Affair on a Ski Holiday and the Children Parked in Childcare? Case Study from Kurtz Detective Agency

Affair on a Ski Holiday and the Children Parked in Childcare?

Après-ski has initiated many a happy relationship – and probably destroyed even more. After strenuous physical activity in impressive surroundings, the mind-set is different from everyday life. Many winter sports enthusiasts experience euphoria, freedom and a sense of weightlessness while practising their hobby. At the latest when the typical après-ski drink is added, when alcohol after exertion in the cold rises all the faster to the head, exuberance also sets in for many. The need for control gives way to laissez-faire. At the same time, attractive people are visible all around. These are the situations in which loyalty to one’s own partner is put to the test. And as with most tests, some fail here as well.

 

Kurtz Detective Agency Erfurt and Thuringia does not frequently carry out assignments in the winter sports milieu, but when it does, it is almost always due to the suspicion that the respective target person may be unfaithful to our client. This was also the case in the following matter, which led our detectives to Oberhof. The small rural town in the district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen is the most important winter sports centre in the Thuringian Forest and probably in the whole of central Germany. Apart from Erfurt and Weimar, no other place in Thuringia attracts more visitors. Among them this winter was Mrs Plaue, wife of the client and target person of our private detectives in Oberhof. Her husband not only feared that she would use her winter holiday for extramarital intimate activities, but also that she might neglect her supervisory duties towards the jointly travelling children.

Day 1: Surveillance by Detectives on the Ski Slope

As the client, Mr Plaue, was aware of a pre-booked appointment of his wife at a ski school, the surveillance by our two detectives in Oberhof began precisely at this appointment. Initially, it was to be verified whether the target person would actually attend the appointment with the two children (8 and 10 years old), as our client feared that she might simply drop them off there and then amuse herself elsewhere alone. However, the surveillance confirmed the presence of all three individuals. It was only noticeable that only the two children were seen on the slope, while Mrs Plaue remained either inside the ski school premises or on the terrace throughout.

 

At around one o’clock in the afternoon, the lesson apparently ended and the target person proceeded directly to her holiday apartment with the children. Although she went outside once more in the late afternoon, she merely ran errands and then returned without detours to the holiday apartment and the children. Nothing further occurred thereafter, and thus the first day of surveillance proved largely uneventful for the investigators of our private detective agency in Oberhof: no unattended handover of the children to third parties, no après-ski celebration, no unfamiliar men or women.

An Unexpected Reunion in the Evening Hours

The following day of surveillance was to prove considerably more interesting, and this had much to do with the setting: surveillance of persons travelling by car, on foot, by bicycle, by moped or motorcycle, by e-scooter, by taxi, on public transport, and even by boat – all this falls within the realm of the “normal” for our Thuringian detectives. However, surveillance on horseback constituted a novelty: late in the morning, Mrs Plaue drove with the children by car to a riding stable in the Thuringian Forest. While the children rode bicycles there through the cold, the target person went riding on horseback. Following a rider inconspicuously is not an everyday undertaking for detectives in Germany. Accordingly, visual contact was lost several times during the hours-long surveillance. As the target vehicle remained parked at the riding stable and Mrs Plaue would inevitably return there to hand back the horse, even if she were to continue travelling by other means for whatever reason, no damage was to be expected from the temporary loss of sight. Allowing a long leash made tactical sense from an investigative perspective.

 

After the long day at the riding stable, she returned directly to the holiday apartment. Nothing happened there until shortly after eight o’clock in the evening. Then, however, the private investigators of our detective agency in Oberhof were astonished: suddenly, the children’s ski instructor, who had been observed with them on the slope the previous day, appeared on foot in front of the building in which the target person’s holiday apartment was located. Upon arrival, the ski instructor tapped on his mobile phone and then waited briefly outside the door until Mrs Plaue emerged. Her ponytail and thermal riding trousers had now given way to loose hair, make-up and more elegant clothing. The two individuals greeted each other with a prolonged embrace and then proceeded to a car parked around the corner in order to drive to a restaurant.

Who Needs Après-Ski? Infidelity with the Ski Instructor.

At the latest during dinner at the restaurant, it became evident to our private detectives in Oberhof that Mrs Plaue required no après-ski to embark upon extramarital paths: apparently, she radiated such sociability that she had aroused the interest of her children’s ski instructor. Although no kisses were exchanged during the restaurant visit, the atmosphere was characterised by tenderness and a kind of shy exuberance typical of the initial phase of romantic relationships. Even though our private investigators, seated a few tables away, could hardly understand the content of the conversation, the general atmosphere between the two observed individuals left no doubt that this was neither a purely professional nor a purely friendly relationship.

 

It therefore came as no surprise when, after dinner, both drove by car to a residential property and entered it together; presumably, this was the (temporary) residence of the ski instructor. The deployed detectives used the opportunity to split up, enabling one of the two to conduct a control drive past the target person’s holiday apartment (after all, the children were in all likelihood still there). All windows remained dark, and no activity whatsoever could be detected inside. Our detectives from Erfurt assumed that the children were asleep – without a supervising adult. Only after one o’clock in the morning did the target person emerge again from the front door with the ski instructor and allow herself to be driven back to her holiday apartment.

When the Wellness Spa Becomes an Adventure Pool

Informed about the findings of the previous evening, the client of our private and commercial detective agency in Oberhof attempted the next morning to question his wife discreetly by telephone. At the core were two questions: What did you do yesterday? And: What are you planning today? Naturally, there had already been little doubt as to the nature of the meeting with the ski instructor, and naturally, in Mrs Plaue’s account of the previous day’s events, no ski instructor appeared, nor any stay at a foreign address. The restaurant visit, however, she wove into her narrative and even enthused to her husband about the quality of the food, which she had, of course, consumed alone. For the current day, a visit to a swimming pool with the children was planned. Less to continue examining his suspicion of infidelity than to assess what he could believe his wife at all, Mr Plaue had already commissioned our detectives the previous evening for a further day of surveillance. The investigators appreciated this not only for financial reasons, but also because an assignment in a swimming pool promised another entertaining variation in what can at times be a rather monotonous surveillance routine.

 

Until the afternoon, the children again went to the ski slope, while Mrs Plaue, as on the first day of investigation, remained almost exclusively inside the ski school premises. Whether intimate contact with the ski instructor occurred there could not be determined by us. It became exciting again after arrival at the swimming pool: although Mrs Plaue initially occupied herself with the children in the adventure pool area, she soon withdrew to the wellness area. And who joined her there a short time later? The ski instructor. Of course. Whereas the detectives in Oberhof had still perceived a certain shyness between the two individuals the previous day, there could now be no question of that. Like newly in-love teenagers, both enjoyed themselves in the whirlpool, in a cave-like construction and also in the sauna – always just within the bounds of decency so that no morality police would be set upon them.

No Doubt Despite Only Indirect Evidence

The lovebirds eventually bade each other a lengthy farewell before Mrs Plaue collected the children again from the adventure pool area and subsequently drove with them back to the holiday apartment. There, the scenario of the previous day was repeated: shortly before eight o’clock, the lights in the windows went out, and fifteen minutes later the target person was sitting in her car on the way to the same property in which she had spent the previous evening with the ski instructor. At least this time she returned to her children shortly after midnight. However, at this point there was no longer any doubt about the nature of her stay in the said property – neither for our private detectives in Oberhof nor for the client.

 

What consequences Mr Plaue ultimately drew from the findings obtained by Kurtz Investigations Erfurt and Thuringia is unfortunately unknown to us.

Note

In order to safeguard discretion and the personal rights of clients and target persons, all names and locations in this case report have been altered beyond recognition.

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