Chapter 18

Finding Information

The Where of Investigation

Abstract

This chapter focuses on the factor of where within investigations; specifically, where to find information to assist in the investigative process. The chapter lists a wide range of sources of information, including information found in the private sector (banks, loan companies, escrow companies, funeral directors, hospitals, schools), directories and periodicals (city directories, Who’s Who, directory of physicians, Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature), information sources found in local government (tax collector, county recorder, building department, welfare department), information sources found in state government (secretary of state, controller, department of motor vehicles), ...

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