Insurance Fraud Investigations

At first blush my specialization area of insurance fraud investigation may not seem like it is applicable to you unless you are an insurance adjuster or an insurance attorney.  But, I’d like to point out some interesting things about insurance fraud, often referred to as a white collar crime. 

Insurance fraud is estimated to be [...]

Crime and Craigslist, MySpace and Murderer Made

The True Crime Weblog does a great job of covering the details about the murder of Katherine Olson, including some insights into what a great person Ms. Olson really was.  For those that don’t know this young woman was recently murdered when she responded to a craigslist ad for a nanny position. 
The True Crime [...]

Monday Morning Housekeeping

I notice that many people have been reading the Daycare Investigations entry, so I plan on doing more with this topic in the future.  I’m trying to keep this blog interesting to you guys.  So when I see a special interest in one area I’ll try to address that.  As I said in my inaugural post, [...]

Criminal Investigations

I’ve received a few emails this week about criminal investigations.  In these instances it was questions regarding a crime that took place and looking for ideas to determine the perpetrator.  (There is another area of investigations which deals with working for the Public Defender’s Office or private criminal defense council.  You can listen to a pod cast about [...]

License, I Don’t Need No Stinking License

Yay, I’m finally starting to get some emails.  Please feel free to email me your questions if you have something that you are not sure a private investigator can help you with, or if there’s something that you would like to see on the blog.
 A lot of the questions I receive have to do with [...]

Using Social Sites in Legal Cases

I spoke a bit last week about being careful when dealing with people you’ve only “met” online.  Well, this week The National Law Journal wrote about how important online social sites are proving for legal cases both civil, such as marital and custody matters but also in criminal trials.
Information from a MySpace page helped [...]

Family Matters: Genealogy and Missing Heir Investigations

It’s been a busy week but I’ve taken a few time outs to see what other blogs are writing about.  Today we find out that Barack Obama is related to Dick Cheney and Bush.  This is relevant to private investigations because it allows me to mention that there’s a specialty of investigations known as forensic genealogy or missing [...]

Daycare Investigations: Who Is Watching The Children?

There is an important topic that is currently netting a lot of comments on an East Tennessee forum, http://www.topix.com/forum/source/wbir/TJSE9JEL3RJL8E9F7/p21 .  This has to do with a childcare facility in Jefferson City, TN, where workers taped a pacifier into an infant’s mouth and stuck him away in a dark bathroom.  Sadly, you can do a search [...]

Online Dating and Background Checks

Being online these days is so common that it’s the subject of the hit single aptly titled, Online, by country singer Brad Paisley.  For those of you Knoxville folks and web readers out there not familiar with country music the song is about a harmless nerd, who is an adult child living with his parents.  [...]

Surveillance and Competitive Intelligence

It is Fall and it is football season, and the Patriots Coach Belichick was kind enough to provide inspiration for today’s post about the use of surveillance in competitive intelligence.  Sure, everyone would like to gain a competitive edge but you must make sure that you do so legally and fairly and spying on your opponents as [...]