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Secret Santa: A Guide to Holiday Social Media Investigations

Investigation The Business Tools

The Investigator Who Tracked the Creator of Bitcoin

Profiles The Life The Podcast

Cash Flow: The Lifeblood of an Investigative Business

Entrepreneurship The Pitch

The Business

Tips and Tricks for Doing the Work

The Platform Everyone Forgets: Pinterest as an OSINT Resource

Heather Hernadi

A juror who went quiet everywhere else left a small but potentially meaningful trail in an unexpected place....

The Camcorder

Sometimes the piece of evidence that changes the game for your client is something that should be there,...

The Literature

Book Reviews, Excerpts, and Author Interviews

Review: “Kingdom of Devils,” by Katherine Grandjean

Review: “The Midnight Special,” by Colin Asher

Review: “When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women”

The Pitch

Marketing, Networking and Business Development

Second Time Around: 7 Lessons I Learned from Losing My First PI Firm

Shaun Gustavson

Running to Catch Up with AI

Building a Successful Private Investigations Business

William F. Blake, MS, CPP, CFE

The Life

Stories of Real-Life PIs

Op-Ed: No Scooby Doo Endings

The Provincial Capitol Building of Siquijor Province in Siquijor Town where the governor, vice-governor and provincial board have offices.

The Family That Never Existed: A Siquijor Island Investigation

It was supposed to be a simple background.

The Persecution Rests

How I Won An Epic Public Records Battle

The End of Civility

The Latest

I Wrote About His Wrongful Conviction. He Got Only 13 Years of Freedom Before Cancer Took His Life.

Megan Rose, ProPublica

For years, I followed the case of Fred Steese, who spent 21 years in prison for a murder... Read More

Follow the Money Emoji: What Venmo Is Quietly Telling You About Your Subject

This is the first installment of a new monthly column from the folks at IntelliSeek Investigations. Each month... Read More

Massachusetts Set to Extend Statute of Limitations for Rape Cases With DNA Evidence

Willoughby Mariano, ProPublica, & WBUR

Following reporting by WBUR and ProPublica, Gov. Maura Healey has pledged to sign a bill into law ensuring... Read More

How to Advocate for Identity Theft Victims: Q&A with Carrie Kerskie

On the Sound of Pursuit Podcast: We talk to private investigator and identity theft expert Carrie Kerskie about how private... Read More

A Secret Survey From Inside a Women’s Prison Tells Stories of Domestic Abuse Untold in Court

Pamela Colloff, ProPublica

One incarcerated woman set out to understand how many others at Oklahoma’s Mabel Bassett Correctional Center had cases... Read More

Louisiana Supreme Court Frees Death Row Prisoner, Calling Evidence Against Him “Scientifically Indefensible”

Richard A. Webster, ProPublica & Verite News

The decision affirms a lower court’s ruling nullifying Jimmie “Chris” Duncan’s 1998 first-degree murder conviction. Duncan was convicted... Read More