PI’s Declassified!

Private Detectives follow clues to unlock facts about legal, financial, or personal matters. They offer services such as preemployment verification, individual background profiles, and premarital screening. Some provide executive, corporate, and celebrity protection. Others investigate computer crimes, such as identity theft, harassing e-mails, and illegal downloading of copyrighted material. And yet others provide assistance for criminal defense or civil liability, insurance claims or fraud cases, child custody and protection cases, missing-persons and parental abductions. But what determines if an investigator is a “professional?” Tune in to hear noted Private Investigator Rory McMahon, author and college instructor, describe what it takes to make an investigator a professional.

With increasing numbers of veterans returning home and scores with physical disabilities, therapeutic horseback riding is getting attention. Wounded service personnel and veterans who have fought to preserve our freedom are being offered a process called Hippotherapy or Equine-Facilitated Psychotherapy. Tune in to hear Private Investigator Dave Townsend tell about his new passion and this important horse therapy program.

Do people really confess to crimes they don’t commit? Why would an innocent person incriminate himself and accept responsibility for breaking the law? What is it like to be falsely accused? And, w/hat would you do if you were the suspect? Fifteen-year-old Jacksonville, Florida’s Brenton Butler knows. Brenton was arrested for murder and confessed to the crime. His case was chronicled in the award-winning documentary, “Murder on a Sunday Morning.” Hear Brenton’s attorney Patrick McGuinness and private investigator Brian McGuinness talk about Benton’s case and their experience with confessions and police interrogations. False confessions and police interrogation expert Dr. Richard Leo, author of the multiple award-winning book, Police Interrogation and American Justice, has examined the practice and structure of police interrogation and will provide enlightening details about this fascinating phenomenon when an innocent person confesses to a crime.

Have you ever been a target of violence in the workplace or been fearful of a co-worker? Do you know someone who has? Have you felt bullied or threatened? When are words more than “just words?” Is there physical violence or a restraining order involved? What about a weapon? Is there escalating agitation or aggression? What is happening in the background?

What are you to do when you perceive a threat? Do you report it? What is your employer’s responsibility? Is intervention needed? Are there legal issues?

PI’s Declassified will discuss these questions from experts who specialize in identifying and addressing violence risk prediction? Violence assessment experts’ psychologist Dr. Michael Corcoran, private investigator James Cawood and attorney Sue Van Dermyden will speak to this stressful societal dilemma and focus on recommendations for addressing and reducing threats in the workplace.

Madalyn Murray O’Hair offended millions when she advocated keeping religion out of the schools in the 60’s. Founder of the American Atheists Association and President from 1963-1986, her law suit, Murray v. Curlett lawsuit led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling ending government sponsored prayer in American public schools. But what happened to her? She vanished in 1995. Private Investigator Tim Young played an integral part in uncovering the facts surrounding O’Hair’s disappearance. Tune in to hear the road Tim traveled to find the truth about what happened to the “most hated woman in America”.

Indicted on ten federal charges including conspiracy to commit murder, providing support to terrorist organizations, contributing services and support to Al Qaeda and the Taliban and using and carrying firearms and destructive devices during crimes of violence, John Walker Lindh is serving 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to all ten charges. As the images of Lindh in captivity in were circulating the globe, California licensed private investigators David Fechheimer and Barry Simon, experienced criminal defense investigators, were in Afghanistan where they spent three months investigating this extraordinary case. Tune in to hear the story of their investigation and their unique viewpoint of the impact of this case on America.

Who are those most likely to exploit the financial resources of the elderly, those who are the most vulnerable? And who will be exploited? Is it your mother, father, your sibling or your friend or neighbor? What can you do about it? What are some red flags that family members and others can heed when fraud is suspected? With baby boomers aging, the U.S., elders are quickly becoming a significant portion of the population. Even the 2000 census determined that 12.4 % of the U.S. population, almost 35 million people, were over the age of 65. Expert witness and Forensic Questioned Document Examiner, M. Patricia Fisher along with Licensed Private Investigator and Certified Fraud Examiner Kelly Paxton, both of whom specialize in Elder Fraud, will discuss the rapid growth of elder financial exploitation, key identifiers and key recommendations to protect your loved one’s financial assets.

Are you interested in the relics of detectives, spies and private eyes? PI Museum’s curator, Ben Harroll, has been collecting such artifacts for thirty-plus years. The PI Museum is the world’s only museum dedicated to finding, acquiring, preserving and displaying historic treasures from PI History. Ben says, “PI Museum is a legacy to the profession and to the men and women in it yesterday, today and tomorrow…and for generations to come.” Sharing the stories behind some of his many treasures, Ben will also tell of the future plans for his amazing collection, including taking this his PI Museumobile on the road.

Do you know when someone is lying? What are the objective signs? Would you like to develop expertise at analyzing another’s behavior and identifying deception? Greg Hartley, an expert interrogator, is just the instructor to teach you how hone your skills.

Genuine credentials should be foundational to the credibility of any expert witness. An expert witness is defined as one who has knowledge beyond that of an ordinary person and often gives testimony to understand or interpret an issue requiring a specific expertise. But…are an expert’s credentials always authentic? A background investigation of one expert revealed tainted qualifications. Tune in to hear the shocker uncovered by Private Investigator Chris Reynolds on a prosecutor’s key witness.