When it comes to surveillance, mostly in cheating cases, we feel bad for the client. They have put their heart and soul into a relationship only to find out that the person they thought would be committed to their life together is quite possibly cheating on them with someone else. We have had so many variations of this scenario, but the ones that often catch us by surprise are the “double life” scenarios.
Now in a majority of our “cheating” cases, the “guilty party” is off with someone that is aware of their “marital status” and understands that they are the “other woman or other man” in this situation. Some will even go so far as to reach out to the spouse to try and get them to leave so they can have the cheater all to themselves. I’m not here to judge – I am just describing some of the situations that we have come across. Everyone has some sort of reasoning for what choices they make in their own lives and if they can live with their choices then that is not for me to pass judgment upon.
But I digress. My point is that most of our “cheating” cases are pretty much in the same category. However, there are some that will sometimes lead down a rabbit hole that neither we nor the client are expecting. These are a few of those situations:
Multiple Mistresses In Maspeth, Queens – We had a case not too long ago where a woman in another state was getting some “red flags” from her fiancé. He claimed to live in Maspeth and was rather elusive as to what he did for a living and what his actual address was. But he shrugged it off stating that he traveled for his work and didn’t really have a “set address” and often stayed in hotels or with friends. He was saving up his money to move to her state to be with her when they got married. Now she was getting some very strange excuses for a lot of his behaviors. He said he worked from very early in the morning until very late at night seven days a week. He said that he was trying to save up as much money as possible so that he could send it to her and their children until he could transfer to her area. This went on for almost a year before she got suspicious. They had been together for several years and had two children together at that point. Yet he continued to put off their wedding year after year.
Finally, the client decided to find out what was going on in New York. So she called us. We did our deep web searches and went through all of our databases. We came to find out that the client was engaged to someone that was already married to someone else. Not only married, but had another family and did not live in Maspeth, but in Fresh Pond, Queens with them! According to our records, they had been married for a lot longer than he was engaged to our client. We watched him for several weeks and found that he apparently worked from home and was not “traveling for work”, although I’m sure that is what he told both women. The money that he was supposedly saving up was actually to keep up the house that he owned with the wife. He was leading a double life for years. And both women appeared to not have a clue.
You can imagine her surprise when we told the client. We were just as surprised as she was, but we needed to confirm our findings before we informed her. We are very thorough when it comes to our results. A mistake like this is the stuff that ruins lives unnecessarily. So once we were sure, we let her know so she could decide how to proceed.
Not Sure In North Corona, Queens – We had a case last year in which a woman called up to ask for help on behalf of her fiancé. The fiancé was trying to get his current wife to divorce him and move out of their house in North Corona so that the client and her fiancé could start their life together. But the wife refused to move out. She said that she didn’t want to and therefore she didn’t have to. Now this was the house that the fiancé had inherited from his parents, so he was not about to just walk away from it. Every night the wife would leave to “party with her friends” until all hours, then return home and sleep all day. The fiancé and the client were very frustrated and thought that maybe she was seeing someone else. Their hope was that they could catch her with someone else and then use that against her and sue for divorce. Even though the client and her fiancé were involved already, they did not begin their relationship until after the wife announced she was moving out of their bedroom to be in her own bedroom and that she wanted nothing to do with the husband anymore. And yet, she refused to move out for close to a year now, continuing to live off of her husband and not contribute a dime, claiming that since she did not work she had no money to go anywhere.
So we did surveillance on the wife to see who she was out with night after night. Came to find out that she was actually a stripper with a “side gig” that involved a pimp. Enough said on that. So we reported our findings both to the client and her fiancé. About six months later they texted us to thank us and to tell us that they were on their honeymoon in Southport, Connecticut. So I guess it all worked out for them. Another happy customer.
Breaking Vows In Briarwood, Queens – We were hired to follow a wife that was traveling to Briarwood to visit her best friend who had relocated there a month before. The client said that she and the bestie would do everything together and when the bestie had to relocate for her job, the wife was very distraught about it. She kept begging him to let her go to visit her bestie in NY. He finally agreed to let her go and visit over a three-day weekend. However, he was not sure that it was the bestie she was meeting. Often he overheard some very romantic conversations in hushed voices between his wife and someone whose number he did not recognize. She was texting and calling this person every time she thought she was alone. The client could tell that something was going on. He said that his wife was very “cold” to him in the marital sense for a while and that he felt very strongly that she was sneaking off to meet someone.
