FYI
http://www.smh.com.au/national/webs...ping-police-solve-crimes-20150503-1mutek.html
Websleuths: Citizen detectives and professionals helping police solve crimes
by Mark White, May 3, 2015 - 10:39AM
"...Dozens of experts, including doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, teachers and prison officers, have joined Websleuths. They can post as such if their credentials are verified by site owner Tricia Griffith: "We're seeing an influx of professionals" ... "They jostle shoulders with suspects and curious members of the public" she tells Fairfax via Skype.
Police use Websleuths covertly and overtly. "This has been my dream," Griffith says ...
Michelle*, a Brisbane property lawyer in her 40s, joined when Baden-Clay disappeared ... she found herself "naturally answering legal questions as what lawyer could resist", and became verified so she didn't have to give sources each time...
Michelle thinks Gable Tostee, who's charged with the murder of Warriena Wright in the Gold Coast last year, posted under different aliases. "[They] revealed lots of information that could only have been known to the person in that apartment." It wouldn't be the first time a suspect joined...
http://www.smh.com.au/national/webs...ping-police-solve-crimes-20150503-1mutek.html
Websleuths: Citizen detectives and professionals helping police solve crimes
by Mark White, May 3, 2015 - 10:39AM
"...Dozens of experts, including doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, teachers and prison officers, have joined Websleuths. They can post as such if their credentials are verified by site owner Tricia Griffith: "We're seeing an influx of professionals" ... "They jostle shoulders with suspects and curious members of the public" she tells Fairfax via Skype.
Police use Websleuths covertly and overtly. "This has been my dream," Griffith says ...
Michelle*, a Brisbane property lawyer in her 40s, joined when Baden-Clay disappeared ... she found herself "naturally answering legal questions as what lawyer could resist", and became verified so she didn't have to give sources each time...
Michelle thinks Gable Tostee, who's charged with the murder of Warriena Wright in the Gold Coast last year, posted under different aliases. "[They] revealed lots of information that could only have been known to the person in that apartment." It wouldn't be the first time a suspect joined...