Minnesota Private Investigator / Private Detective Agency

BLUE HERON INVESTIGATIONS

Your "Minnesota Private Investigator"

Licensed
Bonded
Insured

(763) 323 -7324 - Minneapolis (651) 917-7324 - St. Paul

Blue Heron Investigations is

owned and operated by Thomas M. Goodpaster – the state issued license

holder

for the company.

Mr. Goodpaster has

orked exclusively within the P

rivate

etective

rotective

gent

industry since 1985

when he first began his career while working under the licenses of various Protective Agents within

the state.

At that time, and for the bulk of the next few years, his primary duties related to both loss prevention

assignments and the physical protection of both assets and personnel.

By the summer of 1989, Goodpaster was given the chance to enter the more demanding

Private Detective

sector of the industry - working again for various licensed professionals within the area. His primary

assignments for the next several years involved both mobile and stationary surveillance of others where he

gained literally thousands of hours of experience in the art of

stationary and mobile

surveillance

, as well as

social engineering techniques used to obtain information from others.

Throughout the next several years,

having worked fo

a number of

different detective agencies

in the area

, he

managed to rise through the investigative ranks to the supervisory and managerial positions of the last

detective agency he'd work for. He took a break from the day to day surveillance assignments, and turned his

attention to the more demanding and difficult (intellectually at least)

investigations

and sensitive assignments

that came through the door.

By about the year 2000,

Goodpaster

ventured off on his own and acquired

his own

Private Detective

license in

Minnesota after which he began providing services to various clientele under the name Thomas M.

Goodpaster & Associates. Within a few years, Thomas M. Goodpaster & Associates gave way to Blue Heron

Investigations which is now a highly recognized name within the industry.

hroughout

this time,

Goodpaster

has worked cases involving child

custody, infidelity,

runaways, missing

persons, theft,

trade secret

misappropriation, competitive

intelligence, work place harassment,

accident

scene

investigations, criminal defense,

product liability,

background

investigations, worker’s

ompensation

and personal

injury

insurance

defense,

as well as a wide variety of other assignments

ranging

from

the

investigation

of crimes (including

rape, robbery, and

murder), to providing

investigative

services

agencies

of the county, state

and federal

government.

has been directly or indirectly involved in the

training

over

one hundred

private investigators and bail

enforcement

agents

(bounty

hunters)

throughout the years,

authored a “how to”

manual for

conducting

investigations

and surveillance, and

has developed a

certified

pre-

assignment training

program that was

approved for

training

purposes

the

Private Detective

and

Protective Agent Services Board

of the

State of

Minnesota.

Both he and his company

e b

een members, or continues to maintain membership, in

countless

professional associations related to the detective industr

In addition to being a state licensed Private Detective / Protective Agent,

Goodpaster

has been a

state

licensed bail bondsman

and bail enforcement agent. He was

an NRA certified

firearms

and

personal

protection

instructor

nationally

published

author of

article on forensic photography,

lectured on

numerous

occasions

students

of a b

ail

enforcement academy, co-

founded an

online

investigative

supplies

store

(unrelated to this web site's sales of

investigative supplies),

and

earned two accredited degrees in both law

enforcement and photography

. He's

even

the featured

Detective

in the children's book: Career Ideas

for

Kids Who Like Adventure and Travel

(Second Edition)

written

by Diane Lindsay Reeves

and available in your

local book store

EXPERIENCE