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Its -- the cell phone is telling the towers, "here i am"? >> yeah. so its giving us a general vicinity of an area where that cell phone communicated. >> 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. >> but the trail was a wide one. cell phone towers dont pinpoint exact locations. ...

Working to find quinn gray. the agent in charge of the fbis jacksonville office is james casey. he says the kidnappers appeared to be deactivating quinns cell phone after each of the calls they made to reid. >> somebody in the scheme was smart enough to take the battery out of the cell phone. because we were able to, through some technical capabilities, determine that that phone was not only off but had no power to it. at certain times. >> meaning you cant trace it. >> meaning you cant trace it....

>> cell tower shows its pinging from up in tuscaloosa. >> wait a minute. how could it be pinging from tuscaloosa? thats miles and miles away. >> right. theres no way she could have made the call and been back to the location where she was murdered at. >> courtesy of the cell towers, you were able to show that teresa could not have made that call. it had to be somebody else using her phone and what do you know? her phone is missing from the crime scene. >> correct. >> so the person who very likel...

The agent in charge of the fbis jacksonville office is james casey. he says the kidnappers appeared to be deactivating quinns cell phone after each of the calls they made to reid. >> somebody in the scheme was smart enough to take the battery out of the cell phone because we were able to through some technical capabilities and determine that that phone was not only off but had no power to it at certain times. >> meaning you cant trace it? >> meaning you cant trace it. >> while there was no pinpo...

Pinging off a nearby cell tower. to ritchie it seemed quite clear. giselle esteban was the one using michelles phone to send those creepy text messages to worried friends and family and to him. and giselle did all this while on a shopping trip with her daughter. >> and shes on that phone roughly the same time that shes getting text messages from the classmates and family members. and things like that. and then i sent her a second text message at -- roughly at 3:15 in the afternoon saying, "this ...

This is an example of the records actually from this case of every time the cell phone was used by this man named timothy carpenter whos challenging the fbis use of this data because it got it without a search warrant. now, the phone companies say they need this data to do things like billing and roaming charges and see what kind of traffic each cell tower gets in order to better deploy cell towers. but the question is, can the police get this without a search warrant? now, in timothy carpenters...

Move. who should have access to that data? what about law enforcement? should it require a warrant? sure, its about the changing scope of the fourth amendment in a digital age but a case before the supreme court tomorrow could go far to change privacy expectations for all of us whose smart phone is like a third hand. nbcs justice correspondent pete williams joins me now with more on that. and danny cevellao, msnbc legal analyst, is also here. pete, walk us through how we got here. what was the i...

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 us ttuscaloo. >> wait a minute. how could it be pinging from tuscaloosa? thats miles and miles away. >> right. theres no way she could have made the call and been back to the location where she was murdered at. >> courtesy of the cell towers, you were able to show that teresa could not have made that call. it had to be s...

Correspondent pete williams to explain. pete, whats the deal with this? >> this is about whether the police need a search warrant to use your cell phone to track you. heres why they can do that. when you use your cell phone, it signals a nearby cell tower to connect to the network and as you travel along, it connects to different cell towers as you make your journey. the police can go to the phone company and get the records of those cell towers and find out where you were at various times of da...

In iowa when a cell phone tower went up near her home. less than a year later she had intense headaches and extreme fatigue. >> it took another period of time to do the correlation of the cell tower and the headache. my son was studying for a ham radio license, theres a chapter in the book there of the smt symptoms of an operator standing in front of an antenna. the symptoms were the same as what i had. i got in the car, we drove away. my headache got better. turned back home, the headache grew ...