http://pifeed.com Private Investigator News - What PIs are reading right now! Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:37:04 CDT en http://pifeed.com/post/how-the-fbi-cracked-a-%E2%80%9Csextortion%E2%80%9D-plot-against-pro-poker-players "We don't just fly out here and kick in your door knowing only a little." At 8:05am on the morning of December 1, 2010, an FBI search warrant team swarmed up to a Silicon Valley home on an unusual misson: find the "sextortionist" who had been blackmailing pro poker players over the Internet. ]]> Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:37:04 CDT Ruben Crimes 106 http://pifeed.com/crimes/how-the-fbi-cracked-a-%E2%80%9Csextortion%E2%80%9D-plot-against-pro-poker-players/ http://pifeed.com/post/police-officer-shot-to-death-on-mit-campus-as-active-shooter-remains-on-loose-authorities-say Authorities say a campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has died from injuries in a shooting on the campus outside Boston. ]]> Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:32:31 CDT Ruben Crimes 16 http://pifeed.com/crimes/police-officer-shot-to-death-on-mit-campus-as-active-shooter-remains-on-loose-authorities-say/ http://pifeed.com/post/the-high-rise-prostitute Some benefit fraud cases take months and even years to investigate, can be complex and very involved. They take a lot of hard work, hours spent trying to establish and demonstrate links between people, finances, businesses and properties, for example. ]]> Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:54:58 CDT Ruben Crimes 15 http://pifeed.com/crimes/the-high-rise-prostitute/ http://pifeed.com/post/after-gang-rape-photo-goes-viral-17-year-old-victim-hangs-herself Thanks to Amanda Todd, we know this story all too well: Sexual abuse leads to online harassment, and as the police drag their feet, a teenage girl ends her life.
]]> Wed, 10 Apr 2013 02:16:47 CDT Ruben Crimes 27 http://pifeed.com/crimes/after-gang-rape-photo-goes-viral-17-year-old-victim-hangs-herself/ http://pifeed.com/post/how-did-neo-nazi-prison-gangs-become-so-powerful Three US justice officials who tackled white supremacist prison gangs have been killed. Originally formed to fight other gangs, these groups are now accused of a range of criminal activities on the outside, from drug smuggling and kidnapping to murder. How did neo-Nazi prisoners set up huge criminal networks? ]]> Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:33:40 CDT Ruben Crimes 22 http://pifeed.com/crimes/how-did-neo-nazi-prison-gangs-become-so-powerful/ http://pifeed.com/post/did-google-earth-error-send-murderer-to-wrong-address Dennis and Merna Koula were found dead in 2010. Their son was found guilty of murder. Yet the killing looked like a professional hit. Now some are wondering whether the fact that Google Earth sends searchers for another address to their house might provide the truth. Read this article by Chris Matyszczyk on CNET News. ]]> Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:28:52 CST Ruben Crimes 23 http://pifeed.com/crimes/did-google-earth-error-send-murderer-to-wrong-address/ http://pifeed.com/post/ten-pounds-of-marijuana-sent-to-seattle-kmart-police-say The package was intended for a Philadelphia address, but instead it was shipped to the return address, listed as a Seattle Kmart

]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:38:17 CST Jillian Crimes 18 http://pifeed.com/crimes/ten-pounds-of-marijuana-sent-to-seattle-kmart-police-say/ http://pifeed.com/post/aaron-swartz-financial-fraud-and-the-justice-department The Justice Department apparently wanted to send a message with its decision to prosecute Swartz while ignoring the financial fraud that fueled the housing bubble. It certainly did. ]]> Fri, 25 Jan 2013 20:11:29 CST Ruben Crimes 19 http://pifeed.com/crimes/aaron-swartz-financial-fraud-and-the-justice-department/ http://pifeed.com/post/the-little-lion-syria%E2%80%99s-11-year-old-killing-machine-%7C-vice Child soldiers in Syria are involved in shelling, airstrikes, and sniping. They’ve also been subject to arbitrary arrest, torture and rape, as reported by the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on S… ]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 08:48:55 CST Ruben Crimes 29 http://pifeed.com/crimes/the-little-lion-syria%E2%80%99s-11-year-old-killing-machine-%7C-vice/ http://pifeed.com/post/man-threatening-group-with-gun-ends-up-being-shot-himself-and-arrested Just after midnight, a 48 year old man began waving a gun and yelling at the group of people and fired a shot. One of the men in the group being harassed, produced