The Chess Account That Misled a Three-Year Manhunt
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The Chess Account That Misled a Three-Year Manhunt
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A single lit phone found on a limestone shelf in Cutter Creek, Missouri, with a chess username - gward1974 - and a 61% battery briefly halted a federal hunt that had lasted three years. The account had been active every Thursday night for four years while the woman it matched had already been arrested in Uruguay six days before the phone was found; how could a chess game freeze a manhunt in its tracks?
In this episode, we follow the timeline from the morning Wade Mitchell found the phone at 6:00 a.m, on August 3, 2019, to the deputy U.S. marshal Dennis Fitzgerald piecing together eleven years of financial transfers and a pattern of online chess play that both misled and revealed. What did the chess account’s login pattern and IP addresses say about movement, caution, and the gaps investigators relied on?
Person: Gail Ward
Date: August 3, 2019
Location: Cutter Creek, Missouri
Case: embezzlement of approximately $430,000
Investigator: Deputy U.S. Marshal Dennis Fitzgerald
- The phone screen was lit and showed 61% battery when found at approximately 6:00 a.m.
- The chess username on the open account was gward1974, registered on Chesscircle.net in 2012.
- Between 2005 and 2016 Ward transferred about $430,000 in increments of $800-$1,200 to a shell account.
- The chess account was active every Thursday evening between 8:00-10:00 p.m. Central, 2-5 games per session, for four years.
- Gail Ward was arrested in Montevideo, Uruguay, six days before the phone was found.
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