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Hosted by Hal Humphreys · business · EN-US · 60 episodes
This is the official podcast of Pursuit Magazine, an online community of private investigators, journalists, and truth-seekers of all stripes. In the podcast, we explore information sources, share tradecraft tips, and discuss ways to integrate new technology with old-school gumshoe know-how. We dig into myths about PI work and hear hard-won lessons from the field. And for the spy-curious outsider, we offer a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the lives of real spies and PIs. We CAN handle the truth.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThis is the official podcast of Pursuit Magazine, an online community of private investigators, journalists, and truth-seekers of all stripes. In the podcast, we explore information sources, share tradecraft tips, and discuss ways to integrate new technology with old-school gumshoe know-how. We dig into myths about PI work and hear hard-won lessons from the field.
The Sound of Pursuit is hosted by Hal Humphreys. The show has published 60 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "The Ag Scammers Who Stole the Rain" (29 September 2026, 43 minutes), "The Deserving: What the Lives of the Condemned Reveal About American Justice" (16 September 2026, 64 minutes), and "Finding Heirs, Shaping Laws, and Mentoring the Next Generation of PIs" (2 September 2026, 39 minutes).
The Sound of Pursuit publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 41 minutes across 60 episodes.
Booking probability for The Sound of Pursuit is 41%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Sound of Pursuit requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Sound of Pursuit's contact route on record: verified email.
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Hal Humphreys hosts The Sound of Pursuit, a business show with 60 episodes published.
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The Sound of Pursuit
How do you manufacture a bogus drought? Rainfall is a measurable fact: it rains or it doesn’t. Ten inches fall, or twenty. It’s not open to debate. Or so I thought. Full disclosure: agriculture fraud is a category that...
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Capital cases are criminal prosecutions where a defendant may face the death penalty. These trials have two phases: In the guilt phase, a jury decides whether a defendant is guilty or innocent. In the penalty phase, the...
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Somewhere out there is an heir who has no idea they're about to inherit something. Or a family that's been looking for a lost relative for decades. Finding them takes a lot more than a Google search. It's deep detective...
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Twelve strangers walk into a courtroom. By the end of the trial, they decide whether someone walks free or loses everything. The lawyers spend months building a case. But who's been studying the twelve people who decide...
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How did a 40-year-old wrongful conviction go from a lost cause to a feature documentary watched by millions? This is the story of a closeted priest brutally murdered in Odessa, Texas and a young Apache man found guilty...
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The “prosperity gospel:" It’s a controversial movement among some charismatic Christians who believe that if people have faith, God will reward them with health and riches. In the middle of the last century, some...
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Your smart TV is watching you. Your fitness tracker knows your heart rate. Your doorbell has a camera. Your car logs everywhere you go. IoT, the Internet of Things , is everywhere. And those connected devices are...
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On a spring day in 1999, Russell Maze called 911, frantic: his son Alex, just five weeks old, had stopped breathing. At the hospital, doctors noticed bruises on Alex’s head and abdomen. They quickly deduced that his...
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How do you identify online threats before they turn into disasters? Our guest Chris Nyhuis specializes in shielding clients from cyberattacks. As co-founder and CEO of Vigilant, a cybersecurity company in Cincinnati...
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Twin brothers, 18 years old, go to a party in San Jose, California. A fight ensues. Somebody gets stabbed — and dies. The brothers are arrested, and one twin is charged with murder. The wrong twin. And he stays in jail...
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Some of the laws shaping how investigators work today were written decades before anyone had a smartphone. And right now, a new round of legislation is moving through state capitals and Congress that could change how...
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1996. A blast rips through Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. The FBI’s initial suspect — a security guard just doing his job — is cleared. The only evidence pointing to the real bomber is a grainy photo. To the FBI...
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What happens when trust is weaponized and life savings start to disappear? In this episode, we’ll expose the hidden world of elder financial exploitation — how these crimes play out, and how private investigators can...
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How did a summer job at an amusement park lead to running a private investigations firm? Let’s just say the path was not direct. Molly Donaldson has one of the most interesting and varied PI origin stories around. She’s...
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Today, we're talking about something that's changing the investigative landscape: Generative AI. It's everywhere, it's powerful, and it's already being used by private investigators — but not always wisely. Dean Beers...
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Join Hal and his guest Eileen Moynahan to talk about a little-known resource for executors, private investigators, and anyone who thinks they might have money out there that they've completely forgotten about — or never...
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If Jennifer Mackovjak quit working tomorrow, she’d already have a fantastic investigative career under her belt. She worked as a senior detective investigator in the Manhattan DA’s office, before becoming a private...
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After a long hiatus, Hal Humphreys ("The Beard") and John Nardizzi ("The Dome") are back to catch up on PI work, wins, and losses, and to share what they love to read, watch, and listen to when they’re not uncovering...
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Technical Surveillance Countermeasures. TSCM. It's the polished term for bug sweeps. It sounds glamorous, right? But in practice, it's a field littered with hucksters and halfwits wielding gadgets that flash and beep...
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Have you ever handled a Title IX or sexual misconduct investigation? Our guest Dan Schorr specializes in them. He’s a Harvard-trained attorney and a former sex crimes prosecutor in New York. Now he’s a sexual misconduct...
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