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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...
7 Ways to Arm Yourself Against Theft of Your Treasured Art or Jewelry
Wondering how to protect valuables from would-be thieves and robbers? Trade in stolen art and jewelry is a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide, so it makes sense to take steps to protect your assets. Here at Lauth Investigations International, we are dedicated not...
These Latest Cutting Edge Tech Devices Can Help Prevent Personal Art and Jewelry Theft
Historically, it's been a challenge to prevent art theft even when the security of the most famous creations in the world hung in the balance. When Vincent van Gogh's painting of poppy flowers was stolen in 1977, right out of the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in...
How to Equip Your HR Members to Potentially Weed Out Bad Recruitment
Think the humble employee background check is an unnecessary expense? Think again. Because there's nothing like a spate of bad hires to leave a gaping hole in the finances of your business. With research placing the average cost of a single bad recruitment choice...
ID-Art and INTERPOL: The Latest Tech and App to Thwart Art or Jewelry Theft
As licenced private investigators specializing in jewelry and art theft investigations, we witness the fallout of jewelry and art theft first hand and all too often. Whether stolen from a private home or public setting, these types of precious assets often represent...
How Personal Investigators Can Assist in Surveillance, and It’s Not Just For Finding Out about Cheating Spouses
Have you ever had the feeling you were being watched? Perhaps the hairs on the back of your neck stood up, and you paused for a moment, before brushing the feeling aside. It was probably just paranoia—unless, of course, there was a reason why a private investigator...
Looking to Buy Beautiful Art and Jewelry? First Avoid These 3 Well Known Scams
There's a thrill in tracking down a unique treasure or acquiring artwork that will become a family heirloom, but contemporary buyers should beware. These days, art scams and jewelry scams are rife. If you think it couldn't happen to you and don't take the time to...
Workplace Investigations: Where to Turn To for Quality Advice
Strong practices for internal investigations offer vital security both for and within any organization. Employees can feel confident that they will be fully supported if they need a corporate investigator in their corner, and the company itself can deftly tread paths...
Top 5 Types of Corporate Fraud
When it comes to protecting your business from the myriad of frauds that occur in U.S. workplaces every single day, being informed is the first step. Our private investigators are here to help you recognize these top five types of fraud in business so they can be...
HR Investigation: How Objective Are Your HR Staff? You May Be Surprised
Having a great human resources team in place can make any executive feel as if they can take on the world. It makes sense that investing in dedicated employees who ensure that the caliber of your recruitment and training initiatives remain gold standard is a solid...
Finding a Whistleblower: Using a Private Investigator
Conceptually, the anonymity of whistleblowers is a good thing. Brave souls who risk it all to speak truth to power and ensure that justice is done—a noble mantle indeed. However, at times the picture can become a little more murky and the lines of morality more...
How Poor Business Ethics Can Erode Your Corporate Culture
Within the go-getter world of business, it may seem contradictory that an ethical outlook is essential for success. The hard truth is that when unethical attitudes are adopted in the name of profit, any progress will usually be undermined when the inevitable fallout...
Investigating White Collar Crime Covertly
For any company with precious assets and interests to safeguard, fortifying the ramparts against external threats is a given—but what happens when the true dangers lurk within? White collar crime occurring under the radar often leaves a trail of devastation in its...
Undercover Investigations: What Are You Missing in Your Workplace?
Inevitably, certain types of workplace wrongdoing warrant an overt investigation—when it's in the company's best interests to take a stance of transparency when taking steps to rectify the issue at hand. But in others instances, keeping your investigation under wraps...
How to Prepare for an Internal Audit
An internal audit has appeared on the impending schedule and it's time to make sure that your house is in order. After all, your procedures are about to be combed through in depth and faults and flaws brought to the surface. When faced with this prospect, it is vital...
Why Investing in Workplace Culture Can Improve Retention
In the wake of the so-called “Great Resignation” triggered the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses across America are struggling more than ever to recruit and retain the talent they need to drive profit and progress. What many don't realize is that while the pandemic may...
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?