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DURHAM, N.C. — Robert Petrick searched
\n for the words "neck," "snap," "break" and "hold" on
\n an Internet search engine before his wife died, according to prosecutors
\n Wednesday.<\/p>\n
More than two years after Janine Sutphen’s body was discovered floating
\n in a Raleigh lake, investigators continue to find new evidence on computers
\n seized from Robert Petrick’s home that prosecutors say support their arguments
\n that Petrick killed his wife.<\/p>\n
The Google search was the latest in recently discovered evidence found
\n in the 100 million pages of content removed from computers.<\/p>\n
Last week, a forensic investigator discovered that Petrick allegedly researched
\n lake levels, water currents, boat ramps and access about Falls Lake just
\n four days before he reported Sutphen missing on Jan. 22, 2003.<\/p>\n
So this is what things have come to? Anything you have A close examination of anyone’s complete search from WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" DURHAM, N.C. — Robert Petrick searched for the words "neck," "snap," "break" and "hold" on an Internet search engine before his wife died, according to prosecutors Wednesday. More than two years after Janine Sutphen’s body was discovered floating in a … Continue reading
\n ever Googled can and will be held against you. Is it such a leap of imagination
\n to see the government getting access to this kind of information not
\n only reactively, as in this case,
\n after the fact, trying to solve a murder, but proactively, to investigate
\n crimes, conspiracies or just to mess with people they don’t like or find
\n offensive or dangerous?<\/em><\/p>\n
\n history would undoubtedly turn up a few peccedillos. We are sure we
\n have, at
\n various times, searched for terms like "bukaki" or "morphine patch dosage"
\n or "Non-destructive reduction of spongiform crystals in Bacillus Anthracis"
\n or "Yorkshire Bitches", all in the line of legitimate journalistic
\n or academic research, of course. Are people going to have to start
\n surfing and searching with one eye always over their cyber-shoulders?<\/em><\/p>\n