[Blueflag]

The ‘locals’ can get a subpoena and the data are readily available from the cell or landline carrier.

There is no ‘tracing’ a call like the movies. The ‘sender’ is known to the network before the call ever completes.

It’s much like IP packets, but no fancy movie-magic hopping around routers crap. The cell network has to validate you to get on the network, knows your location, checks you with a central database, records those data, looks at where you want to terminate the call, and hands off the the endpoint or the next network in the chain.

*IF* this was a voice call, the calling phone can be located. It’s not like the movies, even with so-called burner phones.

[Alas Babylon!]

Someone in another thread says the perp(s) were using a burner phone.

I can go to Walmart right now, buy a burner phone and a 10$ prepaid sim, pay with cash, and then start it all up and make the call 10 minutes later 5 miles down the road.

After the call, put the phone and all packaging/paper in the Walmart bag with a brick and throw it off a bridge into a river.

[Political Junkie Too]

NordVPN has a double hop feature that bounces your encrypted traffic through two different servers before going to the desired IP address.

-PJ

[higgmeister]

There is no ‘tracing’ a call like the movies. The ‘sender’ is known to the network before the call ever completes.

We still called that a trace even if it was only keyclicks on the keyboard at the digital switch.

[MayflowerMadam]

“The ‘locals’ can get a subpoena and the data are readily available from the cell or landline carrier.”

Normally, yes. But FBI, DOJ, etc., have the ability to screw around with phone numbers so what shows up in a data dump might not be the true number.

And if the calls truly were initiated by TPTB, which they probably were, there’s no way local LEO will get correct info.

They are trying to kill her; no doubt about it.