Partner Pierre-Alexandre Russell gave a talk, titled “Getting Gold from Your Private Investigator,” to the Boulder Chapter of the Colorado Criminal Defense Bar. ...

Partner Philip Becnel published a book, Private Investigator Entry Level (02E). The book, which covers a myriad of different investigative topics, from serving process to obtaining sworn declarations from witnesses, is currently the only existing textbook for the entry course required of all private investigators in the Commonwealth of Virginia. ...

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 taught a two-hour seminar on behavioral-analysis interviewing to the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and the Equal Rights Center in Washington, D.C. These two organizations provide very important legal assistance to individuals in various criminal and civil matters in the District and elsewhere. Philip gave the ...

Partner Pierre-Alexandre Russell gave a lecture to a class of investigative interns for the Office of the Public Defender, Montgomery County, Maryland. Pierre’s talk was an introduction to criminal-defense investigations. ...

Partner Philip Becnel was a presenter at a panel discussion held in D.C. at the annual meeting of the Metropolitan Washington Employment Lawyers Association. Philip’s lecture, titled “Convictions and Lies: Conducting Background Investigations on Your Clients,” discussed how plaintiff employment attorneys could better vet their clients prior to initiating costly ...

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, ...

Partners Brendan Wells and Philip Becnel gave a lecture in Baltimore to the National Alliance of Sentencing and Mitigation Specialists at the University of Maryland, School of Social Work. During the lecture, titled “Defense Investigation: The Work of the Investigator on the Team,” Brendan and Philip discussed the use of ...

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 ...