Scans for Cold Case Private Investigations

Serial killers and others have zero problem “unaliving” other people. By unaliving humans, we mean murdering, killing, and massacring people they may not even know. Likewise, rapists and other sex offenders like child predators, those who engage in child pornography, etc., also typically have no problem harming other people. Police and other law enforcement agencies can sometimes solve these criminal cases and catch the perpetrators, bringing them to justice and helping the families and friends of their victims receive some degree of closure. Sadly though, despite their best efforts they cannot always solve every crime, and thus they become cold case murders and cold case sexual assaults. When this happens, many victims and their families choose to hire the best cold case private investigator to help catch the criminals and bring their families some peace.

Why Criminal Cases Go Cold:

Serial Rapists and sociopathic killers most often get away with their heinous crimes, because there is a lack of evidence to find and convict them. Under the USA’s laws and foundations of our nation, we always presume everyone innocent in the eyes of the law until prosecutors can prove them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Unfortunately for many victims of violent and even nonviolent crimes, the ability to secure the right kind of evidence needed to convince judges and juries to convict them can be much easier said than done.
To try to prove a defendant’s culpability, police, prosecutors, and unsolved murder private investigators at our private detective agency usually try to present the following types of evidence:

DNA:

One of the best forms of evidence, unless you take times where the DNA experts like Joyce Gilcrest have blatantly lied about it, is DNA. Indeed, DNA can come from skin cells, blood, hair, semen, vaginal fluids, saliva, and more. Whenever a murderer or rapist commits a crime, the person will leave some form of DNA at the scene of the crime. Each person’s DNA is very specific to their own body, and thus police and cold case homicide private investigators alike can use DNA to tie suspects to a crime like they did with convicted mass murderer and sociopath Bryan Christopher Kohberger.

Homicides have no statute of limitations and now states like Oklahoma have eliminated the statute of limitations for child molestation, rapes, and other similar sexual assaults if the accused perpetrator confesses or if there is new DNA which connects the person to the crime. Thus, DNA’s role has become even more important and valuable now in not only murders but sexual offenses as well.

Unsolved murder private detectives and police often upload DNA they collect at a crime scene to their special governmental databases, but they can also use GEDmatch, 23AndMe, Ancestry, and other public databases to help quickly identify murderers and rapists. These are extremely helpful when needing to identify and find serial killers and rapists in cold case private investigations.

Indeed, law enforcement officers can get search warrants for a suspect’s DNA even if the perpetrator left none at the scene of a crime. Likewise, most law enforcement agencies require people the government has convicted of felonies to submit their DNA to special crime databases which can help implicate them in other crimes where they collected DNA but did not know those to whom it belonged. Thus, if law enforcement arrests the perpetrator of a crime years later for another crime and take their DNA, it can help implicate them in previous crimes and is useful for catching serial killers and rapists. Sadly though, by the time the apprehension occurs they will have had many additional victims.

Our digital private detective at our best private detective agency also notes that DNA is helpful to provide a picture of what the perpetrator of a crime looks like even if they have no physical description or other evidence about an individual. Special companies like Parabon NanoLabs offer this special service, but it does come with a hefty price tag!

Cell Tower Data:

Cell tower data is also useful to help find and identify suspects in criminal cases. Every time a person carries their cell phone around with them, cell towers collect information and track the general area the person was at and when. This can lead social media private detectives and law enforcement officers alike to help place suspects at the scene of a crime.

Indeed, police did this with the psychopathic killer Bryan Christopher Kohberger when he brutally murdered four sweet, innocent University of Idaho college students named Ethan Chapin, Xana Kernodle, Kaylee Goncalves, and Madison Mogen. Instead of simply leaving his phone at home to throw police off his trail, he simply turned off his phone before he slaughtered them and then turned it back on thereafter. For an advanced college student working on his doctoral degree in criminal studies, he certainly was less smart and savvy than he thought he was.

