Hitman Runner Mark Fellows Convicted of Murder on GPS Watch Data
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Or at least tame the capitalization for a more readable "Hitman runner Mark Fellows convicted of murder on GPS watch data"
IMO, even the dumbest of murderers don't carry their phones with them because they know very well they can be triangulated long after the murders. So, why would you carry a smart device that precisely does just that? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Obviously he’s not that bright but the GPS was sort of a secondary issue.
It is the UK though, so idk, but even in the US people get convicted on less. Just seems open to reasonable doubt
In this case, it was the latter. An unusual sighting was corroborated after the fact by hard data.
Less circumstantial and less suggestive than “here’s some hard data, let’s ask people if they can remember something.”
Somebody better at stastitcs can probably prove this with some Bayesian formula.
For instance:
suspect was in this neighborhood at this time
suspect was wearing a blue jacket
suspect had short blonde hair
suspect was an acquaintance of the victim
With enough circumstantial evidence, you can blow right past "reasonable doubt".
The Runners World article is sensationalising the GPS device to make other runner feel they are part of this story.
His spotter confessing also didn't help his case.
Your opinion is simply factually wrong, which is why there are regular stories about murderers bring caught with cell phone location records as key pieces of evidence.
The GPS watch wasn't got him.
Jack the Ripper has nothing on Kuklinski, but people can remember both.
There's a vast ocean betwixt the states and England. While it's true that people can remember both names, it's far more likely that, in the UK, they'll remember the names of those closer to home - of the likes of Harold Shipman.
For instance, battle tanks are called "tanks" today because when they were being developed by the British during WWI, they wanted a word that would obscure meaning to anybody who happened to overhear the word. They were originally called "Caterpillar Machine Gun Destroyers or Land Cruisers", which was very descriptive, so they decided to call them "water containers" instead. W.C. was considered an unsuitable initialism though, so they so they settled on "tank" as in "water tank". That name stuck so well, today most people never suspect it was originally meant to obscure meaning. But at the time, any german spy who overheard the wrong conversation would think the british were discussing a method of transporting water.
serial killers nikenames get reused as well like ripper killer monster strangler etc.