[Freedom2specul8]

The sniper pinglist
The van dam pinglist
The OLD pinglist for the peterson trial
a few friends..

Of course most of us know that message boards can be of use..but I am curious as to what those 6 people did to get the attention of authorities.

I thought this would be interesting to you all for various reasons. I hope you don't mind. If you want off or on any of my lists, please let me know and I will remove you as soon as possible.

[Future Useless Eater]

Well I can understand if a murderer visits websites and leaves
clues, and LE wants to subpoena that website for EVERYTHING
they might know to capture the felon.

But most of us here have the more obvious question.
If someone like Hillary were back in the white house, and
wanted to crack down on her political enemies...

Or if a greasy lawyer wanted to shut down his opponents...

Or a lawsuit-happy con-artist/murdering husband in Florida
(hypothetically speaking of course ;-) ....
were to want to SUE in CIVIL COURT for words posted here...

--- could they succeed in getting Freeper names?

---Could we all put Jim Robinson on LEGAL RETAINER by
sending him $1.00 or more each?
(thus lawyer-client priviledge)?

The recording industry's lawsuits over mp3 downloaders should
serve as an example that people may need to seek ways
to become more anonymous online.

[archy]

Of course most of us know that message boards can be of use..but I am curious as to what those 6 people did to get the attention of authorities.

I don't know either, but considering the death squad culture exhibited by the Wichita cops, it's a fair bet that the killer could be one of them.

And this could be their way of silencing any witbnesses against them.

[archy]

The sniper pinglist

Ping! Snipers UP!

[UCANSEE2]

Please, I am honored you keep me in mind.

[Peach]

How very curious.

I wonder if some armchair detectives did such good speculating that it made authorities suspicious.

[Jackie-O]

Thanks for the ping Kim!

[runningbear]

scary thought! Gads, sometimes the internet is fantastic, this makes me wonder on invasion of privacy? Well, we all know the internet has no privacy.....;o)

[muggs]

Thanks for the ping.

[Devil_Anse]

Thank you, Kim, I do find it very interesting.

I think the investigators think the killer, or someone who knows the killer's identity, has posted there. Notice that it took a court order to make the internet forum host have to turn over whatever info they have.

If I were the owner of a forum, and I got a court order to turn over what I knew of certain posters, I'd probably do it... but what if I started being inundated with such court orders? I would begin to find it disruptive, and I would then talk to my lawyer. If it got to be routine that people could get courts to order such sharing of information, then I think forum owners would start to fight it--and in many cases, I think the forum owners would win, based on free speech protections.

I think it all comes down to how important it is that the information be turned over. Given that this is an investigation into several torture-murders, I'd say in this case, it is VERY important.

[Valpal1]

Hi Kim!

I hope they actually find a link to the BTK killer from one or more of these six.

Doesn't bother me at all that they get court orders to get information. That's considerbly less than the IRS has to do in most circumstances.

Doubt seriously that the killer registered with real info (if he posted), I'm sure they can identify the computer, but can they identify where that computer is?

[STOCKHRSE]

Thanks for the Ping, Kim

Please put me on all your lists.
Ray