Glanz & Associates

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There was a time when it wasn't difficult to become a private investigator in Oklahoma. Just shell out a few bucks for an application from the city, paint your name on a window, get some business cards printed, and you were in business. There was no training required, no test to pass, no regulations to worry about and no license from the state. It was hardly an exaggeration to describe the 1960s and '70s as the Wild West era in the state's private detective business. "At one time, anyone who wanted to be a private investigator could call themselves that and take people's money," said George Kennedy, the president of Tulsa's Center of Professional Studies, a training and education facility for those in the private security industry. Naturally, a lot of people took advantage of that situation, or tried to, anyway. After all, it looked like a glamorous, easy lifestyle--at least on television, where dozens of so-called private eyes went around cracking cases, and heads, with ease and impunity. They tied things up each week in a tidy little 60-minute package that usually featured a car chase, an exchange of gunfire and/or a back-alley pursuit on foot as its climax.

The World Association of Detectives was founded in 1925. In 1950, the World Secret Service Association, Inc. was formed as a joint venture by the combined membership of the International Secret Service Association (founded in 1921) and the World Association of Detectives.

ASIS International is the preeminent organization for security professionals. Founded in 1955, ASIS is dedicated to increasing the effectiveness and productivity of security professionals by developing educational programs and materials that address broad security interests.

Come Sept. 26, it will have been 40 years since a millionaire Osage County rancher named E.C. Mullendore III was found savagely beaten and shot through the head in the basement of his home. No one was ever charged with the crime, and though the case ranks as the state's most famous unsolved murder, it largely has been relegated to the dusty pages of history over the last four decades. But prominent anniversaries have a way of renewing the public's interest in such events -- particularly when the sheriff's department and a multi-county grand jury start sifting through the ashes after all those years. That's welcome news to longtime Tulsa private investigator Gary Glanz, for whom the case has remained somewhat of an obsession over the years. Glanz became involved in the investigation within a few hours of the murder, receiving a call from the attorney for the dead man's estranged wife, Linda Mullendore, and being asked to provide security for her and her children, who were living in Tulsa.

For over 40 years, Gary Glanz has set the standard in the field of private detective work. Here’s how he did it.

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