Why on earth couldn't they locate him sooner using his IP address? Surely YouTube would have had that information. I still find it odd that internet geeks did so much work tracking this guy down and the police did nothing.
shareVPN?
shareThe Internet geeks didn't really do anything though, someone most probably luka himself had to tell them who it was, I suppose you could make a case for them making things worse by giving luka the attention he craved thereby egging him on, and let's not forget how it glossed over the fact that they hounded the innocent troll to kill himself
shareThe Internet geeks didn't really do anything
No the troll never burned the cats he uploaded an old video, he was obviously a shitty person that I'll grant you but the "geeks" had no impact on the overall case everything would have played out in exactly the same manner without them.
shareAs far as I could tell, given the information mentioned in the docu-series, was that although the internet sleuths did put in quite a bit of time and effort (hats off, I very much respect that as well) they didn't actually make much of a difference in the investigation itself.
They managed to screenshot the room, check the sockets, buy an identical vacuum cleaner and after someone (probably Luka, as mentioned by Siddyg) told them who he was, they were able to track down and take photos of the locations he posed for photos.
They also managed to drive a mentally unstable person to suicide (although he was a troll and a seemingly awful person, he wasn't the animal killer the sleuths erroneously painted him as).
The police investigation into the murder was pointed to him because he committed the crime in his own apartment, was captured on two separate CCTVs and then left his identification in with the bloodied evidence.
While the effort the sleuths put in is commendable for sure, they had little to no bearing on the investigation or the results.
In this case, the police should have at least looked into what the sleuths were trying to tell them...on the other hand though, you can't really blame them.
Everyone will have different suspects and even (in some cases) corroborating evidence to point at any number of people over any crime. That's why there's such a strict procedure in actual Detective work (granted the detectives follow the rules).
Ten different people could look at the same crime scene and you'd likely get 10 different suspects/leads. There's a reason that every single time an investigation opens a tip-line, they get so bogged down with disinformation and waste so many hours looking into dead leads 99% of the time.
Not to say it never helps, but more often than not it doesn't and is more of a hindrance. That's why they're reasonably apprehensive about accepting outside information during the course of an investigation.
Bull. The murder WOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED if the police had listened to them in the first place. The sleuths had his identity and more than enough evidence to tie him to the animal torture murders. Plus, the stalking and threats. The police chose to do nothing. The blood is on their hands.
shareYou've got quite the talent there. You shouldn't squander it on random message boards online.
If I was able to absolutely DEFINITIVELY be able to say what "would have/could have/will happen" (psychic? Time travel?), I'd be selling my services for enough money to make supervillains jealous lol.
Anyways, I myself know that I can't say for CERTAIN what other people would have done in any situation.
All I know is that I re-read my post and couldn't find the fallacy you think you're pointing out.
Guy kills guy, cops find him, sleuths took pictures online. That's about the gist of the show.
The blood is quite obviously not on the police's hands, as they weren't responsible for the death. They were, however, responsible for finding the culprit and putting him in prison...so that's good.