Page 11 - Parallel Death Investigations - AFI-LLC Newsletter November 2021

Parallel Death Investigations - AFI-LLC Newsletter November 2021

News From Around Our Profession
We are dedicated to sharing important news from clients, colleagues and friends
about the news - good and bad - from and about our profession. Our thanks to all
who help contribute. Feel free to email us with any news you have about you, your
agency, your association, and others...

Is Your Agency or Association Offering Webinars or News to Share?
Our agency is available to help you with various topics, and marketing!
If you, or your association, is offering continuing education webinars or events –
we are glad to contribute our own, and also share yours our newsletters.

Pursuit Magazine / PI Education – P.I. Curious
Launched the pilot episode of P.I. Curious, their new series to answer simple questions about PI life & PI work! In this
they add their humble $.02 to a rich archive of explainers by brilliant colleagues. In this episode - Private Investigator Hal
Humphreys answers a viewer's question: How do you talk to a witness who doesn't want to talk?
-- view at https://youtu.be/A2Kdpa4HBvY and follow Pursuit Magazine / PI Education for future episodes

Forbes Exclusive: Government Secretly Orders Google to Identify Anyone Who Searched A Sexual Assault Victim’s
Name, Address and Telephone Number
(Craig Smith, CLI – BrightStar Investigations in CO)
The U.S. government is secretly ordering Google to provide data on anyone typing in certain search terms, an
accidentally unsealed court document shows. There are fears such “keyword warrants” threaten to implicate innocent
Web users in serious crimes and are more common than previously thought.
(See the article for other, potentially even broader warrants.)
-- continued at www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/10/04/google-keyword-warrants-give-us-government-
data-on-search-users

The Role of the Criminal Defense Investigator
(by Tina M. Skirvin, CCDI and shared by Private Investigators Association of Idaho)
The criminal defense investigator plays an invaluable role within the criminal justice system. While diligently assisting
defense counsel in uncovering reasonable doubt on behalf of the accused, the criminal defense investigator’s main
objective must be to seek and uncover the truth. In order to serve the criminal justice system most effectively, an
investigator must remember to remain unbiased during the course of an investigation and to maintain an ample
distance from the emotional aspect. Becoming too emotionally attached or opinionated can alter the appropriate
avenues which the investigator should follow.
-- continued at https://www.TraceInvestigations.com/dec2015-art1
Tina references excellent tips and protocols – and some great mentors we are also honored to have as friends, colleagues
and mentors.

This Day in History (October)

Starting in June, we began presenting these noted days in history as may be interesting to fellow investigators. Follow
the link to each story – as most have hidden gems and tidbits. These include the first PIs solving crimes, early and modern
forensics, posthumous findings to a conviction, etc. We hope you find these interesting and historical events of interest.

A 12-Year-Old Girl is Kidnapped, Leading to California’s “Three Strikes” Law (10/01/1993)
Polly Klaas is abducted at knifepoint by an intruder in her Petaluma, California, home during a slumber party with two
friends. Despite a massive manhunt and national attention, there was no sign of the missing 12-year-old or her abductor
for two months.
-- continued at www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-12-year-old-girl-is-kidnapped

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