Tips for Researching the Internet and Avoiding Haunted House Lawsuits

Today we’re guests at Defrosting Cold Cases, one of our favorite sites on the ‘net. We streamlined one of our online classes about researching the Internet to highlight various goverment, business, social media and Deep Web searches and databases. Click on link below to read the article and test-drive the links:

Surfing the Net, Part 2 by Colleen Collins & Shaun Kaufman

And for those of you who morph your homes into Haunted Houses for Halloween, here’s a handy article with tips on safeguarding your home and avoiding lawsuits:

Haunted Houses Don’t Scare Lawyers! by Shaun Kaufman

Boo! Have a great week, Writing PIs

A Couple of Private Eyes Are Guests This Week at Tyrus Books & Defrosting Cold Cases

The authors of Guns, Gams, and Gumshoes are guests this week at two of their favorite sites: Tyrus Books and Defrosting Cold Cases. Click on links below to read the posts:

Tyrus Books The Guest House: Colleen talks about some of her favorite Tyrus Books’ authors and books, how she became a PI, and chats about her newest nonfiction eBook How Do Private Eyes Do That?

Defrosting Cold Cases: Colleen & Shaun offer a condensed version of one of their online classes about various tools and techniques private investigators use to research the Internet.

Have a great week, Writing PIs

A Missing Person Case That Still Haunts Us

Today we’re guests at Defrosting Cold Cases, a blog that specializes in articles/discussions about unsolved homicides, missing persons, unidentified persons, forensics, wrongful convictions, prosecutorial misconduct, and books related to these subjects. If you’re a writer, bookmark this blog — you’ll learn a lot here about cold cases, forensics,  investigations and much more.

Our guest article (“My Son Is Missing”) is about a missing person case several years ago that led us to the strange, sometimes frightening, inner-circle of a cult. We were more than “PIs” on this case — as parents, we also experienced the sorrow, desperation and grief of the parents whose son we were working hard to find.

Click on the link below to read the article:

Defrosting Cold Cases: “My Son Is Missing”

Have a good week, Writing PIs