In Boston, as in nearly every other community around the United States and possibly the world, there are always important questions that people cannot figure out on their own. What happened to a childhood friend? What is a husband doing when he’s not at home? What ever happened to a father who left during his child’s formative years? Who was an adopted child’s biological mother?
According to API Private Investigations owner Paul Wood, a private investigator in Boston, MA, questions about infidelity and missing relatives are the two most common reasons why people hire private investigators – in Massachusetts and elsewhere in the country. In fact, Wood says, the most common calls to come in at API Professional Investigations are those from spouses looking for an infidelity investigator.
Many spouses are afraid that their husbands or wives are cheating, and the only way to find out what is really going on is to hire a professional to do the research. The most popular investigation for the general public involves domestic situations, such as spousal infidelity or boyfriends and girlfriends who have been accused of cheating.
It is only natural, says Wood, that people would be curious as to what their loved ones are doing when they are not at home. Short of hiring a mind reader, there is no other way to find that out than by calling a local private investigator.
Another common domestic investigation that Wood is often asked to undertake has to do with child custody arrangements. When one parent suspects that the other is lying to the court in some way – either by claiming unemployment to avoid paying child support or by failing to take adequate care of the child during weekly visits – a private investigator is often called in. With the use of high-tech video cameras and other investigative technologies, professionals like Wood can gather the type of evidence that can be presented in front of a judge in court.
Wood says that another one of the most common requests he receives at API Private Investigations is to find missing loved ones, friends, and relatives. When people disappear without a trace, it is up to their friends to hire a private detective to track them down and find out what happened. Wood says that this type of scenario is far more common than most people think, especially when it comes to finding old friends who may have left the state or even the country.
Generally, it takes some sort of red flag or ominous sign to prompt someone to call a private detective, and Wood says that most people in Boston don’t bother hiring an investigator unless they have reason to believe that an issue regarding infidelity or a lost friend is really serious. In fact, he says, most of his clients already know the truth about their friends or spouses before they come into his office. Oftentimes, they are actually just relying on him to give them the evidence that they need so they can accept the facts at hand and move on in life.