Success Stories
A bit of what we've done
Delta International has specialized in recovering parent-abducted children for over 30 years. We truly understand the kind of emotional upheaval that the children and the custodial parents endure when a child is kidnapped. The psychological trauma of these kinds of cases is very real, and that’s why one of the basic tenets of the way we do business is confidentiality and respect for what you’re going through.
Sure, we could use the media attention to grow our business. But, camera crews and photo shots don’t help the situation when recovering a child from an abduction ordeal. Our clients know we take their privacy seriously. And that’s why, even though we've recovered a number of high profile children, we won't divulge who they were or provide details of any specific case.
If you’re looking for some illustrative examples of our depth of experience, we offer these narratives from our years of accomplishments, without giving away identifying details about who was involved:
- A custodial father contacted Delta International after private investigators had failed to find his children. An underground organization based in Atlanta, GA had aided the children's non-custodial mother in transporting the mother and children to various “safe-houses” throughout the U.S. and eventually to Europe. When we came onboard, the underground had moved the woman and children to Belgium, where they stayed for several months, and then to Switzerland. Investigating airline records, credit card activity, car rentals and railroad routes, Delta International agents located the mother and children, contacted Swiss police who arrested the woman on a warrant issued by Interpol, and successfully returned the children to their father.
Keep this in mind. The underground network available to assist non-custodial parents who are on the run is extensive. Don’t sit back while your children are shuttled around like fugitives, for months or years.
- After winning custody of her two daughters, a New York woman arrived at her children’s daycare center to find that her ex-husband had taken the girls and disappeared. The father ferried the girls around, crisscrossing the U.S. in a camper. Working with various law enforcement agencies in multiple states, Delta specialists generated the kind of ongoing vital support necessary to keep the case active and moving forward. Delta’s experience in the field was crucial in developing a chain of viable tips that finally led us right to the camper. The father was arrested and the children were recovered.
Whether working with local authorities or using proprietary sources to track and find your children, Delta International is your advocate in the field and has the personnel to successfully work your case from coast to coast or internationally.
When a California couple divorced, the father was awarded sole custody of their son. The same day, the mother kidnapped the child and fled to Arizona. With her family’s assistance, she contacted an underground kidnappers’ organization that helped her keep the child on the move around Mexico and South America. The mother let the boy’s hair grow out, colored it, and cut it in a girl’s pageboy style. She gave him a female name and for two years she made him dress in girl’s clothing. When Delta International was contracted, our agents decisively turned every contingency into an advantage. After installing a tracking device on the abductor’s car, which she had stored at her sister’s home in Phoenix, we began to painstakingly draw the woman from deep underground. When the car moved a year later, we immediately intercepted it and contacted authorities, affecting an arrest of the woman and recovering the child. The traumatized boy was reunited with his custodial father who secured counseling for his son.
Time is of the essence. Parentally abducted children are helpless on their own and confused by the irrational and sometimes abusive acts of non-custodial parents who are supposed to have their best interests in mind. Delta International has the manpower and the know-how to rigorously cover all avenues, and bring your child home.
- An Ohio man returned home from work to find that his foreign-born wife had left their home and returned to her native Argentina with their American-born son. He traveled to Argentina to try to convince her to return, but she refused. Back in Ohio, he worked with his attorney and filed to get sole custody of the child, which was granted. His wife still refused to let the boy return home. The man’s attorney had a contempt of court warrant issued against the woman for failure to comply with the Ohio order. The warrant was put on the NCIC computer, and the U.S. embassy in Buenos Aires sent out a staff member to meet with the woman. She promptly moved. The father went back to his lawyer who contacted an attorney in Buenos Aires who proceeded to file a Hague action. The Court determined the child should be returned to the U.S. but their police could not locate the woman or child. Nothing more was done by the foreign government and invoking the Hague had done no good. The father contacted Delta International. We located and staked-out the woman’s residence waiting for the opportune time to recover the child, and put the boy on a plane with his father home to Ohio.
“Many countries allow their courts to make custody decisions concerning the child, irrespective of custody orders made in this country. These custody decisions may be based on gender or nationality rather than the child’s best interests,often to the detriment of the child and the American parent.”
—U.S. Justice Dept.
Getting the right legal support is important, but it’s to your ultimate advantage to get immediate help from professionals experienced in parentally abducted child recovery. The agents of Delta International can not only offer valuable advise, we can do what your lawyers won’t do – like leave the office to look through trash cans and follow cars. Local police, and charitable organizations don’t have the people in the field to do the legwork needed on your behalf. While the Hague is an extremely well intentioned agreement, in better than 90% of the cases it is unable to successfully bring the kids home. The Hague can actually damage your case. Call Delta and ask us how.
- In Arkansas, a mother with sole custody called Delta International after returning home to find that her son was missing. The estranged father had broken into the home through the sliding glass doors, taken the child, and gone to an underground organization based in San Jose, CA that helps fathers abduct their children. The organization helped hide him, but we tracked him through receipts and cell phone use to a city in Florida. We contacted every school in the city to learn if any new children had shown up. The father had changed the child's hair color, but after only three visits to schools, we were able to recover the boy after school. When the father called the police to report an abduction, police arrested him.
Delta International is able to avail itself of computer and non-computer data repositories, to dispatch field agents who carefully develop and follow through on all leads, and to work in tandem with local authorities to successfully bring your child home.