Cheaters Beware - Results are Guaranteed with this Sacramento Private Investigator

If you think that your partner could be cheating on you, one of the things that you may have considered is hiring a private investigator. You've seen it done in movies and there's a chance that a friend or family member may have caught a cheating partner through the use of a private investigator. Before you decide to go ahead and hire a private investigator to catch a cheating partner, you should be sure to weigh the pros and cons that are associated with doing so.  Here are three reasons to hire a Ultimate Edge Investigations:

Find Out if Your Partner is Cheating 

When you go to a good private investigator, there is a strong likelihood that you will get to find out whether or not your partner is cheating. Since this is the sole reason that you are hiring a private investigator to begin with, this is an obvious pro to the situation. If you really want to know if your partner is having an affair, then hiring a private investigator may be the right choice for you.

Be Able to Make the Decision to Leave or Stay 

One of the good things about hiring a private investigator and finding out whether or not your partner is cheating is that you will be able to decide if you want to leave your partner or stay in the relationship. The decision will be yours, as many women and men do choose to stay in relationshipsafter they have found out their partner is cheating. At the same time, however, you will get to base your decision on what you have learned instead of just assumptions that your partner may or may not be cheating.

Someone Else Will Do the "Dirty Work" For You 

One of the main benefits of hiring a private investigator is that you will be able to have someone else do all of the "dirty work" for you. If you are the type of person who does not even know where to begin in your "investigation," hiring a private investigator who is experienced in his or her field will be able to get the job done right. This is one of the main reasons that many women and men choose to hire private investigators to catch a cheating partner.

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10 Ways an Attorney Can Effectively Use a Private Investigator

An attorney may think that they do not have any need for an experienced private investigator because of the variety of skills and resources that they employ.  But have you ever found yourself staring at a computer screen and asking, “I know the answer is out there…Where do we go from here?”  Although law school and career experience provide an attorney with a number of useful research techniques and litigation skill, they do have limits.

Consulting with a professional private investigator can help attorney’s to leverage your position and find creative and efficient ways to come out ahead of your adversary.

Here are 10 ways that an attorney can use a professional private investigator:

(1) Locate People
It may be a witness or an heir. Perhaps it’s a former employee who can shed light on corporate misconduct. Or maybe you need to locate a witness in possession of the proverbial “smoking gun.” Whether you would like to interview, serve, or investigate someone, an investigator can help you to identify and locate the individual.

(2) Locate Assets
Investigators are skilled at locating assets such as real estate, valuable property (artwork, antiques, collectibles, etc.), and vehicles (motor vehicles, aircraft, vessels, etc.). An investigator can also help attorneys to identify the location both domestic and offshore bank accounts (though the details of these assets may not necessarily be disclosed by banking institutions without court order or permission from the account holder – see our post 5 Myths: What a Private Investigator Cannot (Legally) Get.

(3) Leverage for Negotiations
An investigator can pull together key sources and intelligence to inform your side during litigation, an M &A deal, internal investigation, or any other adversarial situation that can make the difference between a favorable settlement.

(4) Enforce Judgments
A judgment is only useful if you are able to enforce it. An investigator can help attorneys to identify current assets and any efforts to hide or misrepresent them through the transfer to family members, friends or other parties.

(5) Connect the Dots
Investigators can help you to know who is actually sitting on the other side of the table during litigation or a potential business deal. You can gain immeasurable negotiation power by identifying who is actually behind a faceless corporation or tying together undisclosed connections.

(6) Predict Your Opponent’s Next Move
Through an investigation, you can learn your opponent’s history and patterns of behaviors so as to best predict how they will react under pressure. This will help you to be successful in litigation strategizing, during cross examination, or at the deal table.

(7) Prep For Cross Examination
During preparation for a deposition or courtroom testimony, an investigator’s report detailing your witnesses’ weaknesses, background, and behavioral tendencies may be one of your most valuable tools. This can also be useful in identifying information against your client, so you can be prepared for what may come up during the course of the litigation.

(8) Collect and review electronic evidence
Whether it is an adversarial matter or an internal investigation, investigators may be used to efficiently recover electronic files – including those that a subject believes he or she has successfully deleted. Investigators are frequently used to identify and analyze a subject’s emails, documents, or other files.

(9) Trademark and Intellectual Property Monitoring
Investigators can be used to successfully police a company’s products throughout the world. Counterfeiting and improper diversion of products onto the grey market are just two of the most common areas where an investigator can provide intelligence and assistance.

