When people find out that we are private investigators, we commonly get asked for our best PI story. This one is one of my favorites. The story is written with permission. The names have not been used to protect the innocent.
We do handle cases where the spouse is coming to Florida…on business…right. We took a case from an out of state client that wanted her husband followed. She had a strong suspicion that his “business” involved more than making sales pitches for his company. We took the job, stayed in the same motel and pretty much shadowed him for four days. He was a good guy for the first three, but on day four, he went to dinner and sure enough, he met a young lady there and they sure looked like more than acquaintances. The embrace and kiss told us that there was probably something to the wives suspicion, but then there usually is. We followed them back to the hotel and they parked side by side and walked towards the lobby, arm in arm and talking about finally being alone. We were watching and using tools to obtain covert video. The evidence was definitively solid.
Our investigator contacted the client and told her what was going on. We even emailed her the pictures as proof. Now, we had not met the client as she lived out of state but you can imagine our surprise when she called the next morning and wanted to meet us off of the interstate about 11 miles from where we were. Immediately, we were concerned that this could be a very big problem. Was she armed? Was she going to confront her husband and “friend”. These were some concerns that we had. She knew right where he was. She gave us the motel information to start with. We went and met her. She wanted to get a room at a different motel, get cleaned out and get some rest from driving all night and then she wanted to buy us supper…at whatever restaurant her husband went to. She assured us that she had no weapon and just wanted out of the marriage. She also thought that it would be great to walk in with a couple of other men and sit in the same restaurant where her husband was sitting with a girl that he had just spent the night with. It was decided that this would probably be the best way to have this happen. Letting her confront them outside might be problematic and we figured that we could better control the situation by doing it her way. One investigator went in alone and another walked in shortly thereafter, with the client. They were seated but hubby didn’t see her as it was a large restaurant and he was another area. He would certainly see her when he headed for the door though. It was just a matter of time.
Finally, the husband went towards the exit and saw his wife sitting there. He stopped and looked at her and asked what she was doing there. Her reply was priceless “I am doing the same thing that you are, only he is better, I pay him $ 50.00 an hour just to be with him. ” She then identified the investigator and her husband started crying, his date was in shock too, just seeing the poor guys deceased wife was probably enough to really shake her up.
This worked out well for us, but it could have been much worse. We had to make a quick decision of how best to handle the confrontation which was going to happen with or without our help.
The two split up.
If you are going to cheat on your spouse, just be man or woman enough to admit that it’s over and end it with dignity. Unfortunately, marriages end all of the time, how we end them is a matter of honesty and fairness.
We hope that you have enjoyed this blog. We know and understand that having someone cheat on you is not funny. It usually is one of the most devastating things that anyone can be put through and we are here to help. This was just one client that the old adage of a woman scorned really rang true.
Florida cheating spouse, boyfriend,or girlfriend investigators