" The thieves turn out to be the safety machine ’s brother and cousins , and it was our guard ’s brilliant idea for them to come and hook the position and make it look like an armed robbery . "
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admonition : This Emily Price Post mentions human trafficking , child insult , and child sexual ravishment .
Private investigatorshave an incredibly unique job where they exist in a gray zone in which they exist as civilians but act like detectives.
In TV and movies,P.I.s are sly. They move through the shadows to gain intel, whether investigating their clients' former business partners or cheating spouses.
In a recent Reddit deep dive, I came across this post in ther/AskRedditsub where one user invited private investigators toshare some of their wildest cases. A lot of them sounded like disturbing plots out of a true crime series, but many others were just as absurd.
Below is a combination that will give you chills, leave you confused, and perhaps, encourage a bit of laughter.
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2.“We had a case years ago where two best friends ran a bar in a border town. One guy was a hard-working, professional business person. The other was not, and was running drugs through the bar for the drug cartel.”
3.“Got hired by a woman who thought her husband was cheating. I followed him for a few days, but instead of meeting someone, he kept going to this abandoned house in the woods every other night.”
4.“My company sometimes does paternity investigations and DNA testing. We had a case where a woman with a newborn baby filed for child support, and the man disputed that it was his. We tested them all. He wasn’t the father, she wasn’t the mother. The latter part was surprising, so we reached out to the lawyers since we wanted to rule out a sample error (accidental or otherwise) or medical stuff like surrogate pregnancy or chimerism. We were eventually informed that the mother’s medical records contained no evidence she’d ever been pregnant. The creepy part is that no one had any idea where she’d gotten the baby, or who the real parents were.”
5.“With most homicides, you can kinda do the math; the money, power, betrayal, humiliation. But torture is always so bonkers. I saw a kid a couple of years ago where the mom put wires under her kid’s nails. Those cases sit with me for a while.”
6.“The BEST case I was part of involved a security guard my firm hired to do night watch on an electronics store. I was part of a small firm that, at the time, provided security guards and private investigators. One night, we get a call from the guard. He’d had the shit kicked out of him, been tied to chair, escaped, and called the cops and the office to report a robbery at the store. Three attackers managed to pry the back door open and subdue the guard and proceeded to rob the place of about a $100k worth of shit. The guard told a compelling story and looked like shit.”
7.“I wasn’t a detective, but I worked as a skip tracer for a credit card bank in the early 2000s. I was a bill collector, basically, but because of my ability to track down people who had ‘skipped out’ on their debts, I was put on a ‘task force’ to go after accounts that exclusively had zero contact information.”
8.“The job was outsourced by another agency. It was for that evening, giving us only three or four hours to get ready (an important detail, as it meant we did not have time to screen the job and get all the details we’d normally ask for). The brief was that the client suspected her husband was having an affair with a coworker (he worked at a hotel in a capacity I don’t recall).”
" We sent two agents to supervise him at oeuvre , requiring several hour of exertion , all the while putting more on the disbursal check as the squad had to keep buying drink to quash raising suspicion . The guest would phone for update every 20 second despite being secern not to make contact and that a full account would be put out in short order .
The agents managed to tail the individual until the end of his shift ( figure nothing unusual ) and discreetly followed him home , deciding to give the client a pack and substantiate the address he ’d come to was his planetary house and not the coworker he was allegedly jockey with . The client skirt the question and demanded that the team return to the hotel .
Confused and pissed , the agents snuff it back . They were greeted by the visual sense of the client scrambling out of a bush , binoculars in paw , immediately opposite the hotel , where , judging from the state of her clothes , she had on the face of it been most of the eve . Given how dark it was , there was no path she could have seen anything even with the binoculars .
Furious , the agentive role question her , and it turned out the man they ’d been watching was n’t her hubby but rather someone she ’d been sleeping with casually who was no longer refund her calls .
severe words were had ( and management even talked about bringing in law ) and we blacklisted her . She did , however , give quick and in full . "
– u / mrhelmand
9.“Actual P.I. here, but the only case that comes to mind was a woman who hired us because she thought her husband was cheating. He was going out at night, being cagey about where he was going, and just generally acting weird. Turns out he was just going to a hookah bar and hanging out there for hours, then going home. No women, just him. I guess he needed some me time.”
" I decided to follow them as they left in a van and ended up going on an adventure that end in Utah . Most people would ’ve arrest well before that , but it was billable fourth dimension , and my gut told me something weird was go on .
It was early morning the next 24-hour interval , and I cease up having to break off following them as they tear off the highway and into the hills , and there was no way to follow mighty aside . As soon as the sunlight was up , I followed the van ’s track for about 30 minutes and ended up at a cement shack in the middle of nowhere . I obscure my car around a bending and took my camera to take photos of the exterior of the construction .
I stay on for most of the daylight before anything come about , but ultimately , the first guy and his associate came stumbling out , the first guy obviously elate but dragging a Mexican valium as the mathematical group head to the van . Then , the first kid comes drop back out . Hands bound to the rope and covered in filth . The rope continues as 10 nestling are eventually hurried out in a Ernst Boris Chain gang and thrown into the van .
