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An old Italian man lived alone in New Jersey. He wanted to plant his annual tomato garden; but it was very difficult work as the ground was hard.

His only son, Vincent, who used to help him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and described his predicament:

Dear Vincent,

I am feeling pretty sad, because it looks like I won’t be able to plant my tomato garden this year. I’m just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. I know if you were here my troubles would be over. I know you would be happy to dig the plot for me, like in the old days.

 Love, Papa 

A few days later he received this letter from his son:

Dear Pop, Don’t dig up that garden. That’s where the bodies are buried.

 Love, Vinnie 

At 6 am the next morning, FBI agents and local police arrived and dug up the entire area without finding any bodies. They apologized to the old man and left. That same day the old man received another letter from his son.

Dear Pop, Go ahead and plant the tomatoes now. That’s the best I could do under the circumstances.

 Love, Vinnie 

10:15pm MST Title says it all. I GeoIP’ed the ip address and it is somewhere in Denver which is an hour or two away from my house. Ideas? I’ve never wanted to hit the front page more in my entire life.

10:45pm MST Update 1: Keylogger installed.

11:10pm MST Update 2: Computer has been turned off, I hope he turns it back on. I wonder if the Wake-on-LAN feature is enabled?

12:15am MST Update 3: Señor PoopFace appears to have disabled the keylogger. We are having power outages and this might be the culprit but I am still incredibly suspicious.

1:07am MST Update 4: Señor PoopFace did not uninstall the logger.

1:27am MST Update 5: I have retrieved what appear to be SENORITA PoopFace’s myspace credentials. Will report back shortly.

Question: What time do you think is guaranteed they will be asleep. I demand to know within a 95% confidence interval.

2:46am MST Update 6: I took over the computer only to find someone watching Lion King in iTunes at almost 3am. I was quick to black the screen but who knows what they saw of me clicking around. I was able to get the log file that never sent out. Must inspect and find it’s secrets. Also stuck Prey on there so I can see when it is safe to take over the computer.

Whoever is using the computer loves internet Backgammon and sucks at Hearts.

3:31am MST Update 7: From what I can tell from the logger, their internet connection is terrible which would explain why the log data never came to my email. I’m all sleuthed out and I’m exhausted. Will post more exciting business tomorrow. Thanks a million everyone. Couldn’t have done it without the hivemind!

12:17am (next day) MST update 8: waited for the computer to be inactive for a few hours and then went to work. Router login credentials were admin admin. Awesome. Found SSID and Router MAC. SSID appears to contain their house number, but not street name. I draw ever closer.

Big, stinky update3:24 pm (next day) MST update 9: Pipl.com gave an address corresponding with the name from myspace. Going to go cruise by the house and check for the SSID. Will report back soon!

TL;DR I have obtained names and myspace credentials for the (possible) thieves.

TIL Everyone should install LogMeIn and Prey on all of their computers. There is a good possibility they will be responsible for having my computer returned.

important question Does anyone know how to search for a house(s) using only the house number and the city, not the street name. Reverse whitepages yielded nothing. answer used a few links below and searched every zip code in my city. No results so probably not an address.