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He made some of the dumbest, most asinine searches.
He murdered her on New Years after partying & getting her liquored up.
Worst plan ever, short of trying for Kyiv in 3 days.
He really didn't think they could see his searches or the stuff he went and bought? >

Duh, incognito mode! >

I know this is a joke but Google is facing huge fines worldwide because Incognito mode still tracks your search history. >

I mean it says that it can be seen >

But it's wearing glasses and a hat.. >

My name is Guy Incognito >

“your honor, guy incognito is a hacker and a murderer! he appears on everyone’s websites and buys all the necessary stuff to carry out one!” >

Here are some of his searches 
December 27:
"What’s the best state to divorce for a man?'
She went missing on January 1st. 
4:55 a.m. on Jan. 1: “how long before a body starts to smell”
4:58 a.m. on Jan. 1: “how to stop a body from decomposing”
5:20 a.m. on Jan. 1: “how to embalm a body”
5:47 a.m. on Jan. 1: “10 ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to”
6:25 a.m. on Jan. 1: “how long for someone to be missing to inherit”
6:34 a.m. on Jan. 1: “can you throw away body parts”
9:29 a.m. on Jan. 1: “what does formaldehyde do”
9:34 a.m. on Jan. 1: “how long does DNA last”
9:59 a.m. on Jan. 1: “can identification be made on partial remains”
11:34 a.m. on Jan. 1: “dismemberment and the best ways to dispose of a body”
11:44 a.m. on Jan. 1: “how to clean blood from wooden floor”
11:56 a.m. on Jan. 1: “luminol to detect blood
1:08 p.m. on Jan. 1: “what happens when you put body parts in ammonia”
1:21 p.m. on Jan. 1: “is it better to throw crime scene clothes away or wash them”
12:45 p.m. on Jan. 2: “hacksaw best tool to dismember”
1:10 p.m. on Jan. 2: “can you be charged with murder without a body”
1:14 p.m. on Jan. 2: “can you identify a body with broken teeth”
1:02 p.m. on Jan. 3: “what happens to hair on a dead body”
1:13 p.m. on Jan. 3: “what is the rate of decomposition of a body found in a plastic bag compared to on a surface in the woods”
1:20 p.m. on Jan. 3: “can baking soda make a body smell good”
Poor woman. The "broken teeth" bit hurts to read.... 
This creep can go to hell >

I wish he just got the divorce instead. >

Me too :( >

Dumbest murderer ever… thankfully. >

His attorney said the evidence against him is "not strong".
Maybe because he learned on google to cover the evidence in baking soda? >

his search history included "discount lawyers". >

Works on contingency? No, money down >

“How to clear Google history after searching for suspect things given your wife’s mysterious and recent death” >

Step 1: Get a supermagnet.
Step 2: Take computer to body disposal site.
Step 3: Run magnet over computer like you're scrubbing the dishes she asked you to do last night.
Step 4: Place next to body for convenience
Step 5: Access public computer at library and delete your Google account
Step 6: Await authorities as we notified them before we autocompleted this query. >

Given he is searching the internet, you probably have to run the magnet over Google. >

"Google: How do I cause you to die in a horrible fire?"
Google: Who hurt you?! >

He made some of the dumbest, most asinine searches.
He murdered her on New Years after partying & getting her liquored up.
Worst plan ever, short of trying for Kyiv in 3 days. >

Supposedly (friend of a friend) she was leaving him and taking the kids after the new year. She was going to leave before but he convinced her to stay >

I always feel that this is one of those things that you either do or don't, and never return for any reason. >

Works for some people.  My younger brother wouldn't be here (or maybe I wouldn't) if my parents didn't do this. Dated for a few years in middle and high school, had a kid at 16, split up for 2.5 years and during that time each had another kid, got back together and had my brother and have been back together now for 30 years.
Edit: by parents I mean my dad and step mom. She's been in my life since I was a year or so old so I consider her as much a mom as my actual mom and talk about her just like I would my actual mom. >

This whole post is so wholesome - have an upvote. 
I wish this scenario played out more (or at least an amicable scenario) rather than fucking homicide - or worse, familicide. >

This guy should be a spokesperson for SurfShark VPN.

Hey do you have questions, like me, that if seen by the authorities might lead to a serious criminal prosecution.  Then you need SurfShark, so you can fearlessly browse and search for random things like, "How can I dispose of a body?", "What countries don't have extradition treaties with the US?", or "How do you launder money?"  And the police will never know.
And if you click now, SurfShark VPN will donate a dollar to my legal defense fund.  So what are you waiting for... Seriously, what are you waiting for?  I need help man. >



“The story is really coming together, and those Google searches, they were essential to putting together the pieces,”


Putting together the pieces? Really? That’s some unfortunate phrasing. >

There’s a great opportunity here for content marketers to summarize this all into one useful SEO optimized article that includes links to all the products you’ll need and discount codes. >

This is up there with BTK and the floppy disk >

I dunno that one is still near and dear to my heart in terms of stupid ways to get caught. >

