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This is the first installment of a new monthly column from the folks at IntelliSeek Investigations. Each month they’ll spotlight a social platform — and the investigative gold most people scroll right past. Everyone knows to check Facebook. Everyone knows to check Instagram. Almost nobody thinks to check Venmo, and that is exactly why it’s one of the most underrated items in an investigator’s toolbox. Venmo was built to make splitting a dinner bill painless. What its users often forget is that it was also built as a social feed

Following reporting by WBUR and ProPublica, Gov. Maura Healey has pledged to sign a bill into law ensuring that Massachusetts will no longer have one of the strictest rape prosecution deadlines in the country. by Willoughby Mariano, ProPublica & WBUR This story was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with WBUR. Sign up for Dispatches to get stories like this in your inbox every week..  Massachusetts’ deadline to prosecute rape cases will no longer be one of the strictest in the nation under a bill

Most complex investigations don’t close with the satisfying resolutions of crime fiction. I find it liberating to embrace the uncertainty. There is a pressurized space I sometimes occupy as a private detective when clients demand unassailable answers to difficult questions. Where is the money my business partner stole from me?  Who is behind the astroturf campaign targeting my brand?  Why was I arrested for a crime I did not commit?  Also in this space, you’ll find journalists and lawyers whose