This week: join @findpi and learn how to market yourself to legal teams and help them build a solid defense case. Along the way, you'll see why criminal defense investigative work is so challenging, fascinating, and even rewarding. Register: youtube.com/watch?v=2n4Z9u…

Somehow, these situations always involve either a Whataburger or a Whataburger taquito

When you’re tracing hidden assets, cutting corners may be faster. But it’ll put your case—and your career—at risk. Fantastic overview of the terrible temptations of stepping over the legal line when doing asset searches. pursuitmag.com/asset-searches…

How cool is this? THE PEACOCK AND THE SPARROW is required reading for a Vanderbilt University history course, "The United States Intelligence Community, 1940 to the Present." Alongside authors Graham Greene, le Carré, Calder Walton (SPIES), & others. Honored. #vanderbilt #spy

Great article on how to set your PI business up for success:

Just asked a reference librarian a question on a rare town directory. Her eyes lit up, and I think we're having a special moment ❤️

New episode alert! Our guests are the great Rachele' Davis, PI, and a former client of hers, talking about the hows and whys of reuniting birth families. Today, her new course on investigating unknown parentage drops at PI Education. It's a banger! youtu.be/QjI0EClaRDg?si…

Television has two of my top 10 songs in the detective genre. Mr. Lee and Prove It: Prove it Ah, just the facts Oh, the confidential Ah, this case, this case This case that I have been working on so long So long This case is closed

Together with several Guardian colleagues, as part of a large journalistic consortium, we investigated the torture and death of Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna in Russian captivity. theguardian.com/world/2025/apr…

"Sources have also disclosed that the hyoid bone in her neck was broken. It is the kind of damage that can occur during strangulation. However, the exact cause of death may never be known because when her body was returned, certain parts were missing, namely the brain, eyes and

Thrilled to get an advance copy of tim weiner's THE MISSION, a deep-dive exploration of the 21st century #CIA. This is the book everyone's talking about. Already getting raves. (& bonus if u can spot a brief mention of yours truly!) Can't wait to read - hits shelves 7/15/25

“How do I become a private investigator?” We get that question a lot. Here’s Hal Humphreys’s 2-part answer: youtube.com/watch?v=DlfAHg…

New episode: Sound of Pursuit Podcast 7.8.25 - How to Advocate for Identity Theft Victims, with guest Carrie Kerskie youtu.be/MS-1lYv2bWM?si… via PI Education

I don’t know. I didn’t expect a parade but I pried the lid off a 27-year-old cold case. Zero interest from local SF media. Know why? Because victim a gnarly biker and not rich, cute, or in tech.

The Yogurt Shop Murders reminds us that convicting the wrong people traumatizes victims' family members. Kudos to the Cold Case officer for telling the truth: multiple profiles from the same unknown male at the crime scene is powerful proof of Scott & Springsteen's innocence.

This is least popular episode but maybe the most important. It’s about a #publicrecords fight that I won. Attorneys turned me down. I found language in SF Sunshine Ordinance Task Force that made San Francisco Police release records in 1998 cold case. share.google/0c9vJCXOtOjHvH…

In less than one month, Robert Roberson is scheduled to be executed in Texas. If the state goes through with it, he will be the first person executed in the US who was convicted based on the now widely debunked “shaken baby syndrome” hypothesis. bit.ly/3IaWMsR

How do you keep your company secure without making everyone’s job miserable? pursuitmag.com/corporate-secu…

In the Sound of Pursuit, our old friend SpencerPI.com opens up about an unsolved murder that’s haunted him for decades. That story has evolved into his own podcast: "The Gary Murphy Assassination: A San Francisco Cold Case.” Watch their convo here: youtu.be/sSLwfMuJ57s?si…