Yeah, it is definitely no.1 when you consider the nature of the crimes, how long he went undetected, and the fact he would have continued to have gotten away with it had he just left it alone. "The police wouldn't lie to a serial killer so they could catch him, would they?". What an idiot. A simple Google search would also have told him what he wanted to know. Imagine the lengths he went to in order to remain free, only to let failure to perform a simple bit of research get him caught. >

Yeah, whereas BW was a complete idiotic mess from the get-go. It seems obvious that the murder was unplanned, or at the least unplanned to happen that night, as the searches for how to clean up after everything happened afterward. So he was an idiot who panicked and did stupid things and that's just not as satisfying as someone who thought they were brilliant and did keep uncaught for decades and then blew it all through a combination of narcissism and naivety. >

My favorite: 
"Ten ways to dispose of a body if you really have to" >

3-4 women per day in the US die to male domestic violence. The leading cause of death of pregnant women is homicide by their male partner. >

It is way higher than that. There were at least three in my state alone this week.  After heart disease, men are the biggest threat to women. Specifically man on women, not men to men, not men to children, but men to women. 
 It may not be "all men", but my god they certaintly are loaded weapons. And as I learned in this sub last week, safety's aren't standerd on guns any longer. I wonder what gender had a bigger hand in that. >

That’s not how statistics work, there being three in your state in one week does not mean that the average rate of women dying to domestic violence in their partner in the US is more than 3-4 per day. >

Anyway, it's a hell of a lot higher than it should be. In quite a few communities women would be so much better off without men in their lives. >

I’m not saying it isn’t, just pointing out meaningless illogical claims >

Or internet explorer. He’d still be waiting for it to load. >

Smart. By the time it loads, his wife would truely be decomposed >

Did this guy seriously think he would get away with it? He has to be one of the stupidest murderers I've ever read about. >

Could duckduckgo saved him? >

He should have just binged on some Dexter. Dumbass >

Incognito mode is bs
-this guy probably >

How did they come across the search history? Didn't he clear the search history or did Google flagged this guy and provide the search history? >

Google probably didn't do anything proactive, but they maintain logs.
The cops would have subpoenaed Google who would have just turned over anything they had from the IP/accounts. >

Like am I the only one who would go to another far away town buy a cheap phone with cash, drive to some random location, set up some random fake details and look up all the creepy stuff and then dispose of the phone afterwards.
Like if your going to go to the trouble of doing something that dispecable and doing that much prep work why would you search it up on a home device when your going to be the prime suspect. >

Definitely more to this story.
The timeline is super sketchy, after the dude gets arrested and is house arrest for a different crime of art theft the wife is murdered? (wife also had some odd connections -- office building agent for that fake Homeland Security company and people posing as agents to infiltrate Secret Service).
The searches were also on the kids iPad. No way someone with a con/scam history, that was into stolen paintings (organized crime) is that dumb about searches on the kids iPad right?
It just doesn't make sense from someone that is a con, and currently being watched by the feds. How are you going to be stealing and selling art and not have a burner device or some other way to get information? Just doesn't add up... it is possible, but very unlikely.
These searches are so blatant they seem like a setup. I mean it is possible he is this dumb but how is someone in crime this dumb? Something is fucky, either organized crime or foreign intel level, seems like a cleanup. Maybe the dude is just dumb and insane but none of this adds up. >

The guy is on camera at Home Depot the day after the murder buying $450 of cleaning supplies. I'm not sure how he gets framed into that. Or going to dumpsters and throwing away bloody clothing items that his wife was last wearing. >

Doesn't mean there isn't more going on with others involved or organized crime connections as there are too many here.
Not looking into that would be extremely naive and bad detective work. The problem is this is too open and shut, almost dumb with how much evidence they have from the searches to these events.
Could just be the guy is an idiot, but this dude was under watch by feds and has previous organized crime connections as well as his wife. Organized crime people stick together and it usually ends badly. >

In my experience, I've seen some cases where the criminals appear to be so dumb that my initial reaction is one of: "No way anyone can be that stupid, they were probably set up!" And inevitably it turns out that, nope, they were actually just that stupid.
Maybe this will be the first case I find that is an actual frame job, but to say that I am highly skeptical would be an understatement. >

That is a possibility, everything is possible in cases where people flip. I find it hard to believe he was able to do that while under federal watch though and to do it that obvious. Unless he was supposed to do it that way to get out of the same fate.
It could just be a dumbass and a tragedy, either way it is a tragedy. Though it would be even more tragic if the detective work is too simple and takes the easy way out if there is more there, and there appears to be. >

I must admit that Googling “how to dispose of Ana Walshe’s body” is going to be a tough one to explain on cross examination. >

So here's the interesting thing: we want our internet use to be private and not have the cops show up at our doors just because we were watching a true crime show and started googling.  BUT...  You really can imagine cases like this where Google could have saved someone's life by calling the police and warning the wife when someone's search history turns from divorce to how to murder and get away with it. >

They would be too busy going after folks who are just curious about things. After this case I googled some things that I joked about being put on a list for. >