Confessions

If true, a criminal’s Bonafide confession is exactly what police and murder private detectives love to hear. Unfortunately, confessions can be extremely difficult for law enforcement and mass murder private investigators alike to obtain, because serial killers and other murderers do not want to get into trouble and go to prison or face the death penalty. Thus, without other corroborating evidence with which law enforcement can use to put pressure on suspects, obtaining real, honest confessions from many criminals can prove to be especially difficult.

While murder charges have no statute of limitations, states like Oklahoma recently enacted legislation that has sex crimes prosecutable for life and removes the statute of limitations for those as well if the perpetrator confesses or if new DNA or DNA technology proves the suspect’s guilt. Thus, even if a sex offender confesses fifty, sixty, or seventy years after the fact, the person can still go to prison for the crime.

Video Footage/CCTV/Audio Recordings:

Unless it is a fake, artificial intelligence-made video, a video recording of a rape or murder is an excellent piece of evidence that serial rape private investigators can use to help police secure a conviction. Indeed, they can also use this same CCTV evidence to exonerate innocent persons of interest, so that law enforcement and cold case private investigators can properly focus their investigative efforts on the real perpetrators of murders and sex crimes.

In modern times, there are cameras everywhere that police and the best unsolved murder private investigator can use to help solve cold case private investigations. From neighborhoods and businesses to even roads and public buildings, it is exceedingly difficult for anyone these days to commit any kind of a crime and be completely out of public view. This helps our cold case murder private detectives and law enforcement out quite a bit.

Weapons Used During the Commission of Crimes:

If a cold case private detective can find the murder weapon used in a crime, especially if the suspect has it in her/his/their possession or if it is at the suspect’s home, in the person’ vehicles, etc., it adds one more piece of incriminating evidence against the individual that law enforcement and prosecutors can use to help secure a criminal conviction in a court of law. This is especially true if the item is a gun that is registered to them or if there is proof they bought it like Bryan Christopher Kohberger purchased the Ka-Bar military style knife on Amazon.

Sadly though, police and murder private investigators were unable to locate the Ka-Bar knife that Bryan Kohberger used when committing the crime, and even when he finally pled guilty to the crimes to save his own skin he refused to tell investigators where it was. Even to the very end, Kohberger refused to apologize to the families and friends of those he had murdered and showed zero remorse for his heinous crimes. Many online sleuths speculate that he threw it into a river thirty miles away from the crime scene, but so far no one has ever located it.

Witness Testimony:

If a witness saw the murderer or rapist commit the crime or heard its planning or even a confession, that person can become an unbelievably valuable source of information and evidence for law enforcement and rape private investigators who are seeking to solve a homicide case. Finding witnesses might require law enforcement personnel to offer a reward though, because money can sometimes loosen tongues and break friendship and family ties if the recipients of those cash awards receive the right amount of financial incentive.

One Important thing to remember is that people’s loyalties and friendships can change with time. Whereas at one point someone with information might not have been willing to testify or give up information about a suspect, by going back and talking to them later they may no longer be friends or might even be enemies. Thus, their incentive to disclose information about a person’s crime might have gone up even without a monetary incentive. A forensic private detective should always take time to follow up with all witnesses, known associates, family members, and friends of all cold cases!

Victim Testimony:

If victims of rape saw the sexual predator or if a serial killer tried to murder someone and failed, leaving their intended murder victim alive, then the victim’s testimony can prove to be extremely valuable if they saw the individual. Even if they did not see the person because it was dark, if the attacker came at them from behind, if they were drunk, or the person placed a bag or blindfold over their eyes/head, DNA evidence, bite marks, nail marks, or other secondary evidence could still exist that investigators could use to help solve the crime and catch the criminal.

Lack of Alibis:

If a murder or rape suspect, even on a cold case, has no alibi that places the person somewhere else at the time of the murder, it can serve as one piece of circumstantial evidence that prosecutors can use to help convict a criminal defendant. While a lack of an alibi in and of itself is not enough to convict an individual, when combined with incriminating evidence it can serve to help convict a person because it means they lack an alibi to place them somewhere else at the time the crime occurred.

