{"id":878,"date":"2007-03-30T12:48:57","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T12:01:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T12:01:56","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=878","title":{"rendered":"Internet browser history and e-mails are evidence in NJ murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A search of a defendant&#8217;s internet browser history and e-mails are evidence in a murder trial in New Jersey, as shown on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courttv.com\/home_primetime\/index.html\">Court TV<\/a>&#8216;s website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courttv.com\/trials\/mcguire\/031307_ctv.html?cnn=yes\">On nurse&#8217;s computer, an Internet how-to for murder<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jurors in the trial of a fertility nurse accused of killing her husband heard Tuesday about suspicious Internet research performed on the couple&#8217;s home computer before the slaying, including one Google query for &#8220;how to commit murder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The approximately 40 searches detailed by a forensic computer examiner called by the prosecution occurred on three occasions in the weeks leading up to William McGuire&#8217;s disappearance. The topics searched related to poisons, guns and death. Among them were &#8220;instant undetectable poison,&#8221; &#8220;toxic insulin levels,&#8221; &#8220;how to commit suicide tips&#8221; and &#8220;how to purchase guns illegally,&#8221; the expert said.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors maintain Melanie McGuire, 34, used the Internet to plot her husband&#8217;s 2004 slaying. A defense attorney told jurors in his opening statement last week that the 39-year-old victim, a computer analyst, was the primary user of the Hewlett-Packard and had conducted the searches in question.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Seymour, a former analyst for the state police&#8217;s digital technology unit, told jurors there was no way technologically to tell whether the defendant, the victim or someone else in their home had performed the searches.<\/p>\n<p>But under questioning by a prosecutor, she noted that her examination of the same computer uncovered romantic e-mails between Melanie McGuire and her boss, a married physician.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=878\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}