Websleuths is an internet community that is focused on crime and

missing persons A missing person is a person who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as their location and condition are unknown. A person may go missing through a voluntary disappearance, or else due to an accident, crime, de ...

. The privately owned Websleuths LLC maintains a forum for registered users to discuss and classify information related to crimes, trials and unsolved cases, which they try to solve. Tricia Griffith purchased the site in 2004. Some content is available for viewing without registration. Members have an option to be verified with their credentials with the administrator if they have a specific expertise, such as DNA analysis professionals, law enforcement, or are related to a specific crime in some way.

Notable cases

Crimes which have received national attention are always highlighted by Websleuths. The 2008

Caylee Anthony Caylee Marie Anthony (August 9, 2005 – June-December 2008) was an American girl who lived in Orlando, Florida, with her mother, Casey Marie Anthony (born March 19, 1986), and her maternal grandparents, George and Cindy Anthony. On July 1 ...

murder and 2011 trial of her mother drew years of interest and commentary regarding the murder, media attention to the case, and documentation of evidence and information. The television show ''

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'' portrayed Websleuths in an episode about the Anthony case named "Crimebusters". In 2014

Carl Koppelman Carl William Koppelman (born December 16, 1962) is an American professional accountant and unpaid volunteer forensic sketch artist. Since 2009, Koppelman has drawn over 250 reconstructions and age progressions of missing and unidentified people ...

, a California man who is a member of Websleuths, believed that he had identified a match between a new image of

Tammy Alexander Tammy Jo Alexander (November 2, 1963 – November 9, 1979) was an American teenage girl who was found murdered in the town of Caledonia, New York, on November 10, 1979. She had been fatally shot twice and left in a field just off U.S. Route 20 n ...

, long missing from

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, and a forensic portrait of a young unidentified homicide victim known as Caledonia Jane Doe, found in

Livingston County, New York Livingston County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 61,834. Its county seat is Geneseo. The county is named after Robert R. Livingston, who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and ...

in 1979. He notified both Sheriff's offices and the

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database administrators. With this lead, police were able to make a DNA match between the victim and her half-sister, confirming her in January 2015 as Alexander more than 35 years after her death. A Vice.com profile highlights a case where; "In 2006, the site's efforts helped solve the murder of a homeless man who’d won the lottery."

Alliances and other activities

Tricia Griffith hosts a weekly podcast on

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. In 2016, Websleuths joined the producers of the television show ''The Killing Season'' in an interactive look at the unsolved

Long Island serial killer The Long Island serial killer (also referred to as LISK, the Gilgo Beach Killer, the Manorville Butcher, and the Craigslist Ripper) is an unidentified suspected serial killer who is believed to have murdered between 10 and 18 people over a p ...

cases. Griffith frequently hosts live ''Websleuths'' videos discussing current cases on YouTube.

References

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Notable cases

Alliances and other activities

See also

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