Guides
Free DIY guides for documenting evidence, saving camera footage, preserving messages, reporting scams, and knowing when to stop and get help.
Guides
These are practical, step-by-step guides you can use even if you never hire Crime Fixer. Start with the problem in front of you and keep everything safe, organized, and lawful.
How To Organize Evidence Before You File Or Update A Police Report
Turn scattered screenshots, photos, videos, notes, and witness information into a clean packet before you file or update a police report.
Read GuideHow To Document Threats, Harassment, Or Repeated Unwanted Contact While Reducing Escalation Risk
A practical way to document threats, harassment, stalking concerns, and repeated unwanted contact without feeding the situation.
Read GuideHow To Save And Organize Texts, DMs, Emails, Voicemails, And Call Logs
Preserve everyday communications in a way that keeps the sender, timestamp, context, and original message connected.
Read GuideHow To Save Security Camera Footage Before It Overwrites
Preserve home, business, dash-camera, or doorbell footage before the system automatically deletes it.
Read GuideHow To Document Package Theft, Car Break-Ins, Vandalism, Or Trespassing
Document common property crimes with enough detail for police, insurance, landlords, HOAs, or business owners.
Read GuideHow To Ask Neighbors Or Businesses To Preserve Camera Footage
Ask nearby neighbors or businesses to preserve camera footage quickly, politely, and with enough detail that people can actually help.
Read GuideWhat To Do If You Get A Tracker Alert Or Find A Suspicious Device
Respond to AirTag, Bluetooth tracker, GPS tracker, or suspicious-device concerns without destroying evidence or putting yourself in danger.
Read GuideHow To Look For Obvious Hidden-Camera Warning Signs
A cautious, non-technical checklist for obvious hidden-camera warning signs in homes, rentals, offices, vehicles, and private spaces.
Read GuideHow To Secure Your Phone And Accounts After Suspicious Access Or Threats
A practical lockdown sequence for accounts, phones, cloud backups, shared plans, and devices after suspicious access or threats.
Read GuideWhat To Do If Someone Is Blackmailing Or Sextorting You
Immediate steps for preserving evidence, reducing harm, reporting, and avoiding the payment spiral in blackmail or sextortion situations.
Read GuideWhat To Do If A Scammer Has Your Name, Address, Phone, Or ID
A calm triage plan for personal information exposure, identity theft risk, scam threats, and account protection.
Read GuideHow To Preserve Social Media Posts Before They Disappear
Capture social media posts, profiles, comments, stories, and messages with enough context to make them understandable later.
Read GuideHow To Make A Witness List Without Coaching Anyone
Identify witnesses, preserve contact information, and record what each person may know without shaping their story.
Read GuideHow To Write A Clean Incident Timeline
Turn scattered events into a simple timeline that police, attorneys, advocates, property managers, or investigators can follow.
Read GuideHow To Document Recurring Crime Problems In Your Neighborhood Without Confronting Anyone
Track recurring theft, trespassing, vandalism, drug activity, vehicle prowling, or safety issues without turning yourself into a target.
Read GuideHow To Stay Inside Safe Legal Boundaries When You Document Evidence
Use practical safety lines so DIY documentation does not cross into hacking, trespassing, stalking, impersonation, or illegal tracking.
Read GuideHow To Decide Whether You Need DIY Documentation, Police, An Attorney, Or A Private Investigator
A practical triage guide for choosing the right next step without turning every problem into a private investigation.
Read GuideHow To Organize Digital Evidence So It Does Not Become A Mess
Build a clean folder, file naming, and evidence index system for screenshots, videos, photos, PDFs, emails, and exports.
Read GuideHow To Follow Up After A Police Report
Follow up with police using report numbers, supplemental evidence, and clear updates instead of repeated emotional retellings.
Read GuideHow To Avoid Common Evidence Mistakes
Common mistakes that make evidence harder to use, harder to verify, or unsafe to collect.
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Guides FAQs
Quick answers about using the guides safely.
No. Use these guides to organize information and avoid common mistakes. Call 911 for immediate danger, contact police for crimes, and talk with an attorney for legal advice.
Yes. The guides are written to be useful on their own. They explain how to preserve evidence, document incidents, and stay inside safety and legal boundaries.
Some situations involve immediate danger, court orders, illegal material, hacking risk, stalking risk, or evidence that should be handled by police, an attorney, or a qualified professional.