Read the enclosed case study (Case Study: famous cases digital forensics) below and discuss the following points:

Discuss your options for acquiring the image

What questions should you ask and how should you proceed?

Explain three common types of digital crime

Discuss the acquisition method that can be used.

Discuss the options that can be used to recover the file.

Famous cases involving Digital Forensics

CASE STUDY 1

E-mails document the conspiracy to murder her husband

2000 Michelle Theer

On Dec. 17, 2000, John Diamond shot and killed Air Force Capt. Marty Theer. "There [was] no direct evidence, no eyewitness evidence. There is no physical evidence. There is no confusion," said Theer's attorney Daniel Pollitt after the conviction.

But what prosecutors did have was 88,000 e-mails and instant messages on Theer's computer, including personal ads that Theer had written in 1999, web-mail that she had written in response to those ads, clear evidence of a sexual relationship between Theer and Diamond, and messages documenting the conspiracy to murder Theer's husband.

Theer was found guilty on December 3, 2004, of murder and conspiracy and sentenced to life in prison.

CASE STUDY 2

2005 Dennis Rader --- The "BTK" Serial Killer

After eluding police for more than 30 years, a serial killer in Kansas re-emerged, took another victim, and then sent police a floppy disk with a letter on it. On the disk forensic investigators found a deleted Microsoft Word file.

Inside that file's metadata was metadata containing the name "Dennis" as the last person to modify the deleted file and a link to the Lutheran Church, where Rader was a Deacon. (Ironically, Rader had sent a floppy disk to the police because he had been previously told, by the police themselves, that letters on floppy disks could not be traced.)