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Out of the Blue

A New Zealand cop steps away from the force and deploys his skills for the defense. Defense lawyers were always the enemy, the overpaid smart-alecks who did their best to help guilty people walk free. I despised them and all they stood for. I grew up in a cop family and only ever wanted to

Dave Honiss
Inside Terminal 3 of the Lester B. Pearson Airport (Milan Suvajac) 26668  

5 Questions for a P.I. – Whitney Joy Smith

An occasional series in which we ask P.I.s around the globe the same 5 questions and get a multitude of different answers. Q1: Who are you? My name is Whitney Joy Smith. I was born in Orilla, Ontario, and hail from three generations of entrepreneurs. I studied business at Northwest Florida State College and emergency

Kim Green
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One Mississippi, Two

I can’t forget my client’s final phone call. Thirty-six hours after my client was executed, I drove along the highway in the direction opposite the prison for my wisdom teeth extraction. The throb ballooning at the back of my gums had become a rhythmic, welcome distraction from the grief scratching my throat ragged. I ground

Sophia Laurenzi
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Our Favorite Articles of 2022

This year’s best-of list, chosen by our editors, includes essays, op-eds, and explainers, covering topics from trash pulls to war crimes investigations. The top stories of the year informed, surprised, and delighted us in so many ways. You taught us about your favorite OSINT tools, FOIA requests done right, fraud prevention for small nonprofits, spoliation

Kim Green
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“Unsuiciding” – Investigating Deaths Ruled as Suicide

When my dreams of being a homicide detective were dashed, I found another way to investigate unnatural deaths — and bring answers to grieving loved ones. Before I found my way to private investigation, I first had to watch my ambition to become a homicide detective burn to the ground. I thought I was a

Lindsey Smith
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What Kind of Investigator Are You?

A long pandemic slowdown prompts a Chicago PI to recast himself in the professional role he was made for.

Ben Lopez
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Hear Me Out: A Difficult Serve

Sometimes, a challenging service of process is more about listening than searching. Being an investigator is so much more than you see on TV. It isn’t so much a job as a way of life — and especially, a mindset. Anything and everything can be a puzzle. Success in this job is all about how

Lindsey Smith
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How Georgia Became The First State To Repeal Its Citizen’s Arrest Law

After the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Governor Brian Kemp led a bipartisan campaign to repeal a Civil-War-era citizen’s arrest statute. At the trial of three men charged with the 2020 murder of Ahmaud Arbery, a Black man who was jogging in Brunswick, Georgia, the defense hinged on an archaic legal standard: the defendants claimed they

Kim Green
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The Art of Investigating

A North Carolina investigator applies his portrait-painting skills to defend a client accused of theft. I was recently hired on a criminal case. My client, a young Black female, had been charged with theft. Police suspected her of taking two credit cards belonging to her coworkers from a drawer under the cash register at a

James Petrie