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This being Halloween, the day many people like to wear costumes, I thought it’d be interesting to discuss some of the disguises I’ve used over the years in the course of conducting investigations.

Let’s start with the most basic disguise.

The Simplest and Best Disguise?

Answer: A baseball cap and sunglasses.  Studies on eye-witness [...]

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Spirited Private Eyes

Today I read about a new (new to me, anyway) paranormal investigations group in my region.  They call their business Spirit PI (for Spirit Paranormal Investigations).  I’ll state upfront that I don’t believe in ghosts, but that doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy reading about people who conduct paranormal [...]

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Besides working as a private investigator, I love reading the private eye genre.  And there’s plenty of wonderful writers out there crafting compelling stories featuring private eye protagonists.  I should know–in the last two years I’ve been honored to be a judge for the Private Eye Writers of America, and in this capacity [...]

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Today I’m sharing some slides from a presentation my husband-PI-partner and I gave last April at the Pikes Peak Writers Conference.  The conference took place in beautiful Colorado Springs, Colorado, which over the last few weeks has been devastated by fires.  A mystery writer we know lost her home in that fire, and [...]

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A few years ago, we had an unusual case come into our office.  A private investigations firm in a large metropolitan city contacted us, said they were handling a cyberstalking case for a rock star and were we available to track this cyberstalker who appeared to be hiding in our region? If so, they’d [...]

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