the runaway's friends may know where they are and another may not. They won't go to class, but they'll be there.
Juveniles leave home for reasons ranging from peer pressure to abuse.
Sometimes, they will hide out with an adult or someone else's parent who won't give them up. Adults who run away are different, he said. It may be because they have gotten in so much debt. They've fallen out of love. Each missing persons detective gets two or three new cases each morning, about 20 a week, Royal said.