Morgan Absher

Police kind of figured that if they could find out what site that map came from, like there were multiple providers.

I was a MapQuest person.

There was a bunch of other different providers.

They figured that if they could find out what provider that was, they could go to that provider and say, hey, these are the coordinates.

Can you track or provide us what IP address requested?

Those specific coordinates.

Who made that search for that specific area?

Can you tell us that?

Yeah.

They assumed this would likely lead right to their killer, which is clue number seven for us, tracking the map.

Back in 2002, it wasn't super easy to get maps online.

I remember traveling across the U.S.

with my dad and having the big book that you'd trace the atlas.

Yeah.

I remember printing off MapQuest directions to go from Duluth, Minnesota to Minneapolis.

And it was like two freaking turns.

But still, I had my MapQuest printout ready to go.

Yeah.

And it wasn't before long that analysts with the Illinois State Police eventually narrowed down the list to just one website, Expedia.com, which was actually owned by Microsoft.

And for those of you that don't know, because I feel like it's just common lingo now, it's just like we don't really know what it means, but we know what it is.