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Woman guilty of attempted murder of her husband on their anniversary
Submitted by GaryB on Tue, 2008-01-29 21:25
This story on the BBC is a nightmare to read - the poor guy is almost deaf, blind and has brain damage - but it's good to hear firstly that she was found guilty, and secondly that not a single word in this article attempts in any way to reduce her culpability or make it out to be in some way 'his fault'. No 'woman as victim' crap.
It boils down to this - she researched methods of killing him on the Internet, settled on poison by anti-freeze, cooked him a meal and laced his wine on their anniversary, and did it all just to pay off some debts, even bragging about it to neighbors. If she doesn't get the book thrown at her it'll be a travesty.
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Busted by Her "History" Log Files
Moral of the story:
If you are planning on killing your spouse and you do a lot of research on the Internet to determine the optimum method --
ERASE your 'Net grazing "history" files you silly bitch!
The prosecution nailed her by seizing her computer and discovering dozens of sites she had searched regarding various poisons.(She selected antifreeze and slipped it into a nice home-cooked meal for hubby.)
She should get an extra ten years for being technically incompetent.
Wait a minute....
Speaking as someone who occassionally is called upon to do computer forensics .... don't help. ;o)
I/O Overwriting?
You mean that you can't use special recovery software to retrieve erased "history" log files?
Isn't it necessary to overwrite the hard drive sectors to truly "erase" those files?
Just curious.
I'm not married...
Not planning any homicides since mom recently died of natural causes. ;-)
Be careful
For the love of God, make sure and get the right episode of Law and Order on the TV at the time.
I/O Overwriting....
Yes, there is good software to recover "erased" history logs, and history logs (as well as emails, for some email systems) are duplicated so that erasure doesn't necessarily remove the copy of the information. It's just easier to go directly to the browser and check the history first, saves lots of time. Nice if the bad folks help you out to that extent - and quite a few do. Even so, it's harder to get rid of data on your computer than many people realize.
Windows, for example, doesn't actually erase a file when you "delete" it - it just removes pointers to the file and releases that space for future use. You can recover whatever is there by reading the disk sectors directly. There are programs to overwrite free sectors with zeros or patterns to replace the data, but the operating system will not routinely do that for you - you have to be proactive about it.
I just made my life tougher, didn't I? :0
What A Bitch!
I'm glad they found her guilty. She'll be locked in prison where she won't be able to enjoy her senses of sight and sound as much as she used to, not unlike her husband, whom she tried to murder. I think she deserves a worse punishment, such as losing her sight, but at least she wasn't able to fool the court by playing the victim.
Evan AKA X-TRNL
Real Men Don't Take Abuse!
Plausible Deniability Software
TomP. -
You're the dude who "lost" all the White House e-mails about the 957 lies that were told about Iraqui WMD's, right?
Can I buy that program at Best Buy?
Any recommendations? Seriously.
Disk Sector Erasing
I use Eraser, which (last time I checked) was free. It works well, and I've attempted recovery of data from files I've used it on, no luck. Soooooo - that one seems to work OK for me.
I don't do this (forensic file recovery) as often as the police, for example, so I'm not the best possible resource. We do it for private cases, and occasionally, for defense cases. Might want to do some research online for better options. Eraser works OK for me, in any case.
Re the White House emails - if you could prove it, I wouldn't have done a very good job, whould I have? (IF it were me, that is. Which, of course, it's not. Ahem.)