An unidentified adult woman was found partially burned and dead in a remote area near Bergan, Norway in 1970. Was she a sex trafficking victim, spy, murder victim, or did she die by suicide? This presentation will first provide an overview of the publicly available evidence and identify investigative challenges with this unsolved mystery. Then the presenter, an experienced former federal prosecutor who was not involved in the investigation, will describe the present and emerging high technology and digital evidence that might be available if the same crime happened in 2024. The presentation is not intended to solve the mystery, but rather to explore new ways to investigate cases like using a new functional approach to high technology and digital evidence, together with advanced physical forensic techniques and crowd sourcing. The presentation will discuss IoT evidence, DNA, open-source intelligence, smart homes, smartphones, geolocation, and other new potential sources of evidence. Participants will find new ways to identify leads and potentially solve active and cold cases occurring in 2024.
Learning Objectives:
Describe the present and new high technology, digital evidence, and modern physical evidence that may be available if violent or sex crimes happen in 2024
Explore new ways to investigate and prosecute cases using a new functional approach to high technology, digital evidence, and modern IoT crime scenes
Consider smart building IoT evidence, modern DNA and physical evidence analysis, smartphones and wearable devices, medicolegal issues, open source intelligence, and other sources of evidence
