The Santa Rosa Police Department (SRPD) has taken to social media in a novel approach to solving cold cases of missing adults. Since January 2024, the department has been reviving interest and generating new leads through their successful Missing Person Monday campaign. The initiative, which presents various unresolved disappearances to the public eye via platforms like Facebook, has found some tangible success, according to a recent social media post by the Santa Rosa Police.
In the weeks following the commencement of this campaign, notoriety touched one individual who had vanished, bringing them back into the community’s fold. “Almost immediately, our agency was able to locate one individual,” SRPD shared on their social media page. The effort continued to bear fruit, with five missing adults located by the close of the inaugural campaign, including one individual who had been missing since 2005…