private investigator
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To the side stood private investigator Carmelo Castañeda.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 17, 2026
Our everyman is Ben Reilly — played by the incomparable Nicolas Cage, making his live-action television debut — a private investigator who moonlights as the city’s only superhero, the Spider.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2026
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
The general put him in touch with a private investigator named Peter Kalitka, who’d done contract work for both the DIA and the CIA.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
