Former Buc Hires PI to Find Super Bowl Rings

With this year's Super Bowl looming in Tampa, a former Tampa Bay Buccaneer whose Super Bowl rings were stolen three years ago has contacted a Sarasota investigator for help finding the jewelry.

Former defensive back Thomas Everett's missing merchandise includes Super Bowl rings from the 1992 and 1993 Dallas Cowboys. Watches and an empty safe also were swiped in what appears to have been a standard residential burglary at Everett's Dallas home, Dallas police say.

"An investigation was suspended pending further leads that may pop up," said Senior Cpl. Kevin Janse, a Dallas police spokesman.

Read more at Tampa Bay Online

Georgia Bill Would Ban Hidden GPS Tracking Devices

Inside a completely ordinary SUV parked anywhere in Metro Atlanta, private investigator T.J. Ward and his team can track anyone at any time, without them knowing.

Instead of the old cat and mouse game, running red lights and swerving through traffic, he can just stick a little box with a 40-pound magnet to the bottom of a car in seconds. As a person drives, a computer program tracks them via satellite, and prints a list of their whereabouts -- even how fast they were going.

Ward's team has been hired by parents after a bitter child custody case, or a spouse. One man, who was married for 18 years, told us, "We used it for several weeks, just tracking where my wife's vehicle was, and just to confirm some suspicions I had."

His suspicions were right, and he's now divorced. He credits the GPS surveillance with saving him millions of dollars in alimony.

Read more at wsbtv.com.

Private Eye Flat Out as Recession Bites

As many local companies face downturns, business is booming for Queenstown’s Michael Erwin – Central Otago’s only private eye and debt chaser.

The number of people targeted by Erwin is set to increase even further as the recession bites deeper.

Erwin took over Southern Lakes Investigations last September – a part-time business owned by Kathryn Omond – but he’s already seen business triple since then.

Read more at Scene.co.nz.

Private Investigator Featured on Dateline

Private investigator Philip Klein, founder of Nederland-based Klein Investigations and Consulting, was featured Sunday in an hour-long Dateline special on NBC detailing his efforts to uncover the truth behind the disappearance of Patrick Kim McDermott.

McDermott, a former boyfriend of singer Olivia Newton-John, vanished in 2005 after leaving San Pedro, Calif., for a fishing trip.

Dateline producers first came into contact with Klein, whose company routinely investigates cases where children are taken by their non-custodial parents, after interviewing him for another story.

"Phillip's an interesting guy and it seemed like a waste to just interview this guy once," Dateline producer Joe Delmonico told The Enterprise by phone. "We asked him to take a fresh look at the case and followed him from his office, to Los Angeles, and all the way to Mexico."

Read more at the Beaumont Enterprise.

"The Office" Star Sets Sights on Texas PI

San Antonio private investigator Charlie Parker has discovered he's become the subject of a different kind of investigation, one out of Hollywood.

The person looking into his life is none other than TV star Jenna Fischer, known best as Pam in “The Office” on NBC.

Fischer's interest in PI Parker is so keen, in fact, she's developing an NBC drama-comedy series based on his life.

Parker, who's thrilled by all this interest, said he already has received a sizable check from NBC for his life rights.

“It was more money than I've ever had,” he said of the option fee.

Read more at MySanAntonio.com.

Private Investigator Uses Intuition to Help Crack Cases

When Bickell Lund works on a missing person case, she checks the facts, talks to loved ones and follows leads.

But there’s often one tool of the trade that helps her piece everything together — her intuition.

“There was a case where we looked at the missing person and their habits, and I kept coming back to their love of wilderness and the outdoors,” says Lund, of Peace of Mind Investigations in Eudora. “Sure enough, we ended up finding that person in the woods.”

Read more at The Lawrence Journal.

More Companies Turning to PIs Before Police

Growing numbers of UK firms are turning to private investigators to help solve IT security problems as the police struggle to provide adequate resources.

The lack of law enforcement staff trained to tackle e-crime is a well-documented problem in the UK, as it is in many countries around the world. And concerned companies are increasingly looking to alternative routes for help.

Find the rest of the story here.

Video Released of Anthonys' PI Searching Remains Scene

Eyewitness News and WFTV.com were the first to obtain video showing George and Cindy Anthonys' private investigator knifing, poking, prodding and digging in areas where he possibly believed he would find Caylee Anthony's remains.

Sheriff's investigators and only a few others had seen the video until Eyewitness News obtained it. The video could prove the Anthonys' private eye got inside information at the scene a month before Caylee's remains were found by detectives. The videotape and the Anthonys' private investigator's phone records could be the keys that link Casey Anthony to the wooded area.

Read the rest at WFTV.com.

Family Frustrated with Police Hire PI

An east London family is accusing the police of gross incompetence for failing to arrest a suspect for the brutal attack and murder of local businessman Harry Henman.

His widow, Charlotte Henman, and her son Llewellyn told the Daily Dispatch that police had shown a lack of interest in trying to solve the murder, which took place in December 2006.

A local private investigator had even tracked down a suspect and got a confession from him, she claimed.

“The police are completely useless,” said Llewellyn. “They have been given all the information they need but keep coming up with different excuses of why they cannot arrest the man.”

Read the rest of the story at The Dispatch Online.