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Re:Botanist tells how nettles helped solve Soham murders by tempaway4512641 on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @11:33AM (#40866981)
I remember that the detectives working on the Soham case in 2002 sent a voicemail to one of the missing girl's phones and then appealed on TV for their abductor to listen to the message. At the time this seemed like quite a strange thing for the detectives to do (people were a lot less savvy about phone evidence back then). It got a lot of coverage in the press.

In retrospect I wonder if it was a stingray-type gambit, whereby if the abductor turned the phone on they would be able to trace exactly where they were. I don't think it got mentioned in court so perhaps it was unofficial/inadmissable

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/aug/15/childprotection.c...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3303637.stm

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Re:Botanist tells how nettles helped solve Soham murders by mindracer on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @02:51PM (#40868919)
Weren’t the news of the world hacking their voicemail?

I guess the police and others didn’t know that at the time

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Re:Botanist tells how nettles helped solve Soham murders by whutsurnaym on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @03:17PM (#40869151)
You might be thinking of the murder of Milly Dowler. IIRC there was a scandal about reporters hacking into her voicemail, leading investigators to believe she might still be alive.
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