Three Mass Shooters Used Same Online Gun Store
August 8th, 2009The Reddit heads have uncovered a lot of George Sodini materials, in case anyone is interested in looking into this case further.
I didn’t spend too much time on it, but one thing I noticed (besides the madness) was his resume (mirror). He lists a BS in Computer Science in 1992. He was 48 at the time of the shooting. He would have been 31 when he got that degree. Did anyone catch what kind of work he did up until that point?
Via: AP:
An online weapons dealer who sold a gun or accessories to three mass killers, including a man who opened fire at a Pittsburgh-area health club this week, said Friday that any of the shooters could have just as easily found what they wanted at a Wal-Mart or another store.
Eric Thompson, whose company TGSCOM Inc. last year sold an empty Glock 9 mm magazine and magazine loading apparatus to George Sodini, the man who shot up a Collier Township, Pa., health club on Tuesday, said the sale was legal and his company did nothing wrong.
Research Credit: MM
The history of google searches that they list is interesting; he seems to both explore his psychological problems and research guns at the same time.
Can anyone explain how they recovered that google history? Did they need to know his gmail address, or can we look this up for anyone based on their IP address or other factor?
Anytime a user logs into any Google.com service, Google adds information to that user’s “Web History”.
Hardly any people with Google accounts know about this:
http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/topic.py?hl=en&topic=14148
I wouldn’t believe that logging out stops Google from matching up your searches with your master file, or that they actually delete it when you delete it.
Anyway, someone just logged into Sodini’s Google account and copied the information out of there. His password was easy to guess.