Matching Tire Tracks/Footprints/Fingerprints:

When a person commits a crime like a sexual assault or homicide, the perpetrator might accidentally leave an incriminating tire print, shoe print, or even fingerprints that are unique. Police and unsolved murder private investigators that conduct cold case private investigations can collect this type of evidence and use it against killers and sex criminals.

Placement at the Crime Scene During the Incident:

If a rape or murder suspect not only lacks an alibi but prosecutors and cold case investigators can place the individual at the crime scene when it occurred, this can work against the person of interest (POI) in a bad way. This is especially true if the suspect was the last person to see the victim right before the crime occurred. While not as damning as authentic video camera footage showing the suspect commit a crime, possessing evidence showing the individual at the crime scene when the crime occurred is especially useful during the prosecution stage of criminal cases.

Damning Social Media Posts:

You would be surprised at what all suspects in unsolved homicide private investigations and even cold case rape investigations will post online about a crime they committed. From cryptic messages to posts on true crime websites about the forcible oral sodomy or murder, photos of evidence, or even outright confessions, there are all kinds of dumb things that criminals might post online that can pose red flags to law enforcement and other cold case private detectives. Thus, when social media private investigators go online and do social media private investigations, they can help uncover crucial evidence that police and prosecutors can use to put murderers and rapists into prison.

Photos, Text Messages, Videos, Search History, Etc., on Computers, Phones, iPads, etc.:

Another crucial piece of evidence that the best social media scan private detectives and law enforcement officers seek to obtain in murder and child pornography cases is stuff like photos, text messages, videos, and even a suspect’s search history on Internet search browsers like Google. While these types of evidence are protected and require a criminal warrant that a judge signs or the personal consent of the suspect to obtain and review, they can show all kinds of damning things. Some of these include, but are not limited to, the following:

Child Pornography Photos

Text Messages & Emails Admitting Planning and/or Commission of the Crime

Google Searches for Incriminating Things Like, “How to Kill Someone and not get caught.”

Photos of the Deceased Murder Victim or Which Show the Perpetrator Sexually Abusing Their Rape Victim

Other Incriminating Evidence

Polygraph Tests/Lie Detector Tests:

While not admissible in court, lie detector tests complement social media scans that our social media private investigators often use as part of death investigations. If a suspect consents to and qualifies for a polygraph examiner to administer a polygraph test, the results can help guide police toward exonerating/clearing a suspect of a crime or zeroing in on a truly guilty party. Polygraphs are inexpensive and are easy to administer with quick results.

While mostly inadmissible in court since their accuracy and reliability to not meet the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard that prosecutors need to convict a person of a crime, judges do not allow them into evidence unless both prosecutors and the criminal defense lawyer representing a criminal defendant in court agree to proceed with the case or dismiss criminal charges, pending the outcome of the lie detector test’s results. Indeed, even criminal defense attorneys cannot admit them into evidence when trying to exonerate their clients prior to or during a criminal trial, because while highly accurate the results of polygraphs are not dependable and accurate enough to present as evidence to a judge or jury.

Compulsive liars, sociopaths, and psychopaths can obtain false negatives or positives, and there are other special “ways” even for those who do not fall into that category to “trick” a polygraphist. Our cold case investigators note that it is extremely hard to “beat” a polygraph test though.

Social Media Scans/Nationwide Civil & Criminal Background Checks:

Social media scans are also particularly useful for unsolved murder private investigations. Our digital private investigators are extremely skilled at pulling up all kinds of social media and other online information about an individual. Our social media private detective can delve deeply into a person’s social media profiles, and our PI agency can find out what else the Internet says about the person of interest (POI). But how do social media scans provide any kind of meaningful benefit to solving these heinous, previously unsolved murders and rapes? Glad you asked!

Our legal team can help profile serial killers and serial rapists, finding their personal traits, characteristics, modus operandi (MO), and can even help identify and locate other victims and/or their families and friends. Even the most sociopathic, narcissistic, psychopathic serial sex offender and murderers leave behind clues about their crimes, and some outright taunt investigators just for fun and out of extreme arrogance. When combined with other forms of complementary evidence and investigative techniques, our digital private investigations like social media scans can become extremely helpful.

