Less than 24 hours after the MBTA Transit Police posted surveillance photos of a man suspected of participating in a sex act on the State Street station platform of the Orange Line, they announced an arrest in the case. On May 21, 2015 we posted images of a person of interest relative to an Open…
As I predicted in my blog post yesterday, the MBTA Transit Police wasted no time canvassing a number of surveillance cameras in and around the area of the State Street station where the well-publicized act of public sex occurred. Thanks in part to the blowee‘s distinctive attire and haircut, they were able to find four…
A friend who works in the public insurance field alerted me to the sad news of the suicide death of a 12-year-old girl named Alyssa Morgan, a student at Southeast Polk Junior High School in Des Moines, Iowa. On April 3, Morgan hanged herself in her family’s garage after writing a short note on yellow…
Some digital investigations are easier than others. Roughly 22 minutes after 23-year-old Dominyk Antonio Alfonseca robbed a bank in the Town Center of Virginia Beach, police arrested him. They were aided, no doubt, by the fact that Alfonseca used some of his getaway time to post a video of the robbery and a photo of…
An Indiana University staff person was fired from his job as the assistant director for student conduct in the Office of Student Ethics (insert irony-laced joke here). The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) alerted the Bloomington Police Department (BPD) that it had received a tip from Gmail that a possible image of…
Brad Robbert, a former adjunct assistant rofessor of Theater at Tulane University, will go on trial August 3 in Orleans Parish Criminal District on 50 counts that he possessed child pornography and 1 count of possession with intent to distribute. According to his online biography, Robbert also served as operations director for the Tulane University…
The world’s leading for-profit geneaology company, Ancestry.com, was founded in Provo, Utah in 1983. Thirteen years later, an 18-year-old woman named Angie Dodge was sexually assaulted and murdered in Idaho Falls, Idaho. Nearly two decades after her death, a twisting set of circumstances and rapidly-evolving technology have linked those two events in ways that have…
As I discussed in detail in Cybertraps for the Young, one of the most disturbing aspects of the digital revolution is that it has empowered children to commit crimes that once were exclusively the domain of adults. There is no better example than the fact that every single day, thousands of children around the globe…
The Eleventh Circuit Federal Court of Appeals, which encompasses the states of Florida, Georgia, and Alabama, ruled Monday that police do not need to get a search warrant in order to obtain cell phone tower data from cellular providers during a criminal investigation. The 9-2 en banc decision in United States v. Davis overturned an…
2014-08-28 AAA* Approach to Financial Forensics: Anticipation, Acquisition, Analysis from Frederick Lane A breakout sessin delivered to the 2014 International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators in Phoenix, Arizona on August 28, 2014. If you are interested in discussing a presentation or professional development program for your organization on this topic, please contact me for information…
