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Michelle les iphone began pinging on a tower not far from the apple store. now, its a matter of following the signal, which led to this chuck e. cheese restaurant where the phone turned up, again. >> giselle was seen on a video showing a white iphone. >> remember, this is the day of michelles disappearance when her friends and family were frantically calling and texting her. look at this. giselle is sending out text messages. at that moment, as records show, michelles iphone was pinging off a ne...

Talk to your doctor or visit saveonlantus.com. >> reporter: by early december 2014, christina morris had been missing for three months. police had arrested her boyfriend, hunter foster, on drug charges. investigators had thought he might have something to do with christinas disappearance. but when they looked at cell tower and tollway records, they realized hunters alibi was rock solid.

>> yeah. so its giving us a general vicinity and -- of an area, where -- that cell phone communicated. >> reporter: and the phone records showed that person had been on the move from the believed time of the murder into the next day. how important is the story told by the cell phone? >> very important. cell phones almost like someone dropping pieces of popcorn, leaving a trail. >> reporter: but the trail was a wide one. cell phone towers dont pinpoint exact locations. >> we know from that cell t...

Quinns calls were originating, technicians were tracing pings when the phone was in use. those are the electronic connections made when a phone hits a particular cell tower, and that gave investigators a general idea where quinn might have been held. fbi agent tony kravit was selected as the lead crisis negotiator for the bureau. >> were tracking the phone and thinking weve got some leads. >> agents felt they were making progress, but suddenly the phone was also pinging farther away. the kidnapp...

That is information related to on going investigation thats are not the subject of either of the current prosecutions involvement advantage manafort. thats a lot. is that a different subject? what could that mean? thats a lot -- i dont understand whats going on here. >> sure. so the reason that hes obtaining information regarding phones via search warrant is because hes obtaining what is called -- it appears hes obtaining h obtaining historical cell side information. hes getting information abou...

Information. hes getting information about what cell towers they were in con be tact with at the time they were making calls. it doesnt give you precise location but tells you the vicinity that phone is in. right now im in chicago. my phone is hitting off of a cell tower in chicago. it would tell you that im not in tennessee or anywhere else. im in the vicinity of downtown chicago. and so that -- what is interesting about that is that typically financial crimes are not crimes where the location ...

Widen saying, to homeland security, do you think any foreign government are using these devices called sting rays to try listen in on cell phones in washington, d.c.? or track them? and all of a sudden they came back and said yeah. weve detected the signature of somebody trying to use these things. so the obvious question is what is a sting ray? it shows up in things like homeland. bits the size of a briefcase. extremely portable. you can carry it around. when you s it up, it acts like a cell to...

Day-to-day lives, all the things youre doing are susceptible to interception, surveillance and people spying on you. >> bill: a great reminder. what would someone use this for? a criminal matter? or something worse? >> it all depends. the most common way that you would use this if you have the higher end version would be to listen in. the -- it acts as a dummy cell tower. it would allow a third party to listen in on everything we were saying. so it allows for active surveillance of a phone conve...

Records and began plotting out a timeline of her whereabouts, but the picture the records painted wasnt quite what they expected. that morning call to scott, the one he couldnt hear? teresa did not call from moundville. >> cell tower shows that its pinging from up in tuscaloosa. >> wait a minute, how could it be pinging from tuscaloosa? thats miles and miles away. >> theres no way she could make the call and be back to where she was murdered out. >> so curt at this of the cell towers you were ab...

Into that computer database at the joc, the joint operations center. when the batteries came in as a lead initially early in the week, agents would have been going back to suppliers, in china and japan and saying, who have you sold batteries to in texas of this make and model. give us the list. it might have been a lot of thousands of people. we would do this normally. or get a -- a dumb of people and then you get the name and if this name hit and he was at fed ox and bought a dozen batteries an...