My Favorite Detective Stories

Harvey E. Morse began his investigative career in Massachusetts after graduating Boston University and then attending Suffolk University Law School. In approximately 1975 he moved to Florida and commenced operations as President of Locaters International, Inc. which has been actively engaged in traditional investigations since it was founded. He is the founder of the Florida Association of Private Investigators, Inc., multi-state certified firearms training instructor for concealed carry, and continues to serve on many civic, charitable, law enforcement and private investigative organizations. He has over 50 years of investigative experience. Harvey also graduated the full Florida police academy, first in his class of 82 candidates and is a sworn law enforcement officer having been an Assistant Chief and currently serves as a police Investigator. Contact info: Phone: 386-760-5000 Email: Harvey@probate.com

David Swinson is a highly decorated member of the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, having received numerous awards including the department’s prestigious Detective of the Year Award for 2003; Meritorious Service Medals for significant, outstanding and sustained achievements; Achievement Medals of Honor for a significant case investigation and several Department of Justice, United States Attorney’s Annual Law Enforcement Awards for significant case investigation. David is also an acclaimed Fiction writer and among other books writes about Frank Marr who has become one of my favorite private eyes. A functioning drug addict with a lot of dysfunctional relationships, he is just as likely to go looking for a fix before a suspect. In Trigger, reported to be the end of the Frank Marr trilogy, he takes a case that could lead to redemption or send him spiraling to oblivion. Contact info: Website: http://www.Davidswinson.com Twitter: @casejackets Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DavidSwinsonAuthor/

Jerri Williams has always been a storyteller and, after serving 26 years as a special agent in the FBI, she has plenty of stories to tell. During most of her Bureau career, she worked major economic fraud investigations and was amazed at the schemes con-artist and corrupt corporate and public officials would devise to steal other people’s money.Jerri is the producer and host of FBI Retired Case File Review, a true crime and history podcast where she interviews retired FBI agents about their high-profile cases and careers. With nearly 200 episodes, the podcast has been downloaded more than 2.7 million times and has listeners from around the world. Using her prior professional experiences with scams and schemers, the novels in her FBI Philadelphia Corruption Squad series – Pay To Play and Greedy Givers – feature a strong but flawed female FBI agent protagonist with a troubled past. In her non-fiction book FBI Myths and Misconceptions: A Manual for Armchair Detectives, she discusses the top 20 clichés and miscon

Bruce's interest in Missing Persons began terribly and abruptly on March 19, 2004. His 17 year old daughter, Brianna Maitland, went missing. Life changed from that point on for him. A living hell that no parent should ever go through. In the years since, the endless searching and sleepless nights, not knowing where or what happened to her has taken its toll and continues to this day. In the last few years the idea was brought to Bruce by his friend and private investigator Greg Overacker- (who has donated much time and energy to assisting finding Brianna) to start the Private Investigations For The Missing foundation. It is a unfortunate reality that police have limited resources and time, and private investigators can sometimes get answers from people unwilling to speak to police. It is also an unfortunate reality that the costs of private investigators are beyond the ability of most people to afford. Bruce started this foundation Private Investigations for the Missing, to help solve this problem for missing

Bob Rahn is the President and Director of Investigations of Management Resources. He is a former homicide detective and has over forty-five years of investigative experience. Bob has come full circle in his investigative career utilizing his extensive law enforcement experience and adapting it to the private sector by assisting attorneys, insurance companies and corporations. He holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Bachelors Degree in Sociology from St. Francis College. He has specialized in criminal defense and appellate cases where he found evidence removing the guilt from his client. Phone: 845-781-7233 brahn@nysleuth.com https://www.nysleuth.com/

James Baysinger is the creator and host of the Hide and Seek podcast, as well as the founder of Sasquatch Productions. For the last eight years, James has made his career as an Insurance Agent, but has always had an investigative interest the true crime genre. Inspired by podcasts such as Serial and Up and Vanished, he wanted to create a venture of his own. As a Washington state native, James wanted to work on a case that was close to home. When he came across Nancy Moyer's story, he was both intrigued by the convoluted details of her case, as well as empathic towards her children that have grown up without their mom. After four months of investigating, the first episode was released. When he’s not hunting down new leads or recording material for the next episode, James enjoys spending his free time with his family. Hide and Seek Podcast https://www.facebook.com/HideandSeekPodcast/ James1sasquachproductions@gmail.com

