Case Studies

Detectives from a small county in Virginia used SyncArena to help them solve a “whodunit” homicide in which they had no initial leads. SyncArena is an intuitive event visualization tool commonly used by law enforcement to analyze digital records quickly and reconstruct a visual story. Without a seasoned crime analyst at their office, the detectives used SyncArena to quickly visualize digital footprints, interpret evidence, help apprehend the suspect, and facilitate a successful prosecution.

When the detectives first got to the scene of the crime, they noticed that the victim did not have a phone. They decided to request exigent ping emails, timing advance records, and call detail records from victim cell phone carrier in case the device was stolen by the perpetrator. By the time the cell phone carrier returned the first ping email, the phone had been turned off and could no longer be tracked.

A detective on a multi-jurisdictional task force used SyncArena to identify a child abductor and rescue the child within 24 hours of incident. The detective from a small county proved to have the right tool for the job even while working with 4 Federal agencies with more substantial resources. The child abduction took place at a day care center in the suburbs of a small city. Once the child was reported missing, law enforcement checked the surveillance videos at the day care center and found a video of the back of a woman walking out of the building holding the missing child’s hand. Without an identification of the woman in the video, the detectives decided to check other surveillance videos at other day care centers in the area to see if the woman visited other centers before abducting the child. Fortuitously, they discovered that 15 minutes before the abduction, the same woman was found in the surveillance video at another day care center a short distance away.

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