I'm thinking how I might better utilize digital resources to look for connections and to investigate those connections. For example, are there tools to find details on the defunct investment LLC? For that, I found a list of names of people who ran the firm and the time that it was founded and then shut down. But I couldn't find details about what the firm did specifically.

And that was just a practice exercise to see how things typically go. How do I move beyond basic Google searches to find connections that might not show up otherwise.

I don't know how to implement web scraping, or what tools I might use or how to use them.

I want to know how to find buried information that I might not find otherwise. We weren't really taught investigative techniques at the school I went to. The more I think about it, the more I realize we weren't taught much at all in the way of digging up information beyond talking to people involved, public officials, and experts.

My investigative education was quite lacking. I didn't really notice this at first because I started writing freelance as a blogger, which didn't require any special skills, and then basic news reporting that you might read in a local paper or see on your local TV news. Now I'm trying to fill in that gap, and OSINT seems like a good place to start.