Rachael Bell is a serial killer expert and worked for CourtTV’s Crime Library for 11 years, starting in the late 1990s. Crime Library was created by Rachael's mother Marilyn Bardsley, a serial killer expert and crime author. She also has a podcast you will not want to miss called Crimes Unlimited. http://www.Crimescape.com/Podcast

Bill Huffman graduated with a degree in Communications from Cleveland State and has worked in Radio, Print and Television His first podcast is on the unsolved murder of Amy Mihaljevic. She was his age when she went missing in 1989 and she lived in the city next to where he grew up. It was and is a story that looms large over the community. He spoke with people he trusted and began setting up interviews with all the major players in the case. The podcast is called Who Killed Amy Mihaljevic? He appeared in Investigation Discovery’s documentary, The Lake Erie Murders: Who Killed Amy MIhaljevic? in December 2018. He is currently talking with advertising companies for the podcast and is working for News 5 in Cleveland, where he is the morning news producer and is in charge of writing some of the stories seen throughout the morning. Podcast and Website: https://whokilledamymihaljevic.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/billhuffman3 Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/whokilledamymihaljevicthepodcast/

Retired Captain Dean T. Olson is an award-winning criminal investigator. He commanded the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department in Omaha retiring in 2008 after 30 years of law enforcement service. Captain Olson earned a BS in Criminal Justice and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He also earned a Master of Arts Degree in Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School, Center for Homeland Defense and Security, in Monterey, CA. Olson is a graduate of the 193rd Session of the FBI National Academy and was formerly an adjunct professor of Criminal Justice for several Midwestern universities. His latest book is Evil Desire: Recollections of a Sex Crimes Detective. https://geniusbookpublishing.com/dean-t-olson.html

Todays guest is Robert Young. A native of Tennessee, he grew up watching his father conduct investigations as a Special Agent with CSX Railroad Police. Wanting to follow in his footsteps, he joined the Metro Nashville Police Department in 2007 upon graduating from Middle Tennessee State University with a degree in Criminal Justice. For more than a decade Robert served in many capacities within the police department, including; patrol division, flex unit, crime suppression units, countywide narcotics, and the Drug Task Force. In March 2018, he retired from law enforcement and started his own private investigations and securities firm, Covert Results. Over the course of eleven months, Robert and his team put together one hell of a story; A book based on a true wiretap case where Robert was the lead Agent. The case, set in 2014 and 2015 had a major impact on the city of Nashville after a record cocaine seizure worth more than 3 million dollars. The book titled “Gray: Rise & Fall of 1422,” It chronicles cocai

Tammy Sorrento has been an insurance professional for the past 20+ years and is a licensed private investigator; experience includes selling insurance, adjusting, mediation, arbitration, litigation, compliance, regulatory reporting audits. She has led and mentored other insurance professionals. Tammy served on the Jacksonville Claims Association in various board positions and was the President 2014 and 2015. She is also an active notary. Tammy used her skills to open a business to keep others from getting scammed. Her customers have named her "Anti-Scam Lady" http://www.Fireballapproves.com

Today’s guest is Ellis Armistead Ellis is a Certified Legal Investigator, one of only 66 in the world. Mr. Armistead has investigated thousands of cases, both for the prosecution and the defense. He has worked with notable clients including the parents of JonBenét Ramsey, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, and the parents of Columbine shooter Eric Harris. To Ellis Armistead received a BA from Vanderbilt University and an MPA from the University of Colorado at Denver. In 1972, he began his law enforcement career with the Decatur Alabama Police Department serving as a police officer and police sergeant. In 1975 Mr. Armistead joined the Lakewood, Colorado Police Department where he remained until 1984, serving as a police officer, homicide detective, and police sergeant. In 1985, Mr. Armistead became the Chief Investigator for the Office of the District Attorney in the 14th Judicial District of Colorado. In 1991 he formed H. Ellis Armistead and Associates, Inc. a legal investigation firm specializing in def

Kitty Hailey, CLI is a nationally-recognized investigative ethicist and expert witness on the question of ethics. With the publication of the profession’s first book on ethics, Code of Professional Conduct: standards and ethics for the investigative profession, now in its third edition, Kitty quickly became recognized as the nation's leading investigative ethicist. Kitty’s expertise is based on her early roles as a chief investigator, manager and educator for a large New Jersey-based agency specializing in family and personal injury cases, and on later concentrations in multi-plaintiff litigation, malpractice and criminal defense investigations and wrongful conviction re-investigations. In her current work as an investigator for the Federal Public Defender Capital Habeas Unit, her team re-investigates death penalty convictions for indigent clients. Kitty was among the nation’s first female investigators to earn the Certified Legal Investigator (CLI) and Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) designations. https://www

