AMST 3822 Chapter Notes - Chapter 18: Missing Person, Zodiac Killer, Forensic Science
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Used to be an accountant for disney, but after credit crisis he was unemployed. Read news story about abducted child jaycee lee dugard 18 years earlier. Man who held her captive just got arrested. Koppelman believed forum had potential to solve other cases. Everyday average normal people going on websites solving cases police have never been able to do. Interest became obsession, now a moderator of the unidentified sub forum. Devoted to matching unidentified individuals in coroners reports with missing person profiles. Claims responsibility for 3 confirmed matches so far. Wesside able to identify trailer number of offending truck by enhancing and analysing video footage of incident posted to rbi. Code breaking mysteries have drawn in amateurs ever since the zodiac killer left codes for police in ca in the 1960s. More recently in 2011 fbi called on the public to help decipher notes found in pockets of a man called ricky mccormick.