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Without warning podcast presents season 3, Investigation, derailed.

Come behind the curtain with private investigator, Sheila Weissaki, and examine a major injustice.

Warning, the following episode contains elements that are graphic in nature.

The subject discretion is advised.

We all dread tax time when you have to gather reams of documents and fill out a ton of paperwork.

But we do it because someday we might need to prove we made some payment or justify a deduction we took.

Being an investigator is a lot like doing your taxes.

It requires filling out a lot of paperwork and gathering lots of information if you want to do it right.

Most of the private investigators you see on TV just wander around chatting with people until they crack the case with their hidden ability to spot a criminal through sheer gut instinct.

In real life, solid investigators want documentation of everything.

There's no way to perfectly remember the tremendous amount of information even a simple case generates.

This week I talked with Katie's mom Vicki, private investigator and fellow podcaster Lori Morrison, and crowd sources, Chelsea and Kendra, about the documentation and evidence from Katie's case that's available for us to review.

And what should be but isn't.

The simplest task a police officer has to do is paperwork.

How hard is paperwork? You walk in, you sit down, you fill out the forms, you sign your name, you're done.

You tell the truth. Well evidently in this particular case, if it's been a nightmare, they can't seem to even get documentation until months later.

When memories change, their narratives have changed and how they view the cases change. So I want to go over certain timelines documentation today.

Okay, I have some charts made up. If I get where I can't go by memory, I can always double check my chart because I thought I was interesting with Brandon, Mr. Brandy, when he was talking about the interrogation so called.

When you said, well, he said, what did they do after this? And you said nothing. But the other point of that, which is true, they did nothing of that was they had already ruled a suicide, but they called them in, you know, it was already a suicide.

That's significant. So let's kind of go through that. And one of the things that I think the public doesn't understand is.

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