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  Emma Fillipoff, a beautiful blonde-haired 26-year-old from British Columbia, was last seen purchasing a pre-paid cell phone at an Ontario, Canada 7-Eleven on November 28, 2012. After more than 200 leads and thousands of phone calls, interviews, and news...

It was the summer of 1968 when Ann Sandoval opened the door to find two Marines holding an American flag. Without a word, she had known what they were there for. Alfred Moreno, JR, a boy she was raising as her own, had died in battle in Vietnam. Though Sandoval had...

  Although you might not know it, there are several "snoop specialties" that any private investigator might be an expert in. From cyber investigation and white collar crime to missing persons and divorce investigation, each investigator usually has a particular...

  An AMBER Alert was issued at 2am on the morning on February 24th in response to the abduction of 3-year-old Elinor Trotter by her armed and potentially dangerous father. Through the use of the alerting system, in addition to efforts of local police and...

Although private investigators (PIs) are always pretty busy, Valentine's Day is one of the most taxing parts of the whole year. Why? There's no more dramatic way to say "You've been cheating," than on V-Day. In a recent interview with CBS Dallas-Forth Worth,...

When you think of favorite snacks, it's unlikely your go-to option is the delicious flavor of sun-dried Kobe Beef. It's not because it doesn't sound delicious. It's because it doesn't exist. In one of the biggest scams in Kickstarter history, a company called Kobe Red...

  If you’ve ever seen a spy movie, you might believe that every private investigator has a room dedicated to gadgets, gizmos, and weapons that can help take down a perpetrator. While the tools for a private investigator are not as sensational as movies would like...

There are things that are lost, and there are things that are intentionally misplaced. For a skip tracer, the job is to know which things are lost on purpose and how to reclaim them. A combination of bounty hunter, collections agent, and private investigator, a skip...

After a string of online attacks against big-name accounts, the coup de grâce came this week with the cyber attack from potential ISIS collaborators against the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) Twitter and YouTube accounts. One of the menacing tweets read, “We won’t...

At first glance, college can seem like an idealistic society containing its own set of rules applicable only to the students who make up the majority.  Often these students are experiencing freedoms they have never experienced before – including parental supervision. ...

Often when we think of private investigators, we think of missing assets, divorce proceedings, corporate corruption. However there remain occasions where using a private investigator can be cause for both parties to be exultant with the findings. Emir Kamenica was a...

In 2013, 2.35 million Americans were injured from automobile accidents.  This equates to a total of 230.6 billion dollars in medical and insurance costs. Regardless of the frequency and costs associated with car accidents, the vast majority of individuals in such...

University of Colorado professor David Barnett could use the help of a private investigator in his defamation lawsuit. Here are some key reasons why.