Episode Details

The Apple and Meta warrants showed investigators trying to reconstruct Ethan Chapin’s digital life in the months leading up to the murders and to determine whether anything in his accounts could help explain his movements, contacts or relationships. Police sought Chapin’s iCloud records from August 1 through November 18, 2022, including account-identifying information and other stored data tied to his Apple account. The Meta warrant similarly targeted Chapin’s Facebook account from August 1 through November 19 and sought subscriber information, login data, contact information, payment information and other account records. Investigators were doing the same thing with the other victims, effectively building a digital map of who they had been communicating with, where their accounts were being accessed and whether anything in their online activity could point toward a motive, prior contact or suspicious person.


The American Express warrant was part of the parallel financial investigation into Chapin and the other victims. Police sought transaction records from American Express and several other banks and credit-card companies as they examined purchases, locations and spending activity that might help reconstruct the victims’ movements or identify people and businesses connected to them before the murders. Importantly, the warrants did not mean investigators suspected Chapin of wrongdoing; they were using every available digital and financial source to build a complete timeline and rule possibilities in or out. Taken together, the Apple, Meta and American Express warrants showed how broad the Moscow investigation had become almost immediately: detectives were not just processing the house, they were digging into the victims’ phones, social-media accounts and financial histories to understand exactly what they had been doing and who they had been interacting with before November 13, 2022


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