Info Reports From Self Made Millionaire!
Introduction
As a licensed Private Investigator for more than 22 years, I have seen just about every type of case one would expect a P.I., to see.
As I'm sure the average reader realizes, television has greatly glamorized the profession to some of the most far fetched and almost ridiculous situations. This is not to say that we don't do some of what you see on television, but it is certainly the exception rather than the rule.
My practice has been, for the most part, specialized in domestic relations or divorce investigations, child custody investigations, skip tracing, criminal cases, in that we usually work for a defendant, or more accurately, his attorney, background investigations, date screening, locating debtors, locating family members or friends where contact has been lost, and generally, finding out everything we can for the benefit of our client, for what ever the situation might be or call for.
More often than not, an investigation will be mundane, as the investigator sits in his vehicle, waiting to get that all important picture or video of the subject doing what we are paid to find him doing. Yes we set up surveillance's every day, and follow people through traffic, down deserted streets, through shopping areas, etc.. but never as depicted by those heroic P.I's on television.
We have yet to do a shoot-em-up chase.
The real world of private investigation is