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Very interesting story about "on-line" detectives.
Websleuths is mentioned and so is Susan Bennet. She did post first on Websleuths and then opened "Webbsleuths".
Websleuths is mentioned and so is Susan Bennet. She did post first on Websleuths and then opened "Webbsleuths".
She was a part of the on-line sleuthing community.
Take the case of Susan Bennett who went by the alias Jameson online. Bennett speculated so prolifically online on the popular Websleuths forum and on pages she herself set up, that she ended up becoming a figure in the case herself. Despite the fact that Bennett was a housewife living in North Carolina with no legal training whatsoever, her prolific online postings established her as an authority in the case. She was quoted in innumerable newspaper articles in the late 1990s and appeared on television. Bennett was the first online amateur sleuth to be given such a prominent platform. (Attempts to reach Bennett, if she is still alive, were unsuccessful. Her website is still up, but her email address is defunct and her common name makes her difficult to locate.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...-murder-20-year-anniversary-online-detectives