Politech is the oldest Internet resource devoted to politics and technology. Launched in 1994 by Declan McCullagh, the mailing list has chronicled the growing intersection of law, culture, technology, and politics. Since 2000, so has the Politech web site.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Computer Disk Led to Arrest in Killings, Pastor Says
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2005 09:22:21 -0500
From: Richard M. Smith <rms@computerbytesman.com>
To: 'Declan McCullagh' <declan@well.com>

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/02/national/02btk.html?pagewanted=print&posit
ion=

March 2, 2005
Computer Disk Led to Arrest in Killings, Pastor Says
By MONICA DAVEY
	

WICHITA, Kan., March 1 - In the end, the B.T.K. serial killer's downfall may
have been his own love of sending letters, poems and packages out to the
world.

Michael G. Clark, the pastor of Dennis L. Rader, the man now charged with 10
counts of murder in the strangulations that terrorized a city, said Tuesday
that one item in the killer's most recent mailing to a local television
station helped finally crack the case: an ordinary computer disk...

Mr. Clark said that the police told him they used information on the
computer disk in B.T.K.'s final mailing on Feb. 16 to trace it back to a
computer at Christ Lutheran Church, where Mr. Clark is the pastor. Mr.
Rader, the president of the church council, had used the church's computer a
few weeks earlier, Mr. Clark said, to print the agenda for a council meeting
he was to preside over...

Posted by Declan McCullagh on Mar 02, 2005 in category privacy

Get a Politech feed through RSS or Atom

The Politech general information pages and photographs are copyrighted by Declan McCullagh. Original posts distributed to the mailing list are licensed under a Creative Commons License.