Mikayla Munn Digital Evidenced Project by Kayla Glausier

What is digital forensics?

kaylaglausier — 2023-10-24 17:15:04 UTC

Digital evidence is any evidence stored or transmitted in digital form.

What are challenges associated with digital forensics?

kaylaglausier — 2023-10-24 17:15:23 UTC

Some challenges associated are data encryption, data destruction, and data storage.

Data encryption is when encryption can make it difficult to access the data on the device or network making it hard to collect the evidence.
Data destruction are criminals attempting to destroy digital evidence by wiping or destroying devices.
Data storage is an amount of storage that can be stored on modern digital devices that can make it difficult to relevant information.

Describe and define the chain of custody for digital evidence.

kaylaglausier — 2023-10-24 17:15:42 UTC

Chain of custody tracks the movement of evidence through its collection, safeguarding, and analysis lifestyle by documenting each person who handled the evidence.

Steps of chain of custody for digital evidence

Collection
Transfer
Sequence of control
Analysis
Who was in its custody
Date and time of events
Purpose

How is digital evidence preserved?

kaylaglausier — 2023-10-24 17:15:47 UTC

Digital evidence is preserved by making copies of all the data on storage devices. Experts should identify hidden data areas and restore deleted data.

What is encryption?

kaylaglausier — 2023-10-24 17:15:58 UTC

Encryption is the process of protecting information or data by using mathematical models to scramble it in such way that only the parties who have the key to unscramble it can access it.

What are ways that digital evidence may be presented?

kaylaglausier — 2023-10-24 17:16:11 UTC

Computer hard drive

Internet/Search history

Cell phone

Credit card fraud

Child pornography

Emails, text, instant message

Things stored in the cloud

Who is the suspect(s)?

kaylaglausier — 2023-10-24 17:19:01 UTC

Mikayla Munn

When and where did the crime occur?

kaylaglausier — 2023-10-24 17:19:14 UTC

On March 8, 2016, police found a dead body with an infant in a bathtub in Mikayla Munns dorm room.

What was/were the crime(s)?

kaylaglausier — 2023-10-24 17:19:49 UTC

During Mikayla Munns senior year she got pregnant. She didnt want the baby so she looked up online how to abort her baby. On March 8, 2016, she was found in the bathtub of her dorm room passed out with her newborn baby unresponsive. Later on police found out what she looked up and arrested her for murder.

Motive? What was the reason/motivation behind the crime?

kaylaglausier — 2023-10-24 17:20:12 UTC

Munn's motive was that she was depressed and found out she was pregnant and didn't want the baby. She was ashamed and killed her unwanted infant anonymously without fear of arrest or prosecution.

Digital Evidence

kaylaglausier — 2023-10-24 17:20:27 UTC

Court documents show that Munn did search online for home abortion methods about three weeks before she gave birth. She also looked up ways to cut the umbilical cord.

Other Evidence

kaylaglausier — 2023-10-24 17:20:43 UTC

No other evidence

Trial

kaylaglausier — 2023-10-24 17:20:56 UTC

22-year-old Mikayla Munn is charged with murder and neglect of a dependent after she allegedly gave birth in a Manchester University dorm bathtub, then drowned the child on March 8, 2016. Her trial was February 19, 2017. Munn’s attorney says she fainted in the bathtub from the “shock” of giving birth “unexpectedly.”

Sentencing

kaylaglausier — 2023-10-24 17:21:05 UTC

Munn had been sentenced to 12 years in prison, with three years suspended to formal probation. She got out after serving six years.

Reflection

kaylaglausier — 2023-10-24 17:21:15 UTC

Digital forensics has changed over 30 years because the technology is changing. We are upgrading every technology and everyone has some type of device at home or work where crimes can happen. This field in forensics originated because of the law enforcement and military investigators seeing that crimes are becoming more technical. Digital forensics is used to help investigate cyber crime or identify direct evidence off a device. Digital forensics is not an invaluable resource because it helped many investigators investigating a crime with technology involved. Most people don't realize that investigators can track all information on it even if they deleted the evidence. Many crimes would be unsolved if digital forensics didn't exist because many people have gotten caught by digital evidence.