Missing Gamer Search Now Focusing on Xbox Live

I would recommend that the gamertag be released under the informed function that his tag in-game will be tied to several other internet usernames.  Most likely his gamertag is something he is dearly  tied to.  Insomuch as it is most likey his username on several other forums (we are all guilty of this at one point or another).  Forums that Microsoft will not find in the xbox360 or the mother and the father are familiar with.  That information alone would open the case to gamers who could scour the net for users who had similar tags if not the same tag, and find additional information regarding conversation or websites for the police to hone in on.

We have, so far to my knowledge, treated this young man as if his internet browsing habits went so far as a Call of Duty game.  By discrediting the notion that there are ni other connetions to the internet in his home I would like to postulate on the function of checking the family computer, his computer (if he had an independent one), and, if an independent computer exsisted, checking the routers log to see where this young man has been...assuming the family turned on the log function when they set it up.

I would also recommend that the police check his school's electronic records for the computers in the library and any labs.  locating a point in time when the clan's website or a Call of Duty website was accessed from the school network might very well give insight into other sites were visited by that user.  Considering the isolated nature of this young man's "addiction" one could use that information to weed out a list of sites visited from school, should he have done that.  A simple phone call to the school and their IT folk would have that ball rolling, and little to no police manpower would be burned waiting for the results.

We are left salivating over the concept that the police are focused soley on the xbox360, and given no indication that they are taking their investigation online.  I would conceed that they are most likely doing what I say, or have already done so and are following up on such.  However, if they have narrowed their vision to just the Xbox360, and forsaken any other venue of investigation, then there could indeed be trouble down the line.  Moreso if the Sheriff, who spoke to a now disbarred Lawyer who claimed to be an "expert" on the matter, listened to said expert, and directed his men away from other venues of inquiry.  I fear that this may be a time when an uninformed official listend to a supposed expert, and inadvertently allowed the trail to go cold.

We want to help.  We have resources in multiples of thousands more than the entire police force.  For every one on the ground, there can be dozens of us scouring the internet for signs of this young man.  In an integrated world, you have to look at the physical and the electronic, so why tie your hands?

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