Podcasts

19 Dec Episode 12: Use of Polygraphs in Investigations

04 Dec Episode 11: Opposition Research: The Changing Role of the Investigator in Politics

09 Oct Episode 10: Investigators and Investigative Reporters —Kindred Spirits

10 Sep Episode 9: Real Life PI’s vs. Fictional Portrayals

George Pelecanos, superb criminal novelist and producer of HBO series’ The Wire and The Deuce offers his insights....

21 Aug Episode 8: Online Dating

More and more people are finding their lifelong mate through matchmaking websites. But is it true love? Or romance fraud? Guest Brian O’Shea, a former intelligence officer turned corporate and personal investigator, discusses the recent spike in fraud committed against middle-aged and elderly users of...

20 Jun Episode 7: Surveillance

Investigator Tom Brown, half of the best surveillance team ever employed by Capitol Inquiry, discusses his career and the do’s and don’t’s of surveillance. This investigative method can uncover the smoking gun that wins your case, but that gun can backfire on you, is surveillance...

20 May Episode 6: Investigating Sexual Misconduct — Part 2

Previously, Ask the Investigator explored the hurdles faced by the accused in sexual misconduct cases. This episode takes another look at the problem from the perspective of the victims. Attorney Michael Nakamura discusses the trauma of clients sexually victimized by predatory priests, doctors, therapists and...

17 Apr Episode 5: Exploring The Dark Web

The Dark Web is the marketplace where you can buy anything from body parts to drugs, sex and stolen identities. But it’s a place you can’t enter unless you are invited in, and if you manage to stumble into it, the consequences could be dire....

29 Mar Episode 4: Critical Investigation

New York Investigator Ed Gavin, who specializes in child trafficking and missing children investigations, describes the grim world he enters every day. Guest co-host Harry Gossett, PI, author and retired FBI agent, discusses some of his ordeals in finding the missing child or elderly adult....

13 Mar Episode 3: Finding Birth Parents, Adoptees and Unknown Siblings

Adoption Lawyer Harvey Schweitzer describes how the adoption world has changed, for better and for worse, with recent case law and especially with the rise of the Internet and social media. Not every mother wants to be found by the child she gave up at...