Find Anyone: An Investigator's Method for Locating People (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798184990361)

FIND ANYONE - An Investigator's Method for Locating People

Almost anyone can be found - if you know where to look, what to search, and how to connect the evidence.

A skip-traced debtor. A birth parent behind a sealed record. An old friend who vanished. An heir who doesn't know an estate is waiting. People leave traces. Professionals know how to follow them.

Written by licensed private investigator Philippe Dylewski, author of the international bestseller Offensive Intelligence, FIND ANYONE reveals the investigative methodology professionals use to locate people legally and efficiently.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

- Build an investigation from almost nothing, and avoid the false lead that wrecks an investigation
- Work the public-records maze - courts, property, business filings, vital and death records - state by state
- Run advanced search, social-media intelligence, image geolocation, and metadata like an investigator
- Trace people through the lives they actually live: employment, money, vehicles, daily-life signals
- Use consumer DNA and forensic genetic genealogy to find birth parents and unknown relatives
- Talk to neighbors and relatives without raising the alarm that warns your subject
- Cross borders, where the law itself changes under your feet
- Make first contact, deliver hard news, and know when to stop

Every method comes with the line you must not cross. The book is built around U.S. law - FCRA, DPPA, GLBA, FDCPA - because finding someone and breaking the law are two different things, and the difference is what keeps you out of a courtroom.

Whether you're an adoptee, a genealogist, a paralegal, a process server, a journalist, or simply someone determined to find a person who matters, this is the method - complete, current, and legal.

Find the person. Respect the line. Close the case.