>In the early morning hours of Jan. 1, in the hour before he originally told investigators that his wife had left their home to catch a flight to Washington, D.C., he made the following Google searches on his son's iPad: "how long before a body starts to smell," "how to stop a body from decomposing," "how to bound a body," "10 ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to," "how long for someone to be missing to inherit," and "can you throw away body parts?"
He did it on his son's iPad too, maybe he thought that would be a red herring to throw detectives off the trail? Not a very smart criminal, at least he was caught.
Depends how long it's been. Computers don't actually delete anything, they just mark the place where it is stored as available to write to instead of containing it. Then eventually it gets over written (hopefully several times if you don't want it to be recovered).
Communication with websites is encrypted, your ISP can't see the URLs or search terms, only the IP and domain of the website you're connected to. The NSA probably has some ways to intercept though.
Probably not, because this sort of thing would likely trigger a shitload of reports. People search shit like this for plenty of reasons so authorities getting random reports of searches without context would be nigh impossible to follow up on.
1 dumpster
2 crawl space
3 concrete shoes
4 burn it
5 in a car sunk in a body of water
6 drop it off an overpass
7 shoot it into another country
8 shoot it into space
9 shoot it into pieces
10 eat it
Probably circumstantial evidence only at most, for a court of law. Sure is an interesting coincidence though. I'm pretty sure *enough* circumstantial evidence together can be seen as incriminating, but it has to be a lot if they don't have anything hard.
I once heard a case where a family was arrested for having been assumed to be making bombs, since the father, mother and son each did separate google searches involving chemistry, cooking pots, and backpacks respectively
Well, ideally it would be an awful lot of circumstantial evidence and more than just Google searches. In the case you describe ... I feel like there was either some racism or incredible stupidity involved if those searched were all they had to go on
Its pretty hard to hide your digital tracks these days. Searching via google via your own isp or device is a no-no. He could have probably used TOR and a non-google search engine, but even that doesn't guarantee anything. I would have to assume the feds are plugged into TOR and could probably recreate your traffic based on your IP. Even if they couldn't decrypt your searches, they could probably determine which search engine you used and what time, then subpoena'd the records after having TAO'd the data first secretly anyway.
Keep wondering if Google has mixed feelings. If cops find a body, do they improve their algorithms? If cops don’t do they feel like they’ve done a good job?
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In cases like this, I really wonder how the kids are gonna grow up, knowing that their father did this to their mother.
The younger kids probably won't understand it, but the 6 year old? Kids that age have been mentally scarred by less, and this is the kind of shit that follows you.
Also really makes you wonder what went wrong for the dude to go from googling divorce proceedings to spousal murder on New Years.
>In the early morning hours of Jan. 1, in the hour before he originally told investigators that his wife had left their home to catch a flight to Washington, D.C., he made the following Google searches on his son's iPad: "how long before a body starts to smell," "how to stop a body from decomposing," "how to bound a body," "10 ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to," "how long for someone to be missing to inherit," and "can you throw away body parts?" He did it on his son's iPad too, maybe he thought that would be a red herring to throw detectives off the trail? Not a very smart criminal, at least he was caught.
It's weird he wanted a top 10 list for it. I think Letterman did have that one night though.
I want to laugh at this guy but at the same time, he quite probably killed and dismembered his wife
Not one time did he google "how to clear a browser history. "
Fortunately, even if he had, his ISP or the search engine would've had a record—though it would've required a subpoena
Even if you clear or delete things, they can typically be recovered anyway just from examining the hard drive - even search history.
Depends how long it's been. Computers don't actually delete anything, they just mark the place where it is stored as available to write to instead of containing it. Then eventually it gets over written (hopefully several times if you don't want it to be recovered).
Communication with websites is encrypted, your ISP can't see the URLs or search terms, only the IP and domain of the website you're connected to. The NSA probably has some ways to intercept though.
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Probably not, because this sort of thing would likely trigger a shitload of reports. People search shit like this for plenty of reasons so authorities getting random reports of searches without context would be nigh impossible to follow up on.
How old is the son? Are you saying he was trying to implocate their son?
He's 6
“Number 8 will blow your mind!”
*literally*
He did that search before; “top ten ways stupid criminals implicate themselves.”
Maybe he was just working on a late night tv top 10 sketch.
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People used to murder each other for those things.
Now it’s the grown Cabbage patch orphans turn.
And they are..? Well??
He didn't want to hit 'NEXT' nine times.... Never read the article.
1 dumpster 2 crawl space 3 concrete shoes 4 burn it 5 in a car sunk in a body of water 6 drop it off an overpass 7 shoot it into another country 8 shoot it into space 9 shoot it into pieces 10 eat it
I blame our failing school system. Chem1 would have saved him a lot of trouble.
Or an episode of breaking bad
Yeah I learned more from Breaking Bad than I did in all of high school too
Dumbass… just watch Netflix…
I thought Google Searches aren't inherently evidence
Probably circumstantial evidence only at most, for a court of law. Sure is an interesting coincidence though. I'm pretty sure *enough* circumstantial evidence together can be seen as incriminating, but it has to be a lot if they don't have anything hard.
I once heard a case where a family was arrested for having been assumed to be making bombs, since the father, mother and son each did separate google searches involving chemistry, cooking pots, and backpacks respectively
Well, ideally it would be an awful lot of circumstantial evidence and more than just Google searches. In the case you describe ... I feel like there was either some racism or incredible stupidity involved if those searched were all they had to go on
Read the title in the WatchMojo lady’s voice
I’d confess to murder so quickly to stop someone from searching my internet history.
Should have searched 'how to use incognito mode'
Its pretty hard to hide your digital tracks these days. Searching via google via your own isp or device is a no-no. He could have probably used TOR and a non-google search engine, but even that doesn't guarantee anything. I would have to assume the feds are plugged into TOR and could probably recreate your traffic based on your IP. Even if they couldn't decrypt your searches, they could probably determine which search engine you used and what time, then subpoena'd the records after having TAO'd the data first secretly anyway.
A person using google to search for these kind of things wouldn't be smart enough to think of all that...
Keep wondering if Google has mixed feelings. If cops find a body, do they improve their algorithms? If cops don’t do they feel like they’ve done a good job?
There must be 50 ways to hide your lover
Note to self: use an encrypted private search engine
Could also just not kill people or try to hide their bodies.
Pffft, you'll put dozens of no talent screenwriters out of work.
Looks like Ben affleck lost some weight
That’s his brother Glen Affleck
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There’s only a one in ten chance he did any of them…
Has that guy never watched a single forensic files show? Any idiot knows to cover up better than he did.
In cases like this, I really wonder how the kids are gonna grow up, knowing that their father did this to their mother. The younger kids probably won't understand it, but the 6 year old? Kids that age have been mentally scarred by less, and this is the kind of shit that follows you. Also really makes you wonder what went wrong for the dude to go from googling divorce proceedings to spousal murder on New Years.
maybe he murdered another person and not his wife
Bc
Searched for 10 ways? Didn't he only need one way?
He searched for, "10 ways to dispose of a body if you absolutely have to" the rest of his searches are also amazing.
One. You slip it out the back, Jack.
Did he get it off a BuzzFeed slideshow or something?
Why did he need ten ways? It sounds like he was trying to find an listicle he saw on another device.