After shooting a Reno, Nevada family court judge, Darren Mack went on the lam. Authorities suspected he had fled to Latin America. One place he was not expected to show up was on a popular law blog.



Police contacted the blogger behind The Legal Reader (http://www.legalreader.com/) to request data about someone who posted on the blog. The cops suspected that someone was fugitive Darren Mack.





Comments on The Legal Reader, claiming to be from someone who knew Mack intimately, disclosed financial information and details of Mack's motives in the shooting. The police were able to track the IP address to Mexico, where Mack was apprehended.



After The Legal Reader revealed the facts about their cooperation with the police in capturing Mack, other law bloggers came forward saying they had also received comments from that particular IP address which dealt with Darren Mack and the shooting of the Reno judge.