William C. Dear (August 1, 1937 – July 5, 2024) was an American private investigator.
His notable cases included the original "steam tunnel incident" involving James Dallas Egbert III, the murder of millionaire businessman Dean Milo in 1980, the exhumation of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1981 and the Glen Courson murder case in 1986.
Television work included being an investigator on Alien Autopsy, a 1995 Fox Television program about an autopsy supposedly carried out on an extraterrestrial being.
Dear was later featured in the 2000 BBC Documentary OJ: The Untold Story.
[3] According to Dear's webpage, he has also written a fictional book called Dead Men Don't Lie.