The disappearance of a friend

I got this e-mail this morning:

Mr. Frank, I just found out yesterday night that one of my best friends has been missing since Thursday afternoon. He had just moved 2 weeks ago to Los Angeles, California with his girlfriend, they didn’t know anyone at all who live there. On Thursday he told his girlfriend he was gona take a walk to the mall and never came back. He did not take a car and had little to no money with him, they are broke. His best friend from another town has no clue either. His g/f never filed a missing persons report and turned off his cell because someone was using it...which I thought was a dumb move. I live an hour away from LA can I still file a missing persons report? Would I have to drive up there? And I don’t know where the police station is or anything....any advice? I am getting extremely worried, he would have called me for sure, and we have been best friends for 4 years now.

My Reply:

Missing persons is what I do for living, so I have a little bit of experience on this. Based on some of the particulars you stated, i.e. Walking to the mall, never came back, left his car, someone was using his cell phone, didn't cancel prior arrangements etc. etc., this is a serious case that would be taken seriously by the police. The general rule is that the jurisdiction lies with the last place he/she was known to be so it would prudent to call the LAPD. You never mentioned how old your friend and why you making the report? And you stated” I just found out yesterday night that one of my best friends has been missing”
Found out from who?? And where is the family of this person in this picture? did anyone's contact the family? just a comment they are in LA and they are broke .....wow best place to start a new life!

My experience also gives me a red flag on the girlfriend not calling this in herself, yet took the time to cancel the phone... which I agree, is a bad move. It could be nothing, it could be something.

I would ask about any drug history. It’s not uncommon for a drug user to disappear, trade personal items for drugs etc. etc. I would also ask about any suicidal tendencies. Check recent computer history for clues.

In any event, a report needs to be made through the LAPD Missing Persons Bureau so he gets put into NCIC in the event he has police contact, it would come up.

Frank Crescentini
Private Investigator
California State License PI 18368
Missing Persons, Cold Cases Specialist

The Most Menace Scams on Facebook

1. Guess who viewed your profile — A false claim that an app, often called “Who Views,” will show you who’s viewed your Facebook profile, but it actually installs a spying and spamming virus on your PC.

2. Explicit photos or videos of friends — Victims who click on supplied links are told they need to update their Adobe Flash viewer but they actually install malware.

3. Ads for fake products and services — Bitdefender identified 50,000 questionable domains supposedly selling pharmaceuticals and dating services. A third of the sites were also bogus replicas of genuine pages, used for phony sales or phishing for personal info.

4. Morbid images — a faked video supposedly of a woman being beaten to death is being used to attract victims to gruesome sites that either charge fees or install malware. Another recent fake video claims to show a woman being killed by her husband.
Sadly, Bitdefender predicts big growth in this category as a means of grabbing attention for all sorts of dubious marketing purposes, notably because of children’s increased tolerance of violent images.

Why do people feel they have the right to riot and loot?

Well it’s the time for me to look into this catastrophic issue and for me to do so I must bring an example like why blacks fell that way? Because White liberals have been telling them for decades that America is a racist nation with all its institutions being racist and that Blacks are all victims of discrimination. When liberals say that America is a racist nation, they mean that most White people are racist so every non-White person should hate Whites. Now the liberal MSM is telling Blacks that police officers commonly single out Blacks for abuse and murder because they just like doing it. Very bad interpretation my friends, The Constitution guarantees the right to peacefully assemble (IE Protest) not to riot and loot. It's just flat out stupidity that these people are destroying their own city. There was a black police officer (Capt. Ron Johnson) who said the same thing in Ferguson, which the rioters were destroying people's businesses, businesses that many people invested their life savings into and now will be left homeless. You're over-generalizing with this question. But SOME black people feel they almost have a duty to riot, when it looks as if the majority society is allowing white police officers to gun them down without justification.

As Bob Dylan wrote once, "When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to lose." I'm not saying its right, but when it looks to some black people as if black lives don't matter, as if their kids, their friends and/or their brothers may be shot and killed for no compelling reason, they seem to think they have "nothing to lose." And the rioting occurs.

The same for black kids who, for one reason or another, whether it's through society's fault or the bad actions of their parents, grow up without believing they have any chance at a decent economic future. When people feel hopeless and helpless this way, riots and looting are likely to follow.

And it's not only black Americans who have done this, historically speaking. Go look up some of the social history of early Irish immigrants to the US, or go look up the social history of the white working class in London before the reform bill of 1867 gave them the vote, and you'll sometimes see the same thing including Italians that in all reality to get respect we must tank you a # 1 public enemy Alfonso Capone AKA Al Capone, but this is another story that we will talk next time. In conclusion I have only one comment if Stephanie Rawlings-Blake (a black female) and a city's mayor obviously a Democrat, was complicit in what happened. In a press conference she said that she ordered cops to allow "those who wished to destroy space to do that." WTF??

I love your comments over this

Thank you,
Frank C.   



