A Case of a Terrifying Private Investigation Firm
The Private Investigation Firm
“Innocent man falsely accused of rape do not spend many thousands of dollars intimidating their accusers through a private investigation firm.”
“I didn’t know one could hire a team of men in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area to intimidate a rape victim until I kept being harassed.”
Tiffany lived at Arcadia Crossing Apartments in Vancouver, Washington (in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area) at the time.
“On May 1, 2024, Detective Megan Townsend informed me that my rape kit had returned male DNA on a swab, but there wasn’t enough male DNA to compare it with a suspect. On May 10, 2024, I first noticed that I was being stalked by a private investigator. I was confused why the stalking had begun almost 10 months after my assault. I wondered if Dr. Hildebrant somehow knew that DNA had been found in my rape kit.”
May 2024
As stated in a police report, on May 1, 2024, Detective Megan Townsend informed Tiffany via email that her rape kit had returned male DNA on an anal swab, but there wasn’t enough male DNA to generate a large DNA profile and compare it to a suspect. This DNA came from swabs (exhibit 1.3), which were swabbed against the outside of Tiffany’s anus.
On May 10, 2024, Tiffany first noticed that she was being stalked by a private investigation firm. At about 9 p.m. on May 10, 2024, a man in a black sedan with tinted windows parked at Tiffany’s apartment complex in Vancouver, Washington. He walked toward Tiffany’s apartment but then turned around when he appeared to notice a security camera in her neighbor’s window. Then, as he tried to hide around a corner, he snapped photos of Tiffany through her bedroom window. Tiffany noticed the bright flash produced by the man’s camera equipment as she lowered her bedroom blinds. She then looked down at the sidewalk and saw a man looking at photos on his camera as he walked back to his car. The man was caucasian with arm sleeve tattoos, appeared to be in his 40s, had an average body type for an American male, and was wearing a T-shirt and jeans.
As shown in this training video on YouTube about night photography, such flash devices can allow a photographer outside a home to take a clear photo of the inside of a home.
On May 22, 2024, as Tiffany arrived home, she noticed that an Amazon package by her apartment front door had been carefully sliced open and then re-taped closed with clear, non-Amazon tape.
June 2025
Eventually Tiffany moved to a new apartment complex in Oregon. A process server served Dr. Nathan Hildebrant notification of Tiffany’s lawsuit on July 14, 2025. The “complaint” (document outlining Tiffany’s allegations) for the lawsuit, which was served July 14, 2025, stated that Tiffany had been harassed by a private investigator. The allegation did not dissuade a private investigation firm from further harassing Tiffany.
On July 22, 2025, a caucasian man was seen by Tiffany’s neighbor taking pictures of the outside of her apartment. The man was wearing a cowboy hat, which is very unusual dress for the Portland, Oregon area. The neighbor, who didn’t even know Tiffany’s name, was so concerned that he memorized the Oregon license plate 397-QEM for the Ford pickup truck and gave the license plate number to Tiffany. Tiffany does not know who owns this car because Oregon law prohibits Oregon State from disclosing car registration information to anyone not represented by an attorney, even if the information is subpoenaed for a lawsuit.
Within the next few days, Tiffany’s roommate heard a man come up to their front door balcony. He didn’t leave a package. The roommate went outside to chase him. The man was a different age than the man who took pictures of their apartment on July 22nd.
Within the next few days after that, Tiffany woke up at about 3:00 a.m. to the sound of someone on the balcony throwing Tiffany’s objects on the balcony around.
On July 28, 2025, Tiffany walked into the bathroom of her second story apartment at night, flipping the bathroom light on as she entered the room. Through the open window of the bathroom she heard a man begin to violently beat and pry her apartment’s internet box, which was below the window and nailed into the building, away from the facade of the building with what sounded like a crow bar. The man then opened the internet box.
August 2025
On August 2, 2025, Tiffany took a walk near her apartment. She noticed a man filming her and caught him doing so on camera.
