Read Jacob Fries' story: The fake survey. It’s an old ploy private eyes use to trick people into telling the truth. “We’re in the neighborhood,” they say, “and have a few questions for you.”
Chuck Lukey had used the trick many times before. But this time, he wasn’t investigating a guy cheating on his wife or faking a back injury. The information he wanted could get a man out of prison.
The case file read like a soap opera script, with a violent death, a trial, a $600,000 settlement, lies, betrayal — and love, that slippery thing that unravels so many lives.
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