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Investigating Workplace Theft with a Private Investigator
Having worked tirelessly to build your company from the ground up, it is a bitter pill to swallow that an interior threat may ultimately undermine it. The harsh reality, however, is that the downfall of roughly 30% of failed businesses is tied to workplace theft of...
Genealogy And Conducting Heir Searches to Obtain Your Family’s Legal Assets
If you are looking for a professional genealogist to conduct an heir search on behalf of your family, what do you need to know? The field of genealogy—particularly in relation to how to conduct an heir search—is one that few people are well versed in. It is likely to...
Conducting a Corporate Culture Assessment Can Really Uncover How Your Employees Feel
A vast survey from Gallup recently provided powerful insight into the current employee engagement landscape in America. We are, it would seem, in a pretty gloomy slump. Engagement began to dip towards the end of 2021 and it's still in decline. The only silver lining...
How to Detect Embezzlement Within Your Company
Understandably, embezzlement is something of a specter—a ghost haunting the dreams of business owners across America. Why? Because embezzlers often go undetected for years, are usually in a long-standing position of trust, can leave a gaping financial hole that is...
How a Private Investigator Can Protect Your Warehouse from Theft
When it comes to workplace theft, few forms of criminality represent such a hefty potential drain on company resources than a steady flow of inventory disappearing from your warehouse. It might start out with a few small losses here and there, raising mild alarm but...
Reducing Internal Theft with Comprehensive Background Checks
We all like to think that we're a good judge of character, but when it comes to choosing who to trust with your company's inventory, intellectual property, and assets, it is always wise to defer to the facts. Today, we live in a world where 90% of all significant...
Start Here for Your Heir, Estate, Beneficiary, or Probate Search
Even the most simple of estate settlements can represent a quagmire of beaurocracy for those tasked with steering the course. But when things get complicated, it can become essential to call in the cavalry. What if there are estranged, missing, or unknown parties to...
How To Deal With Maligning Or Toxic Managers In Your Company
Just like a bad apple in a barrel, toxicity emanating from a bad manager can sour a workplace's entire dynamic given enough time. Whether the individual exhibiting toxic manager behavior is above or below you in the hierarchy of command, navigating their presence can...
So What Exactly Is Forensic Genealogy?
Do you find yourself asking the question, what is forensic genealogy? It's a perfectly reasonable query given that this is a professional field that most are unlikely to come into contact with—that is, until the need arises. The term itself may even sounds a...
What Happens When One Conducts A Corporate Culture Audit
For those of us engaged in the niche sphere of delivering corporate culture audits, it came as no surprise when Forbes announced 2022 as the year of workplace culture. Why? Because businesses everywhere are either reeling from recent challenges or learning how to...
How To Find Platforms And Analytics For Assisting With Organizational Culture Surveys
When was the last time you did a health check of your organizational culture? When sat in the executive suit, it can be easy to imagine that the rest of the workplace is a hive of productivity; a well oiled machine. But what if your organizational culture is eroding...
Who Can I Speak to for Help With Heir Search and International Estate Matters
When the scope of an heir search crosses international borders, finding the right collaborator becomes key. Ultimately, you need an heir search expert who can deftly navigate a diversity of legal jurisdictions on your behalf and draw together the caliber of documented...
Deshaun Watson will miss 11 games, pay $5 million fine following allegations of sexual assault
As part of an ongoing series, Lauth Investigations International is highlighting how poor corporate culture in professional sports starts at the top, and how changes in leadership can change an organization for years to come. Even those who just casually follow sports...
Leadership Misconduct: Professional Wrestling and Vince MacMahon
As part of an ongoing series, Lauth Investigations International is highlighting how poor corporate culture in professional sports starts at the top, and how changes in leadership can change an organization for years to come. Vince MacMahon The world of wrestling...
How Death Investigations Provide Evidence To Convict The Guilty And Protect The Innocent
When someone dies under unexplained or unexpected circumstances, families can feel fraught with anger and frustration. How could such a thing have happened? When will those responsible be brought to account? While patience may feel like a resource that is impossible...
Asset Recovery And Inheritance: What You Need To Know
When a family member dies and you are their heir, you go through the grieving process and receive your inheritance—right? Unfortunately, the transfer of assets does not always run so smoothly. So much so, in fact, that the total value of unclaimed assets floating...
How Intelligence-Gathering Disciplines For PI’s Can Help With Unsolved Homicides
As if enduring the loss of a loved one wasn't bad enough, families across America are grappling with a worryingly dark trend in unsolved homicides. Recent investigative journalism has revealed that murders are going unsolved at a historic pace—with the clearance rate...
Where Do I Go To Get Assistance In A Death Investigation: Start Here
When faced with thoughts of the loss of a loved one, we'd all hope that their cause of death would be fully understood and investigated if the need ever arose. It is the role of the Coroner or Medical Examiner's office—and potentially law enforcement, too—to uncover...
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?