Hitman Runner Convicted of Mob Murder on GPS Watch Data

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27 points·sndean··9 comments

From what I understand the tracker data was from an earlier time when they were gathering intel on the target.

Discussion from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18944605

Why would someone wear a GPS watch when committing an assassination?

It really just emphasizes that our connected devices make it easy for the police to track you. No privacy, even leaving a phone home won't do it.

Except for receiving GPS, it's not really a "connected device", seeing as they had to get a warrant to physically search his home and analyze it.

It's really no different from a Sherlock Holmes scene in the killer gets some specific type of mud in his shoes, or something, except a bit easier to decipher :)

> They found that the runner plotted these murders with the attention and precision of any serious athlete

From the article... This is a bit grim: but maybe he was trying to beat his PB?

You got to be a little psycho to take a life. It's fathomable that it was just "sport" for him ...

Gotta close those rings!

He didn't wear it during the actual assassination, but during an earlier trip when he was planning it. Still not a very good idea.

He didn’t. He wore one during reconnaissance: ”almost two months before Massey’s death, the watch had recorded a 35 minute activity starting in Fellows’s neighborhood and traveling to the field near Massey’s home.”

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