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A woman's search history has been used by authorities to convict her of murder after her husband died. Natasha Darcy was found guilty of murdering partner Mathew Dunbar with her plans to inherit his $3.5 million farm exposed as she attempted to lie to police about her actions and intent. Key evidence was found in her search history which matched up to physical evidence found.
Natasha Darcy guilty of murdering partner Mathew Dunbar
Natasha Darcy has been found guilty of murdering her partner Mathew Dunbar by drugging him with a sedative cocktail blended in a Nutribullet and gassing him in his bed in a bid to inherit his $3.5 million farm.
In the months before Mr Dunbar was found dead, dozens of incriminating searches were recorded on Darcy's iPhone, among them: "How to commit murder."
A jury of 11 declared the 46-year-old mother guilty on Tuesday after deliberating since last Wednesday.
Mr Dunbar, 42, was a sheep farmer who lived and worked on his property Pandora on the outskirts of Walcha in northern NSW.
Darcy claimed she found her partner of three years in the early hours of August 2, 2017, with a plastic bag over his head that was hooked up to a helium cylinder. She rang triple-0 and he was declared dead at the scene.
The ram sedative acepromazine and medications temazepam, clonidine and seroquel were found in both Mr Dunbar's blood and a dirty blender cup and glass left in the dishwasher.
Darcy pointed to Mr Dunbar's finances, history of depression and suicidal ideation, "unclear sexual orientation" and a severe calf infection he suffered weeks before his death as reasons he might have killed himself.
But her search history told a different story, the jury heard during the 10-week trial in the NSW Supreme Court.
Same things goes for porn and your marriage.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by looorg on Tuesday June 15 2021, @01:48PM (10 children)
Say no more ...
If you have to ask Google how to commit murder, then perhaps murder ain't for you. That said even tho I have not done murder etc I think my search history would be enough to convict me of various crimes. I'm one of those people that look up weird things online that gets mentioned in movies or TV-shows etc to see what it is or who that was or things of that nature. Research for work doesn't make this better as a lot of that includes criminal behavior, so not great either. So one would hope they had more then some dodgy search history to convict her on and it seems that they did otherwise I'm not sure what they did there for 10 weeks, I know Google logs a lot but even that seem a bit excessive.
So while your weird search history and p0rn habits might paint you as a bit of a wanker it shouldn't be enough to give you the chair.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Tuesday June 15 2021, @02:09PM (4 children)
Heh.... i remember having to look up golden showers: I'm probably on the CSIS pervert watch.
Yeah: RuPaul has caused me to do some searches so i can enjoy the show more, like murken and the like. Curiosity puts the cat in jail?
I don't spend any of my time on social media (unless SN is considered that): I'm curious about everything which is why i now use linux...found there IS something better than windows.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 15 2021, @02:21PM
I had to look up Dutch Steamer and now my internet's slow. Is the FBI listening to me masturbate?
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday June 15 2021, @02:25PM (2 children)
I remember back in the days of newsfeeds and encoded images, there was occasional "bad stuff" visible in the indexes and I felt a mild compulsion to get it - not because I wanted the bad stuff, but because I wanted to concretely prove to myself that I had the ability to do so if I chose... ultimately I left the "bad stuff" alone, and I suppose a handful of images downloaded for curiosity is different than a filing cabinet full of storage media filled with them, but certainly even the slightest evidence of contact with "bad stuff" seems to be enough to earn a conviction in the press, and I would assume a "jury of one's peers" would do much the same.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday June 15 2021, @02:30PM (1 child)
While that may be the case, in this case, the wife had been actively trying to kill him on more than one occasion.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday June 15 2021, @05:59PM
Yeah, in this case the backstory seems pretty damning even without computer evidence.
If I were judge in this case, I would instruct the jury that the computer evidence is not absolute proof that she was searching for these things, cannot be the sole basis for a finding of intent, but with the correlations to her otherwise proven real world actions it is admissible as part of the overall picture.
🌻🌻 [google.com]
(Score: 2) by rufty on Tuesday June 15 2021, @02:37PM
"So, what did he search for?"
"Superconducting magnetics, stellerators, M-theory, space-time-topology, Einsten-Rosen bridge, traversable wormholes, Lament configuration and carpentry supplies."
"..."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by nitehawk214 on Tuesday June 15 2021, @03:52PM
The headline is pure clickbait. The article shows there was a fuckton of evidence such as shopping around to various veterinary clinics for acepromazine.
The first clinic even called the police to report it. Another one was like "sure, go ahead an have an entire bottle of an acepromazine, I am sure you will not be up to no good with it."
Which cops apparently did fuck-all about it, so you could say the guy should never have been killed in the first place.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday June 15 2021, @06:07PM
Ask Alexa instead. Or DDG.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 4, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday June 15 2021, @06:09PM (1 child)
Doesn't sheep farmer provide sufficient clarification?
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(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 16 2021, @02:28AM
Clearly the prosecutor needs to categorize this murder as a hate crime.
It is pride month after all and and violence will not be tolerated against the bestiality segment of the LGBT community.