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Murder Suspect Asked Siri Where To Hide a Dead Body

Posted by samzenpus on from the worst-laid-plans dept.

An anonymous reader writes A Florida man currently on trial for murder reportedly attempted to use Siri to garner ideas about where to bury the body of his dead roommate. According to police allegations, a University of Florida student named Pedro Bravo murdered his roommate via strangulation in late September of 2012 over a dispute involving Bravo's ex- girlfriend. According to a detective working the case, Bravo subsequently fired up Siri on his iPhone and asked it "I need to hide my roommate."

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  1. Shocker by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder why my first thought upon seeing the headline was to assume it happened in Florida.

  2. Oh shit! by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    All those old Clippy jokes are becoming reality

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  3. No, he didn't. by Tanlis · · Score: 5, Informative

    He didn't actually do this. Please do a little research.

    1. Re:No, he didn't. by Anubis+IV · · Score: 5, Interesting

      What actually happened is that the police forensically recovered that image from his iPhone 4...which isn't even capable of using Siri, since Siri is exclusive to the 4S and above. The image was apparently from the Facebook cache on his phone. Moreover, contrary to many of the reports, he isn't even the roommate of the victim.

      The reporting on this issue has been rather appalling, and many of us have seen the same or similar screenshots and may have even had them cached on our phones as well, since they were circulating around the Internet back when Siri first came out. I even recall seeing a few YouTube videos making the same joke.

      Whether or not he's guilty, I have no clue, but it's fairly safe to say that he likely didn't use his iPhone 4 to ask Siri anything at all, let alone where to hide his roommate, given that his phone couldn't even use Siri and he wasn't roommate with the guy that needed to be hidden.

  4. It was a saved screenshot by Bodero · · Score: 5, Informative

    This story has already been debunked. It was a saved screenshot (different cell carrier and all).

    No, Pedro Bravo Didn't Ask Siri Where to Stash His Roommate's Body

  5. Re:Gators by rolfwind · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Sad thing about requiring college education whether the job needs it or not. You can fill a moron with facts, but not logic.

    The body of Bravo's roomate was later found in a makeshift grave in a forest close to Bravo's apartment.

    That is stupid.

    Also of note is that investigators determined that Bravo, during the same time frame he asked Siri for advice on where to hide the body, also used a flashlight app nine times. Though circumstantial, the inference is that he used the flashlight on the iPhone to help him see as he disposed of the body.

    Scary how shit like that is tracked in the phone. I use my flashlight daily, wonder if that makes me a suspect for something?

  6. Re:Gators by pupsocket · · Score: 5, Funny

    correct spelling: damned Sirial murderers

  7. Re:To be fair... by davester666 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Real reporters and the jury actually noticed that the accused had an iPhone 4 at the time, which DOES NOT support accessing Siri [unless jailbroken, of which there was no evidence supplied to indicate it was], AND that all the prosecution introduced was a screen-shot of the Siri request.

    You know, the ones that were popular when Siri first was released and Siri would respond with something cute/weird/disturbing to cute/weird/disturbing questions....

    So, I guess he drove to the woods, then fired up his web browser and put in 'Siri, I need to hide my roommate.", then saw the screen shot, saved it to his camera roll, then proceed to ignore the advice in the image with a "Fuck this, I'll just dump him here".

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  8. Re:No matter where it is ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    stupidity is still stupidity
    What is next ?

    Cupidity?

    In fact, the police have repeatedly stated that the story simply isn't true. The defendant's iPhone 4 does not have Siri, and the screenshots were fabricated.

    In fact it's looking very like the Apple connection is solely intended as a viral marketing stunt. Apple vendors are piggybacking a mundane murder trial with their astroturf in order to sell more iPhones.

    http://www.latimes.com/nation/...