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WAD Oct 2006-Rev #2.Indd WORLD ASSOCIATION OF DETECTIVES W.A.D. NEWS Vol. 57, Issue 3 www.wad.net October 2006 Linda Walker (Dru Sjodin’s mother) and Investigator Bob Heales searching for Dru in Winter 2003 PHOTO CREDIT: CHRIS REGIMBAL OF WDAZ TV IN GRAND FORKS, NORTH DAKOTA Inside this issue: Selecting the Right Investigator UK Robber Caught by DNA Gets 15 Years Tokyo Conference Highlights 2 WORLD ASSOCIATION OF DETECTIVES, INC. W.A.D. BOARD OF DIRECTORS 2006-2007 PAST PRESIDENTS with voting rights J D Vinson, Jr. Chairman of the Board Raymond A. Pendleton – New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Richard D. Jacques-Turner – Hull, England 955 Howard Avenue Robert A. Heales – Denver, Colorado, USA New Orleans, Louisiana Philip J. Stuto – Concord, California, USA 70113 USA Joel Michel – Burlingame, California, USA Rockne F. Cooke – Baltimore, Maryland, USA Tel: +1-504-529-2260 Werner E. Sachse – Aschaffenburg, Germany [email protected] Louis Laframboise – Laval, Quebec, Canada Jan Stekelenburg – Bavel, Netherlands John G. Talaganis – Long Beach, California, USA JD Vinson, Jr. – New Orleans, Louisiana, USA Eric Shelmerdine Term Ending 2007 Term Ending 2008 President Manuel Graf Simon Jacobs David Grimes Maureen Jacques-Turner 295-297 Church Street Gerd Hoffmann, Jr. Kimberly King Blackpool, FY1 3PJ Lothar Mueller Siti Naidu England Laura Rossi Jean Schmitt Christine Vinson Vladimir Solomanidin Tel: +44-1253-295265 Matthias Willenbrink Candice Tal [email protected] Term Ending 2009 R.P. Chauhan Jim Foster Sumio Hiroshima Lothar Kimm Allen Cardoza Fernando Molina Dato Mohamad Som Sulaiman 1st Vice President Dale Wunderlich 3857 Birch Street, Suite 208 Newport Beach, California 92660-2616 USA Parliamentarian Historian Sergeant at Arms Tel: +1-877-899-8585 Rockne F. Cooke Robert Heales John Jones [email protected] EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Kimberly U. King 1458 Howard Street Gregory Scott San Francisco, CA 94103 USA 2nd Vice President +1-415-701-1923 (effective Nov. 20, 2006) Fax: +1-415-433-5614 P.O. Box 29593 [email protected] Greensboro, North Carolina www.wad.net 27429 USA Tel: +1-336-854-1954 [email protected] Rashid Ali Malik 3rd Vice President One Anjum Plaza Karachi, 75400 Pakistan Tel: +92-21-111-00-2000 [email protected] WORLD ASSOCIATION OF DETECTIVES, INC. 3 W.A.D. NEWS Past Presidents – Ex-Officio Board Members Frank Watts – Birmingham, Michigan USA Published by the Anthony R. Zinkus – Tucson, Arizona USA World Association of Detectives, Inc. John K. Forrest – Tampa, Florida USA 1458 Howard Street Claude E. “Bert” Hinds – Cincinnati, Ohio USA San Francisco CA 94103 Zena Scott-Archer – Cumbria, England USA James L. Mickle – Southfield, Michigan USA +1-415-701-1923 (effective Nov. 20, 2006) Raymond A. Pendleton – New Orleans, Louisiana USA Fax: +1-415-433-5614 Larry A. Webb – Phoenix, Arizona USA [email protected] Richard D. Jacques-Turner – Hull, England www.wad.net Robert A. Heales – Denver, Colorado USA William J. Lapworth – Indianapolis, Indiana USA Managing Editor Bernard H. Major – Vancouver, Canada Kimberly U. King Philip J. Stuto – Concord, California USA Newsletter Committee Christopher Nolan – Dublin, Ireland Joel Michel – Burlingame, California USA Richard D. Jacques-Turner, Chair Neal Holmes, II – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA Robert A. Heales Rockne F. Cooke – Baltimore, Maryland USA Jon French Werner E. Sachse – Aschaffenburg, Germany Maureen Jacques-Turner Johnathan Tal – San Jose, California USA Louis Laframboise – Laval, Quebec, Canada Submission of Articles Jan Stekelenburg – Bavel, Netherlands All expressions of opinions and statements are published on the John G. Talaganis – Long Beach, California USA authority of the writer over whose signature they appear and JD Vinson, Jr. – New Orleans, Louisiana USA cannot be regarded as expressing the views or policies of the World Association of Detectives. Articles submitted by other than the author shall require the author’s written permission. W.A.D. Committee Chairs Audit, Budget and Finance – John Talaganis Article and Advertising Deadlines Awards – Werner E. Sachse January issue: December 1 April issue: March 1 Conference, Seminar & Mid-Term Site July issue: June 1 Recommendation & Management – October issue: September 1 Robert A. Heales Ethics – Dale Wunderlich Advertising Friends of W.A.D. – Candice Tal Acceptance of advertising does not constitute W.A.D.’s Grievance – Dale Wunderlich endorsement or warranty of any products or services. International Liaison – Rashid Ali Malik All advertisements must be received in the correct size and must be remitted with a completed W.A.D. Advertising Legislation – Rockne Cooke, Eric Shelmerdine form, along with payment in full. Advertisements should be Membership – M. Gregory Scott