Criminal Records

Background checking is a good way to get to know someone

Find criminal records with a background check

How can you be sure that you know someone and I mean really know them? Some of the most notorious criminals in history managed to conceal their crimes from their closest friends and even their family. What chance have you got if you’ve only known them for a relatively short time?

Sometimes you might get a feeling that something isn’t quite right when you start to read between the lines and separate the facts from the charm. Other times you might have no idea that your new lover or best friend has anything to hide. So how can you be sure that you aren’t making a big mistake by getting involved with this person? You can get to know the truth about most people very well in just a few minutes one evening by searching for any criminal public records. free searches would be nice if you can find them but making a small payment can make things a lot simpler, faster and more efficient.

Are free criminal records checks a myth?

Most if not all criminal convictions are reported publicly somewhere. Some even get broadcast on live TV. In general, court proceedings aren’t a secret so you might think that you can look up anything you want. The problem is not that criminal public records are concealed from the public but that it’s so damn difficult to search them out.

If you go to one of the major search engines and type in “Free criminal public records” you are likely to get many pages of results which might lead you to believe – well it did me – that you’ll be able to find the information you want without handing over any money.

So is it true – can you really find criminal records free? I tried it, I clicked on a lot of links that claimed to show me how to find criminal records for free and here is what I found.

Not quite free criminal public records

Well I can save you a lot of time here. I guess that in some rare cases where you know exactly what you’re looking for and it just happens to be accessible online then you might be ok. This was not what I found however. I spent a lot of time clicking on links that I felt sure would lead me to some kind of free search engine that would show the results I was looking for but none of them did.

Some links were government sites that were not very friendly and would at best only show me limited information. Some sites that claimed to be free would still ask for money before you get to see any meaningful information.

The next best thing – an affordable criminal public records web site

I did find a great web site that can tell you just about anything you are likely to want to know about someone. I wanted to find out some information about a friend of mine so I searched for his name and found him in the list of results. This told me that the web site did indeed have some information about this person but you do have to pay a small fee to get the details.

This site had a good guarantee so you can get a refund if you aren’t satisfied. I gave it a go and was frankly amazed at the information you can get from this site. It was well worth the nominal fee you pay. This is the next best thing to finding criminal public records free. Try it out yourself.

Author: Steve Gee

How to check your friends and your workmen for criminal records

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Do you trust the people around you? How do you know that your friends or people that you have dealings with are who they appear to be? It seems to be very common to hear about serial killers, kidnappers and thieves who led perfectly ordinary lives. Even their closest friends had no idea that they had a life on the other side of the law. How can you protect yourself from people like that?

Elle and Jack are a typical couple with busy lives living in the suburbs. They don’t have the time to do all the little odd jobs about the place that they want to do so they looked for someone reliable that they could pay do do it for them. When they saw the work that Mick was doing on a neighbors property they were very interested. They were impressed by the quality of work and their neighbor told them that Mick was a reliable worker. Elle and Jack asked Mick to do a small repair job on their property as a sort of test before giving him more work.

Mick did the job later that week. He was efficient and the work was of a good standard. Both Elle and Jack liked Mick a lot because he was a very likeable and sociable person as well as being good at his job. They saw no reason why they shouldn’t give Mick a more substantial list of projects to undertake. They were so taken by Mick that Elle and Jack sidn’t think twice about giving Mick a set of keys to the property so that he good proceed with the work while they were out at work.

It took Mick a little longer to complete the list of work that he originally expected but Jack and Elle were happy to pay Mick for his extra time because they were so happy with the job that he had done. Mick asked for cash payment which is a common request for some reason.

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Mick left the area and then the problems began

Elle and Jack were very pleased with the job that Mick had done for them. He had accomplished a whole load of things that they had been planning to do for years. They thought the world of Mick. That is until they started to notice some things that were not quite right.

There were some things that they didn’t use very often like power tools and jewelry but when they did look for them they were not to be found. Elle and Jack just thought that they had misplaced them and that they would turn up sometime.

Then they noticed some transactions that they didn’t recognize on their credit cards. They were all small and Elle and Jack never usually pay much attention to their statements so it went unnoticed for a while. When they added it all up it came to tens of thousands of dollars and Mick was the prime suspect.

This doesn’t have to happen to you

This story never happened but this kind of thing does happen for real all the time. It never occurred to Elle and Jack that Mick could be a serial thief with a criminal record but they could have checked had they wanted to. They could have done a background check on Mick to find criminal records and if they had they might well have changed their minds about hiring him in the first place. They could have saved themselves a lot of money and stress.

How to protect yourself from people with criminal records

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How well do you know the people around you? Time and time again you hear of seemingly ordinary people committing the most horrible crimes. Kidnapping, murder, rape… The list goes on and on and in an alarming number of these cases the people around the criminal, including closest friends, were completely unaware of what was going on. How do you protect yourself against criminals like this?

Kate and John had been looking for someone to do some odd jobs on their property for some time so when they saw someone working on their neighbors house, Kate took the time to go and talk to him. His name was Jim and he came across as being very approachable. Kate liked him a lot so she asked him to come over and meet John that evening. John was equally impressed with Jim and they asked him to do some small jobs on their property.

Jim arranged to do the work later that week. He turned up on time, did the work efficiently and left. Kate and John were so impressed that they asked Jim to do several more jobs for them over the following weeks. Everything went according to plan and Jim became almost part of the family for a time. They came to trust Jim so much that they were quite happy to let him enter the property while they were out at work and even loaned him a set of keys.

Check his criminal record before letting him into your house.

The work took a little longer than expected as it so often does but at the end of 3 months John made a final inspection of the work and paid Jim in full. They paid cash because Jim asked for it. I’m not sure why workers in the building trade like to be paid in cash but that’s another story.

They only noticed the problem after Jim had vanished

Jim left the area and on to another job. Kate and John thought that everything was ok until one day Kate found something unusual while checking her credit card statements. Normally she doesn’t pay much attention to the statements and just clears some of the debt but this time something caught her eye.

There was a purchase that Kate didn’t recognize. It wasn’t for a large amount but she knew that she had been at a wedding all day on the date of purchase so she knew that she couldn’t have made it. She then looked closer at her statements for the previous 3 months and found that there were in fact quite a lot of transactions that she couldn’t account for. Some of them were hers of course – she simply didn’t remember using her card but there were others that definitely were not down to her. They were all small but amounted to several thousand dollars when you added them all up.

John was horrified by this and set about checking his own statements only to find the same pattern of unexplained transactions. Then they started to think about some things that they thought they had lost around the house – Kate’s cell phone and some jewelry that she didn’t wear very often. John had lost his PDA and a few power tools that hardly ever left his workshop. Had all these items been stolen?

You can avoid this happening to you

This is a fictitious story designed to illustrate a very real problem that does happen only too often. Kate and John could have avoided the problems that they now have trying to recover their money and property by doing a simple criminal records search. Jim had a criminal record and Kate and John were not his first victims. Nothing serious and he had served his time but he was an habitual thief. Something that they might have spotted from his record.

Author: Steve Gee