This is why you shouldn't post your entire life to Facebook

This story has been passed onto me by my dads friend who used to be a national park ranger until he got caught for growing weed in the woods which is kind of ironic and coincidental because he only connected the latter half of this story because he was in prison.

This happened in Victoria, Australia.

They had been advised by both local and federal police to report any strange vehicles and or people while doing their job, they had not been told why. Just told to report anything strange.

It was about six months later a hiking group comes across the remains of a little boy in a shallow grave near to a half beaten trail. One of the guys went to take a piss and just about pissed on the boys red rain coat.

They said he was in pieces. An arm here, leg there etc.

They later find out the body was that of a five year old boy who had gone missing from the front yard of his parents inner Sydney suburb.

Law enforcement knew it was foul play and originally thought the boys father and mothers ex was the culprit mainly due to a pretty bad divorce where they fought over custody he'd since become an alcoholic.

They never charged him because they had nothing to charge him on other than suspicion.

Anyway that was the last my dad's buddy ever heard of this.

About a year later he finds himself in prison serving out a minimum sentence of six months with a max term of three years. He gets released after six for being a good boy and because he's never had prior convictions and as far as they could tell he was never selling the dope just growing it for himself and his friends (our weed laws are pretty relaxed unless your dealing).

While in prison he makes a few buddies one of which warns him that he shouldn't let his wife or daughter use Facebook because that's how the pedos target little kids. They pay people on the inside mainly in places like India shit loads of money to hand over information on kids they fancy. They dont tell them why they want the info and the employees usually just think its some marketing thing trying to target users.

Said he'd be shocked how much information these people have on you, literal databases of your entire family friends, places you been, where you work etc. They not only have facial recognition but also location recognition technologies that can place you almost anywhere on Earth. They knew this after beating it out of one of the prisons notorious pedo's. Even passed the information onto the prison guards who passed it onto the cops. Nothing ever happened.

So anyway this all happened in like the last two years I am assuming because I know he only got out like a few months back.

My dads buddy was a real bushman. He couldn't keep himself out of the bush. So when they wouldn't rehire him as a park ranger he got a job as a tree lopper and volunteered on the weekends for the BSAR (Bush Search And Rescue).

So he's doing his thing one day and tinkering with his chainsaw parked on the outskirts of a 4x4 trail loppers and rangers use to get in and out of mountainous kind of area up near Alexandria when this Toyora Landcruiser is absolutely belting its way through the mud and grass towards him.

They slow down only briefly and the dude driving is hysterical, the kids in the back are crying and his wife is kind of leaned over trying to calm them down. He's screaming he needs to get out of there, they need to get out of there, he needs to call the police, they have seen some guy killing someone, there was a body or something and boom just like that they keep going.

He's kind of scratching his head wondering if they are on drugs or maybe seen a hunter skinning an animal or something. Then he remembers the boys body and starts to freak the fuck out. He's working as a contractor for the forestry department at the time so doesn't have an open radio communication that he's allowed to talk on but thinks fuck it so he radios into one of the ranger channels and tells them to call the cops and start evacuating and warning campers and hikers they tell him to get off the lines and call into their office.

By the time he gets there they already know more than he does. They dont want to tell him anything but he finds out later that night from one of his ranger buddies that this family is doing their thing having a good time camped by one of the creeks. The dad and son throw their fancy new parrot drone up into the air and they come across a vehicle near to an opening in the trees so they fly the drone around until they zoom in on a man walking around they kind of spy on him for a while, he notices nothing, he goes to his truck gets something out then walks back over into the shrub and stars hacking away at something with an axe. They probably thought he was chopping fire wood until they bring the drone around 180 degrees zoom in and they can clearly see a tiny body, arms, legs, even a face, he's fucking trying to hack it apart! The dad freaks out and flies the drone straight into some branches and loses it. They leave everything that's not important and get the fuck out of there.

My dads buddy stays on it and finds out a few days later the feds, cops, rangers, BSAR and all sorts of crews are searching the area for days. They find tyre tracks, blood and bits of bone and an empty shallow grave. They don't find the drone.

A little time goes by and they catch the guy.

The dads phone or ipad or whatever had recorded everything so they had his face and car on camera. They charge him with the kidnapping, rape and murders of seven kids.

And here is the most fucked up thing ever. When they went through his computer they found facebook images and information of the two little kids and parents who filmed it all.

They are sure he was planning on kidnapping, raping and killing one or both of the kids in retaliation.

They had anonymous emails from unknown contacts who he'd paid in bitcoin transactions to get all the information he wanted and most if not all of it was from Facebook. Cops couldn't figure out how.

He'd gotten their mobile phones wifi details from the parrot drone passed those onto one of his hacker contacts who made the connection with one of the parents facebook accounts. From their the anonymous facebook insider had a field day.

Be careful what you put on Facebook!