re: #244 jamesfirecat

“RING RING RING”

“Hello?”

“Hello, this is officer … with the police. We found this cell phone on a dead black youth with no other identification. Your name was the last one dialed, he’s Jon Doe right now, can you fill us in on who exactly he was to help us notify his next of kin?”

The above does not take THREE DAYS to do.

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?”