One-stop shopping:
Bellingcat’s Online Investigation Tool Kit
Phones and addresses:
DexPages phone book – yellow and white pages for landlines
Spokeo – cell, email, address history
Numberway Phone #s
Email:
Skymem.info for finding email addresses by organization or company
Social media advanced search:
Facebook advanced search
Instagram search tips from GIJN
Facebook search via Netbootcamp Search by keywords, name, email, screen name or phone (Note: Privacy settings may block queries.)
GeoSocial Footprint Check your social media footprint
Flickr Geo-located photos
WebMii Profile search engine
Identify Combined web identity (Works with Firefox)
#FirstTweet Find anyone’s first Tweet
SearchSystems.net Public records links
WHOIS Website ownership
Court and penal records:
Courtreference Links to all 50 states’ courts and, for each state, what kinds of cases are filed where. (Note that many states don’t have statewide searches available; you have to search county by county.)
Google scholar courts search Court opinions for cases filed in federal trial and appeals courts; for appellate decisions in state courts (but not trial courts).
Pacer Case search in federal courts. Free registration but a small charge per page if you download documents, so be sure to save them. Add the Recap extension to Chrome or Firefox for free access to documents other Recap users have downloaded from Pacer.
U.S. Tax Court filings
Federal inmate search 1982-present
Vinelink.com local and federal custody status, criminal case information
Hall of Justice – Sunlight Foundation compilation of national and state criminal justice datasets (not being updated)