[ Matt lowers his head and nods silently. It’s a reasonable question, and he hopes Mari won’t mind if he shares at least the first story. ]
A domestic case. A man’s sister hired Mari to get evidence that he was being abused by his wife. The sister was scared for his life, asked the neighbors to call the police if they heard anything, confronted her brother about it. But every time the police showed or someone, even family asked the brother what happened he denied it. Always an accident, never worth a doctor’s visit, always crazy to suggest he wasn’t too strong for a woman a foot shorter to hurt. Without any witnesses or offered evidence the police couldn’t do anything.
Mari spent hours digging through their internet and phone history for evidence, checking on the wife’s exes, keeping tabs on the house. I kept her company whenever I was free. Came up with the idea to get the neighbors’ help by asking if we could have access to their yard.
When we finally caught a fight live one night the husband went running outside. We had called the police of course but the wife came after him with a kitchen knife in her hand. The gate of the neighbor’s yard was right there, when Mari told me what was happening I just- neither of us could sit there. I was the first one out the gate and the next thing I knew I was between the two of them. The wife took a swipe, she swung wide and I picked up on it, Mari didn’t have to intervene, I got the wife in an arm lock easily just like we practiced.
Something clicked into place. PI’s get hired to act as bodyguards sometimes and Mari realized I could keep up with her. Between her investigation skill and my legal expertise we could do a lot of good. I was involved in more jobs and it kept escalating until we were looking for people to help instead of going to restaurants for date night.
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A domestic case. A man’s sister hired Mari to get evidence that he was being abused by his wife. The sister was scared for his life, asked the neighbors to call the police if they heard anything, confronted her brother about it. But every time the police showed or someone, even family asked the brother what happened he denied it. Always an accident, never worth a doctor’s visit, always crazy to suggest he wasn’t too strong for a woman a foot shorter to hurt. Without any witnesses or offered evidence the police couldn’t do anything.
Mari spent hours digging through their internet and phone history for evidence, checking on the wife’s exes, keeping tabs on the house. I kept her company whenever I was free. Came up with the idea to get the neighbors’ help by asking if we could have access to their yard.
When we finally caught a fight live one night the husband went running outside. We had called the police of course but the wife came after him with a kitchen knife in her hand. The gate of the neighbor’s yard was right there, when Mari told me what was happening I just- neither of us could sit there. I was the first one out the gate and the next thing I knew I was between the two of them. The wife took a swipe, she swung wide and I picked up on it, Mari didn’t have to intervene, I got the wife in an arm lock easily just like we practiced.
Something clicked into place. PI’s get hired to act as bodyguards sometimes and Mari realized I could keep up with her. Between her investigation skill and my legal expertise we could do a lot of good. I was involved in more jobs and it kept escalating until we were looking for people to help instead of going to restaurants for date night.