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Man Jailed After Facebooking a Store Burglary

By Dawn in burglary, Crime, Investigations, MSI Detective Services, robbery, Stolen Property, Theft Investigations at December 29th, 2011 | No comments

 

 

 

 

 

I am always shocked at how much personal information people are willing to share on their social sites, but seriously, this is definitely a case of TMI (too much information).

An 18-year-old Pittsburgh man is accused of burglarizing a market with three teens, then posting pictures on his Facebook page showing the suspects posing with some of the loot.

Isaiah Cutler has been in jail since last Friday for the Dec. 12th burglary.

Police say 17-year old Cutler and two 14-year-olds stole more than $8,000 worth of cash, cigarettes, candy, and checks from the business. About an hour later, police say, Cutler posted pictures of the teens posing with the loot on his page on the social networking site.

Well, I guess they’re just stupid kids,” Detective Valerie Milie said Monday. “They thought they could put (the pictures) out there for their friends who friended them on Facebook to see. But the one kid had 200 friends, but not only were they friends, some of them were relatives who became concerned and called police.”

Police were already tracking down the teens based on the Facebook photos and the surveillance video from the store by the time the parents determined what happened, Milie said.

The younger suspects have been charged in juvenile court and have been released to their parents.

Cutler faced a preliminary hearing yesterday on charges of theft, burglary and conspiracy.

Sources: MSNBC, CBS News

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Missing Man Presumed to Have Been Victim of John Wayne Gacy

By Dawn in Chicago, Investigations, Missing Persons Investigations, MSI Detective Services at December 22nd, 2011 | No comments

 

 

 

 

What began as an attempt by investigators to identify eight unknown Gacy victims who were recently exhumed ended with locating a missing man and his reunification with his family.

Ted Szal ran out on his family 35 years ago after the turmoil of a divorce and a bitter family feud. Szal was 24 when he parked his car at Chicago’s O’Hare airport in 1977, threw his keys down a sewer grate and got on a plane to Colorado Springs.

He intended to never look back, Szal said. But it wasn’t that easy. Holidays and birthdays were tough, and his wife pleaded with him to reconnect, he said, but he was too stubborn to make the phone call.

“I threw the keys away and I threw my life away 35 years ago,” Szal said. “I missed them a lot, course I did. But I’m also stubborn. I made up my mind,” he said.

Szal “wandered around the mountains for a while” in 1977. Unable to find work and low on money, he moved to California before migrating to Oregon to help build a new shopping mall in Springfield.

Szal’s older sister contacted the Cook County sheriff’s office in October when authorities asked for tips that might help them identify eight of Gacy’s victims. The sheriff’s office issued a public plea for families of young men who disappeared in the 1970s to submit DNA samples for comparison with the victim’s remains. Read the full article »

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Piers Morgan Accused of Knowledge of Phone Hacking at Daily Mirror

By Dawn in Celebrity, Debugging - Electronic Countermeasures, eavesdropping, Hacking, invasion of privacy, MSI Detective Services, Private Investigator, testimony, witness statement at December 21st, 2011 | No comments

 

 

 

 

 

 

It appears that Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World paper is not the only publication being accused of phone hacking. Now, Piers Morgan, former Editor of the Daily Mirror, is in the hot seat for the same offense.

Phone hacking was widespread at the Daily Mirror newspaper when Piers Morgan was editor of the paper, a former employee testified Wednesday, stopping just short of saying Morgan definitely knew about it.

James Hipwell said that he “cannot prove” that Morgan knew about illegal eavesdropping, but that it was “very unlikely he did not know what was going on.”

Phone hacking “happened every day” at the Mirror’s show business desk in late 1999, Hipwell told the Leveson Inquiry, a wide-ranging government-backed investigation of British press ethics and practices.

The Leveson Inquiry was prompted by public and political outrage at the revelation that another tabloid, Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World, hacked into the phone of a missing teenage girl who later turned out to have been murdered.

Morgan, who now hosts the CNN talk show “Piers Morgan Tonight,” testified the previous day that he did not believe phone hacking had taken place when he was editor of the tabloid.

Speaking by video link, Morgan tenaciously defended himself against accusations that he knew more about phone hacking than he has admitted in the past.

Piers was questioned about a story based on a voice message Paul McCartney left for his then-wife Mills, trying to make up after a quarrel and singing to her. Morgan refused to say who played the message for him or where, but admitted that he believed it was a voice mail. Read the full article »

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Rupert Murdoch: Ex-News of the World Private Investigator Arrested

By Dawn in Debugging - Electronic Countermeasures, eavesdropping, Hacking, harassment, invasion of privacy, Investigations, MSI Detective Services, Police Records, Private Investigator at December 12th, 2011 | No comments

Rupert Murdoch’s defunct News of the World tabloid is back in the news again with another scandal. This time, British police arrested a private investigator last week who once worked for the paper.

This is the 18th suspect to be detained as part of the police’s investigation into phone hacking carried out by the paper, which Murdoch shut down in July.

The latest suspect has been identified as Glenn Mulcaire. London’s Metropolitan Police said the 41-year-old man was being held on suspicion of conspiring to intercept voice mail messages and perverting the course of justice. Mulcaire was previously jailed for hacking into the voicemail messages of royal staff while working for the News of the World.

Thus far, only two people have been jailed for phone hacking — Mulcaire and News of the World reporter Clive Goodman, both in 2007.

5,795 potential phone-hacking victims have been identified by London police in material collected from Mulcaire. More than a dozen News of the World journalists, including former editor Andy Coulson, have been arrested in the fiasco.

This latest scandal comes on the heels of last month’s shocking story about how The News of the World hired a specialist private investigator to run covert surveillance on two of the lawyers representing phone-hacking victims as part of an operation to put pressure on them to stop their work.

A CNN report stated that Rupert Murdoch is operating like a ‘Mafia boss.’ As if the initial discovery about the “phone hacking victims” wasn’t shocking enough, Murdoch then takes the scandal to a new level by hiring someone to spy on the lawyers of the victims and try to intimidate them. Read the full article »

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