The Murder of Julie Snodgrass
Her death led to a breakthrough in cyber crime-fighting.
It will be 30 years in February since a killing on a US Air Force Base prompted investigators to break new ground in computer forensics in an attempt to bring the perpetrator to justice.
In February 1991, US Air Force military officer Sergeant Joseph Snodgrass was living with his wife Julie and their three children on the Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. To an outsider, they might appear to have been a happy family.
However, unbeknown to their friends, they were having marital problems. And the events of the night of February 25th that year would show just how far Joseph was willing to go to get Julie out of his life once and for all.
It would also pave the way for law enforcement to go the extra mile in order to ensure her killer was brought to justice — and to change the way cyber crime was investigated forever.
Discovered off the beaten track
On the morning of February 26th 1991, Filipino police alerted the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) to the discovery of a woman’s body on a dirt road outside the…
