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In 2006, Abraham Shakespeare won a 30-million-dollar lottery. In 2009, he was declared missing. And his body was found in 2010. From the start, police suspected his financial advisor, Dee Dee Moore. But there was not enough evidence to charge her. 

Moore started commenting on a crime-solving community website to defend herself. And she was making a big mistake. Emails sent to Shakespeare to get him out of his home and set him up to be murdered were under police scrutiny. And they matched her IP address with the messages sent to Websleuths to get the evidence they needed to convict her of his murder.

A growing number of current and cold cases

40% of homicides in America go unsolved by law enforcement. That's a lot of people who do not face justice and sometimes kill again. It’s also a lot of families that never get closure.

The good news is that more cold cases, than ever before, are being solved with DNA technology. The problem is we are having significant upsurges in crimes nationwide.

 Community policing is a collaboration between the police and the community. And sometimes the community is online. It is a win-win when web sleuths, find evidence and police use it to solve crimes.

In 2022 most people live their lives online. And the web brings together people that can put together lots of information. And often people who break laws leave a digital record of their misdeeds. As a part of community policing, internet investigators can help solve crimes. But when the online community becomes rogue accusers or vigilantes all bets are off.