I had a gentleman came from Africa, but he calls me, he says, I got a, my wife came here to

America with my two kids. I want to serve her papers to bring her to court for child custody,

and I want to take her to court, and I want to bring my kids back to Africa. I met with him.

He was a professional suit guy, I mean, well-spoken guy. He said he was some kind of professional

career he had in Africa. I forget what it was. But it seemed legit. No problem. So I tracked her down. Two weeks later, he calls me up. He wanted to follow her again. Okay, why? He goes, well, I just want to find out if she's working, you know, where the kids are going to school, that type of thing. So I did.

I went out there.

Before she left, I got a weird vibe before she even left the house. So I'm sitting on surveillance for like three hours, let's say. I just said, you know what, this guy, he's already in court with her. Everything should be fine. I don't even know why I'm here. It's kind of not really worth doing this case. So I call him up and said, I'm done.

Two weeks later, on one of my dues feeds, he was arrested for hiring a hitman. He was arrested for hiring a hitman.

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Investigator Rano, welcome to Locked in. Thank you to Patrick and Eno for connecting us. Thanks for having me. How are you doing? And you are our second investigator on the show in a couple weeks span, which is cool because we've gone like over a year now without one. Yeah, and we've all got a lot of stories. Yeah, definitely. We have some great questions for you. Exciting ones. Patrick told me that you do some investigative work relating to, like, people that want to spy on, like, a wife or a boyfriend or a girlfriend. Infidelity, yeah, it's about 40% of my business. Wow, and that's really exciting, and we see all that on TV and all that, which we'll get into.

Sure.

And you were just telling me that you had followed my story 10 or so years ago.

Yeah, I was interested because it was definitely a unique story, a very ambitious young man who, you know, did what he did and, you know, made it until he didn't.

But I was following it.

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