News Coverage Highlights

News Coverage Highlights

Bruce Robertson is the founder of Tristar Investigation, a private detective agency in Los Angeles, CA. Tristar has a 28-year track record of delivering quality investigative results. Headquartered in West Los Angeles, Tristar has branch offices in San Francisco.

Real Life Private Eye

Real Life Private Eye

In November of 1999 Bruce Robertson, founder of Tristar Investigation, was featured on CNN Worldwide show Showbiz Today with Gloria Hillard. The report was about an ABC television show called “Snoops”, which was a glitzy send-up of life at a detective

News Coverage Highlights

O.J. Simpson Civil Trial

Bruce Robertson appeared on MSNBC Dayside with John Gibson in January of 1997 during the O. J. Simpson civil trial in which Simpson was eventually found to be financially liable for the deaths of his wife Nichole and her friend Ronald Goldman. Robertson was asked about how plaintiff attorneys could determine how much O. J. was worth. Robertson indicated that investigators had many tools and sources to uncover hidden assets and that they could do it in a very short time if necessary.

Kim Kardashian – Why Robbers spared her Life

Kim Kardashian – Why Robbers spared her Life

For three decades Tristar Investigation founder Bruce Robertson has been featured as an investigation expert on broadcast television, cable news, radio, newspapers and magazines. Below you will find clips and copies of these interviews featured in such sources as The New York Times, CNN, The History Channel, MSNBC, Fox News, Los Angeles Times and a many more.

Spousal Surveillance Interview

Spousal Surveillance Interview


In November of 2004 Bruce Robertson was interviewed about hidden cameras and domestic surveillance on the Modern Marvels series in an episode entitled “Surveillance Tech”. In the third segment of the show Bruce Robertson was featured explaining the use of the “chip cam”, which is a tiny camera with a lens the size of a pin hole mounted on a small circuit board.

Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping

Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping


Bruce Robertson was interviewed in a KABC television news story in March of 2003 concerning the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart in Utah. Robertson informed viewers about the importance of doing background investigation on people you let into your household.

The GPS Cheating Spouse Bug

The GPS Cheating Spouse Bug


Tristar Investigation founder Bruce Robertson was featured in a November 2007 segment of Kurt the Cyber Guy, a syndicated nationwide news broadcast originated at KTLA in Los Angeles. The segment described how a GPS consumer device can be used to catch cheating spouses.