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  Could also just not kill people or try to hide their bodies.
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. >
  
  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 >
  
  Well, ideally it would be an awful lot of circumstantial evidence and more than just Google searches. In the case you describe ... I feel like there was either some racism or incredible stupidity involved if those searched were all they had to go on >
  
  Read the title in the WatchMojo lady’s voice >
  
  I’d confess to murder so quickly to stop someone from searching my internet history. >
  
  Should have searched 'how to use incognito mode' >
  
  Its pretty hard to hide your digital tracks these days.  Searching via google via your own isp or device is a no-no.  He could have probably used TOR and a non-google search engine, but even that doesn't guarantee anything.  I would have to assume the feds are plugged into TOR and could probably recreate your traffic based on your IP.  Even if they couldn't decrypt your searches, they could probably determine which search engine you used and what time, then subpoena'd the records after having TAO'd the data first secretly anyway. >
  
  A person using google to search for these kind of things wouldn't be smart enough to think of all that... >
  
  Keep wondering if Google has mixed feelings. If cops find a body, do they improve their algorithms?  If cops don’t do they feel like they’ve done a good job? >
  
  There must be 50 ways to hide your lover >
  
  Note to self: use an encrypted private search engine