Sifting through decades-old files and harnessing the reach of social media, a little-known unit in the West Midlands has solved more than 240 missing person cold cases in just three and a half years.
Known as the West Midlands Police long-term complex team the five-person unit was created to find people who have slipped through the cracks – those whose disappearances were never resolved and whose names risked fading from public memory.
