08 Apr ‘On Patrol: Live’ Leads to Recovery of 3 Missing Children

Reporter KC Baker of People Magazine recently reported on how the show On Patrol: Live has helped find missing children. You can read the full article here.

Per the People article, to date, 40 missing people—mostly children—have been found after being featured on REELZ’s popular series On Patrol: Live.

The show, which airs live every Friday and Saturday night from 9pm to 12am ET, features “Missing” segments with cases from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the Black and Missing Foundation (BAMFI). Host Dan Abrams and fellow team members ask viewers to call NMEC and BAMFI hotline numbers with any information on those feared or declared missing, Baker reported.

After the show, “OP Nation”—the show’s fans—gets to work.

“They watch the show and take pictures of the screen, share it on social media and then they start Googling other details they share on social media,” Angeline Hartmann, NCMEC’s Director of Communications, told People Magazine. “It just really goes farther than any other show that I’ve seen.”

According to Baker, on March 1, 7 and 22, On Patrol: Live aired “Missing” segments featuring the cases of Juliette Kapon, 16, and Colton and Cohen Desormeaux, ages 5 and 7. Kapon had gone missing from her New York City home on Nov. 19, 2024, and the Desormeaux boys disappeared from their Lake Charles, Louisiana, home on Nov. 18, 2024.

Sunday, March 30, People reported, all three of the children were returned safely to their families with the show’s help.

In his statement to People, the boys’ father Chase Desormeaux said, “I was holding on by a thread—mentally and emotionally—with all these months of not knowing if my boys were safe or if they were ok. It’s a heartache and worry that cannot be described. After the television show aired and NCMEC shared my story nationwide, everything changed with the investigation.”