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  I once heard a case where a family was arrested for having been assumed to be making bombs, since the father, mother and son each did separate google searches involving chemistry, cooking pots, and backpacks respectively
context: In the early morning hours of Jan. 1, in the hour before he originally told investigators that his wife had left their home to catch a flight to Washington, D.C., he made the following Google searches on his son's iPad: "how long before a body starts to smell," "how to stop a body from decomposing," "how to bound a body," "10 ways to dispose of a dead body if you really need to," "how long for someone to be missing to inherit," and "can you throw away body parts?"
  
  He did it on his son's iPad too, maybe he thought that would be a red herring to throw detectives off the trail? Not a very smart criminal, at least he was caught. >
  
  Not one time did he google "how to clear a browser history. " >
  
  Fortunately, even if he had, his ISP or the search engine would've had a record—though it would've required a subpoena >
  
  Even if you clear or delete things, they can typically be recovered anyway just from examining the hard drive - even search history. >
  
  Depends how long it's been. Computers don't actually delete anything, they just mark the place where it is stored as available to write to instead of containing it. Then eventually it gets over written (hopefully several times if you don't want it to be recovered). >
  
  He did that search before; “top ten ways stupid criminals implicate themselves.” >
  
  Maybe he was just working on a late night tv top 10 sketch. >
  
  And they are..? Well?? >
  
  He didn't want to hit 'NEXT' nine times.... Never read the article. >
  
  And wait two minutes for ALL the ads to load on your 500mbit internet connection just to read each one. >
  
  People used to murder each other for those things. >
  
  Now it’s the grown Cabbage patch orphans turn. >
  
  I blame our failing school system.  Chem1 would have saved him a lot of trouble. >
  
  Or an episode of breaking bad >
  
  Yeah I learned more from Breaking Bad than I did in all of high school too >
  
  Dumbass… just watch Netflix… >
  
  I thought Google Searches aren't inherently evidence >
  
  Probably circumstantial evidence only at most, for a court of law. Sure is an interesting coincidence though. I'm pretty sure enough circumstantial evidence together can be seen as incriminating, but it has to be a lot if they don't have anything hard.