Friday, December 11, 2020

People Who Hired Private Investigators Share Their Discoveries


When anyone says private investigator, the first thing that comes to mind is a shady guy in a trench coat following you around in a car. Turns out that's only part of what they do. A lot of it is apparently searching through old documents. For some legal drama, here are some lawyers biggest revelations in court.

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Text - antisocialoctopus 32.6k points · 1 day ago & 18 More My mother's dad walked out on mom, my aunt, and my grandmother when mom was just 5. A few years later, my grandmother died of a grand mal seizure. Mom was taken in by her grandparents, but she always wondered why her dad left and what became of him. In her 40's, she saved up a bit and hired a PI to track him down. Turns out he moved over time from Pittsburg to California where he wound up in prison for armed robbery and so e other viole

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Text - SimonSaysx 27.0k points · 1 day ago 92 My grandmothers first "boyfriend" after my grandfather died said he was a retired cop and a veteran. They enjoyed dancing to country music together, and bought a new car, in her name though, even though she can't drive anymore. My uncles hired a PI. Turns out, that old bastard had a habit of shacking up with widows and bleeding them dry. (The boyfriend not the PI).

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Text - grzzlybr 24.3k points · 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago 22 & 5 More My sister (mid 30s) is adopted and hired one to find her estranged biological father. They came back saying that not only was he still alive and nearby, but he had a daughter. Meaning she also had a biological sibling! Further digging from the PI uncovered that they weren't just similar ages either, they were exactly the same age. The evidence suggested that my sister had a twin and her birth father had taken the twin and va

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Text - barcodez1 23.8k points · 1 day ago · edited 21 hours ago 9 3 33 When I met my wife, she seemed to have a normal modern family. Two moms, two dads. Over time it became apparent her step-dad wasn't around much. Holidays, birthdays, you name it, he'd pop in to say hi, grab a nap, whatever, then take off again. My wife's family thought this was normal, just the way it had always been since they were teenagers. He claimed to have a job following FedEx trucks around the state to prevent theft a

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Text - Dudeinairport 22.2k points · 1 day ago 32 8 2 My wife and I are friends with a lot of bar owners and bar tenders because of her job. We knew this one owner/tender, we will call him Dana, that was the nicest fucking guy. Like, if he knew you were sick, he would cover your shift at your bar and then give you the tips he made that night. Just the best guy. Then one night we are drinking with another bartender friend, Ben. Ben let's us know that Dana has brain cancer. He's been keeping it qui

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Text - Then Dana's business partner got suspicious and hired a PI to follow Dana on a day he took off for "medical reasons". Turned out Dana spent the day drinking at another bar. No doctor visits. The business partner confront Dana who comes clean. He did not have cancer. He was just saying that to get money from his friends. Apparently lots of bartenders had been giving him money. Dana is more or less run out of town. He moved to a different city, and I know he slowly paid Ben back, but it too

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Text - hm_ellie 22.1k points · 1 day ago O4 3 2 8 My parents hired a private investigator to find out who my online bf was when I was 13. The PI came back and told us he was just a fat ass 13 yo... Imfao

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Text - eftah1991 5.4k points · 1 day ago 2 2 @3 8 3 I know someone that hired a pet detective to find their cat and he fuckin found him. Trainwreck071302 2.4k points · 1 day ago My little brother hired one to find his dog. He was living in L.A. and his complex let the dog out on accident. Small dog some mutt of toy breeds. He looked on his own for two weeks and was devastated. My folks found this guy in Indiana who was like $3k to hire but he guaranteed he'd find the dog or he wouldn't get paid.

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Text - badassmum 21.0k points · 1 day ago · edited 17 hours ago 2 2 2 3 2 8 5 My story is a little different, I had a PI investigate me! About 6 years ago I became very ill with a variety of issues, that left me really quite poorly. I was an optician and so using my hands with arthritis was just never going to be a plan. So I applied for (U.K.) disability support. I sailed through, and started receiving a monthly amount. Now, fast forward a few years. I then start getting restless at home so I r

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Text - "aha! Gotcha!" Moment. Their PI provided photos of me walking unaided. When I sat in the meeting, with a lot of smug fraud officers and my solicitor I felt sick to my stomach. I really couldn't work out wtf was going on, They were trying to make it look like I had been running and jogging but I knew I walked never any further than 5 meters to my car. Anyway. Solicitor pointed out the photos were screenshots of a video. Asked for the videos. Videos were of me.. struggling to walk. One of t

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Text - KenComesInABox 18.2k points · 1 day ago I was a private investigator for a little bit. Most work PIs do is searching financial/court records and serving documents. But one time I was paid by wealthy parents to stake out their college senior who had stopped returning their calls. They were worried about her. These parents paid like $40k for round the clock monitoring just to find out their daughter dropped out of school and was a full time ski bum. Btw stakeouts are mostly just sitting in

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Text - Curious-Unicorn 16.2k points ·1 day ago S I know somebody who was like an assistant to the actual PI. She basically went to bingo with a camera in her purse to capture video of a woman. The woman claimed that a car accident had completely immobilized her. But she would take off the neck brace all the time, playing bingo hours on end. Nothing exciting, just capturing fraud.

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Text - catfarts99 15.5k points · 1 day ago S E3 I had a girlfriend that worked for one for a while. She said that the majority of their work was insurance scams. She took a lot of pictures of guys who said they were hurt on the job playing golf and surfing and such.

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Text - SnooPickles3213 12.5k points · 1 day ago 92 In his twenties, my SO hired a PI to find out what had become of the childhood bully who had made his life hell, and who had vowed to kill him. Actually, he did try by bringing a loaded gun to school, but some other kid ratted him out & the bully got expelled-but still lived in the neighborhood for a few more years & beat up my SO every chance he got. The PI found the bully living in a town more than an hour outside the big city, in a dead-end j

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Text - dewayneestes 9.7k points · 1 day ago Had a babysitter we thought was stealing from us, luckily our neighbor was a PI couple and they ran a background check for $10. Babysitter had a string of DUIS and a few days before a large fine was due, my camera disappeared. He also stole money from my kids piggy banks. He sort of disappeared but was also really into Instagram so I surreptitiously followed him. He started babysitting again for a single mom (easy target) and posted a lot of 'fun' pics

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Text - Liberi_Fatali561 9.5k points · 1 day ago · edited 1 day ago I used to work for an insurance defense firm years ago. Best PI story I have is where we hired one to tail a guy who was suing our client for an injury that wasn't entirely our client's fault. The guy was refusing to settle, and was insisting on going to trial even though we offered a fair sum that would've paid his medical bills. The PI we hired got some good pics that showed the plaintiff was nowhere near as "injured" as he cla

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Text - Later in a deposition, the attorney slid the picture to the plaintiff and said something like "Mr. Smith (obviously not his real name), who is the woman in this picture? We would like to schedule a deposition with her as well." The guy went ghost white and told his attorney he wanted to settle. At least he was smart enough to realize that if his wife found out the other woman was gonna be deposed, he was gonna have to get a family law attorney as well, because the divorce papers would soo

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Text - Der_genealogist 6.7k points · 1 day ago One of my jobs is to search for long lost relatives (usually several generations ago). Typically, the case is about old plots of land where I should track down owners (or their heirs) to update the land registry because a state wants to build there something. Let me tell you, the amount of information you can find on Google and in public records is astounding if you know where to look.

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