(10) Reconstruction
A historical reconstruction may be helpful in a number of different areas. Perhaps you need to review the history of a family to locate heirs. It could be a corporate history or a chain of title issue in a real estate matter. Whatever the issue, an investigator can help to identify and piece together long lost documents, facts and witnesses.

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Crime victims and their families are increasingly turning to private investigators to help solve their cases.
 
What is driving the trend?

A valley P.I. says a number of his new clients are not satisfied with how their cases are being investigated by law enforcement agencies impacted by budget cuts and layoffs.

A Southland man hired a private investigator to help crack a case of sexual abuse involving his daughter.
        
Mike Simpfenderfer recalled the moment in 2009, when his then 13 year old daughter Taylor told him that someone very close to the family had sexually abused her.

"You feel everything from what did I not do to protect her to how could this happen to my child, you cry inside," said Simpfenderfer.

After filing a report with Los Angeles County Sheriff's detectives, Simpfenderfer decided to get extra help in seeking justice for his daughter.
     
He hired valley private investigator Luis Bolanos.

Simpfenderfer says the investigator was able to secure information now critical to the pending civil case against the man accused of molesting his daughter.

"He gave me invaluable insight and information that we needed that has helped us to this day," said Simpfenderfer.

The demand for private investigators is certainly on the rise.

Investigators are part of a broader category of "security related services", in which consumer spending is forecast to grow at more than 6 percent per year over the next few years, reaching almost $20 billon dollars a year by 2016 according to industry analysts.

Like many private investigators, Robert Nichols of Rancho Mirage once worked as a law enforcement officer. 

Nichols says upwards of 20 percent of his clients approach him saying they are not satisfied with how their cases are being handled by detectives in law enforcement.

"I have a lot of victims of crimes that call me saying they've made police reports.  They have the police involved, but they want more, and they don't understand a lot of the time how busy law enforcement is," said Nichols.

Palm Desert Police Captain Kevin Vest says experienced and licensed private investigators can play a useful role, especially in cases like missing persons or financial crimes.

But Vest also warns it is not unheard of for some private investigators to use questionable tactics while working on a case, and in some instances, might secure information or evidence that can't be used. 

"My reservations are one obviously, who the detective is that is doing the work.  Secondly, is what they obtain.  Is what they find admissable in court here?  Is it going to be a benefit to the prosecution?" asked Vest.

Simpfenderfer says he and his daughter Taylor have a very strong case against the accused, and are grateful for the work done by Luis Bolanos.

After trying to take her own life three years ago, Taylor is now appearing in Youtube videos with her dad, raising awareness about child sex abuse and neglect.

Also, after finishing highschool one year ahead of schedule, the 17 year old is now preparing for a career in real estate.

"Now she has moved on from being a victim, to surviving, to thriving," said her father.

Taylor and her dad are also now advocates for the group "PAVE", which stands for "Promoting Awareness - Victim Empowerment".

Mattel's Lie Detector Game, 1960

Every novice detective in the 1960's desired this toy. There are 24 cartoon criminals and one of them has committed a crime. You need to solve this mystery by interrogating all the suspects with the Lie Detector machine.

To begin with, all these suspects not only look guilty, but they look familiar! If you acquire this game, notice how many real people that you know actually resemble Lie Detector suspects.

Lie Detector still holds up as a very fun game, and I personally feel that it is because of the superb artwork. Mattel re-issued this game as Spy Detector with different artwork, and it did not sell nearly as well. Pressman released an updated version of Lie Detector in the 1980's, also with different artwork, and some different suspects.

To play Lie Detector, the Suspect Cards are divided among the game players. One of the six red and black square "Guilty" cards is inserted into the back of the Lie Detector machine with all players unaware of which card and which suspect's name is inserted into the machine.

One by one, each player questions the suspects by taking their suspect cards, placing them over the front of the Lie Detector and inserting the Lie Detector's wand through the hole in the suspect card and into the Lie Detector itself. The Teacher's testimony is that the guilty person has a "mustache". Her card is placed over the machine and tested by inserting the wand though the hole in the card. If her testimony is false, a bell rings and the needle on the Lie Detector machine points to false. If it is true, no bell rings and the needle points to "True".

Included in the game are special "Secret Information" cards. These cards have testimony that is known only to the player that has those cards.

By process of elimination, the suspects are narrowed down. When a player feels he knows who has committed the crime, he can declare that he would like to "make an arrest" and can state who he thinks is guilty. He looks at the guilty card in the Lie Detector machine. If he has named the correct person, he pulls the card out and shows the other players that he has won that round. If his guess is incorrect, he pushes the guilty card back into the Lie Detector and is eliminated from that round of play.