Posted: 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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Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:42 pm
Nope. It was actually as a result of his taunts to the polis.
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 1:50 pm
Didn't spoof his return email address?
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:05 pm
He didn't send it via email, but you're on the right tracks.
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:08 pm
Police traced his phonecall to get his location?
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:09 pm
did he scrawl a picture of himself?
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:14 pm
He didn't email his taunts, but he did send them as an electonic letter.
So how did he get caught?
So how did he get caught?
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 2:41 pm
IP tracking?
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:19 pm
Fax?
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:23 pm
did he have a gammy typewriter which gave him away?
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 3:41 pm
something to do with paying by credit card?!
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 6:11 pm
Nope. None of the above!
Big clue. He sent in a word document on floppy disk...
Big clue. He sent in a word document on floppy disk...
Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2007 11:12 pm
Aha, did Word automatically put his name into the doc properties?
Posted: 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...
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...
Posted: 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"?
Okay, what is Issac Asimov's famous "Triumph of science over religion"?