Likewise, many of our clients in cold case rape private investigations also appreciate when we run nationwide civil background checks and nationwide criminal background checks for them. These can help determine if the serial rape or serial murder suspect has a prior criminal record that might indicate similar past crimes they have committed. They can also show where the person lives, their phone numbers, bankruptcies, liens, judgments, professional licenses, names/addresses/phone numbers of their family and friends, and more. Criminal and civil background check really help give a clearer picture into the life of a potential cold case murder or rape suspect, especially when you ask our social media private investigator to combine it with a social media scan.

Jailhouse Informants:

Though sometimes unreliable and exclusively initiative-taking for their own personal benefit, a jail house informant is certainly one method of obtaining information that police officers and other law enforcement agencies sometimes use to gather testimony and other information on the downlow. While not recommended as a primary or lone source of evidence against a criminal suspect, unsolved rape investigators and police alike can still use their testimony to help convict criminals of cold cases and other crimes.

Other Incriminating Evidence:

This is an extremely broad, “catch all” category of evidence that could include “mementos” from a crime scene like a victim’s panties or driver’s license. Our cold case detectives at our private investigation agency near me note that this category includes anything we did not mention in numbers one through fifteen above.
Limitations of Law Enforcement’s Efforts:
Police and other law enforcement officers can only do so much to solve a crime. All police and law enforcement agencies have limited human and financial resources. Even when the murder or rape occurs in a larger city or jurisdiction that has more money and people to work the case, eventually they sometime run out of leads, and the case can go cold for decade or even remain forever unsolved. This is why so many victims of violent crimes and their families never receive the justice they deserve.
This is why so many people choose to hire a cold case rape private detective to help solve their crimes. Having a fresh set of eyes upon any criminal case, especially if they have experience or access to modern technology and ways of thinking that were not available at the time the crime originally occurred, can prove invaluable to the solving of serious cases. Indeed, some police departments have entire divisions solely dedicated to cold case investigations. Sometimes even university criminal justice classes even band together to solve decades-old crimes!
How Serial Killers & Rapists Go Undetected:
Serial killers like John Wayne Gacy flew under the radar and racked up countless dead bodies, before police caught him! He also worked as a clown part time and had many political connections, and when combined with his charisma no one ever suspected him of being a mass murderer and brutal serial killer until it was far too late. Indeed, some of the worst people who are sociopaths, narcissists, psychopaths, compulsive liars, and serial rapists and murderers can often successfully present themselves as the best, nicest people to others they know by carefully masking their true selves.

How Cold Case Private Detectives Help Solve Cases:

Unsolved rape private investigators at our private investigation agency are highly trained at conducting unsolved murder private investigations and sexual assault private investigations. Some are ex-law enforcement and/or have received specialized training and education which makes them excel at what they do. Their fresh set of eyes, special investigative techniques, and personal commitment and drive to bring justice to families of decades-old murders and rapes is limitless. There are countless ways to help solve these heinous crimes, which can include but are not limited to the following:
Reviewing Old Police & Other Investigative File

Examining Old Evidence

Talking with Victims & Witnesses

Social Media Scans

Utilizing New Investigative DNA & Forensic Technology

Speaking with Member of Law Enforcement

Running Criminal and Civil Background Checks

Reviewing Old Cell Phone Tower Data

Identifying & Finding Weapons the Criminal Used to Commit the Crime

Much More!

There are so many tricks up the sleeves of our forensic private investigators that can help solve cold cases of all types. Our forensic private investigations can come in extremely handy in reopening old murder, rape, and other criminal files to bring justice to victim of tragic crimes from long ago. If you wish to hire a criminal private eye to help you with this, please just call, E-mail, or text us for more information!

Costs to Hire a Cold Case Private Investigator:

The costs to hire the best unsolved homicide private investigator or the best child molestation private detective are expensive. They can run well over ten thousand dollars or more in some situations, because murder and rape cases in general require a significant amount of time, effort, and resources to complete a proper, thorough criminal private investigation for. When you want the best, be prepared to pay for it but remember that you usually get what you pay for!