THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
INVESTIGATIVE SPECIALISTS
IS PROUD TO PRESENT
2002 INVESTIGATOR OF THE YEAR
JOHN M. LAJOIE, CCDI, CLI, CII

LAJOIE INVESTIGATIONS, INC.
287 West Boylston St. West Boylston, MA 01583
www.PrivateInvestigator.com
President and Founder of Lajoie Investigations, Inc
(1988), John M. Lajoie has an extensive background in legal, criminal
defense, corporate, insurance, and claims management investigations.
He is a Board Certified Legal Investigator® and a Board Certified
Criminal Defense Investigator. Lajoie is the current Northeast
Regional Director for the National Association of Legal Investigators,
Inc. (NALI). He was elected to serve three previous terms.
Mr. Lajoie is considered an expert defense homicide investigator,
as well as a specialist in legal and all lines insurance coverage
and liability investigations. Mr. Lajoie has conducted many
high profile investigations and has been the chief defense homicide
investigator in numerous central and western Massachusetts homicide
investigations. His investigative acumen has been recognized and
honored by his brother and sister investigators, as well as law
firms, corporations, insurance companies, and other organizations.
Mr. Lajoie has been featured in various local and national publications
and other news media and has lectured about the reputation and
enhancement of the professional private investigative industry
to diverse groups. He has also lectured at some of the largest
investigative conferences in the world on self-defense investigation
and reviewing autopsy reports. In 1997, Mr. Lajoie was the
recipient of a National Editorial Publisher Award for his outstanding
article Homicide Se Defendendo-The Investigation of Homicide in
Self Defense, which was the lead article in the February 1997
addition of The Legal Investigator and in the fall 1997
Issue of Focus International. In 2000, Lajoie authored
his first book about the private investigation industry as a profession,
which is published and sold all over the world. Additionally,
Mr. Lajoie is a contributing chapter author to Massachusetts Continuing
Legal Education s January 2001 published book, Crime Scene Investigation
and Discovery, which is sold to attorneys. In addition to
his service with NALI, Mr. Lajoie is a charter member of the Licensed
Private Detectives Association of Massachusetts where he has sat
on a number of committees.
John Lajoie With The NAIS Investigator
Of The Year Award For 2002
He is also a Certified International Investigator and
a member of the Council of International Investigators.
He was a 2002 Nominee for International Investigator of the Year.
Lajoie also holds memberships in the Criminal Defense Investigation
Training Council, National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys,
National Council of Investigation and Security Services, National
Association of Investigative Specialists, Louisiana Private Investigators
Association, and the Global Investigators Network. He is the Chairman
of the Julius "Buddy" Bombet Lifetime Achievement Award
Committee; arguably the most prestigious award presented within
the private investigation profession nationwide.
John
Lajoie Presenting Jack Reed The 2002
Julius "Buddy" Bombet Lifetime Achievement Award
At The 2002 International Private Investigator's Super Conference
In New Oleans. There Was Not A Dry Private-Eye In The Room!
Lajoie is also
considered an expert investigation Conference Coordinator, having
coordinated a number of the largest and most successful investigative
professional development and continuing education conferences
in the country. His investigative skills are renown in his area
of expertise. After learning that another attorney had hired Lajoie
to do a simple DUI defense case, one of Lajoie s high profile
attorney-clients commented, ðIt s like using a howitzer to
kill an ant! Lajoie s defense investigation of the
killing of a Holyoke, MA police officer was critical to the ðself
defense defense respected Attorney Peter Ettenberg developed during
a high profile trial in March of 2001, and it was done in a hostile
and lonely environment wrought with roadblocks. Despite
tremendous obstacles, Lajoie lived to tell about it and was credited
by Ettenberg with finding the only defense possible. Four
of Lajoie s recent homicide case investigations resulted in two
out right dismissals, one not guilty, and one directed verdict.
Lajoie is also credited with finding a family member of a client
who had changed his name more than ten times, his SSAN more than
five times, and who had been missing in action from the military
since 1972. He has worked for high profile attorneys, celebrities,
sports teams, and world famous rock bands. Lajoie also works
for the homeless, defends those who are indigent, and helps prostitutes,
drug addicts, and alcoholics. Lajoie considers his greatest
investigative achievement as resolving an unsolved homicide case
for an indigent family, pro bono, to a successful conclusion.
What
A Gang! Barbara Maikell-Thomas, John LaJoie, Ralph Thomas
And Cody Woods. John did not know it at the time but he was being
nominated
as 2002 NAIS Investigator Of The Year at the time this photo was
taken.
He was born and raised in Worcester, Massachusetts,
was educated in public schools and colleges (graduating Summa
Cum Laude), and now resides in Sterling, Massachusetts with his
wife Susan (a good investigator in her own right) and their three
children. He can be reached at 508-835-2211.