his own gun and fired at the man, striking him once in the upper portion of the arm. ]]> Wed, 09 Jan 2013 23:57:54 CST Ruben Crimes 19 http://pifeed.com/crimes/man-threatening-group-with-gun-ends-up-being-shot-himself-and-arrested/ http://pifeed.com/post/suds-for-drugs-how-tide-detergent-became-currency-for-drugs Tide detergent: Works on tough stains. Can now also be traded for crack. A case study in American ingenuity, legal and otherwise. ]]> Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:28:25 CST Ruben Crimes 62 http://pifeed.com/crimes/suds-for-drugs-how-tide-detergent-became-currency-for-drugs/ http://pifeed.com/post/the-guy-who-brought-32-bags-of-weed-into-a-courtroom December 14 was a very bad day for 29-year-old Jersey City resident Marquis Diggs. That morning, he woke up, grabbed his coat, and headed off to family court, where his mother was waiting to file a restraining order against him. ]]> Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:46:52 CST Ruben Crimes 20 http://pifeed.com/crimes/the-guy-who-brought-32-bags-of-weed-into-a-courtroom/ http://pifeed.com/post/private-investigator-life-gun-control-vs-gun-banning-what-do-we-want The debate about gun control following the mass shootings in Newtown, CT. ]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:05:51 CST mhorner Crimes 21 http://pifeed.com/crimes/private-investigator-life-gun-control-vs-gun-banning-what-do-we-want/ http://pifeed.com/post/whitney-houston-murdered-over-drug-debt-p-i-claims LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- A Hollywood private investigator is now claiming that singer Whitney Houston was murdered by drug dealers over an outstanding debt. ]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2012 21:49:06 CST Mattbeauchene Crimes 44 http://pifeed.com/crimes/whitney-houston-murdered-over-drug-debt-p-i-claims/ http://pifeed.com/post/firefighter-killers-note-do-what-i-like-doing-best-killing-people WEBSTER, N.Y. — An ex-con killed two firefighters with the same caliber and make military-style rifle used in the Connecticut school massacre after typing a note pledging to burn down his neighborhood and "do what I like doing best, killing people," police said Tuesday as another body, believed to be the gunman's missing sister, was found. William Spengler, 62, who served 17 years in prison for manslaughter in the 1980 hammer slaying of his grandmother, set his house afire before dawn Christmas Eve before taking a revolver, a shotgun and a semiautomatic rifle to a sniper position outside, Police Chief Gerald Pickering said. ]]> Wed, 26 Dec 2012 06:13:40 CST alexbuckee Crimes 17 http://pifeed.com/crimes/firefighter-killers-note-do-what-i-like-doing-best-killing-people/ http://pifeed.com/post/my-mom-the-queenpin-of-l-a-%E2%80%99s-harpys-gang L.A. prosecutors say Vianna Roman was running a deadly street gang at the behest of her imprisoned father. ]]> Mon, 24 Dec 2012 22:38:18 CST Ruben Crimes 41 http://pifeed.com/crimes/my-mom-the-queenpin-of-l-a-%E2%80%99s-harpys-gang/ http://pifeed.com/post/burglar-eats-cake-plays-darts-turns-on-xmas-lights Police in Mokena, Ill., say intruder made himself very comfortable, until he knocked on a bedroom door and the residents called police

]]> Sun, 23 Dec 2012 19:54:13 CST Jillian Crimes 34 http://pifeed.com/crimes/burglar-eats-cake-plays-darts-turns-on-xmas-lights/ http://pifeed.com/post/private-investigator-life-mass-shooting-in-newtown-how-should-the-media-report-these-shootings Blog entry about mass shootings and can news media report on them differently by setting policies that exclude shooters names and photos. ]]> Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:00:21 CST mhorner Crimes 16 http://pifeed.com/crimes/private-investigator-life-mass-shooting-in-newtown-how-should-the-media-report-these-shootings/ http://pifeed.com/post/what-john-mcafee-could-learn-from-a-private-investigator- John McAfee has been in the news the past few weeks. He has made his situation ten times worse. McAfee could use a few tips from a private investigator on how to conduct himself. ]]> Sat, 08 Dec 2012 14:42:33 CST pamelastewart1610 Crimes 13 http://pifeed.com/News,crimes/what-john-mcafee-could-learn-from-a-private-investigator-/ http://pifeed.com/post/132-inmates-escape-from-mexico-prison PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (AP) — More than 130 inmates escaped through a tunnel from a prison in northern Mexico on Monday, setting off a massive... ]]> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 02:55:17 CDT DallasPI Crimes 4 http://pifeed.com/crimes/132-inmates-escape-from-mexico-prison/