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A Matter of Minutes Set the Falsely Accused Free

We recently conducted a case that was a bit out of the ordinary. We were not requested to conduct surveillances, research assets or verify someone’s background. We were hired to assist an attorney in proving if his Client, James, who had previously conducted his case Pro Se, was guilty of aggravated assault and rape. His Client, Our Client’s son, thought he could defend himself in the court of law to prove his innocence. When he did not appear for a court date, he was arrested for contempt of court and from that point on remained in jail until the trial. Of course, our Client, his father, immediately retained the services of an attorney, but the court date was approaching, so the Client also retained to [...]

Why Have Your Cell Phone Data Forensically Extracted?

There are many reasons an individual, attorney or a company would request an extraction from a device. An accusation of cheating on your spouse or even worse you suspect your spouse of being unfaithful can likely be addressed by analyzing cellular user data. More than likely there is sufficient evidence on of your cellular devices to either give credibility for or against the accusation. Now, what if the smoking gun was a GPS location saved in a temporary folder destined to soon be deleted? Or what if the text messages between a cheating spouse and their fling have been deleted? Our digital forensics software easily carves out deleted data and GPS location data from phones, but not all phones keep deleted user data the same [...]

I’d Like to Phone a Friend

Friends can be a neighbor, a kid you grew up with since grade school, a co-worker, a boss and your spouse. Nobody ever thinks that a private investigator could be a friend, but in many of our cases that we work, in the end, we have acted on the same level as a friendship. We put our Client’s first, we work on their behalf, we do what is right and we stay within the law to make sure anything we find can be used in the court of law. We don’t tell our Clients we are their friends, but we act upon the same basis. by Friends.com. If you look in the dictionary it will tell you that the definition of friendship is a state of being [...]