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Chapter 12
Cyber Forensics and the
Changing Face of Investigating
Criminal Behavior
Introduction
To the people on the Internet, he was known simply as “NaughtyGrampa.” He regularly came on
line, off ering to swap lurid sexual photos of very young children with others. None of the others in
any of the online chat groups had ever met him. ey probably did not know where he lived or
even his true name.
In real life, “NaughtyGrampa” was Robert Earl Smith, a then 53-year-old resident of Eugene,
Oregon. Smith used his digital camera to take explicit photos of his sexual abuse of infants including
one of his own grandchildren. He used e-mail to encourage ...