Paul DeWolf (Facebook photo)
Technology -- in the form of an app called "Find My Mac" -- led to arrests in the July murder of University of Michigan med student Paul DeWolf, the Detroit Free Press reports.
Elisha Anderson and L.L. Brasier of the Freep report that the first big break came about two months after the slaying when someone tried connecting to the Internet on a Mac Air laptop that had been stolen from DeWolf's next door neighbor on the same night of the slaying.
The result: Shaquille Jones, 21, and Joei Jordan, 20, were charged in the case and a third person has been identified as a suspect. Jones and Jordan are from South Carolina but have ties to Washtenaw County.
The Freep reports that on Oct. 3, a Detroit man tried logging on to the Mac laptop he had just purchased on Craigslist. He didn't know it was stolen or certainly that it had a "Find My Mac" application which directed Apple to contact the owner if the computer connected to the Internet.
Apple was alerted of activity and police tracked the computer to the Detroit man who had purchased the laptop from an Ypsilanti man, the Freep reports. The Ypslilanti man had bought the computer from one of the murder suspects, Jordan, for $200.
The Freep reported that records showed that Jordan’s cell phone was pinging off a tower near the home the night the computer was stolen.
-- Allan Lengel
