skip tracer, a sort of private investigator that tracks down people that skipped town and don't want to be found. he used the proverbial paper trail, which back in the day was literally made of paper, phone bills, credit cards, receipts, and so on. he agreed to come to my home, outside atlanta, to follow me around, to show how today's paperless paper trail makes it almost impossible to hide. >> frank just woke up, had a cup of coffee, pull out the laptop of data gathering. where does it begin. >> the minute you turn it on. you let the ip company know that you're there and ready to rock. the ip knows about us, google, the e-mail knows about us. >> i am sending an e-mail to the lawn service company. >> reporter: ahern said he never had this kind of detailed information in his skip tracing days. >> you see phone records, i would say frank called ted at