ABSTRACT
As was shown in Chapter 3, “TLO: še Latest Online Investigative System,” TLOxp® is free to law enforcement, but there are many additional online tools for investigators. šey include fee-based data aggregators and many di¦erent kinds of databases, as well as search engines, de—ned as computer programs that crawl the web and are designed to retrieve data from documents and databases. In addition to the sampling of people search options discussed below, see also Chapter 5, “Dealing with Databases”; Chapter 6, “NamUs: Connecting the Missing and Unidenti—ed”; Chapter 7, “Entering and Searching in the NamUs System”; and Chapter 8, “PKU Cards Retain Overlooked DNA.” šis chapter addresses the following:
• Google • Some additional, and helpful, people search engines • Social Security Death Index (SSDI) • Ancestry.com • Fee-based law enforcement websites • Coplink; see the section, “Information Sharing Resources” in
Chapter 15
še following was a true conversation between the author (at work on her laptop) and the author’s then 6-year-old granddaughter:
Child: “Do you google?” Grandmother: Yes, sure. Child: My Mom “googles” with salt-water.
