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Howie Kahn - Becoming a Private Investigator

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A fascinating guide to a career as a private investigator written by award-winning journalist Howie Kahn and based on the real-life experiences of an expert in the fieldessential reading for someone considering a path to this profession.
Becoming a Private Investigatorputs a seemingly out-of-reach profession within the your grasp. Weaving practical how-to advice with inspiring case studies, Kahn provides actionable steps anyone can take to pursue a career as a P.I. as he shadows two experienced American P.I.s, Sheila Wysocki and Mark Gillespie, both of whom are investigating a series of deaths about which many questions remain. What skills must they master to find out the truth? What risks must they take to succeed? In a narrative full of shocking details,Becoming a Private Investigatorsheds light on the professionals who fight for justice and change the lives of others forever.

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B ECOMING A N EUROSURGEON

B ECOMING A V ETERINARIAN

B ECOMING A V ENTURE C APITALIST

B ECOMING A H AIRSTYLIST

B ECOMING A R EAL E STATE A GENT

B ECOMING A M ARINE B IOLOGIST

B ECOMING AN E THICAL H ACKER

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B ECOMING A Y OGA I NSTRUCTOR

B ECOMING A R ESTAURATEUR

B ECOMING A P RIVATE I NVESTIGATOR

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B ECOMING A C URATOR

B ECOMING AN A RCHITECT

B ECOMING A F ASHION D ESIGNER

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Kahn, Howie, author.

Title: Becoming a private investigator / Howie Kahn.

Description: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2019. | Series: Masters at work

Identifiers: LCCN 2018057870| ISBN 9781982103989 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781982103996 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Private investigators. | Private security servicesVocational guidance.

Classification: LCC HV8081.K34 2019 | DDC 363.28/9023dc23

LC record available at https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__lccn.loc.gov_2018057870&d=DwIFAg&c=jGUuvAdBXp_VqQ6t0yah2g&r=jOP_-CgRZWvBrDdCwa8xatiC6xfq_b-txHvQ-EzzwapJfII4Aa7gU5HEQRlR4PPw&m=Xl-p5qcrqrpjgVxalrVVSN6kTUOwteuSIhyhJ9dOg60&s=h2pUHlXEXko5SWHNJCf24raT_-YvW1_zQoSu8MbaZQc&e=

ISBN 978-1-9821-0398-9

ISBN 978-1-9821-0399-6 (ebook)

AUTHORS NOTE

Certain names and identifying facts have been altered by the author.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION

T his is a book about real-life haunting. The private investigators chronicled are the ones who choose to take it on, working on behalf of the dead. Each of the deceased was laid to rest, but without peace. Their families and friends remained. Believing theyd been forsaken by law enforcement, they all sought help at the fringe of the law.

Not all private investigators focus on the dead. Some make a living busting cheating spouses for fees ranging from $50 per hour on the lower end to $500,000 for a longer-lasting, high society sting. Other PIs work on contract for insurance providers, investigating claims ranging from alleged on-the-job injuries to property and vehicle damage.

Fortune 500 caliber companies hire PIs to conduct background checks on potential employees, to look into current employees suspected of wrongdoing, and to make sure disgruntled ex-employees dont return to their erstwhile offices with a gun and the intentions to use it. Increasingly, wealthy parents are hiring private investigators to deliver intelligence to them on their sons or daughters significant others in order to avoid bringing a fraud or a grifter into the family fold. Other parents need private investigators to help them find their missing or kidnapped children. Those cases can last hours, weeks, or years.

According to the US Department of Labors Bureau of Labor Statistics, 41,400 private investigators were working in the US in 2016 with a projected occupational growth rate of 11 percent by 2026. Seven percent is the average occupational growth rate for jobs here, so the number of PIs in America, according to the BLS, is growing faster than average. That may be because of the dying nature of privacy itself. As social media has made it easier than ever to take account of the lives of others, more people spend at least some part of their day investigating somebody else in a casual way. A desire to professionalize that behavior with greater frequency seems inevitable in our burgeoning surveillance society; Facebook stalking can easily be an antecedent to a career in computer forensics. Start-up culture, hinged on the notion of disrupting institutional norms, may also contribute to the growth of the private investigation field. Since the criminal justice system does not always perform with the greatest amount of precision, PIs can often fill in and expose staggering investigative gaps thereby acting as disruptors. According to the Murder Accountability Project, a nonprofit founded in 2015 by a retired investigative reporter turned homicide archivist named Thomas K. Hargrove, there have been more than 200,000 unsolved murders in the United States since 1980.

In talking with more than a dozen private investigators, each one emphasized rehabilitating the image of their profession. Theres concern, industry-wide, that theres too much confusion between their actual work and that belonging to hard-boiled detective characters from TV, on film, and in literature. Being a PI has nothing to do, one investigator told me, with a pebbled glass door and a leggy secretary.

News headlines can also cast PIs as morally dubious bottom-feeders doing the dirty work for the wealthy. In 2006, Anthony Pellicano, a famous Hollywood PI, was indicted on 110 counts, including charges of racketeering, conspiracy, wiretapping, and identity theft. Ultimately sentenced to fifteen years in federal prison, Pellicano is scheduled for release in March 2019.

Even more recently, it was reported that disgraced (and disgraceful) film executive Harvey Weinstein hired PIs from Black Cube (a firm led by former Israeli intelligence officials) to assume false identities and probe and gather information on the women who would go on to publically accuse of him of an array sex crimes, leading to a June 2019 trial.

Even the history of the profession is steeped in stories of PIs working beyond the pale, seeking justice, but flexible and conditional about the definition of the term. The first PI is largely said to be Eugne Franois Vidocq, a Frenchman who lived from 1775 to 1857. From age thirteen, Vidocq was a thief and a prisoner, a performer in a troupe of traveling entertainers, an active soldier, and a military deserter. At twenty, he went back to prison, escaped several times, and had his sentence extended for forging a prison pardon. More arrests and escapes followed for the next decade. But at thirty-four, Vidocq chose to become an informant for the police and eventually parlayed that job into starting what became the investigative wing of the Paris police department. In his late fifties, Vidocq founded Le Bureau des Renseignements in 1833, a private detective agency with almost a dozen detectives on staff. His agency and the police quarreled constantly over money, power, influence, and the legality of his work. They raided his office and arrested him on several occasions, charging him with deception, corruption, and financial crimes.

The United States first famous private investigator, Allan Pinkerton, a Scottish-born barrel maker whose Illinois home was a stop on the Underground Railroad, founded his agency, first called the North-Western Police Agency and, later, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, in 1850. During the Civil War, Pinkerton was said to have once saved Abraham Lincoln from assassination. Later, Pinkerton specialized in railway security and was hired to track down Jesse James and put an end to his criminal outfit, the James Gang. The pursuit was relentless, but ultimately a failure. After Pinkertons death, his agency took on corporate clients who hired them to bust up fledgling labor unions. According to the Pinkertons time line, the company is also responsible for hiring the United States first female PI, Kate Warne, in 1856, establishing the countrys first criminal database, and disbanding Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch. In 1999, Pinkertons was bought by Securitas AB, the Swedish global security giant, for almost $400 million.

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