John Lajoie is President of Lajoie Investigations Inc. and was recently named National Investigator of the Year by NAIS, a 2,500 member+ respected national PI association based in Austin, TX. Read The Full Article Here

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Sterling man earns national award by Janetta Petkus The Landmark 'I listen' In 1999, when Eddie Morales shot and killed off-duty police officer John A. DiNapoli in Holyoke, Attorney Peter L. Ettenberg, a highly sought after criminal defense attorney, asked Lajoie to join the defense team. Ettenberg's assessment of Lajoie is complimentary: "John is a really good guy to work with. He's a hard [...]

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All good investigators should be able to conduct solid, thorough interviews and take written and recorded statements when proper and necessary. But what the heart and soul of criminal defense investigation calls for is an esoteric endeavor to many investigators who get scared just thinking about a recorded statement. John Lajoie is famous for his interviewing and statement taking skills. In this [...]

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What a morbid subject! But someone has to read them. John Lajoie is a pro at reading, interpreting, and extracting information from death certificates and autopsy reports for investigation purposes. Whether involved in a criminal or civil death investigation, the death certificate and/or autopsy report can make or break the case. In this article which was published in the 2004 fall/winter issue of[...]

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In this award winning article that was first published in The Legal Investigator in 1997, John M. Lajoie, CLI, intricately details the many investigative techniques and steps required to conduct a successful criminal defense “self-defense” investigation. Defense theories, legal elements, conditions and stages are discussed; indexing and file management is explained; preliminary investigation, [...]

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