IN FOCUS: Missing people in Singapore and their loved ones who haven't stopped searching

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When someone important goes missing, the goal is closure. But what happens when it has been decades with no answer in sight? CNA speaks to individuals who continue to hope, and a non-profit group that traces missing people.

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What remains unchanged in his search process, with or without social media, is that an official police report must be made to show that the police are aware about the missing person, Mr Tan added.

Since the “circuit breaker” period in 2020, cases have started to pick up. And 2021 is a “very busy” year too, with Crime Library receiving about 30 to 50 cases per month. “Yes, reunion means one part is happy, but the other part might not be good. They might think, ‘Hey I divorce already. Why he suddenly appear?’ So we have to make sure it’s a happy reunion. If it’s not going to be a happy reunion, we will not allow it.”

“A lot of those rape and murder cases are very sad cases, and normally, families don’t want to sensationalise the cases. One or two reports and that’s it, full stop. Which means people are not reminded not to let their child out of their sight.” In Crime Library’s heyday, it was involved in the Huang Na murder case that gripped the nation in 2004.

“I thought the NPP system was very good because you get to visit everyone. It’s like a kampung head. You get to know everybody. You do house visits,” he said. His sister, Goh Beng Choo, was eight when her dead body was found in a bush behind a Chinese temple near her house off Jurong Road. The culprit has not been caught.“The case is still an open case. All along I was trying to find out how to open up this case, because my parents are already very old. And I wanted to put a closure ,” he said.

“We did have a very special feeling among our siblings, where we dream of incidents about this case. We feel that the hope is still there and the killer is still alive,” he added.LOCKED IN LIMBO Counsellors can help the individual “understand what the particular situation means to them with the intention to discover hope”, she added.

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