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Help me catch some theives ... please

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polm

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My Roommate's little brother was robbed yesterday. They took both his consoles, and about 900 dollars.

When the 'litte brother' returned home he was shocked to find so few other items stolen. The money happened to be taken precisely from his room in such a fashion that it appears the theives had previous knowledge of it's where-abouts .

So to make things even more interesting, 'little brother' has a message on his cell phone that came from a call he missed near the end of the window-of-time available to break into the house without confronting anyone.

The call was made, clear by accident, from the cell phone of someone whom 'little brother' is "aquaintances" (sp?) with. The cell phone must have gone off in this person's pocket and 'little brother's' number happened to be the lats number called.

The message is rather muffled but there are a few clear statements concerning a large sum of money, sneaking into somewhere, and possibly concerning the missing consoles (XBOX & PlayStation2) .

So I recorded the message using my PC's modem...dialing into 'little brothers' voice mail....and retreiving the message.

I have tried cleaning it up, and amplifying it, with CoolEdit Pro. It hasn't been extremely beneficial. The improvement has been very moderate.

Can anyone suggest a solution for analyzing the audio on this recording to gain a better picture of things said ?
 
I'd suggest tracking the phone# and beating whoevers ass is at the other end of the line.
 
I am not sure what I can do about the audio enhancement, but I hope that you get that information and any information available from the cell phone company to the cops, ASAP. Good luck catching those bastards.
 
Originally posted by: Rent
I'd suggest tracking the phone# and beating whoevers ass is at the other end of the line.
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We know exactly who is on the other end of the line.

We just cannot make out the message clearly enough to be 100% sure.

Innocent until proven guilty....
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Originally posted by: polm
Originally posted by: Rent
I'd suggest tracking the phone# and beating whoevers ass is at the other end of the line.
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We know exactly who is on the other end of the line.

We just cannot make out the message clearly enough to be 100% sure.

Innocent until proven guilty....
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Save it and give it to the cops.
 
BTW...if someone wants to host it, I have the audio in ORIGINAL (3 MB MP3) or cleaned/amped (16MB WAV) format.
 
Unless there is a problem is doing so, can you post the audio so we can listen to it? It's interesting, first of all, and some people might have better hearing and may be able to make stuff out.


Ok, I will admit, I am just curious to hear it 🙂


Edit: Too slow 😛
 
take a baseball bat to your roommates' little brother's aquantances, you know in case they want to play a game...
 
Originally posted by: TheEvil1
humm yesterday. you shur this wasent some kinda big april fools joke.
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Dude, if my friends did that as an "April Fools joke", they'd wake up without any teeth and with my consoles and money back in my hands. Of course, "just as an April Fools joke."
 
u call the cops, thats a decent amount of money!!! call the cops and give them the phone recoreding, they can bring the guys in for questioning at least

get your litle bros money and consoles back or if they sold them, SUE them, cuz theya re crimnals

don;t pus out dude, that is some seroius stuff

Dogg
 
Originally posted by: Angrymarshmello
Yes, call the frickin' cops
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And you DAMN WELL BETTER tell us how everything turns out... too many stories like these are told without anybody finding out what happens in the end.
 
I know someone who does proffesional audio stuff. Theres is a way where you can only have the vocals on an audio track. I'll dig it up.

I think there is an option on cool edit pro that will do it for you.
 
Save it and give it to the cops.
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This situation needs to be handled a little more delicately.

I would prefer to determine, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that these 'callers' are in-fact our theives.

 
Originally posted by: Moralpanic
How did the call get on the cell phone? And why would it have all this info?
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The call appears to have been made mistakenly (the old 'cell phone in the pocket') . I am guessing the call was made quite soon after the event took place, and they are discussing it.
 
No cops where you live? 😕

btw, you might want to trim the phone # off the end of that mp3.
 
Originally posted by: Vic
No cops where you live? 😕

btw, you might want to trim the phone # off the end of that mp3.
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oh shiz...I remembered to cut it off the beginnig but not the end...damnit 😱
 
I fiddled with the equalizer a bit and was able to make out a bit..

--CALL BEGINS--

0:04 Party1 - ".... It's like five hundred (dollars?) ................ you (will/would) never get (robbed/wronged/wrong) ... that way"

(inaudible)

0:14 Party1 - "It's so like ... what's happening like ..(kicked) ..... put my ... through, broke in there ... like uh... "

0:25 Party1 - ".... I didn't (get/do?)... that much.... probably like, six hundred all together"

(inaudible)

0:46 Party1 - "...I only (got) maybe (eight) back there ..."

(inaudible)

1:04 Party1 - "(I smell?) them (freaks?)"

1:20 Party1 - "..... It... wasn't so bad, I got eight..."

**At about 1:36 in we can hear the other party's voice fairly clear - could be useful if weren't sure who else was there**

1:40 Party2 - "It's getting harder to .... (bag it?)"

(inaudible)

**At about 1:50 in, we hear another voice, suggesting there is a third party.**

1:50 Party3 - "And (you might) have gotten 8?"

1:53 Party3 - "And you got (that/back)?"

1:54 Party2 - "No well he had(n't) left a (minute)..."

(inaudible)

**This next part seems to be them talking about the War, which I am assuming is what has been on the TV in the background this whole time**

2:08 Party1 - "Dude they could have snuck in over ... though"

(inaudible)

2:15 Party1 - "Iran.. no not Iran... they're Iraqi"

(inaudible talk from party3)

(Long span of inaudible blips of talk)

4:05 Party1- " ... oh.. sh!t"

--CALL ENDS--


After hearing the end, with them talking about the war in Iraq, it brings into question some of the stuff they were saying earlier. Some of the passages can be make to sound like they are discussing the War, but it's unclear. If you already have good evidence that they broke in, this may help, but it won't do it alone.

How long was the timeframe that they had to break in? Based on the time the message was left, and the timeframe that it could have happened in, you can better pin down the exact time. While it is possible they were in a car listening to the news, it is more likely that they were in a house, as it's unlikely that these types of people would be listening to the news in a car, as well as the echoing of their voices in the room.

So if you have an idea of who these 3 people could have been, you'll be able to find out how long it would have taken for them to get from your house to each house, and then compare it to the time frame and hopefully be able to either pin down when it happened, or to which house they went. Start asking your neighbors if they saw and cars in the area that shouldn't have been there. Don't ask your immediate neighbors, ask around the block, they probably parked a bit away and walked (that is, if they couldnt just walk to your house)

Either way, I hope this helps. If you bring the clip to the police, talk to a detective, and point out the phrases that I highlighted, but don't suggest what they say, let him or her decide for herself.

I'll try to think of some other stuff you can do to help as well.
 
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