In Episode 3 of The Angry PI, private investigator Alex Chilton goes after one of the biggest problems destroying the investigations industry: lazy investigators, fake “skip tracing,” and people relying on database reports instead of actual investigative work.

What starts as a breakdown of why “skip tracing” is mostly bullshit quickly turns into a full industry-wide callout about investigators charging clients ridiculous fees for cheap database pulls, attorneys blindly trusting TLO reports, process servers pretending to be investigators, and companies refusing to learn real tradecraft.

Alex explains:

• The difference between skip tracing and real person locate investigations

• Why database services are tools, not magic answers

• How investigators waste client money running bad addresses

• Why so many investi ...