Denver Private Investigator’s Blog

Background checks will be discussed at May PPIAC meeting

Erica Davis, a Colorado-based private investigator, will address the May meeting of the Professional Private Investigator Association of Colorado (PPIAC).

Formerly with the Boulder Country Sheriff’s Office and the Longmont Police Department, Davis will speak about best practice when it comes to conducting background checks.

“Erica’s vast experience and training in background checks and reports will take some of the guesswork out of navigating through the ...

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Child autopsy reports will be secret under new law

Autopsy reports about the deaths of minors will no longer be made public, under a controversial bill making its way through the Colorado statehouse.

Despite long being available through the Colorado Open Records Act – which exempts other kinds of personal medical records from public scrutiny – autopsy reports for minors will soon be confidential, if the bill becomes law.

Only some details from those ...

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Bundy’s Colorado victim target of new private eye search

The search for Ted Bundy murder victim Julie Cunningham will resume this summer, almost 50 years after she disappeared from Vail, Colorado. 

Before being executed in 1989, serial killer Bundy confessed to murdering Cunningham – and a string of other young women – and burying her body “in the high desert” north of Rifle.

That’s where private investigator, Jason Jensen, and his trained human remains ...

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Notaries must tell their customers about charges ahead of time

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold has announced new rules for notaries to “ensure transparency in notary public operations.”

A press release issued by Griswold’s office says the rules require a notary public to inform their customers of any service that is an additional charge to the notarial act, prior to performing that notarial act.

“The rules further require that a notary public provide an itemized ...

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Expert on locating missing persons to speak at April PPIAC meeting

Lindsey Paison will speak on how to find missing persons at the April meeting of the Professional Private Investigator Association of Colorado. 

Paison is the owner and lead investigator of Dark Knight Private Investigations, which specializes in the reunification of missing and endangered persons with family and loved ones, as well as process service, aid to law firms for witness interviews, and mobile notary.

“I ...

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Possible change to CORA could stop a “vexatious” requestor from accessing government records for 30 days

Changes to the Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) currently being considered by state lawmakers could stop an individual from accessing government records for 30 days if they are determined to be “vexatious”.

Under House Bill 24-1296, a records custodian can ask a district court to determine that an individual or entity is vexatious. The bill says a vexatious requester is someone who submits a ...

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Colorado PI facing drug charges is innocent, says attorney

Laura Tellers is innocent. That’s the first line in a motion to dismiss filed by the attorney representing a Colorado private investigator charged with smuggling drugs into a jail.

“Laura Tellers had nothing to do with any conspiracy to brings drugs into Weld County Jail. The district attorney has been told this repeatedly and instead chooses to believe an incredible inconsistent story. The WCDA (Weld County district ...

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Colorado Springs private investigator proves client innocent of sending offensive text messages

Photo by Parker Seibold, Colorado Springs Gazette

A Colorado Spring hairdresser was forced to hire a private investigator after police wrongly accused her of sending threatening and offensive messages to her ex-boyfriend and his new girlfriend, in violation of a projection order.

Lisa Chase, 42, was arrested four times by Colorado Springs police, beginning in November 2022. Shocked, she spent a year complained to prosecutors, adamant she ...

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Police say jailhouse phone calls are further evidence against Colorado PI, accused of supplying drugs to Weld County inmates

Jailhouse phone calls, during which Weld County Jail inmates conspired to smuggle in drugs, shed new light on the case against a Colorado private investigator accused in the plot.

According to a police indictment, the drugs were delivered to the Fort Collins home of investigator Laura Tellers, 52, who is accused of hiding them in documents and taking them into the jail on several occasions between August ...

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PI brought drugs to inmate hidden in documents, says unsealed indictment

Laura Tellers, the Colorado private investigator arrested last November on drugs charges, smuggled fentanyl and meth into Weld County Jail, concealed in documents before giving them to an inmate who then strapped them to his penis, according to a jailhouse informant. 

In a newly unsealed 15-page indictment, the Greeley Police Department reveal their case against Tellers largely derives from an interview with inmate Frederick Rios, who shared ...

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