Don't you think that particular search pattern is distinct enough that it almost certainly represents a murder - current or future?  Like if you had 100 equivalent search patterns would you really expect the majority of them to be innocent? >

There are authors who will search a lot of stuff for their books. I just don't see how it would be possible to monitor something like that with any amount of accuracy. >

I'm one of those authors.  And yeah, I google some weird stuff. 
There's three sides to this.  First, what I think makes this search so distinctive is that it starts with a search about divorce.  My weird research searches never have the twist of obvious motive.  Second, it would be no skin off my nose if someone told my wife about my google searches.  On the other hand there are certainly some women who would instantly recognize this was a planned murder.  Third, just because you'd have some false positives you also have to acknowledge you'd get some true positives as well.  What's the ratio where society decides we should do this?  If we could have police make 100 stops at people's houses to talk to wives about husbands search histories and we actually prevent 1 murder would that be worth it?  What if we prevent 80 murders for every hundred visits?  
I appreciate there has to be some kind of predictive accuracy level before we would want to do this, but that looks like an absolutely damning search history to me and I would guess that more than half of people googling in as incriminating a manner would actually be planning, or have committed, a real murder. >

I agree in theory it would be good but it could never get any amount of funding or public support. To a degree, there are algorithms that look for and catch child predators on some social medias. That's probably as good as we are gonna get. >

It would be something Google just does: set up a few algorithms, and when they get a hit they call the cops.  I don't see there being a funding issue.  As to public support... I think that really depends on the saved lives ratio. >

There is a concern it could be used against women trying to obtain an abortion. >

Incognito mode should only be used for the household, not the interwebs. >

I gave up on incognito long ago, I appreciate the convenience of autofill knowing just what I'm looking for. >

Time for prison creepDumbAzz >

This all seems very circumstantial and speculative /s >

Protip 1 if you're planning on breaking the law: "Clear your browser history".
Protip 2: Defrag your hard drive. >

Google: No fault divorce? >

He really didn't think they could see his searches or the stuff he went and bought? >

Duh, incognito mode! >

I know this is a joke but Google is facing huge fines worldwide because Incognito mode still tracks your search history. >

I mean it says that it can be seen >

But it's wearing glasses and a hat.. >

My name is Guy Incognito >

“your honor, guy incognito is a hacker and a murderer! he appears on everyone’s websites and buys all the necessary stuff to carry out one!” >

Here are some of his searches 
December 27:
"What’s the best state to divorce for a man?'
(I guess his state wasn't the best state to divorce for a man because she went missing on January 1st. ) 
4:55 a.m. on Jan. 1: “how long before a body starts to smell”
4:58 a.m. on Jan. 1: “how to stop a body from decomposing”
5:20 a.m. on Jan. 1: “how to embalm a body”
5:47 a.m. on Jan. 1: “10 ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to”
6:25 a.m. on Jan. 1: “how long for someone to be missing to inherit”
6:34 a.m. on Jan. 1: “can you throw away body parts”
9:29 a.m. on Jan. 1: “what does formaldehyde do”
9:34 a.m. on Jan. 1: “how long does DNA last”
9:59 a.m. on Jan. 1: “can identification be made on partial remains”
11:34 a.m. on Jan. 1: “dismemberment and the best ways to dispose of a body”
11:44 a.m. on Jan. 1: “how to clean blood from wooden floor”
11:56 a.m. on Jan. 1: “luminol to detect blood
1:08 p.m. on Jan. 1: “what happens when you put body parts in ammonia”
1:21 p.m. on Jan. 1: “is it better to throw crime scene clothes away or wash them”
12:45 p.m. on Jan. 2: “hacksaw best tool to dismember”
1:10 p.m. on Jan. 2: “can you be charged with murder without a body”
1:14 p.m. on Jan. 2: “can you identify a body with broken teeth”
1:02 p.m. on Jan. 3: “what happens to hair on a dead body”
1:13 p.m. on Jan. 3: “what is the rate of decomposition of a body found in a plastic bag compared to on a surface in the woods”
1:20 p.m. on Jan. 3: “can baking soda make a body smell good”
Poor woman. The "broken teeth" bit hurts to read.... 
This creep can go to hell >

I wish he just got the divorce instead. >

Me too :( >

Dumbest murderer ever… thankfully. >

His attorney said the evidence against him is "not strong".
Maybe because he learned on google to cover the evidence in baking soda? >

his search history included "discount lawyers". >

Works on contingency? No, money down >

“How to clear Google history after searching for suspect things given your wife’s mysterious and recent death” >

Step 1: Get a supermagnet.
Step 2: Take computer to body disposal site.
Step 3: Run magnet over computer like you're scrubbing the dishes she asked you to do last night.
Step 4: Place next to body for convenience
Step 5: Access public computer at library and delete your Google account
Step 6: Await authorities as we notified them before we autocompleted this query. >

Given he is searching the internet, you probably have to run the magnet over Google. >

"Google: How do I cause you to die in a horrible fire?"
Google: Who hurt you?!