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'How to commit the Perfect Murder' - hmm... I'll Search Google

Search-Engines-Web.com [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, June 13, 2007
17 years ago7,377 views


   A fertility nurse, and former H.S. honor student was convicted of poisoning and shooting and dismembering her husband based partly using the Google Searches on her computer...

"How to Commit the Perfect Murder", and "pesticides as poison"

(There are many supporters who insist she is innocent. And she indicates she suffered years of abuse.)

But guilty or innocent, this is another example in several of how Prosecutors are now searching hard drives for forensic evidence and using it in court to sway juries.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/223809/google_searches_lead_to_guilty_verdict.html

hmmm ... what's on YOUR hard drives?!

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

So easy to plant these things though... luring someone on a site with an iframe that performs a Google search, for instance, is enough (not to mention going to an unlocked computer, which is a bit harder).

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

But the chances of someone planting a search history like that on a PC which is to be used by a future murder suspect is slim. Not impossible, admittedly, but pretty unlikely I think.

Unless they've been setup, of course...

Ionut Alex. Chitu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Or just send him/her a mail that contains a link to a Google search (maybe using a redirect, so he/she can't see the destination before clicking).

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

> But the chances of someone planting a search history
> like that on a PC which is to be used by a future murder
> suspect is slim.

I didn't read the article, but what I meant was that someone plants this search in advance and on purpose to frame someone else, to then commit a murder and have an alibi/ have someone else be the suspect. I guess I saw too much Columbo!

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-09-19-n79.html
In fact nothing new ^^

Zim [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

Interesting article... Who stores that kind of information in the computer?! I've just erased my Google Calendar schedule of murders, just in case :P

definite murderer [PersonRank 0]

17 years ago #

you guys have never commited a murder so you don't know what it's like to be me 'P

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

So, tell us what it's like to be you. In particular, how do you manage your Google search history?

JohnMu [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

No, tell us how you manage your ISP's URL-access database? ;-) Google is nothing compared to the average ISP.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

The fearless of you may click on this proof of concept to see how easy it is to plant searches in your web history:

http://tinyurl.com/38qacn

Search-Engines-Web.com [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

http://www.gazette.com/articles/safes_24620___article.html/ackerman_google.html

In the middle of a warehouse buglary but do not know how to open that darn safe...

Hey, just search Google – businesses have computers in the office, don't they?

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