Facebook photo provides critical clues in search for fugitive | Forensic Files

so some killers leave behind DNA some killers leave behind fingerprint but a Victoria leave behind a facebook profile
this particular picture was the most beneficial she's wearing the Ray Ban sunglasses again that are mirrored and
she took a great picture for us too to see the dashboard of the car you could see that unique configuration but more
importantly the stitching on that back headrest yeah that's just black leather with a white light grey stitching on it
it made the car that much more unique to me so you have this image of the backseat with this unique stitching what
do you do go walk around the parking lot until I found the same type of car I would do one row and then I said I'd do
one more row you take your cellphone out zoom in on that stitching and then walk
behind every car you can and look into the windows and try to find that stitching it's a needle in a haystack so
by using her own Facebook photos and comparing them to your surveillance photos you got a match no and I had to
be a hundred percent sure that I was having my former colleagues at the NYPD go and arrest the right person there's
no second chances on this I wasn't getting it wrong so I went a little overboard and confirmed and reconfirmed
and I needed more information like this to go forward that's what her Facebook helped me to do in some ways for you
when you're able to confirm this furry hood with this furry hood the color of the coat with the color of the coat in
that in some ways is that like a fingerprint to you it's all I have to work with so yeah that would be that's
pretty unique and it's not enough it's not an actual fingerprint but it gave me a lot more confidence going forward with
this she's a dangerous person viktoria isakova had to be taken off of these streets

Private investigator Herman Weisberg shows "48 Hours" correspondent Peter Van Sant how he used social media to track down internationally-wanted murder suspect Viktoria Nasyrova.

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Brief Summary

Investigators used Viktoria Isakova's Facebook photos to identify her in a crime scene investigation.

Key points

The Search for a Killer. Using Facebook photos to identify a dangerous suspect, the investigation intensifies.
Confirming the Match. The detective goes overboard to ensure they arrest the right person.

Episode highlights

Episode quotes

It's a needle in a haystack.

1:02WatchOct 20, 2017

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