Private Investigation Services in Chattanooga, TN

Nine ways we get you a documented answer.

Every service below is delivered by licensed Tennessee investigators, documented to court standard, and scoped honestly around what your case actually needs — serving Middle Valley, Chattanooga, Soddy-Daisy, Hixson, Ooltewah, Collegedale, and the greater Hamilton County and Sequatchie Valley region.

Valley View Private Investigators is a d/b/a and direct branch of Delator Group, a Tennessee-licensed private investigation and process serving company. Hamilton County cases are handled by Tennessee-licensed private investigators who operate under Delator Group.

Surveillance

Documented observation that answers the question.

Surveillance is the backbone of most private investigation work — trained, licensed investigators observing and documenting a subject's actual movements, meetings, and behavior from legal public vantage points. Whether the question is where someone goes on Thursday nights, who they meet during a 'business trip,' or whether a claimed injury matches real-world activity, surveillance replaces speculation with a time-stamped record.

Our investigators work Middle Valley, Chattanooga, and the surrounding Hamilton County area daily, which means we know the roads, the traffic rhythms, and the vantage points — local knowledge that keeps surveillance discreet and efficient instead of obvious and expensive.

We start with a planning call to identify the specific windows worth watching — a recurring absence, a suspicious pattern, a scheduled custodial period. Surveillance is then scheduled around those windows rather than run open-ended, which keeps cost proportional to the answer you need. Every shift produces a written log alongside photo or video evidence, and everything rolls up into a final report clear enough to hand to an attorney or keep for your own records.

What's Included

Anyone who needs a factual record of where someone actually goes and what they actually do — infidelity concerns, custody compliance, insurance claims, or employee activity.

Infidelity & Cheating Spouse

The truth, documented — so you can stop guessing.

Suspecting a partner of cheating is one of the most stressful experiences a person can carry — and confronting them with nothing but a feeling usually makes things worse, not better. An infidelity investigation gives you what suspicion can't: documented, time-stamped evidence of where your partner actually is during the hours that don't add up.

We handle these cases across Middle Valley, Hixson, Soddy-Daisy, and the greater Chattanooga area with total discretion. Your partner will not know an investigation is happening, and the findings go to you alone — whether they confirm the suspicion or put it to rest.

Tennessee divorce and settlement proceedings can consider legally gathered evidence of infidelity, and a documented pattern carries real weight in negotiations. Just as importantly, roughly a third of these investigations find no infidelity at all — and that answer is worth just as much, because it lets a relationship address what's actually wrong instead of what was feared.

What's Included

Spouses and partners facing a recurring pattern that doesn't add up — unexplained hours, sudden schedule changes, new privacy habits — who need a real answer before making a life decision.

Skip Tracing & Locates

Finding the people who can't — or don't want to — be found.

Skip tracing is the professional discipline of locating a specific person — a debtor who stopped answering, an heir owed an inheritance, a witness a case depends on, an estranged family member, or someone who simply needs to be served legal papers. It combines licensed database access most people can't reach with old-fashioned field verification that free 'people search' websites skip entirely.

The difference shows in the results: online people-finders routinely return stale addresses and wrong-person matches. We cross-reference every lead across multiple sources and, when the case warrants it, physically confirm a located address is current before reporting it as found.

The more starting information, the faster the locate: a full name and approximate age, last known address or employer, and any known relatives or associates. Many traces with solid starting details resolve within days. Cases with almost nothing to start from are still possible — we'll just give you an honest read on difficulty and cost before beginning.

What's Included

Attorneys, families, landlords, and creditors who need a verified current location for a specific person — not a list of guesses from a search website.

Corporate Investigations

Protecting the business you built.

Businesses across the valley region face investigative needs their internal teams aren't built for: an employee suspected of theft, a workers' comp claim that doesn't add up, a vendor whose story keeps shifting, a partner whose numbers don't reconcile. Corporate investigation brings licensed, neutral fact-finding to those situations — protecting the business legally while getting to an accurate answer.

We work directly with owners, HR leadership, and legal counsel, structuring each engagement so findings are documented to the standard a later dispute, termination, or lawsuit would demand.

An internal investigation run by the people who already suspect the answer is easy to challenge — for bias, for process, for retaliation. An outside licensed investigator documents facts without a predetermined conclusion, which means the findings protect the business whether they confirm the suspicion or clear the employee. Either outcome, properly documented, is a defensible position.

What's Included

Business owners, HR teams, and counsel in Chattanooga, Collegedale, Ooltewah, and across Hamilton County who need neutral, documented answers before making a high-stakes personnel or partnership decision.

Background Checks

Know who you're really dealing with.

