Sensational and heinous crimes across the nation, notable for the type of crime, the celebrity of the criminal, or both.
The Doe Network
This web site, the work of many volunteers across the nation, was featured on a recent CBS 48 Hours episode. It's called "The Doe Network" and the site's goal is to aid in locating relatives or people who can help identify human remains found for which there is no identification. This is especially tragic if the remains are of a young child. In the recent 48 Hours episode, one such body recovered was that of a young girl. I also covered the quest to identify the remains of a young boy found in the Chicago area.
You can reach the site by clicking on the picture below. Below the picture is a summary of the site's purpose and goals.
This seemed a good place to hype the site a bit. Why not click in and see if you can identify those remains found that their murderer may be caught and their loved ones notified?
This is a place where you may be able to find missing or an unidentified person. Someone you know may need closure about a lost person. This is not a pretty site, but it could help someone.
Thou Shalt Not "Annoy" Anonymously Via Email
Slipped quietly into a bill to fund the Department of Justice, the congress critters last week quietly made it illegal to "annoy" someone via email unless proper identity is provided.
Whenever the congress critters go attaching major legislation via a budget bill, they've got nefarious reasons for doing so.
The law reads as follows:
"Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both." Buried deep in the new law is Sec. 113, an innocuously titled bit called "Preventing Cyberstalking." It rewrites existing telephone harassment law to prohibit anyone from using the Internet "without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy."
Methinks maybe the congress critters were looking to clear out their own Email in-boxes which were, as one might expect, brimming with "annoying" emails. Although it could be an attempt to prosecute spammers or go after those Nigerian nuts who always want to make a deal with me over lost bank funds.
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