Missing persons

Diver Jared Leisek finds the bodies of people who have been missing underwater for decades. His YouTube channel documents his searches while also telling their stories.

Frédéric Bourdin is a serial impostor. Beginning his impersonations as a child, he’s assumed around 500 false identities – three of them were missing teenagers.

We spoke to Jerry Nyman, the man who accidentally discovered the corpse of someone who had been missing for over 20 years whilst doing a Google Maps search.

Robert Sell leads teams of hackers in competitions to find missing people using open source data. He explains how these digital search and rescue operations work.

VICE News travels to Buffalo to see how the state is combatting the opioid crisis with the nation's first opiate intervention court.