…which would suggest that a non-cohabiting spouse would have been unlikely to be able to provide that info.
TMZ is reporting that his backpack was very expensive and typically used by photographers. Maybe a clue or maybe he thrifted it.
Have they said how they knew he stayed at that hostel? Cameras, maybe?
Yeah. One of the guys also staying at that hostel said there were cameras everywhere.
This makes me think of:
Othello. A Minute to Learn… A Lifetime to Master
I believe the backpack contained a missing parachute. The alleged note had the exact coordinates of a certain Lockheed Electra 10E.
j/k but this case is fascinating, a true crime addict’s living fantasy.
My local library doesn’t require a card to use the computers.
I will go there occasionally to print something; I have seen others sitting there obviously doing some research by the notes they were scribbling. No I wasn’t interested enough to even attempt to look at their screen.
B&H has a very large photo store in the city near Penn Station. They have a used dept, which includes a whole section of camera bags. I bought one there some years ago.
What have I missed here? How have they linked the killer to the photos from the hostel? Same hoodie/backpack? Some other recognition data? CCTV footage of the person from the hostel to the shooting?
And not wearing a mask, so a facial shot, but wearing the same clothes as in the CCTV of the shooting.
Here’s the Wikipedia summary;
I believe they’re identifying him on the basis of the coat and mask, along with the subway footage. Interesting that he’d been lying in wait for nearly two weeks. Expedia shows the rate at the hostel as $124 per night, but it was probably higher around Thanksgiving and over the weekend, and higher still if he was paying in cash at check-in, so he must have had at least a few thousand dollars invested into his plan.
Up to now I haven’t seen that. Interesting.
details here:
The e-bike is interesting. CNN now reports he came to town on a Greyhound that originated in Atlanta (though they have no idea where he boarded), so he couldn’t have brought it with him and must have acquired it in NYC. It could be stolen - or he could have ordered it via Amazon with a fake name, had it shipped to the hostel, and then paid cash for it at a Western Union outlet. (Yes, you can use Western Union to pay for Amazon purchases with cash - I’ve been trained on how to do it at work but we’ve never EVER had anyone ask to use that service.)
The shot of him in the hostel with his mask down was apparently from a moment where he pulled it down while flirting with a female employee. Once again, man’s libido gets the better of him.
There are VPN services based in countries that will not respect a US court order. There are also VPNs that do not keep any logs. Even if served with an order, they have nothing to turn over. The hard part is figuring out which VPN services that advertise these qualities actually uphold them.
You can also get a small off the shelf device that connects to a public network, and creates a VPN encrypted WiFi network. All the phone company knows is you activated the phone from Belarus (or wherever). All the public WiFi knows is that some randomized MAC address sent some encrypted packets to a server in Switzerland. If the VPN is really good, the packets may not be distinguishable from normal encrypted web traffic.
It was a Citi Bike which is a bike sharing service. He didn’t own it. They were able to use the data from that bike to know that he rode it into Central Park.
I thought I’d seen somewhere that this had turned out to be incorrect, that it wasn’t a bikeshare at all.
Other reports are saying that it wasn’t a Citi Bike.
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And I was ninja’d going to look for a link (for citation) for my post!
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