The high pressure that murder cases must be solved is the original driving force for the police to solve cases regardless of cost. However, the fact that the cost of murder can be ignored does not mean that the funds of the police department are unlimited.
On the contrary, it is precisely because of the need to save funds for serious cases such as homicide, so the funds for ordinary cases are even more stretched.
Before seeing the body, the disappearance case is an ordinary case.