re: #249 kirkspencer

Right bottom line, wrong method.

I have phone I know belongs to dead person. I go to judge and get a warrant. I use the warrant to get the phone records from the carrier for the name and billing address on the account. I also see if there are other accounts (and the numbers) for the same name and billing address. Now it’s “we have an unidentified person who was carrying this phone. Can you come and identify him, please?”

You also, if you believe that a crime has occurred, go over the call history to determine who was the last person called and for how long. If you find a call on there that happened at or near the time the crime is believed to have occurred, you track the other person down and ask them what they heard.