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Google Search Revealed
David Utter
Staff Writer
2007-12-06
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A British man who purportedly vanished while canoing years ago, and turned up recently claiming amnesia, showed up in a photograph in a Google search.
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The case of John Darwin looks like it will boil down to a simple insurance fraud scheme. But it wasn't a professional investigator or reporter who found out Darwin had been in Panama with his wife last year.
A damning photograph showing the couple in an office in Panama surfaced after an unnamed woman reportedly performed a simple query for "John, Anne, and Panama." She passed the photo to police and to the Daily Mirror.
The Guardian said the police response to her email was "you're joking." With so many altered images on the Internet, it's hard to blame them for being doubtful about the picture's authenticity.
Darwin's wife Anne confessed in Panama that the picture was real. Her husband's accident happened in March 2002, and he was declared legally dead in 2003. She claimed to believe he really died in the accident
Anne Darwin moved to Panama six weeks ago after selling her home. For reasons unknown, her husband came back to England, walked into a police station, and said he thought he was a missing person.
Figuring out what happened to him proved a simple task of tapping a query into the Google search box and hitting a button.
About the Author:
David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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