TMBS E351: Logan Clarke – Director of Global Pursuit Investigations

Bio ~ Logan Clarke 

Private Investigator

 Logan Clarke has spent over 40 years in Government and Private Investigations and is considered one of the top investigators in the world today. He has been profiled in a BBC documentary, 5 books, Newsweek Magazine, the cover of American Way magazine, Crime Watch Daily, Dateline and dozens of other publications and TV shows around the globe.  

 Mr. Clarke and his team have investigated over 20,000 cases from MURDER to the “Mann Act”… they have rescued over 350 kidnap and runaway victims from around the world, many of whom were forced into HUMAN TRAFFICKING, not only in Asia, Africa, The Middle East and Europe, but right here in the United States… in towns that are as “American as apple pie.” 

 Mr. Clarke is a pioneer in fighting Elder Abuse and Parental Kidnapping, where the laws are treated as ‘grey’ at best and law enforcement rarely steps in. His 2014 case for the family of legendary DJ Casey Kasem has been covered in the press across the world. Mr. Clarke has been used as an expert consultant on such shows as; 60 minutes, 48 hrs, 20/20, KABC Radio and many others. 

 His rescue from deep inland Mexico of the James boys, kidnapped from Austin, Texas was covered by KXAN (NBC) news in Austin for 6 months and the story was awarded the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award in 2013. Khartoum, Sudan was one of the most challenging child rescue/extractions of Logan’s career. Locating and returning a four-year old German girl to her mother in Germany. 

 As an undercover agent, Logan has infiltrated organized crime groups, motorcycle gangs, Fortune 500 companies and even gotten himself ‘hired’ to kill his own client. He now trains and directs major undercover operations around the world for numerous agencies. Clarke has been hired by the governments of The Philippines, USA, UAE, Sweden, and Germany. 

Mr. Clarke is a former Governor of the California Assoc. of Licensed Investigators, (the largest such association in the world). He is also a member of the World Assoc. of Detectives and the co-founder of the INTERNATIONAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING TASK FORCE. He was awarded the INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATOR OF THE YEAR in Dublin Ireland in 1997. 

 According to a four-year international study by the BBC and Grafton Books, which produced four one-hour documentaries, and a hardcover book called ‘Watching the Detectives” …  ‘Logan Clarke is one of the top five Investigators in the world working today”. 

 Newsweek Magazine has reported on cases of Mr. Clarke and stated in an article featuring him, that ‘If Humphrey Bogart were alive today…he would be playing Logan Clarke.” 

Mr. Clarke’s life story has been turned into a feature film, written by Oscar nominated writers of THE FIGHTER starring Mark Wahlberg & Christian Bale, PATRIOTS DAY (Mark Wahlberg), THE OUTPOST, and just released 2024, Jerry Bruckheimer’s THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANY WARFARE Directed by Guy Ritchie. Numerous other documentaries have been made about Mr. Clarke. Mr. Clarke also has volumes of experience as a Technical Advisor for films and television such as the TV series SIMON & SIMON, which he advised for three years. Clarke was under contract to several studios in the 1980’s.