How a TV Present Led to the Restoration of a Lacking Teenage Lady and a pair of Younger Boys — on the Identical Day

• Three kids who had been featured on Reelz’ On Patrol: Reside had been returned to their households on the identical day
• The present companions with the Nationwide Middle for Lacking and Exploited Kids (NCMEC) and the Black and Lacking Basis (BAMFI) to characteristic lacking children
• So far, 40 lacking folks, principally kids, have been discovered because of the present

Jesse Kapon was beside himself with fear when his daughter, Juliette Kapon, 16, went lacking from their New York Metropolis dwelling on Nov. 19, 2024.

Equally scared was Chase Desormeaux, whose younger sons, Colton and Cohen Desormeaux, ages 5 and seven, disappeared on Nov. 18, 2024, from their Lake Charles, La., dwelling.

Each fathers reported their kids lacking to legislation enforcement – after which to the Nationwide Middle for Lacking & Exploited Kids (NCMEC).

The seek for the kids dragged on for months, with few leads, till not too long ago.

On March 1, 7 and 22, REELZ’s documentary collection On Patrol: Reside aired “Lacking” segments that includes the three kids’s instances. 

On Sunday March 30, all three had been safely returned to their households with the present’s assist.

In an unique assertion to PEOPLE, Jesse Kapon says, “My Juliette is dwelling secure and it is all due to NCMEC and the tv present, On Patrol: Reside. By way of them, she heard my voice! I can by no means thank them sufficient for making this occur.”

In his assertion to PEOPLE, Chase Desormeaux admits,  “I used to be holding on by a thread – mentally and emotionally – with all these months of not figuring out if my boys had been secure or in the event that they had been okay. It’s a heartache and fear that can not be described. After the tv present aired and NCMEC shared my story nationwide, every thing modified with the investigation.”

Airing each Friday and Saturday evening from 9 pm to 12 am ET,  On Patrol Reside options “Lacking” segments with instances from NCMEC and the Black and Lacking Basis (BAMFI). 

Throughout these segments, host Dan Abrams and others ask viewers to name particular NCMEC and BAMFI hotline numbers if they’ve any info on the lacking kids or adults featured that evening.

“That is the primary time that two lacking instances (three kids) featured again to again on the identical TV present have been present in the identical 24 hour interval,” says Angeline Hartmann, NCMEC’s Director of Communications.

Usually police have few or no leads with lacking individuals instances, says Hartmann.

In Juliette’s case, on Nov. 19, she went to high school, like regular,” after which disappeared, says Hartmann. “When her father begins to dig, he finds footage of her leaving college, which we confirmed in our On Patrol: Reside section.”

After the section airs, then the present’s legions of followers, “OP Nation,” takes over, says Hartmann. “They watch the present and take footage of the display screen, share it on social media after which they begin Googling different particulars they share on social media. It simply actually goes farther than some other present that I’ve seen.”

The present will get outcomes. So far, 40 folks, principally kids, have been recovered after being featured on the present. 

When Juliette was reunited along with her father, “she tells dad that she noticed herself on On Patrol: Reside – and got here dwelling,” says Hartmann.

Lacking segments will be discovered on Twitter (@OfficialOPLive), Instagram (@officialoplive) and Fb (https://www.fb.com/ReelzOfficialOPLive/).