"Many users are not aware of the tracks that are left behind when they surf the Web and visit various sites," said David Sobel, general counsel of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington. In fact, it is that lack of awareness - coupled with the easy use of technology by law enforcement and the sheer abundance of information on the Web - that troubles civil libertarians. It appeared that Travis had been unaware of the ease with which Internet use can be traced. On June 17, without ever admitting guilt, Travis hanged himself in jail. Police think he may have killed 10 or more. He was charged with two counts of kidnapping in federal court documents that also linked him to seven murders overall.
That was the groundwork for surveillance and, on June 7, an arrest and search warrant that authorities said helped solidify the case with DNA and tire tread evidence linking Travis, a 36-year-old waiter, to some of the killings. The FBI went back to Microsoft Network later the same day to identify the customer. The next day, on June 4, WorldCom's Internet division, UUnet, identified the user the evening of May 20 as MSN/maurytravis, Jimenez said. The question wasn't just who used 65.227.106.78, but who used it at the time in question. WorldCom assigns a temporary IP address to each customer for each Internet session. To translate the IP number, the FBI turned to WorldCom Inc., which provides local telephone numbers to connect Internet services to their dial-up customers. Just an address that is meaningless to most people: It was the Internet Protocol address of 65.227.106.78. The company said that on May 20, the computer had "zoomed in on the map of the West Alton, Missouri, area approximately 10 times in a chronological order to end with an exact match of the map" sent to the Post-Dispatch, Jimenez said in the affidavit.īut Microsoft could provide no name. On June 3, Microsoft reported back that only one computer had done it. So the FBI, using a subpoena, requested records of any maps of West Alton made between May 18, the date of the newspaper story that spurred the letter, and May 21, the postmark on the envelope. On May 30, Expedia told Jimenez that Microsoft, based in Redmond, Wash., provides the information for its map site. Detectives found an apparent match on, according to affidavit by FBI agent Melanie Jimenez. Accompanying the letter was a map of part of West Alton, marked with an "X" to show where a body could be found.Īfter finding a skeleton there, authorities focused on the map, which appeared to have a come from an Internet service. Travis' arrest June 7 was set in motion two weeks earlier, when a Post-Dispatch reporter received an anonymous letter praising a story profiling a slain prostitute. The stunning breakthrough in what had seemed a difficult case underscored why such information is a valuable resource for police - and sometimes a concern for civil libertarians. and other Internet companies keep on people who visit their Web sites and use their services. Instead, agents simply tapped into the wealth of information that Microsoft Corp.
MAURY TROY TRAVIS VIDEOS OF KILLING SERIAL
When the FBI and police tracked down suspected serial killer Maury Troy Travis, they didn't need bloodhounds, lab tests, fingerprints or other standard tools of criminal investigations. Serial Killer Caught By His Own Internet Footprintīy Peter Shinkle - St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which was later found to have come from and linked to his computer. He was caught when he anonymously mailed a map to the body of one his victims to the St. Travis murdered at least 12 prostitutes, and claimed to have killed 17, all in separate incidents between 20 in his home in Ferguson, Missouri. Louis county jail, after being arrested for murder. Maury Troy Travis (Octo– June 10, 2002) was an American serial killer who committed suicide in a St. Status: Committed suicide by hanging himself in a St.
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