Private Investigator to Speak

The Manitowoc County chapter of Women In Management Inc. will hold its monthly meeting from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8, at the Best Western Lakefront Hotel, 101 Maritime Drive.

Women who are managers or business owners, and those who aspire to be, are welcome to attend.

Jamie Schnell, a Wisconsin licensed private detective and entrepreneur of Confidentially Yours Investigative Agency, will present “Looking Through Private Eyes: The Everyday Adventures and Challenges of a Female Private Investigator.”

Belfair Investigators, Who Illegally Posed as Others, Lacked License

A Belfair couple charged by the federal government this month for a practice known as "pretexting" had earlier piqued the interest of the state's Department of Licensing.

The department had received a complaint that Emilio and Brandy Torrella were operating a private investigations firm out of a Belfair strip mall without a state-mandated investigators' license, a gross misdemeanor in the state.

Private investigator says Maddie is still alive | Herald Sun

Private investigator says Maddie is still alive | Herald Sun: "Director-general of Metodo 3, Francisco Marco, told Britain’s Daily Mail the missing four-year-old was kidnapped by a pedophile ring but she was still alive.

'Maddie was kidnapped.

'We know who kidnapped her. We believe she is in an area not very far from the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa. And we have a fairly certain idea of who she is with,” Mr Marco said."

Technology Helps Locate Suspects In Construction Site Theft

Technology Helps Locate Suspects In Construction Site Theft - Money News Story - WISC Madison: "Police said thieves swiped five boxes of aluminum siding from a Veridian home construction site in the Heather Glen neighborhood Saturday.

But along with the metal, police said the thieves also picked up a tracking device hidden inside the boxes.Veridian has had so much trouble with aluminum thefts that the company hired a private investigator, WISC-TV reported."

C. J. Ford Believes that Orange County Authorities Covered Up the Real Reason that DNA was Recently Run to Solve an Unsolved Case - EWORLDWIRE

C. J. Ford Believes that Orange County Authorities Covered Up the Real Reason that DNA was Recently Run to Solve an Unsolved Case - EWORLDWIRE: "Articles that have appeared on the AP and local newspapers in October of this year have reported that Orange County Authorities had interests in solving unsolved crimes. They took credit for solving the Hoffschneider murder of 1984, under this assumption.

However, according to C. J. Ford, independent criminal investigator and consultant, facts support that authorities didn't have the implied interest that they reported. The real reason that this crime was solved was because authorities were trying to keep death row inmate Kenneth Clair from being acquitted of a crime that they accused and convicted him of in 1984."

Stamford Private Eye Reveals Case Secrets

Vito Colucci likes to call the days leading up to Feb. 14 Valenslyne Day. Those are the days this Stamford private eye's phone rings incessantly.

On the other end of the phone, usually, is a suspicious spouse looking for someone to spy on their cheating mate.

So when Colucci saw the Mercedes pull into his driveway and a well-dressed, good-looking man of 38 step out, he expected much of the same.

"He comes in, sits down and tells me he wants me to follow his wife," Colucci recalls. "He shows me a photograph of a beautiful blonde woman. So I start asking him the usual hundred questions — her name, the type of car she drives, where he thinks she's going. Then he tells me he wants me to start following her at 2 p.m. and asks if I can go past midnight to 2 a.m. I say sure. Then he says he wants me to call in a report every 15 to 20 minutes."

Investigator Vows to Pursue Case

Private investigator Ray Michalko has made an early New Year's resolution to continue his sleuthing on the Highway of Tears mysteries.

The former Mountie has been working almost for free since January 2006 at the request of some families of Highway of Tears victims. A women's advocacy group based in the Lower Mainland agreed to pay some of Michalko's expenses although his time is largely donated and slotted in around his paying work.

He stated from the outset that he would probe the murders and disappearances for a couple of years then reassess. This is the end of those two initial years and he told The Citizen this weekend that he is self-extending his mission for at least another year.

Doctor in Lipo Controversy Hired Spy

The Toronto family doctor whose patient died after undergoing liposuction in September hired a private investigator to pose as a patient and spy on a competitor she alleges in a lawsuit is responsible for her drop in business.

Dr. Behnaz Yazdanfar, a family physician without a surgical specialty or hospital privileges, performed the liposuction.

Fake Pradas and Guccis to be Burned

Lee County sheriff's investigators confiscated 55 garbage bags full of fake purses, wallets, belts and jewelry - more than $1 Million worth in all. An expensive price tag, but if the products had been real, that would've been the going price. One problem though, the Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Prada, Rolex, Coach, Kate Spade, Oakley and Ray Ban's were all counterfeit.

We spoke with a private investigator working the case. He says one of the trademark companies was tipped off about the illegal activity in Southwest Florida. During a six week investigation, he was able to determine the items sold at Lee's Watches and Handbags were fake. The private investigator then contacted the Lee County Sheriff's Office.

Drew Peterson Asks Public to Help With his Legal Defense

Drew Peterson says a Web site established to raise money for his legal defense will be a test of the American people’s generosity.

“I’m not asking them to decide guilt or innocence,” Peterson said today of defenddrew.com. “Everyone has the right for a legal defense.”

Peterson said his attorney, Joel Brodsky, is the brainchild behind the Web site, which accepts donations via PayPal.

The site says “for the cost of a few cups of your morning coffee” donors can help fund the legal defense so a private investigator can be hired to help find Peterson’s missing wife Stacy. Any remaining funds will be diverted into a trust fund for Peterson’s four dependent children, who range in age from 14 to 2 years old.

Pretexting Indictment Names Belfair Private Investigator

The U.S. attorney's office in Seattle says ten people across the country have been indicted for illegally obtaining confidential information by "pretexting."

That's the practice of pretending to be someone else to obtain confidential information.

Officials say the hub of the pretexting activity was at a private investigation firm owned by Emilio and Brandy Torrello in Belfair. The couple and their office manager are scheduled to make their first court appearance Thursday (at 2:30) in federal court in Tacoma.

If You Suspect Your Lover of Infidelity, Tank Rolls into Action

The instant you lay eyes on the guy, you know exactly how Sherman "Tank" Jones got the nickname. The resemblance is remarkable.

With the body of a bulldozer and head like a wrecking ball -- let's just say you'd be ill advised to diss his mama.

Yet a big part of his job requires being invisible. Him and his size-15 alligator shoes.

As a private investigator, Tank Jones sees what isn't meant to be seen, hears what isn't meant to be heard, knows what is supposed to be secret. He's pretty sure, for example, that a client's boyfriend who ducked out the door at 5:30 for an early-morning run didn't mean to be videotaped indulging in a little side-dish activity on top of a picnic table in Elderberry Park.

Coin Company Hires Investigator to Prove Consumer Fraud

Austin-based U.S Money Reserve, Inc. is pursuing a permanent injunction against a band of former employees, who formed their own coin company by allegedly stealing the company's consumer accounts.

U.S Money Reserve, doing business as United States Rare Coin & Bullion Reserve (USRCB), filed its suit, USRCB vs. United States Money Exchange et al, earlier this month.

PI Who Broke Fay Case Publishes Book

He’s been on Larry King and many other news programs. He’s covered major national crime cases. He’s handled murders and vicious divorces.

But no case dumbfounded private investigator Vito Colucci like his investigation of former St. John Roman Catholic Parish pastor, the Rev. Michael Jude Fay, in the spring of 2006.

Fay, who pled guilty to stealing millions from parishioners in September, was initially investigated by Colucci, who was hired by former priest Michael Madden and former parish bookkeeper Bethany D’Erario.

“It was so amazing, so off the charts. It made my jaw drop,” he said.