Case No. 85-918

    Cheating in the car lot

    This is the case about an owner of a new car dealership. His wife came to my office and informed me that she thought her husband was playing around and wanted surveillance on him. We set up surveillance across the street from the dealership. On the first day of our surveillance we observed the subject leave his office and get into a golf cart. He drove the cart to the far end of his property where a small building was located.

    We made contact with the client to ascertain if she knew what this building was used for. She advised us she did not know that this building was on their property.

    I sent one of my operatives to the courthouse to check out who may own this building. Just as I suspected it turns out our subject purchased this property six months earlier.

    After three more days of surveillance the subject was observed spending a lot of time in this small building. On two different occasions while he was there, we observed females going into the building, one staying for about an hour and the other almost two hours. I felt I had the proof needed to build my case of adultery. However, my client insisted that she and I enter this small building. The plan was she would get a duplicate key and when she knew he would be out of town we would enter the building and check it out. We entered the building at approximately 7 p.m. one night. She was shocked at the items found there, such as condoms, lubricants, many sex magazines and video equipment. The subject had a couch that made into a bed and in a nightstand next to the couch we found many female sex toys. We also found “swinger” magazines. In fact, one magazine had our subject’s picture in it. My client decided to confront her husband the next time he had a woman in the little house.

    The first day our subject came back in town and went to his office, we placed him under surveillance. Sure enough at 11 a.m. he got into his golf cart and headed to the little house. Approximately 15 minutes later a female pulled up to the little house, knocked on the door and the subject opened the door wearing slacks, no shirt or shoes.

    My client, operative and I went to the little house. She unlocked the door and we entered. Her husband and the unknown female were engaging in sex on the couch. My client slapped the female on the face and told her to get out of there; she then turned her anger on her husband by hitting and throwing things at him. He grabbed his clothes and made a run for the door.

    Needless to say, my client got a divorce. In fact, the subject had to sell the dealership to pay off my client and her attorney.

    End Of Case