Partner Philip Becnel was interviewed about how private investigators use social media in internal employment investigations on Channel 8 News’ Capital Insider. A recording of the show may be found here. ...

Partner Philip Becnel published an article with Pursuit Magazine, a trade journal and online community for the private investigations industry. The article, titled “A Private Investigator’s Take on Social Media,” can be found here. The article was later reprinted in the Winter 2011 addition of The Legal Investigator, a magazine ...

Partner Philip Becnel was interviewed on The American Private Investigator podcast. He talked about cutting his teeth working criminal cases in D.C., and his book, Private Investigator Entry Level (02E). In the interview, Philip discussed how writing the definitive chapter on investigative research would be an impossible task, as a ...

Investigator Scott Krischke was featured on Forensics:You Decide. The episode featured the defense investigation that led to the acquittal of Zukael Stephens in the 2006 Baltimore murder of transvestite Marcus Rogers, despite that the prosecutor had what they thought was a surveillance video of Stephens leaving Rogers’ apartment within minutes ...

Partner Philip Becnel was featured on Channel 6 News in the Metropolitan D.C. region regarding speculation about the final episode of The Sopranos to air on HBO that evening. The news crew interviewed Philip at Dinolt Becnel & Wells Investigative Group’s Arlington, Virginia office, and he discussed the general (read, ...

Partner Philip Becnel was quoted in The Washington Post regarding the way that credit bureaus use information about consumers. In the article, titled “Good Numbers, Bad Names,” Philip explained why credit bureaus, the main source of information from investigative databases, do not cross-reference their data with government agencies. You can ...

Partner Philip Becnel was featured on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360 regarding the practice of some private investigators unethically pretexting confidential telephone records. Philip discussed how Dinolt Becnel & Wells Investigative Group had never engaged in pretexting for such records and how the practice gave ethical, law-abiding investigators a bad name. ...

Investigator Ronald Sandoval was named in the Richmond Times Dispatch after taking a statement from the only eye witness in a capital appellate case. The witness told Ronald that he could not endorse the impending execution of Robin Lovitt because he was unsure if his identification of the killer was ...