>>They’d have to be pretty dumb to use a traceable address. That would be like calling from their own phone.<<
Most criminals are pretty dumb. It’s one of the reasons they do what they do. I’d have to knock off a liquor store and a couple of 7-11’s PER DAY to make what I make at my real job.
Cops count on them bragging to friends etc. to catch most petty criminals. It works really well. They caught one murder suspect at a Mercer Island gas station on his way out of town because he bragged to people what he was doing. It is not unusual. Rather, it is the norm.
I guess the smart ones just don’t get caught.