So the weekend arrived and we were there at the airport waiting to see who met the wife. Turned out it actually was the bestie that picked her up. They headed off to an apartment in Briarwood. We waited around to see if she met anyone else while she was there. After a while they both left the apartment, all dressed up, and headed towards Manhattan.
We followed along and eventually wound up in Greenwich Village. We still did not think much of it until we followed them up to a bar/restaurant with some great big windows in the front that made it very easy for us to get some very interesting footage of the wife and the bestie, which confirmed that they were “more than friends”. We also ran data searches on the phone number that the client gave us (he had waited to contact the telephone company until after she left) and it was in fact the bestie’s new phone number in New York. So in this case the client was being cheated on, not by another man, but by a woman. A plot twist neither of us were anticipating. But at least he had some answers now. It must have made for a very interesting conversation when she returned.
Mail Delivery And More In Mystic Connecticut – Our next story is about something a little more cliché. A man called us to say that he wanted surveillance done on his house. He suspected that his teenage daughter might be sneaking someone into the house. The daughter was told she could not date, and yet twice he had found what he felt was “evidence” in his upstairs hall bathroom (someone with “bad aim” had gotten urine on the floor by the toilet) that someone had been there. Since he never used that bathroom, and he was the only male in the home, he hired us to watch the house for a few days to catch the boy on video so he could confront his daughter. His wife insisted it could not be the case and that he was being ridiculous, so to avoid a fight he did not want her to know he had hired us. We assured him that we would be discreet and began the case.
The next day, we set up in front of the house. We watched for a few hours, then noticed the mail carrier working his way down the block. He eventually came to the door of the house and rang the bell. The wife opened the door and let the mail carrier inside. About an hour later, he exited the house and continued his route. No one else came to the home. The next day, the same thing happened. On the third day, the mail carrier came up to the door and it was the same deal. However, this time, the door was left open with a full public view. It was just long enough that we could see inside. This allowed us to get a clear video from across the street of a very passionate kiss right inside the doorway before she closed the door behind them with her foot.
When we began to report to the client about the mail carrier being in the house, he was not at all concerned. He said that the mail carrier was a family friend for years. That they would go on double dates with him and his wife a lot. He said the mail carrier would often take a break at their house so it was not unusual. However, when we showed the video of the kiss, he was shocked. He could not believe that this person that had been invited into his house multiple times and whom he considered a close friend, would do such a thing. The client called us a week later and told us that he waited until they all went out to dinner together on a double date and confronted them about it. He said he had already spoken with the mail carrier’s wife first so she would not be blind-sided like he was. I sure would have liked to be in the restaurant for that one!
Something Special in Stamford Connecticut – I told this story many blogs ago about a young woman who was worried about her boyfriend, but I will give you the quick version. She said that they were always very close and that suddenly he was always too busy to see her. When she did get to see him, he always gave excuses why he couldn’t see her more often. She came to us to make sure something else wasn’t going on and he wasn’t seeing someone else.
We followed him one evening to a very fancy restaurant. It turned out he was working there in the evenings. He happened to be our waiter and we made some small talk. Came to find out, he was moonlighting there to earn enough money to buy his girlfriend an engagement ring. So sometimes the twists can be in a good direction and not a bad direction.
This just proves that sometimes things are not always as they appear. Sometimes what you think is going on may not be and what you don’t expect can actually be what is happening. The best way to know for sure is to hire someone that can find out the answers for you. Just be warned – sometimes things are not always what you think they are. Sometimes it’s leading a double life with someone else, and sometimes it’s just moonlighting to surprise you with something special. You never know until we confirm it for you. And in case you are wondering, no, we did not tell the girl about the ring. We just said she had nothing to worry about and let the surprise speak for itself. After all, we love a happy ending to a story too.
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