Note to reality TV producers: Michael Neiger does not participate in shows chasing down conspiracy theories, UFOs, aliens, holes in the earth swallowing up missing persons, Big Foot, and other similar programming, even at $30,000 for 8 weeks of filming.

He can be contacted via email at mneiger@hotmail.com.

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Michael Neiger has worked with select magazine and book authors, news reporters, investigative journalists, reality TV producers, and networks in the United States, Canada, and Europe that have demonstrated a passion for advocating on behalf of the missing and the murdered, including:

• Crime Watch Daily with Chris Hansen,
• A+E's Crime & Investigation Channel,
• Snapped,
• Oxygen Network,
• Discovery Network,
• ID: Investigation Discovery,
• Netflix,
• NBC Fear Factor,
• DPI Productions,
• Punched Productions,
• 9 &10 News (CBS),
• WJMN (CBS),
• Mining Journal (Marquette, Michigan),
• Back Roads Entertainment,
• Detroit Free Press (Detroit, Michigan),
• Lark Productions,
• TV 6 (NBC),
• Maverick TV,
• Prometheus Entertainment,
• Double Act Productions,
• Mining Gazette (Houghton, Michigan),
• Brian Catalina Entertainment,
• JWM Productions,
• Pitch 5 Productions,
• 44 Blue Productions,
• Magilla TV,
• WBUP (ABC),
• M. William Phelps,
• AGC Studios,
• and First Look TV.

	The 2020 The Cold Vanish, by critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman, takes an in-depth look at the people who vanish in the wilderness without a trace, and those eccentric, determined characters who try to find them. One chapter in this book is dedicated to Michael Neiger's long-term-missing (LTM) investigative work, and another chapter delves into one of his long-running LTM cases: the mysterious disappearance of Michael Linklater, a Cree trapper who went missing on the muskeg along the Arctic Ocean coast in 2003.
	The 2018 Where Monsters Hide: Sex, Murder, and Madness in the Midwest book, by New York Times best-selling investigative reporter and star of Investigation Discovery’s "Dark Minds" M. William Phelps, chronicles the 2014 Chris Regan murder and dismemberment investigation, including Michael Neiger's role in helping unwind and solve this serial-killer case, one of his signature cases.
	The 2018 Cold From The Inside book, by true-crime author MJ Dulmage, looks at the 2014 murder and dismemberment of Chris Regan in Iron River, Michigan, and includes Michael Neiger's role in helping unwind and solve this serial-killer case, one of his signature cases.
	Michael Neiger contributed material to Outside Magazine for the 2017 Outside Exclusive entitled Lost in the Wild: How 1,600 People Went Missing Without a Trace.

Michael's investigations of unsolved long-term-missing cases and cold-case homicides has been covered by New York publishing houses and national magazines.

His work on long-term-missing cases in the remote bush of the United States and Canada is covered in detail in critically acclaimed author and journalist Jon Billman's 2020 book entitled, The Cold Vanish.

Billman dedicates a chapter to Michael's long-term-missing (LTM) work, and another chapter to one of his intriguing investigations, the mysterious disappearance of Michael Linklater, a Cree trapper who went missing in 2003 on the muskeg near the coast of the Arctic Ocean.

And there's Michael Neiger, North America's foremost back-country Search & Rescue expert and self-described "bush-man" obsessed with missing persons.
-- Back cover of The Cold Vanish, by Jon Billman

Michael contributed material to a 2018 book about one his signature cases -- the Kelly Cochran serial-killer investigation. Entitled, Where Monsters Hide: Sex, Murder, and Madness in the Midwest, it was authored by M. William Phelps, a New York Times bestselling investigative journalist, author of over 30 books, and star of Investigation Discovery’s "Dark Minds."

He also contributed material to true-crime author MJ Dulmage's 2018 book -- Cold From The Inside -- detailing the 2014 murder and dismemberment of Chris Regan in Iron River, Michigan.

In 2017, Michael contributed material to Outside Magazine for an Outside Exclusive entitled Lost in the Wild: How 1,600 People Went Missing Without a Trace.