Navigating Ethics and Challenges in Private Investigation

They expose fraud, catch cheating spouses, and track down missing assets — but they don’t come cheap. Zachary Crockett takes the case.

• SOURCES:
  • Ashley Wardlow, chief operating officer at Nathans Investigations.

• RESOURCES:
  • "Eugène-François Vidocq and the Birth of the Detective," by Daisy Sainsbury (The Public Domain Review, 2024).
  • "The Pinkerton Story - Chapter 1," (The Pinkerton Foundation, 2017).
  • "Expectation of Privacy," (Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute).
  • "Evidence & Private Investigators," (Dugas Law Firm).

• EXTRAS:
  • "Private Investigation Equipment (Detective Store)."