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What is a Lifestyle Investigation? It’s an Investment
What is a lifestyle investigation? To put it quite simply, it’s an investigation into all possible points of interest in a subject’s daily life. While lifestyle investigations can provide crucial clarity in most aspects of our lives, what’s imperative is finding the...
The Importance of Background Checks for Business Partners
When you’re about to enter a new business relationship—especially when acquiring a new business partner—it’s imperative to have the full picture when making that decision. However, there can be a myriad of factors that may affect a business relationship that have...
How A Private Investigator Can Make Your Human Resources Stronger
When human resources function like a well-oiled machine, teams flourish and profits soar. However, when HR practices slide even a little off track, the resulting problems can be pervasive. Issues such as rapid turnover, employee fraud, workplace theft, and so many...
Signs of a Home Improvement Scam
Adding value to one’s home is an investment many homeowners hope to make to their property. One of the most common ways to do this is by renovating the interior of the home, the exterior or both. When it comes to vetting contractors for the job, consumers must be...
The Urgent Step To Take When Navigating Corporate Theft
When evidence points to the unpleasant reality that someone has targeted your organization, it's not the time to bury your head in the sand. From a cybersecurity threat to white collar crime; from fraud or extortion to a physical break-in: it's safe to assume that the...
Intellectual Property Theft: Don’t Let Your Greatest Assets Slip Away
When thinking about the security of your business, it's easy to place focus on brick and mortar assets, valuable inventory, and carefully counted financials. However, there is another area of your business that needs to be protected at all costs. As the FBI confirms,...
Why a Private Investigator Could Be Your Ultimate Ally in a Child Custody Case
For any devoted parent or guardian, few things are more gut wrenching than entering into a child custody battle. Whether rooted in divorce or a conflict between caregivers, emotions are sure to run high—and even the most well-intended adults can see the children they...
How A Corporate Intelligence Investigator Can Give Your Business A Leading Edge
Before you pull the trigger on that next big investment or expansion, ask yourself: how well do you really know your market? Putting proverbial eggs in the wrong basket can be disastrous for any business—but innovative leaps are a must when aiming to achieve...
Why Hiring a Private Investigator Is More Common Than You Think
There's a romantic notion of what private investigators might look like—thanks to the long history of fascinating fictional characters in literature, cinema, and television. Picture the sweep of a long overcoat, a tilted fedora, and dramatically shaded scenes of...
Hiring A Workplace Investigator: Don’t Let Discrimination Derail Your Business
The tricky thing about discrimination in the workplace is that damaging shots can be firing in all directions long before they appear on leadership's radar. What begins as a veiled microaggression here and there can quickly escalate when a perpetrator feels...
Knowing Where to Turn When Your Art or Jewelry Gets Stolen
Anyone who has ever fallen victim to art or jewelry theft understands the unique brutality of this crime. While such precious treasures may represent a substantial financial investment, they are also often of great sentimental value—inflicting double the wound when...
How A Private Investigator Can Help in a Death Investigation or Unsolved Homicide
Private investigators are invaluable to bringing crucial context to many matters of private citizens every day. However, one of the ways private investigators can have a huge impact is by serving as a second pair of eyes in both death investigations and unsolved...
Does Your Business Need a Culture Audit? Don’t Miss These Red Flags
No matter their talent or oversight, no business owner or CEO has eyes in the back of their head. Indeed, it is often the case that corporate culture—also known as workplace culture or organisational culture—goes sour before leadership notice the slide. Big problems...
Maintaining Corporate Culture in Remote Working Structures
Working from home became an adjustment for most people at the beginning of the pandemic—and although COVID numbers are falling—many businesses are still maintaining a remote working structure in these turbulent times. While remote working has had it’s undeniable...
Too Good to Be True? Know the Signs of Romance Scams
How many people do you know who met their significant other online? There's probably a few, because tales of whirlwind romances that started virtually are more and more common these days—but sadly, so too are online romance scam stories. Unfortunately, while this...
Essence
ESSENCE Special Report: How D.C.'s Disappearing Girls Highlight The Nation's Black and Missing Problem
Vice
What We Know About the Missing Teen Whose Parents Were Shot to Death
San Diego Tribune
Private eyes look for runaways, sex-trade victims to rescue
Stuff
Police reveal number of missing people who are believed to have been murdered
Cleveland
Activists call for dedicated missing persons unit; cities that have them caution against high hopes
Cape Cod Times
Most missing adult cases unsolved
Pheonix New Times
The National Center for Missing Adults’ Funding Was Slashed by the Feds, but Volunteers Are Keeping It Alive
Los Angeles Daily News
LAPD, family both trying to find man missing 4 1/2 years
Ann Arbor News
Is Olisa Williams still alive?