Free Private Investigator Tools

Finding a person is often a key part of the investigator's mission. Online sites like PIPL and ZabaSearch return a great deal of information with minimal effort. Both of these sites allow searches by either a partial or full name. Filtering of search results can be performed by using geographical information. Information returned may include address, phone number, age, birth date and email addresses. People search sites are a great starting point for investigation.

Many states, counties or cities provide information regarding criminal proceedings and civil court filings free online. The court of the clerk for a city or county will often have a link to an online system for public searches of court documents. Searching the counties or cities closest to the subject being investigated will often yield results. These online repositories can be found by entering the county or city name and "clerk of courts" into a popular search engine such as Yahoo or Google.

Property records are very useful to show residence, track down a person or determine net worth. These records are available through the tax collector for a county or city. Often the tax collector's office will provide a search facility to find these documents on their websites. This office can be found by performing a web search for the tax collector's office or public property appraiser in the area where the investigated person may own property. This information may include the number of properties owned, value and, in some cases, diagrams of the floor plan.

General search engines such as Bing or Google can provide information about businesses and people. Data from these search engines may include business information such as number of employees, business type and location. Mapping functions on these search engines may provide either aerial or street level pictures of the location of the investigated. This may provide information about the subject's vehicles or possessions.