28th October 2014

Marriage Fraudster and Inheritance Swindler (Case Study of Kurtz Detective Agency Bochum)

For 30 years, Mrs F. has been in a relationship with her partner, as she stated during her conversation with the private detectives of Kurtz Investigations Bochum. Although they never decided to marry and instead liked to grant each other personal freedoms, it had nevertheless always been a harmonious and loving relationship. Mr K., the said partner, has now fallen ill with cancer and the prognoses allow him only a very limited remaining life expectancy. After the diagnosis, Mr K.’s behaviour changed significantly, he increasingly neglected the joint medical practice with Mrs F., and the relationship itself also began to suffer. “I simply wanted to be there for him during this difficult phase, but he suddenly kept me at a distance,” Mrs F. told our Bochum private detectives. “First he stopped coming to the practice, then he stayed away from home for days at a time. I did not want to overwhelm him with reproaches in this difficult situation, but it is not easy for me either!”

 

One day, the client of the Kurtz Private Detective Agency Bochum finally confronted Mr K. openly and accused him of turning away from her for another woman – not in the form of sexual infidelity within the partnership, but through an active emotional bond with another woman. Mr K. admitted that he had met a woman and was spending a lot of time with her in her small flat in Wuppertal. How the situation would develop, he said, he did not yet know.

 

“He has become a completely different person since then,” Mrs F. reports to our Bochum private investigators. “He was always so meticulous. But now everything seems to be irrelevant to him. I feel like a foolish schoolgirl pining after a wonderful man. This woman lures him to her with promises and talks to him about the future. But what kind of future can they possibly have? He is going to die, that is certain. And within the next two years. How can anyone talk about a future in such circumstances? On top of that, she is supposed to be much younger than him. And because of his therapy, he is no longer even capable of sexual activity. What could she possibly want from him? I simply cannot believe that he has suddenly found some kind of new Mother Teresa.”

 

What Mrs F. is implying becomes obvious to the private investigators of Kurtz Investigations Bochum very quickly: Mr K.’s new girlfriend could be an inheritance scammer, possibly also a marriage swindler. The investigations conducted by our Bochum private detectives are intended to clarify the situation.

Suspected Fraud Kurtz Detective Agency Bochum, Copyright Christian Kadluba; Detective in Bochum, Detective Agency from Bochum, Private Detective Bochum

Initially, not even the woman’s address is known, only her name and her place of residence (Wuppertal). Following Mr K. by means of mobile surveillance by our vehicle operatives from Bochum is not possible, as Mrs F. knows nothing about his whereabouts. Every time she met him over the past weeks, the target person had “terrorised” Mr K. on the phone and urged him to end the conversation with Mrs F. as quickly as possible in order to come to her in Wuppertal. Commencing surveillance would therefore not be possible in any case, as there is no point of departure.

 

Based on the name of “the other woman” (verbatim wording used by Mrs F.), the detectives of Kurtz Investigations Bochum are able to research an email address on a dog breeders’ website which can be attributed to the target person with a high degree of certainty. Under the legend that one is the said dog breeder and, due to a tax audit, must disclose all transactions of the last five years but has unfortunately moved and no longer has the target person’s address, the target person is contacted and asked for assistance. This approach is not unlawful; however, should this investigative method become known, the dog breeder could demand that we cease and desist pursuant to Section 12 of the German Civil Code. A few hours later, the target person replies and kindly provides her current address. Kurtz Investigations Bochum prepares to commence surveillance.

Prefabricated Apartment Block | Kurtz Detective Agency Bochum, Copyright Till Westermayer; Private Detective Bochum, Private Investigator Bochum, Private Detective Agency Bochum

The residential address turns out to be a prefabricated apartment block in Wuppertal-Barmen, consisting exclusively of social housing. Tenancies here require a housing entitlement certificate. The target building is in urgent need of renovation and is almost entirely vacant. Of the 16 flats assigned to the target person’s stairwell, only three are still occupied. The rear door is open day and night, the basement smells of urine, and judging by the background noise, there is a rather large dog in the target person’s flat.

 

“In such a filthy dump he is supposed to be living?” the client of Kurtz Investigations Bochum later asks in disbelief during a conversation. “He has always been so cleanly! And he hates dogs, he is even allergic – that cannot be true!” Yet it is true, because Mr K.’s vehicle (Mercedes, year of manufacture 2011) is parked outside the building – a bold choice given the social environment.

My Kitchen | Kurtz Detective Agency Bochum, Copyright abbamouse; Private Detective Agency Bochum, Commercial Investigation Bochum, Commercial Investigator Bochum

By means of a rather elaborate legend, one of our Bochum private detectives seeks direct contact with the target person in order to obtain further information in this way. However, this measure is hampered by the target person’s lack of willingness to cooperate. Nevertheless, our Bochum investigator succeeds in obtaining self-disclosed information regarding the target person’s profession, income situation and vocational training: unemployed, receiving unemployment benefit II, no completed vocational training. In addition, the investigator is able to gain a personal impression of the target person at close range: she appears abrasive in her manner, but by no means unintelligent, outwardly very unkempt and unattractive. She cannot have made Mr K. compliant through female charms, as there is an obvious lack of such attributes.

 

Mr K. and the target person are subsequently placed under surveillance on three consecutive working days. During this period, they rarely leave the house; during control checks, a loudly running television can constantly be heard inside the flat. Even the dog is only taken outside extremely rarely and for very short periods. The target person is, in all likelihood, not in employment (see also self-disclosure), which provides a clear motive in support of the suspicions held by the client of our Bochum private detectives.

 

A few days later, the detectives of Kurtz Investigations Bochum also receive the results of an occupational background investigation conducted via databases, which had been initiated in parallel with the surveillance measures: it confirms the investigators’ existing impression that the target person is likely to be unemployed. At the same time, the target person’s date of birth is established. Based on this, further research into previous marriages can be carried out. Through contacts that must remain undisclosed, three name changes, a very large number of address changes and five marriages of the target person can be proven. Further investigations by our Bochum detectives reveal that only one of these former husbands is still alive (the first). All others died within a period ranging from two months to four years after the respective marriage. The corresponding extended residents’ registration records, which are required as evidence, can be issued after a criminal complaint has been filed, based on the overwhelming circumstantial evidence. What remains unclear is why the target person continues to live in comparatively poor conditions. Has she concealed the money elsewhere?

Black Widow on the Net; Detective Agency Bochum, Detective Bochum, Private Detective Bochum

The sad part is this: despite these clear indications, Mr K. is still unwilling to end his relationship with the target person. Kurtz Investigations Bochum can only wish Mrs F. all the best and hope that her happy memories of the relationship with Mr K. will not be overly tainted by these events after his death. The work of our Bochum detectives is concluded at this point.

All names and locations have, of course, been altered to ensure complete anonymity.

 

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