The Call Before the Wire
A call, then a payment, again and again. How to line up call detail records and bank records, what makes the pattern hold, and how SentVi shows it.
New Number. Same Circle.
A known number goes quiet and a new one calls the same people. How call detail records link them, what weakens a match, and how SentVi shows it.
Six Towers, Two Days, Thousands of Phones
In June 2025 federal investigators in Mississippi asked four carriers for every phone that connected to the towers near six crime scenes, 10 to 30 minutes of records at each, over a two-day span in 2024. They only wanted the phones that showed up at two or more of the...
The Tower Is Not the Address
The burglary was reported at 11:58 p.m. The suspect's phone is on Verizon. The return shows an outgoing call at 11:52 p.m., Cell ID 234117, Cell Face 2. The prosecutor asks the question every attorney asks about a cell site record: where was the phone? The honest...
One Call. Two Carriers. Four Hours Apart.
The crash happened on a county road in the Eastern time zone on Tuesday, October 13, at 9:42 p.m. A witness called 911 a minute later. The criminal case and the civil case that follows both turn on one question: was the driver on his phone? Three sets of call detail...
The Scheme Took $11.4 Million. How Much of It Is Your Client’s?
The draft presentence report puts the loss at $11.4 million. Forty-seven investors, nine bank accounts, three entities, four years. Your client kept the books for the last 19 months of it and had signature authority on 2 of the 9 accounts. She pleaded guilty to one...
Forty Claims, One Clinic, and a Passenger Who Keeps Getting Hurt
The first claim looked routine. A low-speed rear-end collision at an intersection, four occupants, soft-tissue injuries, treatment at a chiropractic clinic across town, a demand letter from counsel six weeks later. The adjuster paid it. Eighteen months later, the...
The Transfer Isn’t in the Bank Statement. It’s in the Network.
The judgment is entered. 2.4 million dollars, plus interest, plus fees. Then the post-judgment discovery comes back, and the defendant, who ran a profitable regional contracting business for eleven years, owns nothing. The house is titled in his wife's name. The...
Call Detail Records 101: What They Are, Where They Come From, and How SentVi Finds the Connections Hiding in Them
If you work investigations, you will need to analyze call detail records. Who called or texted whom, and when. It's one of the most basic and most vital elements in uncovering crime and finding hidden connections between perpetrators. This is the guide to that moment:...
The Invoice You Cannot Mark Up, and the Billable Hours Hiding Inside It
The subpoena returns land in a fraud recovery matter. Three years of bank records, a stack of call detail records from two carriers, and corporate registry filings on a web of LLCs. The partner does what most firms do: sends it all to an outside investigations firm....