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Google Maps Now Shows Your Location History

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Skipease

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 […]

Age-Progression Photos Help Find Missing Persons

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Skipease

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 […]

Sex Offender Charged In 40-Year-Old Missing Persons Case

Posted on July 17, 2015 by Skipease

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, […]

U.S. Court Allows Google Earth Image As Evidence

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Skipease

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 […]