High Flying Wife & the Aussie Pilot-a Divorce Situation

 

You can’t make this stuff up.  We would like to help arrest serial killers, but this wasn’t that exciting.  Well, maybe some of it was in a different sort of way.  I was on the case of a serial cheater, a sexy wife in a divorce situation.  She was definitely an active girl.

In the private investigation business, we often deal with extremes of human behavior, especially in divorce situations.  In this case I also had to work with extreme weather differences.  I had to go from one case in the Bahamas directly to one in Boise, Idaho in the dead of winter.  I got there with my Bahamas wardrobe, shorts, bathing suits and t-shirts.  As it was 8 degrees in Boise, just leaving the airport required a stop at the airport gift shop for a high dollar windbreaker.  The next day I bought jeans and a coat.

I was there to watch a female from Houston, one half of a high dollar divorce case.  I had been watching her for some time in Houston for our husband client.  She was a busy lady, requiring travel to other Texas cities as well.

Leaving Boise a moment for a side story, one Texas trip was to Austin, where she was seeing a Houston police officer at his Austin cabin getaway.  At the time, the divorce was underway, including a custody fight over the couple’s 2-year-old child.  There was a lot of money on both sides, so the battle was raging.

During that surveillance I found myself in the woods behind the cabin watching the lusty lady having sex with the cop on the picnic table in the backyard.  I wasn’t that far away, so was trying to be very still, which meant I couldn’t just grab some photos and leave right then.

Playing Dead

I was so still that suddenly buzzards were circling overhead.  I guess they thought I was close to death!  I tried to move just enough to convince them I wasn’t a meal, but not enough to catch the attention of the horny couple.  Though the birds didn’t seem to change their focus, the couple did, noticing them finally. 

I was close enough to hear the boyfriend say to the subject: “Look at those birds.  Something must be dying in the woods.  Do you want to go check it out?”  To my great relief, she was more interested in a second round on the picnic table, allowing me to get out of there.

Back to Boise

She was now dating a new guy.  Our investigation found that the new love interest was a fighter pilot with the Australian Air Force.  She was gaining altitude from that Austin picnic table. 

When I arrived in Boise, I only knew that the subject was in a hotel, but not which one.  The pilot boyfriend was a different matter.  He was receiving training in a top security U.S. air base.  He was bunking in the officer’s barracks on the base.  I drove up to the base and found that I was dealing with some high level security to get in.  You would think that I would have thought about it a bit more before going up there.

Risky Business

Sometimes you just have to take a chance.  I should have anticipated I wouldn’t be able to drive right onto this base.  I was met by 3 military policemen armed with M-16 rifles at the gate guard shack.  I was past the point of turning around without arousing suspicion, so I took a big risk.  I told them that I had a friend in the Australian Air Force training on the base, and I would like to visit him.

They didn’t seem suspicious, asking me for his name.  There was no turning back now, so I gave it to them.  Being very helpful, they told me they would call him in the barracks to get the approval to let me in.  Now this could be a major problem!  If he answered the phone, my whole cover and case would be blown.  And that’s not to mention what the military would do with me.

I was really nervous while they let that phone ring.  It was my lucky day, as he didn’t answer the call.  It got even stranger when they said that since they couldn’t reach him they would give me a pass to go on the base!  I guess I looked trustworthy, but it was amazing to me that they would give me a pass based only on me knowing the pilot’s name.

Pressing My Luck

If you’ve ever gambled or watched a movie about serious gamblers, you know about “letting it ride.”  I was on a streak here, but I couldn’t just let it ride with a day pass.  I had to push my luck.  I told them I hoped I could find him, but I would be in town for 3 or 4 days, so I could try again.  I was astounded to be handed a four-day pass for access to this high security installation!  When you’re on a roll, you’re on a roll.

Between gaining this access, return trips, and locating the busy wife’s hotel room, it was a good trip.  I got many photographs and documented an intimate relationship both on and off base.  This was her third affair we had documented to date.

Behave or Pay the Price

I reported to my client, who was of course happy to have more ammunition for his child support battle.  We were on the case another 6 months, documenting two more affairs.  Our sexy wife was having a lot of fun.  But not as much as our client when he left court with primary custody of their child.