In addition to “Googling” your name, you can now “Google” your locations on Google Maps. Google Maps now offers its users a minute-by-minute personal timeline of their locations that lets people see exactly where they have been at the street level. However, the new feature is only available to users who have agreed to share […]
Since 1984, forensic artists at the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children have created almost 6,000 age-progression images of missing children. Over 1,300 of those missing children have been found with the help of these “aged” images. The center currently employs four forensic artists who work to update the photos of missing children every […]
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You can’t fix stupid, but you can certainly livestream it. It is funny how new technology can take dumb criminals and make them even dumber. From the moment that Twitter announced their live-streaming app, Periscope, we knew it wouldn’t be long before some vain person would broadcast their own criminal behavior for everyone to see. […]
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On March 25, 1975, sisters Sheila Lyon ( age 12 ) and Katherine Lyon ( age 10 ) disappeared from a shopping mall in Wheaton, Maryland. Their missing persons case went unsolved for 40 years and was classified as a cold case. However, a convicted child sex offender by the name of Lloyd Lee Welch, […]
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On June 18, 2015, the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that satellite images from Google Earth can be allowed as evidence in federal criminal cases. A three-judge court panel ruled that map images from Google Earth and similar computer-generated content can be used as evidence in criminal cases since such content is not […]
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