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Online network spawns new breed of detectives
The Boston Globe ^
| February 8, 2004
| Kathleen Burge
Posted on 02/08/2004 5:30:32 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:11:32 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The man was found wrapped in a tarp, floating gently in the Sudbury River. His killing was a mystery, and so was his identity. There was just one clue: the letters "PK" tattooed on his right shoulder.
For nearly a year, the Framingham case grew colder and colder. Then last spring, Bobby Lingoes happened across a description of the dead man and his tattoo. Lingoes posted the details on the Doe Network, a website for volunteers like him who search for missing people in their spare time.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: clues; crime; detectives; internet; lawenforcement; mystery
To: Cincinatus' Wife
Great article. Thanks for posting it. As information flows the criminal mind has nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. The criminal is the destroyer of freedom...of life. Our best days are ahead of us, as information flows.
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posted on
02/08/2004 5:43:47 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: Cincinatus' Wife
What an interesting article.
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posted on
02/08/2004 5:47:34 AM PST
by
texasflower
(in the event of the rapture.......the Bush White House will be unmanned)
To: PGalt
I am astounded that there is not a national data base of missing persons. Technically, it would not be difficult to splice together a database with pictures.
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posted on
02/08/2004 5:55:32 AM PST
by
Citizen Tom Paine
(They will rise up and call you blessed.)
To: Citizen Tom Paine
Perhaps the reason is because the police "sometimes annoyed, unwilling to have civilians working on their cases."
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