Brian v Lorna - Listen to the Podcast The high cost of cheating on your spouse. I was standing at the window looking down at the street four stories below when Shawna, my secretary, office manager, computer guru and all around everything opened my office door and told me there was a Mrs. Valerie Benson who wished to speak with me. I told her to send Mrs. Benson in and moved behind my desk. Shawna ushered Mrs. Benson in and I offered her my hand, introduced myself and asked her to have a seat. I sat down at my desk and asked: “What can I do for you Mrs. Benson?” “I’m hoping you can find my husband for me.” “May I ask who referred you to me?” “No one. I was leaving my attorney’s office and I saw the sign on your door that said Davis Investigations and I assumed you were a private investigator.” As she said that I mentally patted myself on the back again for being smart enough to set up my business close to a law office. I got a lot of business from people leaving the attorney’s office. “Why do you need someone to find your husband?” “I need to find him so I can divorce him.” “You don’t need to find him for that. I’m sure your attorney told you that you can divorce him for abandonment after a year’s absence.” “I can’t wait a year. I need to get rid of him before September 19th.” “Why is the date critical?” “I come into some money on September 20th and if I’m not rid of him by then he will end up getting half in the divorce and I don’t want that cheating son of a bitch to get a dime of it. I’m told a divorce will take six months so that just gives me eight months to find him and get rid of him.” “You could save yourself some money by just going to the police and file a missing person’s report and let them find him.” “My attorney told me it would be a waste of time. Since I’d kicked him out and told him I wanted nothing to do with him the police wouldn’t even take a report let alone look for him.” “Perhaps you should fill me in on the situation.” “I caught the asshole cheating on me and I kicked his ass out of the house, changed the locks and bought myself a gun. I told him if he tried to get into the house I’d shoot him in the balls. The house was mine before we married so he had no legal rights to it and to get in. He could have gotten a court order to get into to get his things, but he didn’t. He just left and I haven’t seen nor heard from him in over six months. The attorney told me that if we can find him quickly and have him served and he doesn’t fight the divorce it can all be over before I come in to the money. That gives me eight months to find him, serve him, and hope he doesn’t fight it. I don’t see why he would given that he has completely dropped out of sight and hasn’t tried to contact me at all.” I asked her for a list of relatives, friends and acquaintances, where he worked and anything else she could tell me that night give me a starting point. She told me he had no living relatives, but she gave me what she could and then said: “I don’t know the name of the floozy he was cheating on me with, but I did get her license plate number.” She gave it to me and I asked her how she had found out her husband was cheating. “I left work one day and I stopped at the CVC pharmacy on the way home. There is a motel across the street and I saw my husband’s truck in the parking lot. After filling my prescription I parked where I could watch his truck. About an hour later he came out of room 111 with a blond. They kissed, got in their cars and left. When she pulled out of the lot she went right by me and I got a look at her plate number and I wrote it down. I knew when I confronted him that evening he would deny it and say I was imagining things so I was going to throw her description, the room number and her plate number in his face when he denied it.” I told her what my rates were and she gave me a retainer. After she left I gave Shawna all the information Mrs. Benson had given me and told her to work her magic on the computer to