The famous fruit-chat quiz!
Mattb
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by Mattb Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:30 pm
Did he get busted by fingerprinting or DNA evidence from something he left on the things he sent? Hair, sweat etc?
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Cardinal Sin
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by Cardinal Sin Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:42 pm
Nope. It was actually as a result of his taunts to the polis.
Weyland
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by Weyland Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:50 pm
Didn't spoof his return email address?
Cardinal Sin
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by Cardinal Sin Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:05 pm
He didn't send it via email, but you're on the right tracks.
Mattb
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by Mattb Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:08 pm
Police traced his phonecall to get his location?
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by Istenem Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:09 pm
did he scrawl a picture of himself?
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Cardinal Sin
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by Cardinal Sin Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:14 pm
He didn't email his taunts, but he did send them as an electonic letter.
Mattb
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by Mattb Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:41 pm
IP tracking?
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Weyland
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by Weyland Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:19 pm
Fax?
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by Istenem Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:23 pm
did he hav e a gammy typewriter whic h gave him away?
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Terry Tibbs
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by Terry Tibbs Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:41 pm
something to do with paying by credit card?!
Cardinal Sin
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by Cardinal Sin Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:11 pm
Nope. None of the above!
Weyland
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by Weyland Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:12 pm
Aha, did Word automatically put his name into the doc properties?
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by Cardinal Sin Thu Jan 04, 2007 12:11 am
Close. He was actually sending the letter from his local church. He wrote it in MS Word, then saved it on a disk and sent it to the police. Little did he realise , but his username and name of the church were in the metadata. A schoolchild could have found this information - and he was arrested not long later.
Having evaded capture for 20 years, he had sent a postcard to the cops asking if he could be traced by sending in a disk. They took out a newspaper advert and said no, so he went ahead with it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Rader
Over to you Weyland...
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by Weyland Thu Jan 04, 2007 10:06 am
Could he not fit all his gloating on the postcard?
Okay, what is Issac Asimov's famous "Triumph of science over religion"?
