PI’s Declassified!

It doesn’t matter who you are, you want to be safe where you work. If you are an employer, you certainly want to ensure your employees work in a safe environment and that workers have the qualifications that they claim. If you are an employee, it is important to have an assurance that you are not working with those who could cause you or your co-workers harm. For employers, just one bad hiring decision can create a legal and financial nightmare. One way to reduce risk is through pre and post employment screening, most commonly called a background check.

Tune in to hear Lester Rosen. He is an attorney, a private investigator, an author, an owner of a background screening company, and an industry background screening expert. Les will offer the ins and outs and ups and downs of employment screening including what is legal and what is not. Whether you are the one who does the hiring or you are the one who is getting hired, you do not want to miss this program.

Achieving a balance between privacy of our own personal identifying information versus a legitimate need to access that same information is a difficult task. Don’t we each want to have all of our personal identifying details kept private? Of course we do! Conversely, if we were involved in a legal action, either civil or criminal, wouldn’t we want to be able to locate an individual who could provide information on our behalf? Consider if that person also has a common name name like John Jones or Robert Smith? How can that person be found? What about collecting a debt, finding a birth family or tracking down someone who has abducted a child? These are all important questions to contemplate.

Privacy Advocate Beth Givens, founder and director of Privacy Rights Clearing House, Co-Owner & publisher of PI Magazine Jimmie Mesis and Rebecca Roberts, National Marketing Director on IRB Search, a subscriber based on-line date provider will be joining together for this provocative discussion.

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.

Can you tell when another is lying? Dr. Paul Ekman, noted psychologist, believes you can with the proper training. In fact, Dr. Ekman says “The truth is written all over your face.” Dr. Ekman is a pioneer in the study of emotions and their relationship to facial expressions. A widely published author, Dr. Ekman developed the Facial Action Coding System (FACS) to classify every conceivable human facial expression. Joining Dr. Ekman for this provocative topic is Gene Cella, polygraph examiner, licensed private investigator and interview and interrogation expert. Formerly law enforcement, Cella brings his experience of conducting thousands of interviews during his career.

It was reported that Elizabeth Fern Rathjen walked away from Stockton State Mental Hospital in 1956. But did she? Mass graves were found with at least 40 intact human skeletons. Is one of the skeletons Elizabeth? Her daughter Joyce Tafoya thinks so. Tammy Davidson, the licensed private investigator Joyce hired to locate her mother, thinks it is a good possibility. Joyce ran into obstacles at every turn. She finally was granted an injunction to keep the skeletons from just being reburied when unearthed by a construction company working on the old hospital site and to get them examined for time of death, sex and height. Will Joyce be successful in getting DNA tested on the two skeletons that are potential matches? The State of California Department of Health has refused. What do Joyce and Tammy do now?

What is happening to our children? Children are being bought, sold and smuggled right under our noses - - right here in the United States, maybe right in your own neighborhood. Sometimes it is even the parents who profit. It is a frightening thought.

Usually for sexual gratification, it is often organized by mob-like networks and children are lured by some enticing pretext and transported to large convention cities.The demand is everywhere. Tune in to hear Human Trafficking expert Dottie Laster report on this horrific but highly lucrative crime. Private investigators frequently get involved. Listen to Private Investigator Melinda Kidder talk about her real life child trafficking case. It will give you chills.

Albany, New York elder abuse investigative specialist Jamie Richardson says of patients in nursing homes, “The physical and mental frailty of many nursing home residents increase their vulnerability and lessens the chance that abuse will be reported and remedied . . . from overmedication to physical and sexual assault and neglect leading to decubitus ulcers and even death, these complex and challenging cases often go undetected.’ Do you have a loved one in a nursing home or know someone who does? Are you concerned about their welfare? Do they get the proper care? Jamie Richardson along with Carole Herman, the founder of grass roots elder abuse advocacy non-profit aptly named, Foundation Aiding The Elderly (FATE) will discuss how to recognize the signs of maltreatment and what to do when it is identified.

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.

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.

What must it be like to have a missing family member - - a missing daughter, a missing son, a missing sister? What is it like not to know what happened - - a person you loved who just vanished into thin air? You look twice every time you drive down the street and see someone with the same build and the same color hair. With each passing year, you imagine what they look like, if they have changed, if they are ok . . . or not. You never give up hope!

Join us in talking with Molly's Bish's sister, Heather. Sixteen-year-old Molly went missing 10 years ago from Warren, MA where she was working as a life guard. Hear from Teresa Ahern whose nineteen-year-old daughter, Kyla Porter, disappeared from Holiday, Florida. Tune in as Massachusetts private investigator Tom Shamshak, a missing person's specialist talks with these family members and PI's Declassified about investigating and resolving cases like the cases involving Molly and Teresa.