Legal Investigations
Witness Location and Skip Tracing
Locating witnesses, defendants, debtors and heirs who have moved, changed names or deliberately dropped out of sight, using records first and the ground second.
- #1 Private Investigator in Texas
- Texas License #12818
- Twenty-five years of experience
- Marine veteran owned
- Statewide Texas coverage
- Free confidential consultation
What this is
Witness Location & Skip Trace, in plain terms.
Skip tracing, people search, witness location - they are all the same job: a person existed at an address and is no longer there. The work is building a chain of records that carries forward, then proving the end of that chain is real.
That last step is where most traces fail. A database can tell you an address is associated with a name. It cannot tell you somebody lives there. Verification on the ground is what separates a location you can serve at from a location you can be embarrassed by.
The work
What actually gets done.
- Work address, utility, employment, licensing and property history.
- Search under previous, married and assumed names.
- Identify and approach relatives, associates and former neighbors where appropriate.
- Confirm the current address physically, not just on paper.
- Locate and confirm current employment where the case needs it.
- Hand off directly to service of process so nothing is lost between steps.
Legal Investigations
Built for the file, not for the story.
Statements taken on the assumption somebody will ask how. Chain of custody maintained. An investigator who can be put on the stand to speak to his own work.
What you get
At the end of it.
- A verified current address, with the basis for the verification stated.
- A record of every source worked, including the ones that led nowhere.
- Contact details where they can be lawfully established.
- An honest conclusion when a trail genuinely ends.
When people call
The three situations we hear most.
A case cannot proceed without a witness
The testimony exists. The person has moved twice.
You are collecting on a judgment
Locating the debtor comes before anything else, and then an asset search tells you whether to bother.
Probate needs an heir
Estates stall on one relative nobody has spoken to since the nineties.
Questions
About this service.
How accurate are the addresses?
The ones we report as confirmed have been confirmed, and we say which ones have not. A trace that hands you five possible addresses has not finished the job.
What if they are using a different name?
Common, and usually the reason the trace stalled. Name history is part of the standard workup for exactly this reason.
Can you get me a phone number?
Where one can be lawfully established, yes. We do not obtain carrier records or subscriber information by pretext - that is a federal offense, and it would taint the case it was collected for.
Is the first conversation really free?
Yes, and it is confidential. You describe the situation, we tell you whether an investigation is likely to help, roughly what it would involve and what it would cost. There is no charge for that call and no obligation at the end of it.
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Where we work
Four metros, and the rest of Texas.
Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin and San Antonio are where most cases start. Coverage runs to the whole state, and records and asset work is run nationally.
Free consultation
Tell us what is going on. The first call is free.
Describe the situation and we will tell you honestly whether an investigation would help, what it would involve and what it would cost. Confidential, no obligation, and no charge for the conversation.