skip tracing

Legally using telephonic information to find your skips and determine useful information. Over 20 years ago, when I started my investigative agency, I asked as many investigators as I could what the most valuable tool in their arsenal was. The dominant answer (other than our Read More

The term “public record” has always been VERY misleading. Even though a record is “public” and available for public scrutiny in the strictest sense, in reality it may not be readily available. The availability of numerous public records via the Internet Read More

As I explained in my previous article, Introduction to Skip Tracing, classifying your subject as “intentionally missing” or “unintentionally missing” is very important and will assist you in determining which action to take and what information you will Read More

How Do PIs Find a Runaway? Many times as a private investigator you’ll receive a desperate phone call from a worried parent begging for help in finding a runaway. The novice PI might refer the parent to local police and call it a day. They know that databases are useless in Read More

From time to time you are going to come across a military address while conducting a database search. Knowing what to do with the address, to whom it belongs, and what additional information can be gleaned from it can yield very important information! I learned a lot while I was Read More

An overview of the databases services private investigators use Read More

Proposed legislation would prohibit the sale of Social Security number information. As a result, private investigators would lose access to databases that are effective for helping distinguish individuals with similar names. This is particularly important with regard to women Read More

You can use email to locate people but I’ll tell you up front that the success rate when you have email information available, either a subject’s known email address or an intact copy of an email received from the subject, can be fairly low. Any one who tells you that a person Read More