Homicide and Child Pornography From Handbook of Computer Crime Investigation: Forensic Tools and Technology, P 361-373, 2002, Eoghan Casey, ed, -- See NCJ-195111)

• NCJ Number: 195122
• Author(s): J. J. McLean
• Date Published: 2002
• Length: 13 pages
• Sale Source: Academic Press, Inc
• Publication Format: Book (Softbound)
• Publication Type: Report (Technical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This chapter presents a case study involving the retrieval of important criminal evidence from a defendant’s computer.

Abstract

The author of this chapter shares with the reader a specific criminal case he investigated in 1998 as a police supervisor/investigator for the Attorney General’s High Technology Crime Unit. The defendant in this case was charged with murder and the author was asked to assist the State police with retrieving a series of e-mails between the offender and the assailant. The author explains how a search warrant was obtained and what the parameters of such a search warrant are in cases involving digital evidence. In this case, the computer they obtained the search warrant for was connected to a local area network (LAN), and as such, it was necessary to obtain additional consent to search so that other computers connected to LAN could be accessed. The author goes on to explain about the evidence he found as well as how he examined the digital evidence and prepared it for trial. Thus, issues that may typically confront a computer forensic examiner are explained through the use of this case study.