European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes tuesday. October 22, 1po" Susan s on the Case by Judy Klemesrud new York times s Usan Rosin s fight is in a Sling. Shep lied some muscat.", in her shoulder and Elbow recently when while trying to enfoic1.1a court order she escorted n woman into the 1 orig la Ltd Homo the woman had once shared with her estranged husband suddenly he Rosen recalled. He was enraged and to listed me off he ground and threw to Aga isl a door. He was about g-loot-4 and 280 ii was All Pait of a Day s work Tor Hosen she is a private Liene Greenberg recently drove from Brooklyn to a Moll in new Jersey. She sat in her car and waited until the Man she was following came Oul of a Motel room with a woman who was riot his wife Green Borg look photographs. The by is now divorced Greenberg said she too is a private detective. Alice Byrne recently checked out a prospective bridegroom who drove a gwm. Lived in a Beautiful apartment and had told his Well to do Fiancee that he had n Good Job. Ii turned out that the Bow was re brother a the apart men belonged to someone else and he was unemployed. The wedding did t Lake said Byrne who is also a professional Snoop. Theae three women All in their Early 40s, Are among the growing number of women now earning their living in what was once one of the most masculine of professions. Personified in fiction and film by such characters As Sam Spade. Char lie Chan. Bulldog Drummond and Mike Hammer these private eyes and Gumshoe were often hard drinking and hard boiled. Although the profession is still predominantly male More and More women have entered the ranks in recent years according to John f. Malula president of associated licensed detectives of new York state based in Hempstead. . He said 15 to 20 percent of the Organiza Tion s 450 members Are women. They Are among the 984 private detectives who Are licensed by the new York depart ment of slate. Matula added that when the number of unlicensed investigators who work for a licensed Agency a Legal practice As Long As the investigators Are fingerprinted is included about 30 percent of the total Are women. Ten years ago it was probably Only 1 he said. Female interest seems to have increased be cause of the women s movement and because More women Are looking for work. And there s a new surge of interest in the private detective yield now because of still one of the first women Ever to go into private detecting on television chose the name Remington Steele for her firm because she was afraid she would get no clients if she used her real name Laura Holt. Today women in the business use their real names. And some including Byrne and Greenberg even own agencies. Byrne says she deliberately lists her name in her yellow pages advertisement Lor her company am . Ador inv . Tie Amse i in got bus less " circe no no Hersell a Berg private invest yaqui Byrne is a former nurse who left that profession at Iho ago of 71 Aflex stifle King a heart attack divorced in in he scraped i p enough Money to by a Small Bury a alarm and Security guard company from her sex husband today she run her detective Agency which she said grosses a million a year from her Home in Brooklyn she employs 10 Lull Lime invest Yatuzis and 40 full Lime Security guards her chief investigator i. Michael Marino 4,?, a retired new York City police detective forty percent of her work is for Corpora Lions. She said and 40 percent for lawyers 15 percent involves marital investigations and 5 percent missing persons. It s never she said. Each Day is different private in when i in Dnn Hng or going to the bathroom. It s the thing i hate most of he said with a Grimace in private life. Byrne is married to a systems analyst Lor trans world airlines and has two Toon age children. She is also National chairwoman of child find inc. A group hat tries to find Lort children and president of the women business owner of new York a nine year old group with 550 members to reach Irene Grafi nor a s office one must walk through stacks of videotapes at a video . Store in Brooklyn then through two adjacent offices. The store is not a front Gronbery and her partner James p. Brown a former City policeman Havo an interest in video Usa and much of their work involves investigating counter foil videotapes the firm also supplies Secundy guards for two new York discotheques studio 54 and the palladium. But most of Gruenberg s work is what she Calls Domestic meaning marital investigations and she charges each client a $10,000 retainer. I work mainly Lor affluent people and i Don t work for she said. Greenberg who look Over the Agency from her husband in 1978 after he went into another line of work Lold of one Domestic she had in Baton Rouge la., where her agents trailed a Man s mistress for two years. He let that in he was giving her Money to live on. She should no be with anyone she said. Finally he Felt his Wile and married in her Moil distressing Case a Man for whom she was working killed himself after Greenberg confirmed his suspicions that his wife was unfaithful. It was she said softly. Greenberg who has two children said she thinks women have one big advantage Over men As investigators. No one Ever exper s a woman to be a private Eye " she said. Susan Rosen is a former Conover Model who hired the . Investigation service in great neck. ., while she was going through a divorce. She wound up being hired As an investigator for the company a Job she has held 12 years. She is known at her Agency Lor solving a fest Gator Sutan Rosen with in a thing for Onyn Jav received c3sd by St la Ionikh her parents her wat thrown against a door while trying to enforce a court order daughter and nor dog at various exits at an upstate Motel. The woman involved had eluded previous investigators by arriving at the Motel and disappearing Rosen discovered that she was slipping out a Side door and getting into a car Wither Boyfriend. In another surveillance Case. Rosen and her three children once spent new year s eve in her station Wagon parked in the Backol an apartment House we ate ined Chicken drank sodas and had a Good time " she said. When a cop Camo by around 2 . I to Dhim i was waiting Lor my Rosen who earns $40.000 to $50.000 a year said she had been on cases in Canada Capo rail and he Rha of few k has involved Durance Frau child custody and the serving of subpoenas she once got to an elusive Ortho Peist by pitting her in asian met Mulino in . A in a and that s Why i like it so Byrne said she is the Only private investigator work ing on the Case of Elan Patz who disappeared in lower Manhattan on his Way to school in 1979. Another la Mous Case involved Vida Wayne a missing 58-year-old California Oil heiress who was found dead in the East River in 1979. The police accepted Byrne s theory that the heiress confused and dizzy from the medication she was taking for High blood pressure had Lallen into the River by Accident. Her favorite work she said involves robbery be cause i like anything that s a thinking invest Kigali on How did they do it where Are they now. The old a Nacek Janacek was the name of a cerebral television private Eye played by George Peppard her least Mavorite work she said is surveillance which often Means Long hours in a car without eating i Jiji by us our q be s no and making an appointment on Call 24 hrs Aday. She is never Lar irom her Beeper. Red " y s e said is car chasing Siop at
