Phoenix, AZ —Okay I’m jaded.   I have investigated so many high profile cases over the decades and have learned one sad thing about them.   Integrity among witnesses, cops and prosecutors quickly vanishes. Being a criminal defense investigator is not like what most people think or understand.   While investigating these cases  I soon found myself trapped in a world of lies.   If I can e xpose the lies my client often goes free! Because of bizarre dynamics, this is anything but an easy task. Let’s begin with a personal statistic I’ve established about my fellow humans.   A full one-third or more of people routinely lie.   As we know most people in fact can’t seem to tell the truth about something as simple why they’re late for work.   If this percentage of people can achieve the same result by lying as telling the truth they will choose to deceive.   It’s best described as a form of narcissism or self-empowerment.   In high pro...

Los Angeles, CA —The latest technology tool for newsgathering is taking a propaganda beating from the media.   As incredible as it seems the media is promoting ignorance about camera drones rather than enlightening their audience!   The little drones are indeed amazing.   They can take sophisticated yet tiny cameras to incredible heights to get inexpensive video and still images in near absolute safety!    They are definitely a novelty and local police have zero training about these devices.  They have not been around long  enough for police and procedures to be developed.  The obvious best policy is to simply leave the drone operators alone.  Cops seem to want to make arrests for drone use because they know right now they will get substantial news coverage.   However t hose highly publicized recent arrests of drone pilots have turned out to be absolutely bogus. Two police helicopter pilots in New York spotted a lit...

Washington, DC —They say DNA and fingerprint evidence does not lie and that’s for the most part a correct statement.  However those government officials involved in the investigation, collection, preservation and examination of evidence occasionally do some horrible things.  When that happens often it is a perfect crime, because proving such a case is almost impossible. In 1990, Shirley Kinge was convicted in an arson/murder case that where four people perished.  The investigator involved was truly a Golden Boy, New York State Police Trooper, Robert M. Lishansky .  He was an 11 year veteran of that agency and considered one of their brightest and best investigators.  Lishansky was lifting prints from plain paper copies of filed inked fingerprint cards with standard lifting tape and then claiming he lifted them at crime scenes.  At crime scenes latent prints are made visible by dusting them with a fine black powder that sticks to the l...