Murder Investigation Enters Cyberspace

One month before his trial, the case against accused double murderer Wenkai Li of Moscow is a hot topic on the Internet.

Besides the traditional evidence gathered in Moscow, investigators are trailing cyberspace talk sent from Idaho to Canada to Beijing and back.

Police have already seized the electronic-mail accounts of Wenkai Li and murder victims Ning Li and Xia Ge, accessed through computer services at the University of Idaho. Wenkai Li, 25, was a graduate student, and Ning Li was a doctoral student.

In an effort to piece together reactions by members of the Chinese community, investigators are accessing a number of World Wide Web destinations and discussion groups where the names Ning Li, Xia Ge and Wenkai Li have begun popping up with regularity.

, DataTimes