Solving a 30-Year-Old Murder Mystery Using the Internet | Super Users

When Todd Matthews first tried to work out the identity of ‘Tent Girl’, an unknown woman who’d been found dead wrapped in a canvas sheet, it seemed impossible. Then the internet came along. Tent Girl had been missing since the 1960s, but it wasn’t until Matthews took his search online, creating the website tentgirl.com in 1997, that officials were finally able to identify her. Long before the days of Netflix’s Don’t F**k With Cats, he became the world’s first cyber sleuth. His work inspired thousands of amateur internet detectives investigating missing persons cases and unsolved crimes all over the world. We met him to find out how the internet shifted the way investigations are shaped and the legacy he created by identifying Tent Girl. In Super Users, we go down an internet rabbit hole to hear from people whose lives have become defined by their online presence. Watch more from this series: Posing as an Old Lady to Expose Online Scammers https://bit.ly/2H5mmiI I Got Addict