![social-media-696x397.png](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1521482541/larpj9iqmh5gsy6kwq3x.png) ------- Criminal cases are mostly handled by police and detectives. Every day, they take care of so many crimes and it is impossible to solve them in just one run.

Luckily, today's technology is becoming more sophisticated, thus easing the workload of police and detectives in uncovering cases.

For example, use social media. Social media was able to provide key evidence of a criminal case that is difficult to uncover in the past.

Here are 5 crime puzzles that have been solved thanks to social media, as quoted from Top Tenz, Monday (19/3/2018).

------ **1.Hate crimes** ![037278300_1519291313-1.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1521482652/lsz4aasswtepyp4cmzpf.jpg) In September 2014, a group of people met two gay men at Center City Philadelphia, United States. They asked about the relationship status of the two men.

When the two responded "yes", the gang immediately hit and robbed the homosexual couple. One of the victims was seriously injured, he had to be rushed to the hospital and shut his mouth.

Through security cameras at the scene, police finally managed to figure out the perpetrators. Even so, the police encountered obstacles because they could not identify the attackers. Then, they ask for information to anyone willing to help solve this case of hatred.

A Twitter user named "FanSince09" took the initiative to help the police. At that time, his account was followed by about 5,000 followers. In everyday life, he used to upload hilarious writings about the world of sports in Philadelphia. But this time, the new "task" awaits him. He decided to upload the video to Twitter and ask everyone for help.

Through the small clues in the video, internet users can view photos of the gang, which leads to the identification of the restaurant where the attackers have dinner.

Later, they tracked the check in feature on Facebook to see who was there during the night of the incident. It only takes 2 hours to uncover the identity of the criminals.

---------- **2.The killing of Abraham Shakespeare** ![maxres.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1521482828/t5uzszmmu7q1w7u09z5z.jpg) In 2006, a man named Abraham Shakespeare won a million-dollar draw. He then hired a woman named Dorice "DeeDee" Moore to become his financial adviser.

In 2009, Moore killed Shakespeare. The motive is that he can still control the financial victim. The boss's body was buried with concrete.

Previously, Shakespeare was reportedly missing. But, although the police suspect Moore, they have no solid evidence to arrest him.

Since the police could no longer intervene, the Websleuth community emerged and began acting to collect additional evidence. Hearing the news of Websleuth, Moore instantly panicked and felt very threatened. Every effort is made, including creating a new social media account so nobody can get any further evidence.

Luckily, Websleuth can track down Moore's IP address. This information is forwarded to law enforcement and added to the list of evidence. He was eventually found guilty of murder.

Websleuth is an internet user consisting of thousands of amateur detectives. They spend spare time checking the mysteries of unsolved cases. The focus is the murder and disappearance.

----------- **3.Violence Against Animals** ![067394900_1469521046-mpus.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1521482910/jjhfjbklgmp86vv9kn8d.jpg) When Vine's short-term video-sharing service app still exists, a teenager uploads a tape showing he kicked a kitten brutally.

This video is taken on the back porch of his house. Although it has been deleted, but the video has already spread in Reddit and 4chan. Warganet rolled around to find out the true identity of the teenager.

Once traced, they finally learned that the perpetrators of this violent animal are a 17-year-old boy named Walter Easley. The Warganet then reports it to the police.

Although the kitten was fine, Easley's sadistic actions did not stop the protective services of animals to evacuate all the pets from Easley's house.

Easley's mother, of course, was very disturbed because her pet had to be taken by her child's stupid behavior. During the trial, Easley pleaded guilty. He said that he did not mean to hurt a kitten and it was just a joke. -------- **4.Rape by Local Football Players** ![[].jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1521482995/qgozbyh7vhz4vcysppvc.jpg) In 2012, high school students from Steubenville, Ohio, USA held a late summer party on a suburban football field. It was dark, light was minimal.

The sudden excitement of the party "became incarnate", after the students saw a young girl dragged by some football players. The woman looked drunk and unconscious.

The footballers did not realize that there was someone else on the field, because the conditions were very dark. They begin to fondle and rape the girl over and over, for several hours.

A student takes a photo of the back of two football players who dragged the girl, quietly, and uploaded it on Instagram. It also includes a hashtag #rape in its caption.

Surprisingly, however, none of them dared to defend the poor woman and confirm the identity of the footballers.

A blogger who likes to write about crime cases put photos and other evidence on his page. He accused local police of favoritism, for ignoring the case and preferring to defend their local football star.

It is true that law enforcement members ask anyone to distance themselves from the case, due to their loyalty to the local football club.

Through uploads on the blog, the victim and his parents found plenty of evidence related to his rape case, ranging from on Twitter, Instagram and YouTube. They collected the evidence and handed it to Steubenville police. A week later, Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond were arrested on charges of rape.

Without social media, victims will never get justice in a city that continues to glorify football clubs. ------------- **5.Crashing Irresponsibly** ![tabrak-lari.jpg](https://res.cloudinary.com/hpiynhbhq/image/upload/v1521483376/tft2vnjf0zosv5d0u0s6.jpg) On the night of Halloween in 1968, a 4-year-old girl named Carolee Ashby, so a hit-and-run victim ran in Upstate, New York. For decades, police have been unable to identify the driver's identity and reveal the case.

After retirement, a former police officer named Lieutenant Russ Johnson uploaded a story about the poor boy on Facebook. He expressed his regret for not being able to reveal Ashby's death, even until he retired.

Until one day, a woman living in Florida responded to the story of the former officer. This woman has a friend living in New York. To him, this New York woman told me that she was in the passenger seat of a car driven by a 17-year-old teenager, named Douglas Parkhurst.

Parkhurst bumped into a small child on Halloween night, the same time as Johnson told him. The New York girl harbored a sense of guilt during this time, because she did not dare to report the perpetrator to the police.

After getting this information, the police immediately tracked down Parkhurst's whereabouts, came to his house and questioned him. At that moment, Parkhurst was blatantly bumping into a little girl for driving while drunk.

Unfortunately, the arrest warrant was not valid, so he could not be thrown into jail for the death of Carolee Ashby

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