They dug up documents across the state, hunted down Josef Meyers's friends and family, and quickly determined that von Habsburg and Meyers were the same man.
During his research he dug up documents describing how tobacco factory workers lived in the early 1800's, when most European cigars were rolled here, using Cuban tobacco.
However, the American carriers' investigators dug up documents filed with regulatory authorities around the world, from Belgium to Australia, which in some cases include detailed accounts going back a number of years.
He had dug up documents that he said showed the World Bank had placed undue pressure on Delhi's water board four years earlier to appoint a foreign consultant on a project.
Parts of his book read like a detective novel, as he describes how he tracked down sources, dug up documents and navigated the stalling and obfuscation emanating from everyone from News International to the police, who, despite sitting on mounds of evidence, seemed curiously reluctant to investigate.
In court documents filed last week and dug up by CBS Sports reporter Jon Solomon, the NCAA and 11 top conferences argued that paying star college basketball and football players would likely lead to a significant reduction in the number of scholarships they are able to offer lesser players on both the men's and women's side.
But the suspicion that his rival's campaign dug up the documents hurt Mr Madrazo, who has a history of winning elections in controversial fashion.Mr Calderón's swift rise has caught the pollsters unawares.
It also involved years of investigation and preparation, almost two months of testimony and more than 1,000 exhibits, including documents, wiretaps, transcripts and videotapes dug up in a backyard in Virginia.
In any case, Rather got the broadcast, and he told viewers that CBS had dug up "new documents and new information" revealing that Bush had benefitted from political favors to avoid the draft.
Breitbart News dug up court documents revealing that, on the day that Moore first approached Corfman outside family court, her mother was in the midst of surrendering custody of her to Corfman's father, owing to "disciplinary and behavioral problems".
