Chris Posted October 9, 2004 Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 MOXEE, Washington (AP) -- Google, the Internet search engine, has done something that law enforcement officials and their computer tools could not: Identify a man who died in an apparent hit-and-run accident 11 years ago in this small town outside Yakima.Detective Pat Ditter of the Washington State Patrol searched with Google for about a week before identifying the victim as David Glen Lewis, 39, who died 1,606 miles from his home in Amarillo, Texas.Lewis' brother, Larry, praised Ditter's persistence."If he hadn't looked at those cases, we would still be back at square one, thinking he's alive and going to give us a call one of these days," Larry Lewis said.More | Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cd108 Posted October 9, 2004 Report Share Posted October 9, 2004 Anyone ever googled there name or an old email/forum name, you might be suprised what turns up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homecomputeraid Posted October 26, 2004 Report Share Posted October 26, 2004 I can't believe how many Ted LeRoy's there are! There's a Ted LeRoy trucking company in California, and a soldier who was killed in Viet Nam to site just two. Maybe the computer geek Ted LeRoy's name will get popular on the Internet too? :)Sincerely, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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