P.I.s That Hunt Down People Who Fake Their Deaths

An interesting article from MEL Magazine (via Get Pocket): "Inside the World of Investigators Who Know You’ve Faked Your Death." A brief look at how investigators, generally working for insurance companies, discover and track down people that have faked their own deaths. Much of it is comes down to people unable to completely leave their old lives behind. An excerpt:

We never hear from people who do this job well, but to succeed at pseudocide, you really do have to be prepared to give up everything you know and love — for good. You can’t talk to anyone you know (they’re being watched), you have to give up your pets (harder than family, sometimes) and you have to figure out how to support yourself off the books, getting paid under the table or in cash. Your college degree means nothing. Your specialized skill becomes useless. All of your hobbies and interests are bunk, because those things are precisely what investigators like Ahearn and Rambam will be analyzing obsessively for signs of you. Rambam once spent weeks going to mind-numbingly boring coin shows around New York City to locate a coin collector who had supposedly died, and that’s exactly where he caught him.