Descriptions & Equivalents
- amateur sleuth
- analyzing evidence
- canvassing neighborhoods
- checking phone records
- evaluate all leads
- following through on a hunch
- going undercover
- interviewing witnesses
- PI
- put a tail on the suspect
- reviewing priors
- running down license plates
- sent some samples over to the lab
- snooped around
- surveillance of suspect
- went over known associates
- worked just inside the law