Lanfranco Crescentini
Private Investigator
California PI License # PI. 18368

I Think I’m Being Followed

 Have you ever looked in your rearview mirror and thought you were being followed? If so, your first instinct was probably to get home as quickly as possible. AS you gripped the steering wheel tighter and pressed down on the accelerator pedal, you began to panic. Thoughts of being car jacked, robbed or assaulted and possibly become the next rape victim raced thru your mind. As you turned into your subdivision, your vision was clouded by beads of sweat. Only when you pulled into your driveway, did a sense of relief come over you. To avoid victimization, you need to have a game plan in place before finding yourself in a threatening situation and that gut feeling should not be taken lightly. Good advice, especially when you think you’re being followed.

The new devil technique

Another case of a wealthy young man raised in a California 2.5 million home in San Juan Capistrano and then he snaps and shot his parents while they slept? Bear a resemblance to the Menendez case? And there is more into the case, but let me go in a chronologic order:

• Ashton Sachs is charged with murdering his parents, Brad and Andra, then shooting his younger brother Landon, 8, leaving the young boy paralyzed
• He spent the weeks after the incident crying and outraged over the incident, saying he could not believe someone would kill his parents
• The teenager from San Diego, California also sat by his brother's bedside every day, and the night of the incident tried to shoot dead his sister as well
• 'He would cry and say, "Landon is 8 years old and he doesn’t have a dad,"' said Sarah Verbeek, a former girlfriend
• When asked by police what his motive was, he said, 'I don't have a reason why. Just a lot of problems'

This is a very sad case but I think we have some uncontrollable forces for sure evil forces that snap into those young minds. This is scary can also happened to you now!   

Lanfranco Crescentini
Private Investigator
California PI License # PI. 18368

What we really know about of La LIorana?

I was asked to look into a case from a dear friend for his friend, a missing child, but what puzzled me is the family think that La LIorana took their son and I have a dilemma with this, my job is based on evidences and not on Urban Legends or fiction? And what we really know about of La LIorana? Now let me give you a basic story about this special character, Maria (La Llorona) is a beautiful woman married or the mistress of a rich and handsome man. She has three (sometimes two) children from her husband or a previous relationship. Then, Maria's beloved starts to work out of town. Then she is either deceived or left by her lover or she feels her children have become an obstacle to their union so she takes them to the river and drowns them. When she realizes what she has done, she starts to cry for her children and kills herself. The next morning, a traveler brought word to the villagers that a beautiful woman lay dead on the bank of the river. That is where they found Maria, and they laid her to rest where she had fallen. But the first night Maria was in the grave, the villagers heard the sound of crying down by the river. It was not the wind, it was La Llorona crying. "Where are my children?" And they saw a woman walking up and down the bank of the river, dressed in a long white robe, the way they had dressed Maria for burial. On many a dark night they saw her walk the river bank and cry for her children. And so they no longer spoke of her as Maria. They called her La Llorona, the weeping woman. And by that name she is known to this day. Children are warned not to go out in the dark, for, La Llorona might snatch them and never return them. 

It is also said that when Maria reached the gates of heaven, the Lord asks her "Where are your children?" Maria answers "I don't know, my Lord." The Lord then says "You shall not enter these gates without your children." From that point on, Maria is doomed to roam the Earth in search of her children in the rivers and streams of the Americas. Now we have La LIorona in different parts of the world like: Guatemala, United States, Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador, Panama, Chile, Venezuela, Well I did my homework and my conclusion are that if it hasn't been disprove beyond reasonable doubt then there is always the potential for existence well I’m not sure 

I don’t believe till I see but I know a couple of people who have seen her. So real or a legend??? I love your comments It will help me to make a decision if I will take that case or not!! 

Lanfranco Crescentini

Private Investigator

California PI License # PI. 18368

Human traffic / Child Prostitution

As shocking story of the 16 years old “baby” forced by her mother to prostitute herself in Italy it is not unique and I read the diary of this Italian girl describing her first “appointment” with a 67 year old man and one sentence on the diary that got to me very deep when she describe “the man on top of her and her looking over the car window and thinking it will end soon” I was involved in a conference call with other investigators in 3 different continents in reference to “Child Sex Slavering” and also with advocates for girls and young women who are forced into prostitution by people who approach them in various ways, including on the Internet, claim that thousands of American youths are victims of human traffickers, child prostitution and slavering
Like the Italian girl many are treated by law enforcement authorities as runaways, said Marc Klaas, who founded the advocacy group Klaas Kids after his own 12-year-old daughter was abducted, raped and killed. When they are forced into prostitution, the young people are the ones who are prosecuted.
It turns upside down, when I read those tragic story, but what happens is when they’re trafficked, they’re turned into hookers; they’re turned into prostitutes. So we find this situation where we find these young victims, these young girls that all of a sudden are being treated and looked upon as criminals.”
At least in that regard, the Italian girl was fortunate when she was taken by the authority’s and place her in a protected custody and the mother sentenced to 18 years in prison. She’s gone public to warn other girls in Italy about how easy it is to be kidnapped and trafficked. In another sad note the authorities in Italy rescued the cell phone that the mother was using to book the appointment for the little girl, apparently they (the Police) traced all the number of the “client’s” but the shocking news they will NOT be prosecuted!!

Lanfranco Crescentini 
Private Investigator 
California PI License # PI. 18368 
A Professional California Private Investigation and Consulting Firm 
Missing Persons Expert 
Member of Women Against Abuse 
Member of National Center for Missing & Exploited Children