Travis’ DNA is being compared with semen found on two victims. He also left some very frustrated investigators. Travis left a suicide note declaring he would rather kill himself than face execution or life in prison.
Then he put the noose around his neck and jumped off the toilet.
Somehow-authorities said he must have drawn on his skill with sadomasochistic bondage-he managed to tie his own hands behind his back. He then stuffed toilet paper in his nostrils, put a gag in his mouth and pulled a pillowcase over his head. Finding a spot in his cell that the monitor posted outside could not see, he managed to thread a noose made from a sheet through the tiny holes of a mesh vent above his toilet. Last week, Travis hanged himself in jail, even as he was under suicide watch. They planned additional charges.īut the grim investigation had not yet taken that final twist. Louis area from April 2001 through May 2002. Authorities said they suspected him in the murders of the six prostitutes and four unidentified women whose bodies had been discovered in the St. Travis was charged with two federal kidnapping counts for allegedly taking victims Greenwade and James across state lines. And in a locked file cabinet, they found several belts and ligatures-also apparently smeared with blood. They found what appeared to be blood spatters throughout his suburban home. On June 7, the FBI searched the home of Maury Troy Travis, a 36-year-old waiter with a history of armed robbery and drug abuse. was able to match 65.227.106.78 to a specific user. Some providers delete address information promptly. The FBI subpoenaed the Internet service provider that had assigned that particular IP address. The user assigned to that number had clicked to zoom in on West Alton 10 times-until the map on his screen looked exactly like the version sent to the Post-Dispatch. In this case, in response to a federal subpoena, was able to pull up the IP address of every user who had looked at a West Alton map in recent days.Īs it turned out, there was only one: IP 65.227.106.78. Some Web sites delete the IP addresses of their online visitors within minutes. “People think their browsing online is anonymous, but all kinds of people are watching,” said Chris Hoofnagle, legislative counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, an advocacy group. Each site he surfs-indeed, each page he looks at-is recorded in an activity log linked to that number. Such online browsing can be tracked because each time a computer user connects to the Internet, he is assigned a unique number, known as an IP address.
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