AIRED: May 9, 2011– 11 am PST
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TITLE: “Parental Abduction”
SPECIAL GUESTS: Logan Clarke, Award-Winning Investigator and President of Logan Clarke International Investigations & Keith Schafferius, International Private Investigator located in Australia and Author of “Retrieval”
Retrieval, the Book
www.loganclarke.com
Keith Schafferius and Logan Clarke joins Allen and Melody to discuss the drama of finding and reuniting abducted children with their custodial parent. Over the last three decades they have slipped in to countries like Poland, Yemen and the Phillipines to retrieve children for a deeply-anxious mother or father.
Keith’s book “Retrieval” describes his remarkable, at times heart-rending, story – of his background as an air force man and ASIO spy, and of the incredible and often unbelievable retrieval missions that have taken him to all parts of the world, in his bid to reunite families torn apart by parental child abduction.
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RETRIEVAL by Keith Schafferius
Clandestine meetings with CIA contacts, forged passports, the threat of being thrown in jail – all are part of a day’s work for the Australian private investigator who has reunited over 100 abducted children with the desperate parent left behind.
Australia has the highest per capita rate of parental child abductions in the world, with about 150 Australian children abducted each year, according to official figures.
Over the years Keith has built up a vast array of contacts, paid thousands of dollars in bribes to officials, been on international wanted lists and found himself in many scary situations, including being shot at and pursued by police.
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LOGAN CLARK
Logan Clarke has been featured on USA Network’s Entertainment Tonight, Hard Copy, Maury Povich, the cover of the Los Angeles Times Calendar section, TV Guide, Larry King, Rick Dees, and was the cover story of American Way Magazine (American Airlines) and PI Magazine, as well as countless articles in European and American newspapers and other magazines. Channel Four Television in Britain produced a one-hour documentary on Mr. Clarke and C.I.I.’s work. Canadian City TV did a short documentary on Mr. Clarke for their “movie/tv” syndicated worldwide show. An entire chapter was devoted to him in Watching the Detectives, a definitive history of private investigation by British author Graham Nown. A film on Logan Clarke by the University of Southern California Film School was screened in 1991 at the Cannes Film Festival and received critical acclaim.
Recently a 90-minute documentary entitled, “Missing: Presumed Alive,” being distributed worldwide by ITEL was completed by Mr. Clarke and his Australian partner, Keith Schafferius. It follows the detectives through five countries and was two years in the making. A book released in Australia and New Zealand title “Taken in Contempt” by Robin Bowles devotes several chapters to Logan Clarke and his team.
Mr. Clarke’s notoriety has become such that he is regularly consulted by the producers and reporters of such television programs as 48 Hours, 20/20, 60 Minutes, Inside Edition, A Current Affair, Newsweek and many other television shows and magazines. A rescue in Costa Rica of a kidnapped six-year-old boy received international recognition, as did a dramatic rescue in Sudan.
Mr. Clarke is regarded as an international expert in his field and appears regularly on KABC Talk Radio, KFI Radio and K-CAL Television, both in Los Angeles, covering topical subjects such as child abduction, white slavery, occult crimes, gun control, car jacking, reverse stings, etc.
