Criminals who were caught with the help of the online community.
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The Internet is truly one of the most amazing innovations of our society today. From social media, and engaging in the world of information and learning. There isn’t anything that you can do on the Internet that remains a secret these days. With the government tracking online activity, and fellow community members able to conduct research on others, it can be hard to do something online and expect to get away with it, especially these days. This includes crime. The people who are breaking the law and are of immoral character seem to suffer under the sin of vanity, meaning that they can’t stay quiet about their crimes. Once their bragging is posted online, millions of people are able to track the perpetrator and report it to police. Sometimes, the best detectives are regular people who hang out behind the computer screen.
Celia Blay solved a case after she was browsing the Internet and found a suicide newsgroup. There, she discovered that there were plans for a mass suicide pact. Blay tried to report the pact to police, but they showed little interest in the case, so she did her own investigation and digging. She befriended and started looking into a suspicious user by the name of “Li Dao”, who claimed to be a young woman with suicidal tendencies. However, Blay discovered that Li Dao was actually a middle aged man by the name of William Melchert-Dinkel, who was convicted of assisting suicides after showing numerous people how to hang themselves via webcam. William’s desires of playing God with the lives of people were over thanks to Celia Blay.
Of course, if there is any group that has made solving crimes via Internet a true art form, it is the hacktivist group, “Anonymous”. After declaring war on pedophiles and online predators in 2011, Anonymous have brought down over 41 pedophile websites and reported over 1,500 names of predators to the FBI for further investigation. Anonymous is still going strong to this day, making the Internet a safer place thanks to their vigilante techniques.
Social media has also had a big hand in solving crimes. After a hate crime against a gay couple occurred, media outlets released the surveillance footage, hoping that the public could help police identify the people in the video. Luckily, Twitter users rose to the occasion and began retweeting the video and sharing it all over the Internet. Eventually, someone was able to identify the people in the video after they checked into the location on Facebook, and they were arrested and brought to justice.
Then we have crooks that accidentally report themselves. For example, Randy Schaefer discovered that his truck was broken into, and $5,000 cash and his iPad were stolen. Randy was going to try to move on from the incident, until he noticed that the robbers were recording videos and taking pictures with the iPad, unaware that it was being uploaded to Randy’s iCloud account. The police eventually caught up with the crooks and they were arrested.
For more crimes that the Internet solved, check out the rest of this video, and be ready to face palm yourself, as some of the perpetrators in this video surely did some terrible and stupid things that pretty much gave themselves away.
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CHATROOM SUICIDE
HACKING AGAINST PEDOPHILES
“LIKE” FOR A HITMAN
LOOK TO THE CLOUD
ONLINE MANHUNT
TWITTER VS. HATE CRIME
LIBRARY VANDAL
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