10 Crimes That Were Solved by Social Media

Wed, 19 Jun 2024 04:55:33 +0000

Police and detectives are bogged down with so many crimes on a daily basis, it’s impossible to solve every case. Thankfully, loads of people on the internet have plenty of time on their hands. Social media can give key evidence in a case that would have been much more difficult to find in the past. Amateur websleuths have come together to solve the following 10 crimes.

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Source/Further reading:

https://www.theguardian.com/us....-news/2015/dec/11/gr
https://youtu.be/NzdnayMj_3g
https://youtu.be/nwgnJM8HVFY
https://www.motherjones.com/po....litics/2013/04/reddi
http://www.bbc.com/future/stor....y/20140501-meet-the-
http://abcnews.go.com/US/polic....e-investigate-reddit
http://thetandd.com/news/local..../teen-pleads-guilty-
https://www.ohio.com/akron/new....s/local/curious-inte
https://www.usatoday.com/story..../news/nation/2015/02
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/17/sports/high-school-football-rape-case-unfolds-online-and-divides-steubenville-ohio.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2&
https://www.salon.com/2013/04/....25/facebook_helps_so
https://commons.wikimedia.org/....wiki/File:Detective-
https://get.pxhere.com/photo/c....omputer-hand-ipad-te
https://www.flickr.com/photos/....143601516@N03/281882
https://vignette.wikia.nocooki....e.net/unsolvedmyster
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/bzQ_MDriKok/hqdefault.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzdnayMj_3g
https://commons.wikimedia.org/....wiki/File:Websleuths
https://listverse.com/wp-conte....nt/uploads/2017/03/1
http://assets.nydailynews.com/....polopoly_fs/1.324913
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwgnJM8HVFY