private investigator

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The private investigator told the court he had contacted ANL when he first read about the statement in a newspaper in 2023, to tell them he had not given it.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Wright later called an allegation of paying a private investigator to "blag" information from Lady Lawrence "absolute nonsense".

From BBC • Feb. 17, 2026

Hartley said the internal inquiry was mainly relying on the spreadsheets of payments to Whittamore - which might have been inaccurate - not the notes of the private investigator himself.

From BBC • Feb. 12, 2026

In 1986, Don Winslow was a 33-year-old New York-born, world-traveling private investigator who, during stakeouts, read crime fiction by authors such as Elmore Leonard, James Ellroy and Joseph Wambaugh.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

“I even hired some local private investigator to find her, but no luck.”

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy