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Callaroga Shark Media. Good morning, I'm read Carter. Saturday, September twentieth,
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twenty twenty five. This weekend, we're taking a break from
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breaking news to explore something that's been driving me insane
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all month. Criminals who Google their crimes. Every case we've
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covered lately involves some moron typing their murder plans into
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a search bar like Google is their personal crime consultant
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who signed an NDA. Brian Walsh googled how to dispose
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of his wife's exact body weight. Herbert Swilley searched for
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making murder look like suicide. Jose Sodo Escalera looked up
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electrical cord strength. Bryant Tajada comparison, shopped for Tomahawks on
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Amazon with prime shipping. These aren't even the dumbest ones.
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Today and tomorrow, we're diving into the Google Graveyard, where
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search histories become confessions and criminals convict them themselves one
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query at a time. This is Celebrity Trials the Google Graveyard,
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Part one, The Foundation of Stupidity fifteen minutes. Let's start
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with a fundamental question, when did criminals become this stupid?
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The answer they've always been this stupid. They just used
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to be stupid in private. Now they're stupid on the
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permanent record that is the Internet. Before Google, if you
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wanted to know how to dispose of a body, you
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had to figure it out yourself, maybe by a suspicious
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book that could be traced. Maybe ask a sketchy friend
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who might testify against you. Most likely you just wing
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it and get caught because you had no idea what
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you were doing. Enter Google launched in nineteen ninety eight.
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By two thousand and four, it became a verb. By
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twenty ten, everyone was googling everything, including murder. The first
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major case where Google searches convicted someone Justin Barber two
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thousand and two. This Florida man, because it's always Florida,
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shot his wife on the beach and then shot himself
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to make it look like a robbery. His Google searches
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from the weeks before included medical trauma, gunshot chest, blood loss,
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shot to chest, and my personal favorite, Florida and divorce.
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He literally googled Florida divorce laws, decided murder was easier,
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then googled how to shoot himself non fatally. He's serving
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life without parole because he trusted Google. More than a
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divorce lawyer. But that was two thousand and two. Smartphones
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barely existed. Most people still had dial up Internet. You'd
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think criminals would have learned by now that Google keeps records.
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You'd be wrong. Fast forward to twenty eighteen. The case
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that should have taught every criminal to stay off Google,
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the murder of Kelsey Bareth by her fiance Patrick Frasy.
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Phrasey's searches were a masterclass in self incrimination. How long
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before a body starts to decompose? What do human ashes
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look like? How hot does fire need to be to
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destroy evidence? And then showing he at least had one
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functioning brain cell. Can the FBI trace Google searches? Yes, Patrick,
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yes they can. That's why you're serving life without parole.
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But my favorite pre murder Google fail comes from twenty nineteen.
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Jennifer Dulas disappeared in Connecticut. Her estranged husband, Fotus Dulas
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was the prime suspect. His Google searches included bodybuilding, protein, powder,
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and wait for it, Jennifer Dulos missing. He googled his
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wife's missing person case before she was reported missing, before
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anyone knew she was gone, he literally searched for news
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about a disappearance that hadn't been discovered yet. When cops
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asked him about it, he said he was anticipating that
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she might go missing to frame him. Right, You anticipated
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your wife's disappearance so accurately that you googled it before
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it happened. That's not anticipation. That's confession. Killed himself before trial,
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probably after googling countries without extradition treaties and realizing Greece
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wasn't far enough. These aren't isolated incidents. A twenty twenty
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two study found that eighty seven percent of murder cases
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now involve some form of digital evidence, and in cases
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where the murderer googled their crime, the conviction rate is
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ninety four percent. Ninety four percent. You have better odds
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playing Russian Roulette than googling your murder plans. Yet they
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keep doing it. Why because we've trained ourselves to google everything.
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Can't remember the capital of Montana? Google it? Need a
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banana bread recipe, google it. Planning to murder your spouse
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apparently google that too. It's muscle memory. At this point,
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these killers probably googled their murders while sitting next to
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their victims. Honey, what are you looking up? Oh, just
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checking the weather types. How much anti freeze kills a person.
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The foundation of stupidity isn't that criminals are dumber. Now,
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it's that they've outsourced their thinking to a search engine
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that records everything and shares it with law enforcement. They've
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turned Google into God's greatest snitch. Now, let's talk about
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the current champion of Google stupidity. Brian Walsh. This Massachusetts
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genius didn't just google one incriminating thing. He created a
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whole search history curriculum for how to get convicted of murder?
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One oh one. Let me take you through Brian's greatest
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hits chronologically, because the progression is actually breathtaking in its stupidity.
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December twenty seventh, twenty twenty two, on a Walsh is
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still alive, Brian searches what's the best state to divorce
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for a man? Okay, normal enough for an unhappy husband,
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But then ten minutes later how much alimony in Massachusetts?
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Followed immediately by how to stop a body from decomposing?
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That escalated quickly from divorce to decomposition in under fifteen minutes.
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That's not a thought progression, that's a murder plan. Developing
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in real time. January first, twenty twenty three, Anna disappears.
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Brian searches that day include how long before a body
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starts to smell? How to clean blood from wooden floor,
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and what happens when you put body parts in ammonia?
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Body parts plural. He wasn't just planning to kill Anna,
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he was planning to dismember her, and he asked Google
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for instructions like he was assembling ikea furniture. January second,
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Anna has been missing for one day. Brian searches, can
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you track a phone that's off? How to dispose of
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a one hundred and fifteen pound woman's body? And hacksaw
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best for bones? One hundred fifteen pounds Anna's exact weight.
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He didn't even round up or down, just typed his
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wife's precise weight into Google, along with the word dispose.
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That's not suspicious at all. January third, Luminol detect blood,
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can bleach destroy DNA evidence? What is the rate of
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decomposition in cold weather? He's literally googling the forensic techniques
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that will catch him while simultaneously googling how to avoid them.
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It's like robbing a bank while calling nine to one.
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One to ask about their response time. January fourth, Brian
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finally reports on a missing his search that morning, how
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to act sad at a press conference. I'm not making
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that up. He googled how to act sad like. There's
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a wicki how article on five tips for seeming grief
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stricken when you've murdered your wife. The prosecutor said Brian's
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Google history was the most comprehensive confession they'd ever seen.
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He documented his entire thought process, from considering divorce to
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dismembering his wife. Brian's lawyer tried to argue the searches
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were taken out of context. Context What context makes Hacksaw
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best for bones innocent? Was he planning to become a
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butcher taking up recreational surgery? The jury deliberated for less
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than two hours, probably spent most of that time reading
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through Brian's searches and trying not to laugh at the stupidity.
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Brian Walsh wins the award for the most self incriminating
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Google history and murder case history. He turned the world's
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most powerful search engine into his prosecution's star witness. And remember,
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Brian got stabbed in prison last week. Even convicted killers
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think he's an idiot. When murderers are shanking you for
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being too stupid, you've really achieved something. Before we had
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Brian Walsh's masterpiece, we had other classics in the Google
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Hall of shame. Let's talk about Neil Entwhistle two thousand
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and six. This British man living in Massachusetts shot his
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wife and baby daughter, then fled to England. His Google
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searches before the murders included how to kill with a
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knife quietly and pointy two caliber kill someone. But here's
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the beautiful part. He also googled how to have an
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affair and escort services Boston, so his digital footprint showed
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motive and method. He wanted to cheat, decided murder was
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easier than divorce, then asked Google for technical assistance. He's
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serving life without parole, probably wondering why he didn't Google.
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Will Google searches be used against me in court? Answer? Yes,
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Neil always yes. Then there's the case of Casey Anthony. Yes,
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that Casey Anthony, the one who got away with murdering
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her daughter Kaylee. Except she didn't really get away with it.
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The jury just didn't understand technology. Her computer showed searches
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for chloroform, how to make chloroform, neck breaking and death.
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The prosecution said she googled methods to kill her daughter.
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The defense claimed she was researching chlorophyl for school. Chlorophyl
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for school. The twenty two year old high school dropout
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was researching plant biology while her daughter was CoInc incidentally
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dying from undetermined causes. The jury acquitted her, but those
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searches tell the real story. Casey Anthony googled how to
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kill her child, did it, and got away with it
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because twelve people didn't understand that nobody accidentally searches for
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neck breaking. More recently, we have the case of Brian Walshey.
