Dottie Laster

An excellent article written by FLIP member Dottie Laster and published in the Houston Chronicle! Click to view the full article  http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6982671.html

By Alicia Stice

Published Nov. 10, 2009

Cheating spouses are one of many cases private investigators in Columbia are hired to watch; people who have skipped out on their debt are another.

Melinda Kidder, owner and lead investigator of Columbia Investigations, said her team’s specialty is surveillance and undercover work…..more here - “the maneater.”

Melinda Kidder

Sheila Klopper

Many congratulations to Private Investigator and FLIP member Sheila Klopper from San Jose, CA and of course to John Stoll who was just awarded a 5 million dollar settlement to be paid by Kern County, CA. Sheila won her well deserved CALI’s Investigator of the Year award for her excellent work in conjunction with the Northern CA Innocence Project on John’s case which resulted in his exoneration and release in 2004. No amount of money can make up for 20 years of wrongful incarceration, but perhaps John’s portion of the 5 million dollar settlement will at least make the rest of his days a little easier.

Stoll’s award was a result of his wrongful conviction in the 1980’s, part of a string of child molestation cases that sent 34 innocent Bakersville, California residents to prison.  Klopper located the former child witnesses, now grown, who originally testified against Stoll through the use of social security numbers, highlighting the legal and investigative community’s need for continued access.  These witnesses subsequently testified on behalf of his innocence.

Stoll was featured in the “must see” the Sean Penn documentary, Witch Hunt.

<SHHH> FLIP Member, National Human Trafficking expert, President of Laster Global Consulting, and Executive Director Million Kids, Dottie Laster  is creating a TV project on human trafficking, any YOU just might be involved!

Catch Dottie on a 1 hour radio special on that topic TODAY at 9 pm Eastern Time, 6 pm Pacific, along with former ADA Sex crime Prosecutor, TV Crime Analyst and Author Robin Sax and international investigator Logan Clarke, who along with his team have investigated and solved some of the most noted cases in the United States, involving everything from high-profile homicides to airline disasters.

Listen live via podcast: Scared Monkey Radio;  Scared Monkey Blog, usually posted an hour or two before the show; or via Twitter.

See you there!