Current case in BA, an adult (47) shot and killed both parents. Area private CCTV gave him away in a couple of weeks.
Both parents were supposed to move to a new apartment the day before the move. He was supposed to make payement for a 2 million new place but he kept the money and the lie until he found no other option than to kill them both and made it look like a burglary.

Among the evidence gathered by police are 4 (?) routers. The crine scene CCTV has not been recovered yet but the suspect is shown leaving the scene carrying a bag that might have been the recorder.

So, wondering what use is the Router besides the MAC from connected devices and for how long will it keep it once unplugged?


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Lots of evidence. Search history, etc…. It is standard procedure for us to take all routers during a search warrant. I wrote many a warrant and seized routers. We turned the routers and every other piece of digital media over to the FBI’s regional computer forensics lab. These device’s tend to have their own memory. Just like your car computers in you vehicle we could get a lot of your phone data when you connected the phone to the car.

In some CCTV installations, the recorder may exist but also have paid cloud storage. Can the police write a warrant to access the CCTV account of the deceased, and inspect the CCTV server for recorded images?

Possibly DNS tying his phone to an IP on WiFi, putting him there at a certain time. Or at least some web traffic for same purpose. Even if he didn't browse the web, the phone is doing background stuff.

Depends on the router. Most of the time you can at least get a log of attached devices. IP addresses can also be stored which can be useful. Time logs of connections. I never had a router prove to be a smoking gun, but I had several cases where it was either strong supporting evidence or was able to point us in a new direction to look.

I knew part of this information but have never fiddled with a router’s firmware, even for fun. Have a couple of old units lying around but too lazy to try open source firmwares. Not a Linux guy by a long shot.

In this particular case, the family owned a security firm so they had a bunch of cameras in and around the house. It has not been disclosed if they payed for cloud storage but it’s not common down here. We have “trouble” and are taxed beyond reason if spending foreign currency (cloud services, streaming, you name it, etc.)

The murderer left his phone inside his car to provide a false location at the place where the parents expected to move the following day (believing the moving company had been contacted) and walked 3-4km to his parents place to commit murder.
He somehow convinced both to get into their car (inside the garage) and shot them there, from behind. They were found wearing their seat belts.

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