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> - Investigators found various searches for homemade poisons, including antifreeze, on the defendant's laptop > Some jury members said the laptop evidence was
by eplanit 10y ago
> - Investigators found various searches for homemade poisons, including antifreeze, on the defendant's laptop
> Some jury members said the laptop evidence was what convinced them.
It's almost funny how often this is the Achilles's heel of murderers. In so many "Forensic Files" episodes the culprits' browser/search history is what nails them.
- jcranmer 10y agoApparently, the report that Casey Jones did 84 searches for chloroform was based on a misreading of the mork file format (see https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/07/mork-keeps-on-giving-when-the-database-worms-eat-into-your-murder-trial/ https://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/07/mork-keeps-on-giving-when-t..., although you'll want to type that out yourself rather than click the link). The competence of people doing this sort of discovery is not unquestionable.