Hey #OSINT, what is your plan for the weekend? or do you want something interesting to watch? We have a list of documentaries on the most mysterious cases in history which remain unsolved until now. 🕵️♀️
1. The Zodiac Killer
is pseudonym of unidentified serial killer who operated in North California in late 60s. It has been described as the most famous unsolved murder case. It became a fixture of pop culture and inspired amateur detectives to solve it.
2. Dyatlov Pass incident
The Dyatlov Pass incident was an event in which 9 Soviet trekkers died in the northern Ural Mountains between February 1 and 2, 1959, in uncertain circumstances.
3. Disappearance of Maura Murray
Maura Murray is an American woman who disappeared on the evening of February 9, 2004, after a car crash on Route 112 near Woodsville, New Hampshire. Her whereabouts remain unknown.
4. Lost City of Z
In search of The Lost City of Z, Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett disappeared while exploring in the jungles of Brazil in 1925. What happened to him is still a strange, unsolved mystery waiting to be solved.
5. Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in the autumn of 1888.
6. D. B. Cooper
In 1971, a hijacker, named Dan Cooper, parachuted from a plane with a request of $200,000, crafting the FBI's only unsolved hijacking case.
7. Assassination of John F. Kennedy
The officials declared Lee Harvey Oswald as lone gunman responsible for JFK's death. But a new book from world-renowned researcher Josiah Thompson comes to a shocking conclusion: Oswald did not fire the fatal shot.
8. Black Dahlia
Elizabeth Short known posthumously as Black Dahlia, was an American woman found murdered in Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles on January 15, 1947. Her case became highly publicized owing to the gruesome nature of the crime.
9. Hinterkaifeck murders
Occurred on the evening of 31 March 1922, when 6 inhabitants of a small Bavarian farmstead were murdered by an unknown assailant. The murders are considered one of most gruesome and puzzling unsolved crimes in German history.
10. Disappearance of Annie McCarrick
Annie Bridget McCarrick is an American woman from Long Island, New York who went missing under suspicious circumstances on March 26, 1993, while she was residing in Ireland.
Terrorist groups are increasingly adapting to technology to recruit, to disseminate illegal content and to promote violence. #OSINT can help identifying these networks and understanding the way they operate online. Here's a list of tools for researching terrorism:
#OSINT is increasingly accepted as evidence in court. Where police once held the monopoly on investigating, internet has opened up this possibility to many other interested parties.
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Civilians have the internet to use their voice and skills, enabling them to access data about crimes once only available to the police.
Here's a list of research papers on OSINT for crime investigation and what could be the impacts:
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1. ‘Uppity civilians’ and ‘cyber-vigilantes’: The role of the general public in policing cyber-crime - doi.org/10.1177/174889…
This research argue that civilian policing of the internet is both relevant and prevalent in today’s society.
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Anything you can obtain via online as well as by traditional media research can be used for #OSINT. Here's a list of curated resources that you might find useful.
Have you ever wondered what happens to deleted posts on social media? Some companies claim they keep user data for certain period of time and delete it permanently. In this thread we’ll focus on how we archive certain things on web, which could be useful for #OSINT.
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web.archive.org
Wayback Machine — Internet Archive is not a new thing for internet enthusiasts out there. Generally what it does is, it archives most of the things which is uploaded on the internet. This service is active for more than 20 years.
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archive.is
On archive.is, you’ll get to see similar features as in the Wayback Machine, but with some minor changes. Both of these services are free to use, you can also save individual web pages of your concern, and keep a record of them.