Do you have this deep hatred to the bearded guy employed by the villainous woman (with an equally villainous laugh) in movies? Here, the woman antagonist usually pays this bearded guy to investigate on something. And if the poor guy failed, he normally gets a tsunami of maledictions and whippings. Such an unfair and negative depiction! Well, he is not as bad as what his beard connotes; he is actually none other than, our Private Investigator (P. I.). We ordinarily despise on these guys for siding with the villains, but in reality, the media is not just a narrator in explaining who a real P.I. is. So now, as our T.V. mates (a.k.a. family) chew their pop-corns and watch how the investigator finds relevant data, let us turn our eyes on the investigator himself. Let us cut the fuss and be investigators ourselves.

Investigators, unlike how the media depicts them, are not composed of a one-man band. They are commonly a squad of individuals that come from different areas of expertise. They include policemen, attorneys, medical practitioners, and forensic anthropologists. We are already quite familiar with the three professions enumerated so we will just focus on the last one, the forensic anthropologist. In a nut-shell, forensic anthropologists specialize on corpses. They are the experts when it comes to that “cold” subject. They learned about these dead subjects not only in their classrooms but mostly in fields. That is why these investigators are not all used to deskbound and boring lectures; they are more into action! This is the reason why brooding has been a hobby to them; their experiences on the field let them breathe bravery everyday. At the end of the day, they may still look like normal guys but beware; their talent are just outrageously awesome!

Our Forensic Anthropologists do not work in an 8 am to 5 pm work period. As I have said earlier, their atelier is situated on where arcane corpses lay. Though they are not normally wearing a gentle-looking coat and tie, their work are not done in a haphazard manner. Their hands should always be in cogitation. One ataxic moment and boom! The precious bone might be destroyed. So rummaging has been deleted from their dictionary; softness has been the mantra (so as not to break any important bone). After the stressful process of unearthing bones (if ever they are buried), the next step is careful scrutiny. The next steps are just equally perspiring: identification of age, race, stature, sex, and time interval of death. After this tiresome process, the piece of paper bearing all these particulars will now be passed to another member of the “band” (of Private Investigators).

If at this point you stopped your research about private investigators and presume that their job is easy, then you are definitely left behind on our investigation. It is because you have not yet found of the “perks” of being one. And these “perks” include one of the following:

1) Work period is indefinite; it last till you see the body/bones;

2) Eureka moments are often preceded by sleepless nights on locations with bugging mosquitoes;

3) If things loose control, you are not exempted from occasional raids;

And finally, when you believe the job will not get dirtier, here is another perk:

4) Trauma may also attack you after being able to decipher how one was killed.

But then, you will also get desensitized. The latter is definitely a perk, as far as private investigation is concerned.

When you cross this seemingly end point of your investigation, then you are still left behind. It is because you have not seen them yet as an important being in real-life cases, as heroes. Yes, they also save the day with their braveness and helping hand. So the next time that we see an investigator (bearded or not) in TV, let us give them justice. They may not be around when the enemy is finally defeated, but in real life, they are heroes behind the curtains.

At this point, the case is closed.

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