When Tiffany subpoenaed the car registration information for his car, she learned that the car was registered to a hispanic man in his 50s who has a residential address in El Paso, Texas.
WARNING: Video contains strong language.
The hispanic man immediately made a call after realizing Tiffany had filmed him, and Tiffany walked toward his car to capture his license plate.
In September 2025, Tiffany collected curbside garbage in the middle of the night from Dr. Hildebrant’s home to try to get a DNA match with her rape kit. (As a private person, Tiffany could conduct the warrantless search per Oregon v. Sines.) Tiffany’s roommate, who their tiny apartment complex paid to take out the garbage and recycling, noticed that once a week for the next two weeks, someonestole all of the recycling for the tiny apartment complex before the recycling could be put on the curb for collection.
During the middle of the night before the morning of November 7, 2025, someone repeatedly softly knocked on the front door of Tiffany’s apartment. Tiffany didn’t answer the door. She is unsure if this incident is related to her case.
September 2025
Tiffany did not want the men from the private investigation firm to stalk her at work, so after she started a new job, she did not post her workplace on LinkedIn or any other social media website.
On September 8, 2025, two employees from the private investigation firm appeared at her workplace. As Tiffany left her small workplace for the day, there was a car parked next to hers that didn’t belong to any of her coworkers. A man in the rear passenger seat, which had an open window, filmed her as she got into her car. She saw through the open window that a dress shirt was hung up on the grab bar handle of the rear driver-side seat. This is a tactic frequently employed by private investigators to conceal themselves in a car. As Tiffany drove away, she looked back, and saw a second man sitting up from a laying position in the drivers seat.
When Tiffany subpoenaed the car registration information, she learned the car was registered to a man with a residential address in Houston, Texas.
LJK Investigations
LJK Investigations is a licensed private investigation firm based in Salem, the capital city of Oregon, providing confidential investigative services to attorneys, private individuals, businesses, and organizations throughout Oregon and Texas. Their areas of expertise include:
Criminal Defense
Major Felonies
Post Conviction
Sex Crimes
Juvenile
Misdemeanor
Homicide
Domestic Violence
Driving Under the Influence of Intoxicants
The LJK Investigations Facebook profile contains an album titled “PI Training - Trigger Time” and contains a photo from a target practice exercise in which bullets have been shot into the driver and passenger seat of a car.
The owner of LJK Investigations, Lawrence J. Kline, has “Workplace Violence” listed as one of his “skills” on his personal LinkedIn profile. The skill is “endorsed” on his LinkedIn by a senior vice president at Pinkerton. Pinkerton is a detective agency notorious for its history employing extreme and deadly violence against innocent people.
It is unknown whether LJK Investigations has been involved with the case at issue.
Sex Crimes Defense Attorney Jason Thompson
According to a police report, Dr. Nathan Hildebrant hired criminal defense attorney Jason Thompson, who, according to information in an email, reached out to Hillsboro Police Department’s detective Megan Townsend in October 2023 or earlier. His website states, “Mr. Thompson is a top Salem criminal defense attorney defending people in both state and federal courts, including the Oregon and United States Supreme Courts. . . . As a former prosecutor, Mr. Thompson has specific experience and knowledge of the methodologies used by the prosecutor's office. It is a special advantage to leverage their limitations and internal politics beyond the law and characteristics of the case.” His website also states, “‘He [routinely] works with well known people from the community including public servants and elected officials, business owners, doctors, lawyers, teachers, and other well known community members.” In addition, his website states that, “Mr. Thompson has represented hundreds of individuals accused, charged with, or convicted of Ballot Measure 11 offenses in Oregon. His goal is always to not have these charges filed, an outright acquittal or plea outside of Ballot Measure 11, and he has obtained many resolutions of the sort. However, he also provides several strategies on how to mitigate the circumstances surrounding those charged with Ballot Measure 11 offenses.”
It is unknown whether attorney Jason Thompson hired a private investigation firm on Dr. Hildebrant’s behalf.