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| Monday, 05 February 2007 | ||||
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The trend consists in making pleas about cases of murders, kidnappings, burglaries and other crimes on social networks such ad MySpace in order to hit the attention of the widest range of people and possibly collect information to help investigations. In other words, these pleas work as high-tech equivalents of "wanted" posters.
Similar initiatives are taken by crime victims and police equally , showing a further perspective about the level of influence that the Internet has in everyday life. For instance, relatives of a Chicago doctor who was murdered last October, posted on MySpace.com a surveillance video showing a blood-spattered young man rushing from the building. The son of the victim explain this choice as an attempt to gain attention on the case: "Young people between 18 and 25 are probably not watching the nightly news or reading the newspaper every day. That audience is probably on the Internet, and they all have MySpace." After they posted on MySpace an announcement offering a $25,000 reward, the website received more than 40,000 hits in six weeks, whereas Chicago Police admitted they hadn’t received any call but just a few e-mails. Social networks has been monitored for long by police agencies that were in search for sexual predators of terrorist organizations, and now they are actively using them as a crime-fighting tool:as reported by the US magazine USA Today, a detective said that he gets "probably one, two MySpace cases a week." …CSI, beware!
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Criminal hunting methods are changing more and more according to the development of new technologies and instruments but recently, a strange trend is revolutionizing criminal investigation techniques.. 
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