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US marshals lure fugitive killer of Texas cyclist out of hiding with yoga ad
- toomuchtodo 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Moriah_Wilson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Moriah_Wilson
- laborcontract 3y agoThis case reminds me of how Jeffrey Gundlach caught his art thief. Among the works stolen from him was a piece by his grandmother. They caught the thief by working with Google to find the lone query for his grandmother's name.
- Solvency 3y agoHuh? By calling Google's 1-800 number? How does one "work" with Google for their own investigatory needs?
- nadermx 3y agoProbably via police inquery? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-location-tracking-police.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/13/us/google-loc...
- duxup 3y agoA lot of companies are very responsive to police inquires. Unfortunately, it is a pretty informal systems and people with minimal effort have found that just sending the right looking email will yield you results.
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- deadbabe 3y agoWhy kill someone out of jealousy that had nothing to do with you and your boyfriends relationship?
- voisin 3y agoMentally unhinged
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- hipadev23 3y ago> that has nothing to do with Based on the evidence made public [1], the boyfriend was alternating romantic relationships between the two women. [1] https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/us/mo-wilson-death-suspect-search-tuesday/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/24/us/mo-wilson-death-suspect-se...
- anon-sre-srm 3y agoAlso known as nonexclusive dating prior to a committed relationship.
- networkchad 3y ago[dead]
- RajT88 3y agoThat's the impression the original article gives for sure, without coming out and saying it.
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- seanhunter 3y agoGood job to the investigators catching her. It worth remembering cases like this when you see people claiming that it would be easy to drop off the grid or perform various actions anonymously. "Just use a tor proxy/burner phone/prepaid credit card/monero" etc. This is an extreme example, but she left the country, and even had plastic surgery but eventually was still caught because people need to interact with the normal economy to earn money and live. She took the bait of a yoga instructor job because she was presumably looking for "side-hustles" so as not to need to prove identity and raise suspicion but maintaining operational security over a long period of time is very difficult. If an investigator is determined enough eventually the target will inevitably slip up and be found out. To paraphrase the infamous IRA statement after the Brighton bombing, the investigator only has to be lucky once vs the target has to be lucky always[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_hotel_bombing
- pcthrowaway 3y agoIt might not be that hard if you're not wanted for murder. David Wolfgang Hawke aka The Spam Nazi aka Jesse James managed to live in BC, Canada as a wanted man undetected by law enforcement for the remainder of his days, until he was found shot to death in 2017 (possibly related to his secret crypto fortune, but that's pure conjecture at this point)
- plasticchris 3y agoWhitey Bulger was wanted for that and worse. He lived in Santa Monica for years.
- throwup238 3y ago> If an investigator is determined enough eventually the target will inevitably slip up and be found out. According to [1] she was only a fugitive for 43 days until they caught her in Costa Rice which is hardly an extreme example. They knew which country she was in within weeks of her escape so she wasn't a criminal mastermind. This is just PR fluff for the US Marshals. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Moriah_Wilson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Moriah_Wilson
- purplezooey 3y agoThere was a good show on this recently, 20/20 maybe?
- gumby 3y agoThis is clever sleuthery, but I had thought from the headline it would be about a motorist who hit a cyclist. TBH that would have been more satisfying but such events are almost never prosecuted.
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- k310 3y agoTime enough for yoga at last. 90 years.
- anon-sre-srm 3y agoThere are unusual aspects to these events: - Women generally don't murder people - Women don't typically murder people violently - Fleeing to a locale where many people look similar to them was crafty - Changing one's appearance surgically (although the most effective way to change appearance is to alter the nose and cheek structure around the nose) - She's no chess player having failed to think it through and ran out of money It's also unsurprising that it happened in Austin because it draws a sort of reckless, narcissistic entitlement.