True crime buffs, professionals, use the 'net to share information:

[XanaDUer]

http://www.couriernews.com/story.php?ID=13543

Editor’s note: This article is part of a series that details how Internet message boards and blogs disseminate information and influence crime cases.
Throughout the world, people sit at computer keyboards, reviewing documents and news stories, posting theories and solving crimes in their own heads.
While there have always been crime buffs, armchair Sherlock Holmeses who read true-crime books and watch court trials on TV, the difference is the Internet has granted these amateur sleuths the ability to share their insights with each other, as well as victims’ families, and in an indirect way, with law enforcement...

[johnnie]

1. Good read, thanks for posting this

I am interested in reading the rest of the series.

I go to some of those boards, I don't participate much, but I find them interesting. It's amazing to watch sometimes because some of those people are really in to the cases and do some weird things to try to get information. Sometimes people who know the victims or the accused come on. It can just be all out weird sometimes.

[XanaDUer]

2. Yeah

I like it, but from a distance.