Transcript
A (0:00)
Hey everybody. Welcome to Crimly Obsessed. I'm Ann Emerson. A father is pushing for change in the way we search for missing persons. When every single second counts, we're seeing the search for Nancy Guthrie unfold. And we know there are so many missing persons cases in the United States. In fact, as many as 600,000 are reported annually according to the National Missing and Unidentified Person System, or namus. So what do we do? According to David Robinson, laws need to change now. Right now, he's the father of Daniel Robinson, a 23 year old geologist who went missing in the desert of Buckeye, Arizona back in 2021. Let's get into it. David, it is so good to have you on the show. Thank you so much for joining us.
B (0:54)
Thank you so much for having me.
A (0:55)
David, your search for your son has led you to really helping other families and pushing for big changes. And do you believe this will bring more missing persons home? The work you're doing right now?
B (1:10)
Yes. You know, every area, anything that we can do collectively, When I say collectively, everyone has a part, plays a part. And finding out missing loved ones and what I'm trying to do here is another part of that to increase the opportunities for families and the awareness of what's happening in our country.
A (1:29)
Yeah. And David, tell me, let's start with today, what you're working on right now. Tell us about the Help Find Missing Americans act or the Daniel Robinson Law. Right, yeah.
B (1:40)
This legislation, I wrote this legislation when I was in Arizona searching for Daniel, speaking with a lot of families who have missing loved ones, the pain that they're going through, what we're going through as a family, you know, trying to find solutions to. One of the problems that we still, that's still remaining in my son's case is getting a cell phone ping data. And also we already know that things like that is crucial when it's done really quickly. And some of the hindrances when it comes to law enforcement as well as families and getting that data is the issue. If it's not a criminal case, for instance, law enforcement's hands are tied a lot of times for a judge to give a warrant. And also we have telecommunication companies that have their privacy policies to other policies and retention times that allow us not to use technology that's available here in 2026 between time of searching for Daniel, try to learn how to write legislation, how to write a bill. And I was able to accomplish that, write a bill for the US for our federal government. And so that's what the birth of Daniel Robinson Law.