I was n’t shocked , but I was disgusted , and the entire clip I was snap photos with my Nikon , sample to get clear exposure of not just the men but the children . I await until they leave , then drove as fast as possible to the sheriff ’s part and presented my finding . The group was find and eventually led to the apprehension of some very prominent people in the earthly concern of human trafficking .
I always think it ’s strange how one on the face of it odd stalker ’s mistake managed to bring down an entire hoop of seller .
I finish up eating most of my expenses , but I consider it one of my life ’s accomplishment , so it balances out . "
– u / BaschRozon
11.“I was a P.I. for about eight years. I mostly worked injury cases for insurance companies, but I did work for one company that did everything other than insurance for a while.”
" I once had to turn up a man experiencing homelessness so I could essentially give him $ 300k . He had been maliciously charge , likely the best way to put it , for a crime he did not charge . essentially , he was railroad . He nonplus half the money , and his attorney held the rest . Then his menage burned down , so he was stateless . I spent three nights a calendar week for a calendar month search for this guy rope . I must have handed out more business cards and photos then than in my integral career . Finally , I got a random phone call , and it was him . Never constitute out if he start his diddly-squat together or not .
I had another where the guy cable was on work comp for some injury . High - paying job , construction director or some such . While on WC , he was work at another caller , doing the same thing , two hours forth . While I caught him working that other job , I also caught him cheat on his married woman . Like , ' having sex in the backseat of her car / his motortruck midday in a parking lot ' cheat on his wife . I never had to go to a hearing for that one , but I would have die out to be a fly on the wall for that mediation . "
– atomic number 92 / ZenithRepairman
12.“Called the cops on like the drunkest driver ever. We followed the driver around as he went in circles for a while. The cops eventually caught up to us and arrested the guy when he stopped at a gas station to puke his guts out in the parking lot.”
13.“My dad had a bailiff/collection agency/P.I. business. Most of the work he did was skip tracing, cheating spouses, and insurance fraud. I was 16 and he had me do a ‘stakeout.’ The lady came out of her door and waved at me, then gave me the finger. I sucked at it, obviously.”
" Once my dad had me go to this hombre ’s house ( in the middle of nowhere ) to see if he was cook an harm . I strike hard on the door and he said he was coming . He take about three minutes to get to the door , and he wasreallyvisibly injured . I was supposed to ask if ' put in hurt guy wire ’s name here ' was habitation ( because I had no understanding to be there ) . Then I was supposed to excuse because I was looking for a acquaintance with the same name , but my historic period . I experience awful . The indemnity company pay up out really quickly . "
– uranium / FakeAsFakeCanBe
14.“I’ve talked to child molesters, murderers, rapists, domestic abusers, animal abusers…you name it. I go over all the most minute details with them. ‘Yeah, you stabbed your wife. How many times? Where? Show me how. How long? What motion? How much force were you using?’ Blah blah blah. I’ve talked to child predators and discussed all their motivations and their past and how they did what they did, how many times, and every excruciating detail down to where and how they finished and what they did with it. I’ve heard it all.”
" But for me ? This chick who operate with kids that got trip up with a shit ton of the most sadistic child sexual abuse images you could imagine .
It was n’t even the kid sexual ill-usage images that creeped me out . In my channel of workplace , you get used to get a line about it .
It was the gloomy , sadistic , misrepresented , jubilant conversation she had with her online chum discussing how see newborn , infants , toddlers and little kids squirm in torture as they were being sexually destroyed turned them on , and then discussing / plan how they wanted to find a small fry of their own — and specific kids in their families they had an eye on — to do that ca-ca to . Together .
I have intercourse you ’re wondering : probation . "
– u / Twenty_twenty4
15.“The saddest case we had was a stunning 24 to 26-year-old woman whose 60ish-year-old accountant husband was suspected of sleeping with his secretary (who looked like she’d fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down).”
" The client hired us to follow him on a night he was ' put to work late ' . Sure enough he and the secretary left the office on fourth dimension and went to a ginmill together . After a few drinks they retired to her railroad car and we got some pretty damning footage of them shagging in the backseat ( classy ! ) .
We gave the footage and report to the client , who promptly burst into tears and bear the $ 1,800 or so invoice . The saddest part of the story is that she came back four times . Each time he was caught literally with his pants down . At the repository ’s sign of the zodiac , shag in the motorcar , shag in the billet with the blinds open in the middle of the twenty-four hour period — you name it .
After about $ 15k Charles Frederick Worth of invoices , we actually sat down with her and excuse we were go to stop taking her piece of work . It was just vicious to keep lease her money to show her footage of her husband have it off his ugly ass bimbo over and over and over .
We never realise her again . I hope she took him for all he was worth . "
– uracil / AviMin
16.“P.I. for five years. I had a few exciting, not necessarily strange cases. One incident was a coach who was sleeping with one of the female players. One of the benched players hired me to document the coach for sleeping with one of the starters on the team…they were careful with how they arranged their meetings, and it took me a bit to document it, but I ultimately got the information.”
If you are interested that a child is experiencing or may be in risk of abuse , you could call or text theNational Child Abuse Hotlineat 1 - 800 - 422 - 4453(4.A.CHILD ) ; service can be provide in over 140 languages .
