Alethea
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And there must, even in this day & age, be ways of communicating with LE without LE knowing ones precise location.
Full disclosure my practice area is fraud, not murder, but there's a thing called an attorney proffer where an attorney can meet with LE and answer questions on behalf of a client. You basically go in and say if my client were to talk to you he would say...XYZ. The prosecutor/agent will ask questions and you answer based on what you agreed with your client you will disclose. The FBI agent/prosecutor then can decide if they want to work with your client or not - for witnesses this means immunity, or use immunity (where they won't use what the witness says against him), or LE no longer being interested in their testimony.
A missing person is obviously different than fraud, and in a situation like this they may tell the attorney to F off they'll find the guy and arrest him. Attorneys also cannot facilitate an ongoing crime. The crime-fraud exception to the attorney client privilege means an attorney can be compelled to testify about information about an ongoing crime or an imminent planned crime. So there's a limit to how much you could really do here if you know where your client is and you know he's committing an ongoing crime like false imprisonment.