F.L.I.P.

Melinda Kidder, FLIP member, in the news:

I got an email this week from Melinda Kidder, a private detective with a heart for children’s issues.

She told me she came across information on the Internet showing that sex offenders are living and working within 1,000 feet of Columbia schools, preschools and daycare centers. “Isn’t that illegal?” she asked.

“I’m working a child molester case right now, and it just wears me down,” Kidder wrote. “Seeing that these guys and one gal are living close to schools is even more disturbing.”

I was disturbed, too. I did a little digging in an effort to separate fact from fiction.

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FLIP Member Dottie Laster will be a key speaker this week at the 83rd Annual World Association of Detectives Conference, an International Symposium for Human Rights Awareness, celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration. The Denver, Colorado conference runs from Tuesday, September 16 through Saturday, September 20, 2008.

Laster is a past member of the Human Trafficking Rescue Alliance, a federal human trafficking task force in Texas, as well as former Administrator of the Orange County, California Human Trafficking Task Force.

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FLIP member Melinda Kidder speaks out to protect a useful investigative tool.

Garbology Granted in Columbia, Missouri

San Antonio Express-News

FLIP’s Human Trafficking expert, Dottie Laster comments

” The demand for purchased innocence is never satisfied.”

A while back the FLIP team located a girl we thought was being trafficked.  It turned out that she was a runaway.  In the process we broke up a gang, and helped her home.  While it’s not easy for her or her family she is doing well in school, and keeping straight.  We hope to hear from Christina and her family often, here.

Brenda’s family continued to search for her, even as Baltimore police attempted to identify the remains of a Jane Doe found murdered and dumped.

When Bobby Lingoes of the Quincy, MA police department contacted FLIP founder Vicki Siedow for help with giving a name to Baltimore’s Jane Doe, both mysteries came together.  Now Brenda Wright has a grave, and her family has found their sister and mother.

Still, another mystery remains.  Who was it who murdered Brenda and why?  Her family, Baltimore PD, and FLIP want to know.  Do you have a clue for us?

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F.L.I.P. Mysteries: Women on the Case Airs Again on WE tv August 15, 2008

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For those who missed it, “F.L.I.P. Mysteries: Women on the Case” received rave reviews from the public and the profession alike. It is an excellent program and makes the PI profession look great. See Michele Dawn, Tina Elkins, Anne LaJeunesse, Vicki Siedow, Peggy Walla and Lori Wilkins work with LEO to crack cases. We’ve been inundated with kudos, such as the ones below.

By popular demand, the show is airing again on Friday, August 15, 2008 on WE tv at 10/9 central. Set it up to record now,

Pass the word, and send feedback to WE tv and I at contactwe@we.tv and siedow@lawandorder.com

F.L.I.P.  founder Vicki Siedow and members Michele Dawn, Tina Elkins, Anne LaJeunesse, Peggy Walla and Lori Wilkins star in the premier episode of Women’s Entertainment Network’s program “F.L.I.P.  Mysteries: Women on the Case.”

A woman is murdered in Baltimore, and learning her identity leads to events that inspire the creation of F.L.I.P.

A pedophile is terrifying families in a Quincy, Massachusetts neighborhood, and F.L.I.P. members leap into action with just hours to find the culprit before he strikes.

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Kudos:

GREAT SHOW!!! This really lends credibility to our profession to those who don’t know what we do. I am an instant fan. Can’t wait for the next episode.

The police look respectful and appreciative of the extraordinary abilities of the group. This is a great step for victims and children and a real threat to criminals and exploiters, and now the public now knows that. I am ready for more F.L.I.P.I will be busy spreading the word.

I was extremely impressed with the FLIP show, very professional, graciousness, intelligent, non sensational, and I think it has raised the bar of respectability for all of us PI’s, its the most down to earth reality show I have ever seen, or documentary on our business. KUDOS to all who participated!

I watched the show based on your women’s group F.L.I.P. on Wednesday evening on WeTV. I was very impressed with it. Reality shows seem to be what everybody is watching now a days and I can certainly see this one being a huge hit. Even though it is set up more or less as a documentary of sorts, it is far more interesting and intriguing than any documentary I have ever seen. I love the way it incorporated everybody involved from F.L.I.P., the police, federal investigators, relatives of the victim, and whoever else. This kept you interested and wanting to hear more. I found it so fascinating when they actually talked to the ladies of F.L.I.P. and they told how they came up with the information they did and the way they all worked was so different and entailed such different and varied ways of discovery. I can hardly wait to see another episode. Can you please let me know when it is made into a series? Thanks!
And many more…… 

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F.L.I.P.  founder Vicki Siedow and members Michele Dawn, Tina Elkins, Anne LaJeunesse, Peggy Walla and Lori Wilkins star in the premier episode of Women’s Entertainment Network’s program “F.L.I.P.  Mysteries: Women on the Case.”

A woman is murdered in Baltimore, and learning her identity leads to events that inspire the creation of F.L.I.P.

A pedophile is terrifying families in a Quincy, Massachusetts neighborhood, and F.L.I.P. members leap into action with just hours to find the culprit before he strikes.

More on WE tv