We all forget our roots sometimes. I would imagine that I'm not the only gung ho investigator who has ocasionally forgotten that the first place to look for a witness is the most obvious source: the local white pages. We investigators have lots of high tech tools that we rely on for skiptracing. While lots of people aren't listed in the phone book, a bookload of people are.
About twice a year, I get a request, sometimes frantic, from an attorney, asking me to locate a "lost" witness, only to find the witness right there listed in the white pages. Sometimes the job of a criminal defense investigator is easy. Most of the time, it's not.
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