- Honestly most of the time,
when the women have a gut feeling,
it's 90% percent of the time right.
Guys not so much, guys is like 45% percent of the time.
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My name is Elizabeth.
I'm a private investigator in Los Angeles.
- My name is John.
I'm a private investigator and I've been so
for about two and a half years.
- A lot of people hire PI's.
People from all walks of life, every race, gender, age.
- I get a lot of stories out of my job.
- People ask me "Do crazy things happen to you,
"just 'cause you're a private investigator?"
Because you're in LA, this is the land of insanity.
It's so much fun.
Here's one of my horror stories.
This woman hired us to see if her husband was cheating.
And she calls us saying,
"My husband's been acting different.
"He comes home really late at night.
"I have these weird feelings.
"One of his female friends, who we've been friends with
"a long time has been acting really strange lately
"or really nice."
We had to go follow her husband, to see if he was cheating.
She said "Okay, my husband is going to this restaurant."
By that time we already have the description
of what he looks like.
They send us photos,
they send us pictures of the car he would drive.
But a lot of the times, when they give us a photo,
it's like a photo of maybe from five or fifteen years ago.
You're trying to see if this person in person
looks like he does in the photo.
I get to this restaurant,
where she wants us to follow her husband,
and I see the guy, and I'm like, okay this is the guy
this is exactly him, it looks just like him,
he's got this goatee and he's sitting with this woman
and they're really flirty.
Well I get a seat over next to them.
You know I kinda have my camera and being really discreet
because you're on your phone.
I'm sitting there for at least 45 minutes
and I'm getting so many juicy things.
And they're cuddling up and they're kissing
and I'm so excited because I just broke this case,
it's done, the woman is going to be so happy.
Go to meet with the woman.
This woman's actually crying and
"okay I'm ready to see this"
Finally you set the camera down there, you know your phone.
And okay here's the video, here's what we saw.
And I press play and she's crying and all of a sudden
she looks at it and she goes, "What, that's not my husband"
I'm mortified, because I just thought I had did this amazing
job on this case and even the woman he was with,
looked exactly like the subjects friend.
It was two people, two couples who looked almost
exactly alike in the same restaurant at the same time.
About a week later, we caught him for real.
I got the wrong people,
but she was pretty impressed because she said
"I've never seen anyone who looks so much
"like my husband in my life."
- It was my first surveillance gig ever.
I had to set up and stake out this house
a young girl was staying at and her parents were
concerned that she would be doing something,
you know, dangerous or illegal
and almost as soon as I pulled up, I see the subject
leaving the house on foot.
All of a sudden, I'm on foot, I'm walking
and I don't know where I'm walking.
This subject goes first to a park,
known for certain transactions to take place
and she sits down and just reads a book for an hour.
And then she gets up and she starts walking again
and she's walking through high-end clothing
and that sort of thing and pokes her head
into a couple of stores and I have to enter these stores
and maintain a distance, but it's a tight little store
and I'm not a guy who would walk into these stores.
Keeping an eye on the subject and then she would leave
so I had to pick up the tail again and follow her,
before I realized that a couple of hours had gone on by.
My car is eight or nine miles away.
I barely know where I am.
I'm in this environment where I stick out like a sore thumb
so now I look like the weird shady guy.
She turns around about faces,
and begins to walk what appears to be back towards the home
where she was staying.
And I tipped my hand at one point,
she turned a corner I was trying to catch up with her.
As I hit the corner, she comes walking back the other way.
So for a split second, we're right there,
staring at one another but at that point I realized
I can't risk having that happen again.
If she sees me a second time,
she might know something is up.
I hopped in a ride share, got back to the house
and sure enough I saw her, approaching the home.
At the end of the day, it turned out
it was just a young lady, who wanted to get out
and see what the city was like for a few days.
So it was a happy ending to a scary story
for the parents at least.
- So I was on an investigation.
The wife hired us and said "I think my husband's cheating"
and I was called to be kind of the bait,
we're called bait girls, to see if the guy's gonna bite
and cheat on his wife.
He did really fast and while we were on our first date
we were sitting there and we were having dinner
and all of a sudden he leans over to me and he was like,
"I have something to tell you though"
and I was like, "Okay"
and he goes, "You may not know this, but I'm really smart"
and I was like, "Obviously you're really smart,
"charming" and all that, and he goes,
"I know my wife, I think she's hired a private investigator"
So I had to keep you know really calm,
I was like "Oh really?"
and he goes, "Yeah, I think she did"
and I was like "Oh nobody does that, that's crazy.
"Do people actually hire PI's these days?"
He's like "Yeah, yeah but I'm onto her"
and I was like "Okay"
On the third date, he tells me,
"I just feel like you're actually a PI.
"But here's the thing, I don't even care,
"and I still want to date you"
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And I was like mortified.
I tried to keep a straight face, I was like,
"No, I'm not, I do social media"
No, no, no, I never told him.
He had already sent me enough photos
that were incriminating enough without to where
I was just gonna walk away.
It was kind of funny honestly because I like
catching bad guys, man, it's fun.
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