I could spend an hour going over just the highlights of Frank DeAndrea's career. He is passionate and hard-working and you will hear us today talk about just one area of expertise and that is what happens in high adrenaline police cases. Frank rose though the ranks of the PA state police and took a pension after 26 years as a Commander and then was hired to be the police chief of Hazelton PA Police Dept. He implemented many initiatives and procedures that are still in place today. He and his wife Sandy bring 60 years of Law Enforcement experience to DeAndrea Investigations + Security LLC. It is my pleasure introduce you to Frank Deandrea. http://www.Deandrea.biz Email: frank@deandrea.biz Cell: 570-233-1069

Our guest this week is Attorney Angela Reddock-Wright Named a “Top California Employment Lawyer” by the Daily Journal, and one of Los Angeles’ “Most Influential Minority and Women Attorneys” by the Los Angeles Business Journal, Angela Reddock-Wright is the Managing Partner of the Reddock Law Group. A practicing attorney for nearly 23 years, and a former employment and labor law litigator for more than 15 years, Angela’s practice now focuses on the mediation, arbitration and investigation of workplace disputes. In her investigative practice, Angela is retained by public, private, and non-profit sector employers to conduct independent and neutral investigations of workplace harassment, discrimination and other claims. It’s our pleasure to have Angela Reddock-Wright on the podcast this week. Contact info: Linkedin: Angela Reddock-Wright https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelareddock

Our guest this week is Nicole Gray founder of Infinity Investigative Solutions, a woman owned small business operating since 2005. They are headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia with offices in New York. Infinity offers global investigations, compliance and integrity monitoring, due diligence, training, and forensic accounting solutions for clients in a wide range of industries. Nicole has over 20 years experience and is very active in local and international Private Investigator associations. Contact info: Nicole@infinityinvestigative.com http://www.Facebook.com/investigate

Our guest this week is Joe Koenig retired as an Inspector from the Michigan State Police after 26 years. He also worked for more than 10 years in the banking and insurance sectors. Since 2005, he has owned and operated KMI Investigations, focusing on financial investigations. He is a CFE and author holding a BS in Accounting from Wayne State University, and a Masters in Public Administration from Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of several articles and the award-winning book “Getting the Truth” (2014) and is a much sought-after speaker on how to discover the real message, distinguishing truth from deception

Our guest this week is Certified Genealogist Claire Ammon Claire’s introduction to genealogy began when she started working for my missing heir company in 2008. This job fostered her deep-seated passion for history, an interest which began in high school and which grew through doing a degree in American Studies at the University of Manchester, UK and a year-long museum internship in Tempe, Arizona. Claire became a Board Certified Genealogist in February 2012. She continues to utilize her forensic genealogy skills through her work on US Army military repatriation cases and missing heir projects and regularly works on family history projects. She enjoys the challenge that research brings and is excited to help others with their genealogical mysteries. Claire's Contact info Email: Claire.e.ammon@gmail.com Website: MissingHeirResearch.com

Bruce Pitt-Payne honed his skills as a major crime investigator and interview specialist over his 26 year career with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.He was a full-time Team Leader on the "E" Division Interview Team as well as a part-time member of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team's Special Project's Unit.He is a subject-matter-expert on investigative techniques including interviewing adults (witnesses and suspects) and children.For several years he was the Program Manager of Investigative Interviewing Training for the RCMP in British Columbia where he was instrumental in the creation and implementation of the RCMP Phased Interview Model which is the P.E.A.C.E. Model after an evolutionary adaptation to Canadian legal and ethical standards.He has taught witness and suspect interviewing skills on both a national and international scale. Linkedin: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/brucegrantpittpayne

Dean Beers is a licensed private investigator a subject matter expert in the areas of death investigation and personal injury causation. He has over 6,500 hours of experience specific to death investigation and related injuries, negligence and causation - from investigation to forensic autopsy assistance. He is the only Board Certified Legal Investigator (CLI) in northern Colorado, and is also a certified Medicolegal Death Investigator specializing in consultations and investigations of all civil Personal Injury, Negligence and Death matters, as well as felony Criminal Defense. He continues to speak extensively on investigative techniques and principles and has authored multiple peer-reviewed white papers, and Practical Methods for Legal Investigations: Concepts and Protocols in Civil and Criminal Cases