A real background check is manual, verified work — not a $20 database dump. We search criminal and civil records at the county level, where automated services routinely miss filings, verify identity so you're not reading about a stranger with the same name, and organize the findings into a report that separates confirmed facts from records needing further verification.

Clients across Middle Valley and Chattanooga request these before the decisions that matter most: a marriage, a business partnership, a new tenant, a caregiver for their children, a high-trust hire.

Public records, court filings, verified employment and education, and property records are fair game. Medical records, sealed or expunged cases, credit reports without a permissible purpose, and anything behind a private login are off-limits — for us and for anyone operating legally. Employment-purpose checks carry additional federal consent requirements, and we'll walk you through those if that's your use case.

What's Included

Anyone about to extend serious trust — romantic, financial, or professional — who wants to verify the history they've been told against the history that's actually on record.

Criminal Defense Investigations

The defense deserves its own investigation.

The prosecution has detectives, labs, and subpoena power. A defendant has whatever their defense team can independently verify — which is exactly where a defense investigator comes in. We re-interview witnesses the police spoke to once, find the witnesses they never contacted, photograph and measure scenes before they change, and test whether the state's timeline actually holds together.

Working under the direction of defense counsel across Hamilton County and the surrounding judicial districts, our job isn't to prove innocence — it's to make sure the facts the case turns on have been independently checked rather than accepted as filed.

Defense investigation is performed at the direction of the defense attorney, which keeps the work inside the case's legal protections and focused on what the defense strategy actually needs. If your family is facing charges and the attorney hasn't yet brought in an investigator, we're glad to speak with counsel directly about what independent investigation could add to the case.

What's Included

Defense attorneys and defendants' families who need the state's version of events independently verified — and any exculpatory facts found before trial, not after.

Child Custody Investigations

Facts the family court can actually use.

Tennessee custody decisions turn on the best interest of the child — and judges weigh specific, dated, documented facts far more heavily than one parent's characterization of the other. A custody investigation builds that factual record: whether the existing order is being followed, who is actually present during parenting time, and whether a genuine safety concern can be documented rather than merely alleged.

These are sensitive cases, and we treat them that way. We never involve or interview children, we document only observable adult conduct, and we report in the plain, factual language family courts prefer.

Specificity wins: 'an unrelated adult stayed overnight during the custodial week on three documented dates' moves a judge in a way 'he's being irresponsible' never will. We coordinate with your attorney from the start so observation windows target what your specific court actually weighs, and we'll decline a case that's really just co-parenting friction with nothing documentable — because a weak investigation hurts credibility more than no investigation.

What's Included

Parents in Hamilton County custody proceedings — and their family law attorneys — who need a violation, a pattern, or a safety concern documented to a standard the court will credit.

Fraud Investigations

Turning suspicion into verified fact.

Fraud rarely looks like fraud at first — it looks like a discrepancy with a plausible excuse. An invoice that doesn't quite reconcile. A claimant more active than their injury allows. A contractor paid for work that keeps not finishing. Fraud investigation exists to test those discrepancies against documented reality before you act on them — because acting on suspicion alone, whether by firing, denying, or accusing, creates legal exposure if you're wrong.

We investigate fraud for insurance carriers, self-insured employers, small businesses, and individuals across the valley region, combining records analysis, open-source research, and field surveillance as the case requires.

Fraud findings often end up in front of a claims committee, an HR file, a civil complaint, or occasionally law enforcement. Everything we document is built for that scrutiny: time-stamped, factual, and clearly separating what's confirmed from what remains uncertain. And when an investigation clears the suspected party — which happens regularly — that documented clearance is just as valuable.

What's Included

Adjusters, SIU teams, business owners, and families who see a pattern that doesn't add up and need it verified — or ruled out — before taking action with legal consequences.

General Investigations

For the cases that don't fit a category.

Plenty of real situations don't come with a tidy service name. A harassing note with no sender. A neighbor dispute that needs documentation. A teenager's concerning new circle. An online seller who took the money and vanished. A family rumor that needs settling before an estate closes. General investigation is where we apply the same licensed methods — records research, interviews, surveillance, verification — to whatever the actual question is.

If you're not sure whether your situation is 'a case,' that's exactly what the free consultation is for. We'll tell you honestly whether investigation can help, what it would involve, and what it would cost — and just as honestly when the better answer is a locksmith, a lawyer, or a police report.

We start with what you know, what you suspect, and what a good outcome looks like. From there we identify what's actually verifiable, quote the smallest scope of work that can produce a real answer, and expand only if the findings justify it. No open-ended retainers, no investigating for the sake of billing.

What's Included

Anyone in the Middle Valley and Chattanooga area with a situation that needs investigating and no clear idea what to call it — start with a conversation and we'll figure out the rest.

Not sure which service fits?

Describe the situation and a licensed investigator will tell you exactly what would help — and what wouldn't.