Private investigator Joe Tadlock gives an interesting interview to the Roseville Press-Tribune about the problems that private investigators face when dealing with clients that lie or sometimes worse, intentionally leave out important facts that they know we would want to be aware of before we take an assignment. Mr. Tadlock demonstrates how a trained detective can recognize signs of deception, even on thew part of our prospective clients. If you are thinking about hiring a private investigator, please keep this in mind and review the complete story here.

We found antoher good article that we think will be of interest to readers at this time of the year. To read the full article click here. Below is an excerpt:

“Cheating husbands can be exposed by the Christmas gifts they give or receive,” says author and infidelity expert, Ruth Houston. “The wife who knows what to look for and where to look can find tangible evidence of her husband’s affair.”

(PRWEB) December 13, 2004 — If you have a sneaky suspicion your husband is having an affair, Christmas is the ideal time to confirm what you suspect. “A cheating husband can be exposed by the Christmas gifts he gives or receives:,” says Ruth Houston, infidelity expert and author of “Is He Cheating on You? – 829 Telltale Signs” (Lifestyle Publications, ISBN 0972055347). A wife who knows what to look for and where to look can usually find tangible evidence of her husband’s affair.”

By Court TV/CNN reporter Jessica Su
Court TV
Tuesday, December 7, 2004

When a West Palm Beach, Florida, socialite suspected her husband was cheating on her, she sought proof and payback.

During a 1999 visit to her summer home in Woodstock, Vermont, Nanette Sexton Bailey, 60, says she found a lace nightgown, brown hair, a toothbrush and stains on the bedsheets — all of which were not hers.

Bailey, a blonde, kept the blemished sheet and claims a DNA test confirmed that another woman was in her husband’s bed.

She filed for divorce in 2000 and claims she deserves $16,000 a month for life, thanks to a “bad boy” clause in a prenuptial agreement.

Her husband, Richard Bailey, 78, claims he has Alzheimer’s disease and was mentally incompetent when he signed the agreement.

A judge in the Palm Beach County Circuit Court is deciding if the clause is enforceable. If he rules in favor of Nanette Bailey, a second trial will determine whether Richard Bailey cheated on his wife before she receives payment.

The Baileys married in September 1993 in New Hampshire. Richard Bailey, reportedly worth $11 million, was the CEO of Massachusetts Financial Services, America’s oldest mutual fund company.

Nanette Bailey also had an impressive pedigree: The horse enthusiast was a great-niece of sculptor Alexander Calder and held a doctorate in art history.

However, marital troubles lurked beneath the glamour. The marriage was Richard Bailey’s fourth and Nanette’s third.

According to the divorce filing, Richard Bailey committed adultery after January 1999, when he and his wife signed an amended prenuptial contract, which added the “bad boy” clause to their original agreement they signed on their wedding day.

According to the clause, Richard Bailey would financially compensate his wife if he cheated on her, deserted her or physically abused her.

In addition to the DNA test, which marked the first adultery case in history based on genetic evidence, Nanette Bailey hired a private investigator to monitor her husband.

The detective discovered that Richard Bailey met with his third wife, Anita, several times between July and December 1999, according to People magazine.

Although the prenuptial agreement would grant Nanette Bailey millions, her lawyer, Ann Porath, said infidelity, not money, sparked the Baileys’ pending divorce.

“She didn’t want to divorce him,” Porath said. “They didn’t have a five-minute marriage. I think they were very compatible.”

Furthermore, Nanette Bailey doubted that her husband suffered memory loss from Alzheimer’s disease.

“Alzheimer’s is never definitively diagnosed until someone dies and there’s an autopsy,” Porath said.

Richard Bailey’s lawyer, Jeffrey Fisher, claims Nanette Bailey took advantage of her husband’s mental state and tricked him into signing the amended clause.

“She had him sign a prenuptial agreement when she knew he was mentally incompetent,” Fisher said. “It’s sad and it’s abusive. Money motivates a lot of people.”

“He was taken by his wife to a neurologist in February 1997 with profound memory loss,” Fisher said. “Alzheimer’s is a degenerative disease. If it was bad enough in 1997 that she took him to see a neurologist, imagine how bad it is now.”

“This was a setup that was carefully constructed and manufactured by Ms. Bailey,” Fisher said. “She didn’t let him send the amended agreement to his lawyer. She made him sign it in front of a notary who was a friend of hers.”

Though law requires two witnesses during the signing, none were present, Fisher claims.

“The space for other witnesses to sign was whited out,” he said.

In addition, the DNA evidence that Nanette Bailey was banking on never existed, according to Fisher.

“They claim that they found some sheets that were sent to a lab. The test was never done. The lab doesn’t exist anymore,” Fisher said. “If there’s a DNA report, it doesn’t identify whose DNA was on it. It could be a housekeeper. It could be a pet.”

Furthermore, Richard Bailey did not offer an explanation for his alleged affair because of his mental state, according to Fisher.

“He can’t admit or deny anything. It’s like asking your 88-year-old grandmother what she ate for lunch three days ago,” Fisher said. “He could tell you that he’s just watched ‘Star Trek,’ and it hasn’t been on for 20 years.”

The trial is expected to last three days.

This article can be found at the CNN / Court TV web site

This is excerpt from an intersting blog article about infidelity we located at Future Pundits

A comparison of the sexual histories of 1600 identical and non-identical twins found that genetic variations play a large role in influencing the tendency to infidelity among women.

“We found that around 40 percent of the influence on the number of sexual partners and infidelity were due to genetic factors,” Professor Tim Spector, director of the Twin Research Unit at St Thomas’ Hospital in London, told a news conference.

Identical twins whose twin has strayed have twice the normal chance of straying.

The findings mean that someone with a philandering twin is far more likely to philander themselves. The average risk of female infidelity is about 22%, says Spector, but those with an unfaithful identical twin have a risk of 44%.

Women tend to stray to hook up with higher status men.

The study, which was published in the journal Twin Research, suggests that a genetic predisposition towards female infidelity may have evolved because it was important in allowing women married to “low status” men surreptitiously to become pregnant by “high status” men.

“If female infidelity and number of sexual partners are under considerable genetic influence, as this study demonstrates, the logical conclusion is that these behaviours persist because they have been evolutionary advantageous for women,” the researchers write in their scientific paper.

Female straying for higher status males offers a selective advantage that could have been selected for.

From an evolutionary perspective, a woman’s best short-term strategy would be to clandestinely pursue men with better genes.

Prof Spector points out that women tend to have affairs with men of higher status than their husbands. However, the system would break down, he said, if “everyone was unfaithful, because there would be no pair-bonding”.

Three chromosomes were identified in this study as likely locations for genes that influence the odds of monogamy.

It lends strong support to theories advanced by evolutionary psychologists such as Steven Pinker, of Harvard University, who argue that human sexual behaviour is at least partly determined by natural selection and our genes.

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Professor Spector’s team did not identify any particular gene that contributes to a tendency to infidelity, though they did pinpoint three regions on chromosomes 3, 7 and 20 that might harbour such genes. He believes that there are between 50 and 100 genes that contribute to a tendency to infidelity.