Path: nntp.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Tom Elam <thomas.e.elam@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.advocacy
Subject: Re: People using a cellphone when committing heinous crimes
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 15:17:02 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 26
Message-ID: <1053l3d$3isu4$1@dont-email.me>
References: <10400nn$1an8$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2025 21:17:01 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f826bc73d0be77c7c6dcadf341fffad4";
	logging-data="3765188"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/zScn1hVPmnpnWx9NA/jJ+p3NC48Sr5E4="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:LfjIALL1GFXCDrHTjSY4COvcg1k=
Content-Language: en-US
In-Reply-To: <10400nn$1an8$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>

On 7/1/2025 2:54 AM, Marion wrote:
> I've reported in the past on people keeping their cellphones on while
> committing crimes (where most seem to be on iPhones, not surprisingly).
> 
> Today Kohlberger (we only know he was on AT&T) agreed to plead guilty.
> <https://abcnews.go.com/US/bryan-kohberger-plead-guilty-counts-idaho-college-murders/story?id=123356808>
> His phone pings were instrumental in the evidence supplied publicly.
> <https://www.scribd.com/document/620577904/Bryan-Kohberger-Search-Warrant>
> 
> In addition, there's the "red iPhone" NJ case, where the iPhone tracked the
> murderers going back and forth from NY to NJ to exactly the crime scenes.
> 
> <https://www.njherald.com/story/news/politics/courts/2023/05/26/hayden-harris-army-corporal-murder-trial-xo-testifies/70256187007/>
>    "Snyder said he initiated the stop and ended up detaining Mellish,
>     taking and later processing Mellish's red Apple iPhone for evidence."
> 
> Now there's the Idaho firefighter murder case to look at & learn from.
>   <https://www.npr.org/2025/06/30/g-s1-75267/idaho-gunman-firefighters-shooting-what-we-know>
>    "At around 3:15 p.m., authorities detected an active cellphone signal
>     on the mountain that had remained stationary for some time, Norris
>     said Sunday."
> 
> Who wants to bet this is another dumb (and now dead) iPhone user?

2 instances and 1 that could be any phone brand are extrapolated to 
mostly iPhones involved. Wow, that is a stretch!