War Stories I

             True Adventures From Case Files 

1992 - A large, well established car dealership discovered through an internal audit cash losses in the hundreds of thousands of dollars over a period of several years. Using structured interview and interrogation techniques, agency president John Hansen identified the responsible employee, who confessed to the crimes verbally and in writing. The car dealership recovered their losses in court;  the employee was convicted of theft and served time in prison. 

1993 - A nationwide insurance company hired Hansen Investigations to look into a questionable claim of auto theft. The claimant had lost his job the  week before the 'theft', and the car, a Jeep, was found totally stripped, in an area 15 miles from the claimant's home a few days later.  Several weeks of field investigation led John Hansen to the remains of the Jeep in the basement of a nearby residence. The occupants were former employees of the claimant, and confessed and produced proof that the claimant paid them to 'steal' the Jeep from his home and allowed them to part it out in their basement garage. 

1994 -   An automotive firm was experiencing cash losses from the office safe on same day each week. The manager who worked on that day of the week gave truthful responses to structured interview questions. Hansen Investigations revealed a crime ring made up of managers and assistant managers who were convicted felons and drug addicts who lied on their application forms were responsible for the thefts. The gang staged the thefts to occur when they were off duty so the innocent manager would be blamed. The suspects all eventually confessed and were charged in court.

1995 - A cruise ship company hired Hansen Investigations to solve a series of thefts from passengers. Working undercover at first as the ship traveled from the Caribbean up the East Coast, it took John Hansen nineteen days to sort through over 500 crew members to correctly identify the employees responsible.