submitted in PDF or JPG file format. New Business & Public Relations – Allen Cardoza, Louis Laframboise Non-Member Advertising Rates Newsletter – Richard D. Jacques-Turner Advertising rates for non-members are 50% higher than those for members as stated on the W.A.D. Advertising form. Protocol – Richard D. Jacques-Turner The minimum advertising space for non-members is a quarter- Seminar – Robert Heales page advertisement. Technology – Simon Jacobs The Association reserves the right to refuse advertising. Welcome – Maureen Jacques-Turner 4 WORLD ASSOCIATION OF DETECTIVES, INC. PRESIDENTIAL BRIEFING lthough this is my fi rst However, we were blessed with A newsletter address to you as the presence of Adil’s wife Siti and President since my inauguration in son Nabil. All those Past Presidents Tokyo, as you will be aware by now, deserve our thanks for their much has happened in the short time dedication to WAD. since that date. Eric Shelmerdine When I joined this Association It is hard to believe, in 1989, it didn’t take me long to realize that WAD was not only a that Tokyo was our trade organization, but also a group have been formed, long standing of professional people who over the 81st annual conference. friendships which span oceans and years have become “a worldwide I wonder what our forefathers would Continents, where the barriers such family”. Some members have even think if they were here today, the as race and religion don’t exist had 3 generations of the same family people who laid the foundation between us. involved. It was a privilege back then of this family and had the vision The fi rst WAD annual conference to be welcomed as a member of that to start an organization which Ann and I attended was in Reno, family, but now 17 years later, to be today has become the world’s Nevada in 1994. At the banquet elected as your “head of the family” leading International Association there was a table in front of ours, is not only a privilege, but also a for our industry. We truly ARE an and the man with his back to me was great honour, and I would like to International family, with members blocking our view of the top table, publicly thank the members, and in from over 70 countries and it is a I couldn’t see any of the speakers. I particular my peers, for the faith and human tragedy that we live in such remember saying “I don’t know who trust you have placed in me, to carry troubled times, where differences that guy is, but I wish he’d sit down”. out the duties of your President for in race, religion and culture are the I then realized that he WAS sitting the forthcoming year. cause of so much confl ict around the down. It was JD Vinson (with three world. I am under no illusions, that along generations of his family). I also with the status of being head of any I fi nd it amazing that modern man believe on the same table were three family, comes great responsibility, has achieved so many wonderful generations of the Holmes family. and I give you this promise, I things; we have learned how to Well I was certainly behind JD then, will not shirk from any of those split the atom, conquer space, and and I seem to have been behind him responsibilities or duties, and will transport people from one side of ever since, all the way through as work diligently for the advancement the globe to the other in a matter an offi cer and eventually now as of this great Association. I am of hours, but we have still not been President. fortunate that during my term of able to fi nd a formula that enables I believe the records will show offi ce, I will be surrounded by a mankind to live together in peace and that I am only the third person number of Past Presidents whose harmony. Yet our Association, our from England to become President experience I can call upon for FAMILY, continues to demonstrate of WAD. What makes that even guidance and advice. Many of those that DESPITE our differences, we more special for me is that my two Past Presidents were present at the can not only work together in search meeting in Tokyo. One who sadly of truth and justice, but we also was not, in body that is, but I know in continue to provide the framework my heart, was with us in spirit, is our where so many true friendships [CONTINUED ON PAGE 6] dear friend Adil Naidu. WORLD ASSOCIATION OF DETECTIVES, INC. 5 PRESIDENTIAL BRIEFING [CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5] predecessors are almost legends Our industry has seen many changes to encourage and implement those back in England, and I am privileged over the years, but none more so changes, with the help of the people that I can count both as true friends than since the dreadful events of around me. Some of those changes having known them for over 30 9/11, which has changed forever have already been made as you read years.
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