The time I saw a Deputy Explode…

By James Heaton

A long time ago, in a galaxy far away I made a living as a private investigator. I spent eight years sitting in a car taking pictures of cheating spouses. There were other parts to it but in general I just sat and recorded peoples lives and wrote reports that would be used in court.

I made a name for myself by being the PI that would accept cases that involved police officers cheating on their spouses. To be clear this was considered taboo. PI’s liked to stay in the good graces of the police. So all my competition would avoid taking cases that involved cops. Period.

I felt like the police should be held to a higher standard and that they should be the last people being unfaithful to their partner. This just wasn’t the case, it was common place for law enforcement to have affairs.

Needless to say I developed a lot of enemies. Even to the point of the State Law Enforcement Division warning me about continuing to investigate marital relations of police officers. This organization was the group that licensed me and my Agency. I saw it more as a threat and refused to sway on my stance.

One Fall I had an appointment with a young wife and mother who was married to a local Deputy. She had been to all my competitors and they refused to touch the case. I jumped at the opportunity.

This poor woman was a stay at home mother who depended on her husband, the Deputy, for everything. He demanded that she remain a full time mother and tend to the child instead of pursuing a career. She lived with her husband in a broken down single wide and had a beat up car to get around in. Her husband owned a new truck and gave her an allowance for her and the baby.

She told me the girlfriends name and that she worked at 911 dispatch. He told his wife that he was working a lot of overtime and wouldn’t be home very often. I was able to get his schedule and he was not working lots of overtime.

So a week before Thanksgiving my client told me that her husband was scheduled to work on the holiday, but she didn’t believe him. I arrived early on Thanksgiving and parked down the street from his house. He left his home around 10am, and I followed him. He went to a neighboring city and pulled into the driveway of a house in a neighborhood. I recognized the girlfriends car and after a quick search I discovered it was her parents home.

So this Deputy lied to his poor wife and child and spent Thanksgiving with his girlfriend and her family.

I needed to document his presence at this location for the entire duration so I sat at the entrance of the neighborhood in a church parking lot. I would do drive-bys every thirty minutes to video his car and her car in the driveway. After a few hours of sitting in this parking lot of a church, I see her car driving up the road to the parking lot. I pulled out my camera and started filming. They parked across the parking lot, with him in the passenger seat and her driving. For a few minutes they just sat and talked. But then I noticed her head disappearing into his lap. I watched him put his head back and her head began moving up and down in his lap. It was clear what was happening, and it was happening up the street from her parents house in a church parking lot.

I recorder the entire event and as he appeared to near completion I drove up beside them while holding the video camera. He didn’t notice until I was sitting directly beside him waving while holding a video camera. They panicked and her head popped up but not before he exploded. I got the entire thing on camera. The oral sex and his explosion were all on camera. He was extremely angry and began to chase me. I was able to elude him and return to my office and process the video to videotape and store the original in my hidden safe.

I informed my client that the investigation was completed and that her husband was aware that he had been watched and video taped in a very compromising position.

The court appearance came about two months later, and the wife was asking for substantial support, alimony and property. He of course wanted to fight it. The moment came when her attorney called me up on the stand. He recognized me and immediately requested his attorney to agree to all conditions so that I wouldn’t be required to testify or play the video in court. My client won the case and would be financially supported for many years to come.

About a month later I received an official summons to come to the State Law Enforcement Division to defend myself against charges of stalking and lying in court. The Deputy had filed a formal complaint. I was told to bring all evidence to defend myself against these charges. My licenses was on the line.

I sat in a dark office for an hour awaiting the chief investigative agent to interview me. He told me I was being accused of stalking the Deputy and lying in court. I presented him with the court transcripts where the Deputy admitted to all evidence. But they demanded to see the video. I popped in the video in the vcr, sat back arrogantly and simply said, hit play.

The chief watched the entire video and when the Deputy exploded his fluid into the air and stared directly at me, the chief looked at me and apologized for wasting my time.

I walked out of the office with an enormous sense of pride in my work and my service to that poor woman who had to be part of that nightmare of a marriage.

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Copyright 2021 James Heaton