One Board Certified investigator handles every file personally, from the first call to the witness stand. More than three hundred criminal defense cases across Wisconsin, from OWI to homicide, and now plaintiff personal injury work. No subcontractor, no call center, no hand-off.
Every case runs on a written work-product standard: hashed photographs, logged contact attempts, discovery-gap tracking and a uniform report format.
Section I · Criminal Defense
I was never trained to build a case for the prosecution. I was certified to test one.
Discovery review, witness interviews, scene documentation, body-camera and 911 analysis, digital media examination, jury research and trial support. For private counsel and State Public Defender appointments across Wisconsin.
No two cases get the same investigation.
One homicide turns on whether the witness across the street could actually see the porch at eleven at night. The next turns on a phone extraction and forty minutes of body-camera footage nobody produced. So I do not sell a package for criminal cases. I read the discovery, every page, and build the plan from what is in it and what is missing from it.
The State had detectives, a crime lab and months. Your client is entitled to one investigator who reads the file as carefully as they did, without their conclusions.
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Section I · Criminal Defense, continued
Procedure
Step 1
Analyze the discoveryEvery report, recording, photo and log, reviewed by me, not skimmed by staff.
Step 2
Chronology and gap listOne sourced timeline, and a written list of everything the reports mention that was not produced. It goes to counsel in the first week.
Step 3
Plan with counselWhich witnesses, which scene, which records, in what order. If the theory changes after a motion hearing, the plan changes with it.
Step 4
Field workScene, witnesses, cameras, records, backgrounds. Every contact attempt logged, including the ones that failed.
Step 5
Report and stand behind itNarrative reports counsel can put in the file, updates as the work is done, and testimony if it comes to that.
What counsel gets
Service
What you get
Discovery review and timeline
Every police report, body-camera file, 911 call and interview video logged to one sourced chronology, with the gaps written up as a demand list.What the report left out.
Witness location and interviews
Locates, a contact-attempt log, and narrative interview reports written for the file and for the stand.Locked in, on the record.
Scene investigation
Measured diagrams, a hashed photo log, lighting and sightline conditions matched to the incident time.Preserved before it changes.
Background and impeachment
Criminal, civil and open-source history on the State's witnesses. Prior statements compared line by line.Know who is testifying.
The witness moves. The gas-station camera overwrites. The skid marks wash off. Barber Investigations goes to the scene, finds the witnesses and pulls the video while it still exists, and hands you a report you can attach to the demand.
Notice · Plaintiff-side only
Barber Investigations does not work for insurance carriers or defense firms on injury matters. In writing, on every engagement letter.
Two crashes at the same intersection are two different cases.
One is a rear-end at a red light where liability is settled and the whole case is the policy behind the driver. The next is a left turn on a yellow where three people saw three different lights, the only camera belongs to the bar on the corner, and the case is whoever gets to that footage first. Every file gets its own plan, built around what will disappear first and what will matter most at settlement or trial.
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Section II · Personal Injury, continued
The first week, in order
Day 0
Send the reportThe crash or incident report and your client's contact information. I read it the same day and call you with a quote and a plan.
Video
Video, firstWithin 24 hours in Milwaukee County, 48 in southeast Wisconsin, 72 anywhere in the state, I walk the block. Footage is pulled where it can be, and a preservation letter is in the manager's hand where it cannot.
Scene
ScenePhotographs, measurements, lighting and sightlines matched to the time of day, a scale diagram and a hashed photo log.
People
WitnessesThe people on the report and the people who left before the officer arrived. Interviewed in person, notarized statement in your file.
Policy
The defendant and the policyThe right entity to sue, prior crashes and claims, corporate status, and the coverage that decides what the case is worth.
The same standard, applied to business and public-record matters.
For business owners, in-house counsel, commercial litigators and campaigns that need an independent finder of fact. Every finding is sourced to a document, and every document is preserved the way a court will expect it.
How I work
Method
Objective, independent fact-finding. No advocacy, no opinions in the report.
Conflicts
Every engagement begins with a conflict check against my open matters.
