By Simon Crittle
In a good example of bureaucracy gone mad, the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) will continue accepting applications for private investigator licenses until August 31 – the day PI licenses in Colorado will be abolished.
DORA told this blog that an unlicensed PI could face discipline right up until midnight August 30 ...
Jack Palladino, the private investigator hired by former President Bill Clinton during his 1992 campaign to help discredit women claiming extramarital affairs with him, last week suffered a serious head injury after being robbed outside of his San Francisco home.
Palladino, whose celebrity clients have also included Harvey…
Are you ready to take the plunge into the world of private investigations, but aren’t quite sure how to start?
Then you might want to take part in a training institute being held by the Professional Private Investigator Association of Colorado (PPIAC) on February 26 and 27.
Called the Colorado Investigative Development Institute, the training event ...
By Simon Crittle
A private investigator hired to look into supposed voter fraud has been arrested in Texas for running an air conditioner repairman off the road.
Mark Aguirre, a former Houston police captain, believed the repairman, David Lopez-Zuniga, was transporting 750,000 fake ballots. In fact, all he had in his truck was air conditioner ...
In the annals of true crime, the case of missing Salida mother, Suzanne Morphew, has recently captured the national imagination. America’s whodunnit sub-culture, a diverse collection of amateur sleuths and crime story geeks, is snooping around the intriguing case and is determined to figure out what really happened.
Not since JonBenet Ramsey’s 1996 death, in an upmarket ...
By Simon Crittle
A law that will allow Coloradans to have documents notarized remotely is a step closer to becoming permanent now that Secretary of State Jena Griswold has adopted amendments to Colorado Notary Program Rules, including remote notarization rules to implement Senate Bill 20-096.
The rules will become temporarily effective on December 31, 2020, and ...
By Simon Crittle
The US Department of Labor Statistics says private investigators earn on average just over $50,000 a year or about $25 an hour. Of course, some earn a lot more. As good as this might sound, you should know that not everyone who wants to be a PI actually ends up becoming one. Some say ...
By Simon Crittle
A desperate Colorado Springs family plans to hire a private investigator to locate Christine Pierce, a well-known local musician, who has been missing since October 16.
Pierce’s niece Sabrina Cooke described her aunt as a beloved daughter, sister, aunt, friend, and much-loved drummer in the Colorado Springs band, Riverbottom.
“No ...
By Simon Crittle
Today’s world is complicated: companies are becoming more powerful than nations, the lines between public and corporate institutions grow murkier, and the internet is shredding our privacy. To combat these onslaughts, people everywhere — rich and not so rich, in business and in their personal lives — are turning away from traditional police, lawyers, ...