Gomez, the proprietor of a one-woman operation in Lockhart, Texas, called Unlimited Recoveries, is one of the best skip tracers in the world.
A combination bill collector, bounty hunter, and private investigator, a skip tracer finds people and things that have disappeared on purpose.
The ruse worked: Eventually the wife told Gomez that the heavy equipment was on its way to a construction site in South America. For Gomez, 43, skip tracing is as much about stalking and capturing elusive prey as it is about getting paid.
Today much of that hunting is done digitally, and Gomez has made an art of combing through cyberspace and finding the status updates, financial records, and location blips that virtually everyone leaves behind in the modern age. The experience laid a foundation for the skills that have made her so good at finding people.
ACS needed help recovering a foot Hatteras yacht called Morning Star , which had been taken nearly a year earlier by a man named Ryan Eugene Mullen. Mullen, the ACS executive said, would not be an easy man to find.
