Blog Post: February 13, 2015

     This week I read a fairly interesting article on mashable.com entitled "Teen faces murder charges after Snapchat selfie with victim's body" by Rex Santus. The article had original obtained my interest through its title; the fact that a seemingly harmless app such as Snapchat was used in a murder investigation to catch a killer surprised me. The app is mostly used by teens for sending pictures to one another. After the picture is received and seen it is supposed to be deleted forever, however there are ways in which a picture can be saved. One of these picture saving methods were used when a teenage boy received a picture from his friend who had killed another boy and taken a picture of himself with the body. The receiver showed his mother the picture, who then went on to report the incident and give the picture to the police. The boy is currently being held in jail without bail awaiting his trial in which he is being charged with murder in the first degree as an adult.