The Google Searches

The Google Searches

Posted on February 8th, 2010 by by Valhall

Excerpt:

The infamous Google searches that were conducted on the Anthony desktop, and which may or may not come into play in the trial, were conducted in March 2008 – three months before Caylee’s murder. They consisted of searches of the terms: chloroform, chloraform, alcohol, acentone, peroxide, one tree hill, one tree hill 100th episode, how to make chloroform, how to make chloraform, self defense, household weapons, neck breaking and shovel. In addition there is a visit, resulting from one of these searches, to a chapter entitled Personal and Household Articles as Weapons from a book entitled Self-Defense for Women.

In looking at whether the Google searches could have been made by anyone other than Casey we first have to establish whether they were done on her user account of the desktop or on the family user account. The computer forensics files released in discovery do not answer this question because these particular searches were found in unallocated space of the HP desktop. Unallocated file space can be defined as a dumping ground for any data that is erased or deleted – even if that deletion occurs in a format of the hard drive. Many people have the misconception they can simply format their hard drives and permanently removed all the data. This is not true from a forensic standpoint and should be kept in mind when donating a computer for charity. If you really want to protect yourself, you should spend a few dollars to get a cheap hard drive and replace the drive before donating the computer.

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