The Case Study of a Missing Girl

2. List the questions raised about this situation or that you think that the investigators should ask of

Throughout history, women were labeled as the inferior sex. It wasn’t until 1920—less than one hundred years ago—that women obtained the right to vote in the United States with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment (History, par. 11). In recent years, women have obtained much more respect than their ancestors, but sexism still runs rampant in various parts of the world. The social realm is not the only thing affected by male dominance; birth rates and population growth rates in countries such as India and China are also greatly altered by gender imbalance. Mara Hvistendahl provides information on the negative impact of global gender imbalance in her essay, Missing: 163 Missing Women. Alternatively, Kwame Anthony Appiah suggests in his

2. List the questions raised about this situation or that you think that the investigators should ask of the

The following memo describes the events that have taken place in Saint Leo Police Department as it relates to the Sheriff’s findings in Officer Narcissus office computer. It will contain a summary of the Sheriff’s and Officer Narcissus’ actions, as well as their reactions to the other’s stance. As the special assistant to the Sheriff, the author of this compilation will provide as much detail about the legal ramifications the Sheriff may face as it relates to this situation and conclude by providing some recommendations to resolve the situation at hand. The author will back up the recommendations with laws

The investigator did random search of John Doe in the computer system and our victim was able to give a positive identification of John Doe as her stalker. The investigator learned that John Doe has prior charges of trespassing, ID theft, and stalking. The investigators were also able to receive the IP address responsible for the email sent to the victim. However, the due process system illustrates that a suspect is innocent until proven guilty. The investigators need to search Doe’s computer and confirm the IP address and also try to locate the evidence of the pictures that our victim has been receiving from Mr. Doe’s computer. John Doe’s computer is the crime scene and it’s vital for the investigators to preserve the evidence making certain that any potential evidence isn’t tainted. The investigator has to follow proper protocol in the due process system as it pertains to the 4th amendment in assuring that all evidence will be admissible in a court of

Imagine that you are investigating a case where the suspect is believed to have deleted information from his or her computer that might be evidence. Where would you look for this evidence?

By performing the tasks required in this lab, many other attributes, references, and system information was gleaned that will benefit forensic efforts in the future. For this lab, the time zone of the computer has been isolated to China Standard Time, which in itself is suspicious. BHOs and add-ins were also located using registry values. Among this, there was only a reference to Bing Bar, which was identified in an earlier lab as a download performed on Jane’s computer. Moreover, this lab uncovered startup applications (UPnP.exe and SCVHhost.exe) that were identified as potentially suspicious in previous labs. Lastly, this lab allowed the student to locate USB storage devices that were connected to Jane’s system as well as the times associated with the connection and removal of the device in the system’s

Question 4: The state charges Larcen Inmatio with escape from prison. The court appoints a public defender to represent him. You are assigned to investigate the case and report your findings to the public defender. Your investigation reveals that Inmatio was convicted of burglary of a dwelling and was serving the second year of a five-year sentence in the state prison. He complained to the warden that another inmate had sexually molested him and requested transfer to another prison or at least another cell block. After confirming that an inmate in Inmatio’s cell block had molested him on one

Based on the information in the text sheet and in your assigned reading for this week, discuss the following scenarios and determine which type of forensic analysis technique(s) should be used, and why:

Because of the nature of this case, where the wife is accusing the ex-husband of cyber-stalking it is important that we as investigators have all details of the claims because cyber-stalking is also closely related to:

The first item of the investigation of this file is to determine janes IP address at the time of

When was the last time she accessed her computer? What is her background in computers, what is her skill level? I need some background on the former employee, her computer habits and activities prior to the files being found on her computer. I must collect digital evidence while keeping the data unaltered, first thing. This data will be used later in the prosecution of the case. This can be done through calculating and recording an evidence file. Next is imaging of the computer media with a write-blocking tool. I must keep the chain of custody. The computer's RAM is examined for evidence. During the examination step, verify and catalog the presence and integrity of the original evidence and any copies. An analysis is made with specialized equipment to find out exactly what's stored on the digital media. This includes a manual review of all materials found on the media, a review of the Windows registry, techniques to crack passwords and retrieve protected data, keyword searches and extraction of email and pictures for further review.

When our unit arrived at this residency, we knew exactly what kind of evidence we were searching for because the local court gave us a warrant which gave us the permission to investigate all computer belonging possessed, conducted, or governed by the suspect. So, as we conducted our more thorough search, we observed and obtained numerous hard drives, laptops, thumb drives, and related data storage systems, as well as associated hardware which contained thousands of images and videos involving child pornographic content. We proceeded to photograph each one of these pieces of evidence exactly where we found them. We took medium range, as well as close-up pictures of this evidence and added them to our detailed sketch of the crime scene. We were extra cautious and even had another crime scene investigator within our department videotape our walk-through to help record and narrate our time-line, as well. Once all of the evidence was photographed, documented and sketched properly according to procedural standards, our unit then began to correctly mark and package it. It is very important that this step is done during any kind of investigation because if it is not completed, the evidence obtained is virtually useless. The computers we located were connected to a network and turned on, so we photographed what was on the screen first and then unplugged the power cord from the back of the tower. If computers are not unplugged the correct way, then the unit risks losing the files that are stored on it which would greatly impact the case (U.S Department of Homeland Security, N/A). Anyway, once we unplugged it, we placed labels upon all of the other cords before we disconnected all of them, so we knew how to plug them back in later. We placed the equipment in packaging marked as “fragile” and made sure to keep all of it away from any kind of damaging elements including martinets and radio transmitters. We continued to

Since the widespread use of computers, computer crime has caused an increase in computer investigations during the twenty first century. Some reasons for investigation include: identity theft, such as stolen social security and credit card numbers, to find evidence of a cheating spouse, to investigate hackers on a computer system, to find evidence of child pornography, and much more.

The year is 2025. You are driving home and a notification pops up on your cars dashboard. Photos had been copied out of your personal cloud as part of an official international government investigation by Russia. You immediately look through your cell phone to call your husband. The phone rings, no answer. You are thinking to yourself what is this, what is going on? You are thinking of every option possible to solve this, and then you think of your best friend Alice. Alice’s husband is a lawyer, you forget what kind, but maybe he can help. You ring up Alice, she answers. You tell her about the notice you received and you forwarded it to her. Alice is just as confused as you are, she puts the phone on speaker so Mike, her