He didnt cut off his trail at all. He had zero opsec. He just tries to delete the records of the timeframe where he comitted the crime but deleting files doesnt mean the data is gone. Remember kids, physical destruction is the only real safeguard.
Incorrect. The article states he was VERY meticulous.
In fact, if go do far as to say he may have gotten off if he didn’t change his plea to guilty. The prosecution didn’t have sufficient evidence to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt. They had a BUNCH of “well this looks bad.”
Which as we all know isn’t shit.
The article states he was VERY meticulous.
This isnt automatically true just because the author wrote it. He was just taking the word of law enforcement at face value.
The fact that the cops were able to recover fuckloads of data from his phone means that he had no idea what he was doing. They got his search history, messages, images and other files. He was not at all meticulous. Realistically he just pressed “delete” and they were able to unlock his phone (bad opsec if thats possible) and then they ran some off the shelf data recovery program to get back the deleted files. That is not meticulous.