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Different Brian, different murdered wife, same stupidity. This Brian from
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Utah killed his wife Barbara in twenty twenty two. His
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searches included how long does DNA last? Can you identify
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a body with broken teeth? And how to clean blood
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from carpet. He also searched for countries that don't extradite
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and how to change identity. My man was planning his
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whole new life while his wife's blood was still wet
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on the carpet. He was googling how to clean he's
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awaiting trial. But with that search history, his lawyer should
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just google how to negotiate a plea deal and call
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it a day. The pattern is always the same. They
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google the method, how to poison someone, where to shoot
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someone fatally? How much insulin kills a person? Then they
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google the cover up, how to pass a polygraph, bleach,
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destroy evidence, how to police investigate murders. Then they google
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the aftermath, countries without extradition, how long before missing person
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declared dead? Can you collect life insurance if body never found.
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It's like they're creating a PowerPoint presentation titled why I'm
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Guilty and emailing it directly to the FBI. My personal
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favorite subgenre killers who google their victims after killing them,
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like Thomas Murray, who murdered his wife in twenty seventeen,
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then googled her name constantly to see if she'd been found.
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He'd check news sites, social media, missing persons databases. The
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prosecutor called it digital grave visiting. He couldn't stop checking
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on his crime. His obsessive googling of his dead wife
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led police right to him. Moment, we can't talk about
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digital stupidity without mentioning Amazon, Google's partner in solving crimes.
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Bryant to Jada, who we covered this week, didn't just
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google how sharp does a tomahawk need to be? He
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bought the Tomahawk on Amazon with prime shipping using his
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own account, delivered to his home address. Amazon keeps records
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of everything, every search, every view, every purchase. That tomahawk
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had a digital paper trail from frequently bought together to
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customers also viewed to delivered by Fernando at two forty
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seven pm. But Bryant's not alone. In twenty nineteen, Todd
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Barkett killed his wife with a hammer, A specific hammer,
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a st wing, twenty two ounce framing hammer with a
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milled face and shock reduction grip. How do we know
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the exact specifications? He bought it on Amazon three days
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before the murder. His Amazon history also showed he'd view tarps,
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zip ties, and a bone saw. He added them all
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to his cart, but only bought the hammer. Probably thought
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he was being smart by not buying the whole murder
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kid at once. Instead, he created a digital wish list
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of premeditation. Then there's the case of Kellen Winslow Junior,
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the NFL player who was convicted of rape and kidnapping.
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His Amazon history included zip ties, ski masks, and a
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GPS tracker. His defense claimed these were for legitimate purposes. Right,
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every innocent person needs zip ties, ski masks, and GPS
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trackers from Amazon. That's definitely not a kidnapping starter pack
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with free two day shipping. The best part about Amazon
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evidence people leave reviews. I'm not joking. Criminals review their
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murder weapons. In twenty twenty, James Scanderito Junior killed his
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father with a baseball bat he bought on Amazon. He
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left a one star review, broke after one use, very disappointed.
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One use to kill his father, and he was disappointed
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in the product quality, not the patricide. Amazon has become
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the everything store, including everything you need to convict yourself store.
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These killers are building their own prosecutions, one prime delivery
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at a time. So why do they do it? Why
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do seemingly intelligent people google their crimes. It's not just stupidity,
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though that's a factor. It's habit. We've trained ourselves to
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google everything instantly. Having a thought without googling it feels incomplete.
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Think about your own life. You probably google dozens of
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things daily without thinking whether tomorrow best tie food near me,
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how to remove red wine stains. It's automatic thought to
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search in milliseconds. Now, imagine you're planning a murder. Your
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brain doesn't suddenly develop a new decision making process. It
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uses the same pattern. I need to kill my wife
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becomes how to kill your wife in the search bar
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before the frontal lobe can scream what are you doing?
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There's also main character syndrome. These killers think they're special, different,
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smarter than everyone who got caught before them. They know
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Google keeps records, but surely they'll be the exception. They
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think they'll use incognito mode, which does nothing to hide
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searches from your ISP or law enforcement. They think they'll
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use a VPN, which they set up using their credit
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card and real email. They think they'll delete their history,
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not understanding that Google keeps it anyway. Some even google
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how to permanently delete Google history right before googling how
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to kill someone, like Google is going to help them
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hide evidence from Google. It's the same overconfidence that makes
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them think they can get away with murder in the
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first place. If you're arrogant enough to believe you can
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kill someone and not get caught, you're arrogant. Enough to
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believe you can google it. So there's also the paradox