Political work
Taken one race at a time. I do not work both sides of a district in the same cycle.
Deliverable
A one-page summary for the decision-maker, the sourced findings behind it, and an indexed appendix of the records themselves.
Services
Service
What you get
Internal investigations
Employee theft, misconduct, vendor kickbacks and trade-secret leakage. Document review, interviews and a findings memo written for counsel.Neutral, documented, done outside HR.
Executive and vendor vetting
Litigation history, corporate registry verification, licensing and credential checks, regulatory sanctions, undisclosed conflicts.Know who you are hiring.
Business litigation support
The right entity to sue and its affiliates. Wisconsin DFI and UCC filings, real property, judgments, liens, vehicle and vessel registrations.Know what a judgment is worth.
Candidate and opposition research
A sourced research book: voting and public record, court records, campaign finance, property and business interests, every claim tied to a document.Sourced before it is said out loud.
EXHIBITA
Exhibit A · Photographic Log
A report that looks like an exhibit, because it might be one.
Every scene photo is hashed the day it is taken. Every witness contact attempt is logged, including the ones that failed. Every gap in the State's discovery is tracked and written up for counsel.
Scene
Intersection, morning after incident
Conditions
Sun position matched to incident time
Integrity
SHA-256 hash recorded at capture, shown truncated
Time
Photo
Depicting
SHA-256
06:42
001
Northbound approach to intersection, driver's sightline, sun position matched to incident time.
3f9a1c…e07b
06:47
004
Stop bar, worn to bare pavement. Tape measure in frame, 14 in. remaining.
b21d84…4a91
06:55
009
Storefront camera, , angle covers crosswalk. Preservation letter served 07:10.
7c0e3b…d2f6
07:14
013
Gouge marks, 31 ft from stop bar, photographed with scale.
a5e6f0…19c3
Redacted sample. Every case runs on the same log. Ask any other investigator in Milwaukee to show you a page of their report before you hire them.
I have worked criminal defense cases for private counsel and State Public Defender appointments across Wisconsin for years, more than three hundred of them, from OWI to homicide. The job on every one has been the same: read what the State produced, find what it did not, and put it in a report an attorney can use at trial.
I now take plaintiff personal injury work. A defense investigator spends a career testing how a case was built. That is exactly the work a plaintiff lawyer needs done in the first month, before the evidence is gone.
The police report is where your case starts, not where it ends. My job is to find what the officer did not have time to find.
Credentials
Certification
Board Certified Criminal Defense Investigator (CCDI), Criminal Defense Investigation Training Council
Hashed photographs, logged contact attempts, discovery-gap tracking, uniform report format
/s/ Jason BarberJason Barber, CCDI · Barber Investigations LLC
EXHIBITB
Exhibit B · Statements
Statements from counsel and clients
★★★★★ 5.0 on Google. Reviews reproduced verbatim.
Statement 1AttorneyGoogle review
“Jason is an excellent investigator — one of the best in the state.”
Statement 2ClientGoogle review
“Jason’s expertise provided crucial evidence in my case that resulted in my case being dismissed. I highly recommend him.”
Statement 3Google review
“Jason had great communication through the entire process. He bent over backwards to get the job done quickly and efficiently even with sudden changes. Definitely recommended!”
Statement 4ClientGoogle review
“Excellent service, I was incarcerated for a year and 3 month on false allegations charges, and my life was a stake. Jason help me to get all the evidence and records that I needed to prove my case. Jason treated me as family, and I am so happy that I had him to help me out with my case, and to help me to get my life back. I will forever be greatful for his amazing professional work. Please if you are looking for a private investigator don't look any further, Jason stands behind his work with dedication to help you to solve your case. Thank you so much again for everything and the amazing service.”
Statement 5Google review
“Jason is excellent. He is always on top of things and very responsive. He goes the extra mile to get the job done!”
Statement 6Google review
“Very efficient and thorough.”
Field Notes · Log
Two notes a month on evidence, witnesses and what disappears if nobody goes.
