Money’s a magician. It disappears, shape shifts, and hides in plain sight. If you don’t know what to look for, it may as well not exist at all. In this episode, Hal Humphreys talks asset searches with longtime colleague and friend Marcy Phelps, a professional researcher, licensed private investigator, and Certified Fraud Examiner. She’s the author of Research on Main Street, owner of Marcy Phelps & Associates, and an instructor at PI Education. How do asset searches work? What laws govern what you can and can’t do in researching assets? How do you find hidden assets without getting into legal quicksand? Join Hal and Marcy as they dive into the what, why, and how of finding the money. See Marcy’s new course on asset searches: Beyond the Balance Sheet: Strategies for Finding Financial Assets Online https://pieducation.com/product/beyon…

Meet Rachele’ Davis: a longtime colleague and friend, occasional contributor to Pursuit Magazine, and now, the author of a course for PI Education called “Finding Birth Parents for Adoptees, Donor-Conceived, and NPEs.” Rachele’ has a really interesting niche: She helps reunite birth families. Her clients are adoptees looking for biological parents or siblings, and sometimes, parents looking for the children they gave up for adoption. That process can be an emotional roller coaster for everybody involved. It requires diplomacy, ethics, and compassion to handle all that as an investigator. In this episode, Rachele’ and one of her former clients talk about what it’s like to find out where you came from after wondering for your whole life, and what it’s like to escort a person through that process. Get the course: Finding Birth Parents for Adoptees, Donor-Conceived, and NPEs

1986, Northern Ireland. A British spy is found dead by a desolate country lane — murdered by the IRA. Decades later, his killing set in motion the largest murder investigation ever in Britain and provoked painful national soul-searching about what spies should be allowed to to while serving their countries. Join Hal and his guest, author and journalist Henry Hemming, to talk about Hemming’s gripping new nonfiction spy thriller, FOUR SHOTS IN THE NIGHT: A True Story of Spies, Murder, and Justice in Northern Ireland. Buy it: https://henryhemming.com/books/four-s…

What’s attorney-client privilege and work product? When should you deliver written vs. oral reports? Should you document all witness interviews? What information is discoverable? Join Hal Humphreys and John Nardizzi with their guest, defense attorney Jennifer Sunderland, as they talk about what private investigators need to know about rules of professional conduct when they work with attorneys.

Boston area attorney and investigator John Nardizzi recaps a recent Innocence Network conference he attended and chats with Hal about the risks and rewards of innocence investigations.

The Innocence Network Conference: https://innocencenetwork.org

Hal Humphreys (“The Beard”) and John Nardizzi (“The Dome”) co-host The Sound of Pursuit podcast (almost) each week.