Paula Grossi was shot in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware early in 2007. The murder, done execution style, occurred in her home. Over a year later, the murder has not yet been solved, and her father, Francis Grossi, has already hired the services of a private investigation company in order to help solve the case. Although Grossi has stated that he hopes that the private investigation company will be able to find information that the local state police was not able to locate, he claims that his decision is not about any ineptitude of the local police force.

So far, there have been no arrests related to the case. In order to pay for the private company to do investigation on the murder case, Grossi is taking back his public offer of a monetary reward of a hundred thousand dollars for clues to solve the case.

This is only one case by which people use private investigators after local police officers have not been able to solve a case, and sometimes in lieu of police investigation. Private investigators are hired routinely in many different fields and for many different reasons. For instance, supermarket or grocery companies routinely hire private investigators to pose as store employees and check on their fellow employees for stealing products. Insurance companies also hire private investigators in order to take a closer look at claims. Law offices may also have to hire private investigators when they need to track down and interview witnesses, and if they have a hard time looking for crucial information that can aid a case as soon as it is picked out of its hiding place.

According to statistics on private investigators, private investigation is a dangerous job, with irregular work hours. Of the fifty-two thousand private investigators licensed to work in the United States in 2006, about a third were self employed. Private investigators also hail from many different fields, such as law enforcement, intelligence, insurance, and the military. The educational background of private investigators is also as varied: some may choose a degree in criminal justice, but some will have come from accounting, business, and computer science degrees. Such backgrounds can be useful depending on the specialty of the private investigator. For instance, a computer science degree can be good for private investigators who wish to do database searchers, or to look for archived or lost data. A private investigator with a degree in accounting can be useful to a company that wants to do a self-audit.

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