Detective Lane arrived at a crime scene where a victim sat at a computer, shot through the heart. The computer screen displayed an open email draft accusing the victim's business partner. Lane read the email properties and immediately arrested the business partner, not for murder, but because the metadata proved the email was created three days after the victim died. What investigative error did the killer make?
The killer typed the email after the murder.
By staging the computer to show a draft implicating someone else, the killer failed to realize that computer file creation timestamps expose when the file was actually written.
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