Some of what I learned there is in these pieces: three for the journal of the National Association of Legal Investigators, and the court reporting that got me into this line of work.
Jason Dumas built a surveillance network on gas-station rooftops in 43 states, sold it to retail investors as passive income, and then motored into the Pacific and vanished. I traced the scheme through patents, a 2012 bankruptcy, a 2016 partner lawsuit and the manufacturer's own engineering drawings, and followed the boxes into their second life as a public-safety product.
Identity-monitoring services alert subjects when an investigator searches them. How a Kentucky investigator's asset search was blown in 45 minutes, which products do it and how, and eight ways to search without being seen.
Why securities complaints rest on former employees, what Judges Rakoff and Engelmayer found when investigators cut corners, and the verification practices I use before a witness's words go into a federal complaint.
Fair was charged with the 2008 murder of Arpana Jinaga on DNA mixtures analyzed by TrueAllele, software whose source code no defendant had been allowed to examine. I read the interrogation transcripts and the crime-lab reports and found a second suspect the detectives had stopped pursuing. The first jury hung. In June 2019 a second jury acquitted Fair after nine years in jail. The killing remains unsolved.
Lovett Chambers, jury selection in King County, and what the transcripts showed. Washington adopted General Rule 37 in 2018 to limit the peremptory strikes the piece describes. The Stranger has since taken the article offline; this is an archived copy.
The method in these pieces is the method on every matter: data to documents to people, and a finding that holds up when someone pushes on it. Tell me the question and the deadline. I will tell you what the record is likely to show, and what finding out will cost.
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