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Webcam mystery

Postby Elvis » Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:23 am

I saw this webcam on the site that Iamwhoiam posted in The Surveillance State and the Transformation of Society thread:

For at least a few weeks (guessing by the comments), this webcam has focused on a wall with eight mugshot-like photos of four or five people pinned up on it.

webcam link: http://www.insecam.org/en/view/344140/

:shrug:

Sometimes the light in the room is brighter but I screen-grabbed it, cropped and did about 60% auto-levels for better contrast, but it's clearer in the streaming webcam image linked above (which could go offline at any time).

Anyone recogonize the photos?
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Re: Webcam mystery

Postby elfismiles » Wed Mar 08, 2017 11:31 am

Nope ... but a news search for ... brentwood california 4 missing wanted

Got these hits:

Teen girl beaten to death in Brentwood; 2nd body found
WABC-TV-Sep 15, 2016
A teen girl found dead in the street near a school on Long Island Tuesday night was beaten to death, officials said, and investigators believe ...
http://abc7ny.com/news/teen-girl-beaten ... d/1510813/

Suffolk County Police Searching For Clues In Murders Of Brentwood ...
CBS Local-Sep 15, 2016
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/09/15/ ... n-murders/

Sini: Fourth set of remains ID'd as missing Brentwood teen
Newsday-Sep 23, 2016
Sini said the cause of death was assault for both Miguel Garcia Morán, the 15-year-old who went missing in February, as well as 19-year-old ...
http://www.newsday.com/long-island/crim ... 1.12357074
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Re: Webcam mystery

Postby Elvis » Wed Mar 08, 2017 4:07 pm

Thanks, Elfi. I got a brighter image from the cam and replaced the first one in the OP above, and I'll drop it here too...
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Re: Webcam mystery

Postby Iamwhomiam » Thu Mar 09, 2017 2:46 pm

I'm sure there are other reasons, but perhaps they posted their photos because they once passed bad checks and want to prevent a repeat performance?

Any possibility of isolating individual pics to do a photo search for each?
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Re: Webcam mystery

Postby Elvis » Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:30 pm

Iamwhomiam » Thu Mar 09, 2017 11:46 am wrote:I'm sure there are other reasons, but perhaps they posted their photos because they once passed bad checks and want to prevent a repeat performance?

Any possibility of isolating individual pics to do a photo search for each?


Good theory as any so far, thanks.

I did think of isolating the photos and image-searching, might make time to do that.
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Re: Webcam mystery

Postby Elvis » Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:05 am

"No other sizes of this image found." :grumpy
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