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Funny or Strange Investigation Requests and Case Stories (Part 2) Here is a compilation of funny case stories, wild a wacky calls from potential clients and other interesting case results that I have encountered over the past 28 years in the investigation business. Enjoy! As an apprentice investigator in the early 1980's, I was working a case where the non-custodial parent abducted the child. The client didn’t have cash to pay the firm, so they took her wedding ring as collateral. After the case was over, the case supervisor went to a jeweler to sell the ring. Turns out it was a cubic! I was interrogating a suspect in an employee theft case. I was playing "bad cop" and saying all kinds of accusatory things to her. She was calling me all kinds of names and said I was the biggest "jerk" she ever met. At the end of the day, after all the interviews, as I was leaving, she came up to me and said "Do you want to go out for a drink?" I couldn’t stop laughing. In another office case, one of the employees walked into the interrogation room and said "Okay, you got me!" I said "So what did you do? He said "I slept with the bosses wife." I said "That’s not why you’re here" Oops! In my first year as an apprentice, I was interviewing an female accident victim in her early 20's in a small office with very little air. She was very attractive and had her infant on her lap. Suddenly she said "My baby hasn’t has breakfast yet. Do you mind." She then lifted up her blouse and started to breast feed her baby. Feeling a bit uncomfortable and trying to make light of this situation, I then said, "I haven’t had breakfast either (pointing to the other one) Do you mind?" She couldn't stop laughing. Got a call on my cell phone from a lady who wanted a background check on her daughter's boyfriend. I told her I was in a meeting and will call back in 2 hours. I called back and she said "I'm sorry, I hired someone else." I said "Well, I was at a religious function and couldn't talk at that time." She shouted "Oh my lord, I didn't realize you were Christian. If I new that, I would have waited for your call." In the late 1980's I was hired to serve a subpoena on a guy who was evading service. I found out that he was playing golf at an exclusive country club. So I went to the Club’s bar during the lunch hour and waited for him to finish his round. While I was waiting, the waiter asked me if I wanted anything to eat. I said sure. So I had a full meal. After I ate, I asked the waiter for the bill. He asked me who I was waiting for and I told him. He told me not to worry about the bill. When the guy showed up in the bar, I served him and said thanks for lunch! I followed a Subject during the lunch hour to a local motel. He met a woman there and they went into a room for about an hour. I called my client and told her what happened. She later confronted her husband and he confessed that the woman was his backgammon partner and they play once a week. The client actually believed him. Here's a good one: A potential client emailed me and wanted to know how much I charge to get "effective" contact information of 50 CEO's so that she can send her resume to them directly. She then wanted to know if she could pay me once she got the job. Unreal! A woman called me to run a simple criminal background on her new boyfriend. I charged her a nominal fee and figured this would take me 5 minutes or so. Turns out the boyfriend had 58 felony convictions covering 3 states. The investigation and report took a half day to complete. So much for a simple search! I was canvassing a neighborhood in Van Nuys (late 1980's) on a fraud case, and a drunk gang-banger walks up to me and pulls out a knife. Not knowing what to do, I said "Can I buy you a beer?" He said, "Sure!" Turns out he knew about the case and helped crack it! Got a call from a woman who wanted me to find her high school boyfriend's cell number. She wanted the cell because every time she called his home his wife answered. Go figure? Guy calls my office from a city in the Midwest and wants his wife followed. I said that’s great, but we are in California. He said "West Coast California?" Is there any other? More to come... J R www.CaliPi.com |
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