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I didn't see anything like that from Van Damm or Smart.

Smart's daughter's body hasn't been found. Mighty big difference.

Smart's daughter's body hasn't been found

All the more reason for him to be searching.

I think the look-of-devastation factor is a real tool for investigators. Nothing to base this on, just gut feelings. Again, look at the famous cases over the past several years.

I had an incident where we couldn't find our 7 year old. The panic that you feel is immediate and uncontrollable. It was a beautiful day, everyone was out of doors. Everyone felt the same panic, and everyone started an immediate search. One of the neighbors immediatly took the responsibility of calling 911 and informed everyone that that part was being done while they went on searching. The first thing I did was run through the house and search it, yelling his name as I went. Then I jumped in the car and raced through the neighborhood doing a street to street search.

Luckily it all turned out fine. The little darling had gone into the house, exhausted, buried himself under a pile of laundry in the living room and went to sleep. He didn't hear me yelling for him in the house.

I just can't imagine not looking panicky (sp?), devastated, etc., especially if you have been searching for hours on end, or if hours had gone by prior to realizing the kid was missing. Think of the search time lost in that case.

Again, just an observation.