From all the flicks and TV reveals we’ve seen, one in all issues folks do to cease being tracked can be to toss away electronics that may very well be used to trace them, corresponding to cell phones, computer systems, tablets, and so forth. However, within the case of Joseph Beecher, plainly his undoing was attributable to an iPad belonging to the housekeeper of former New York City mayor Mike Bloomberg.

According to the report, plainly Beecher was really on the lookout for Bloomberg’s daughters, Emma and Georgina, however after breaking into the house and discovering they weren’t there, he ended up kidnapping the housekeeper, Amanda Edinger, however not earlier than he demanded to know if the daughters have been on the property.

He then pressured her to drive to Wyoming. He additionally made her withdraw money from an ATM. What led to his eventual arrest was when investigators found the housekeeper’s location by way of her iPad, however it’s unclear if the usage of Apple’s Find My community was concerned, or if the placement was found in one other means.

It was unclear why Beecher was on the lookout for Bloomberg’s daughters, however he did allegedly inform authorities that he wished to make an “international scene”. He was arrested and has since been charged with kidnapping in a federal courtroom.

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