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Computer wizardry was the hook that turned a single criminal manhunt into an international news story. CBS' 60 Minutes set the ball rolling Sunday with its explanation of how German police came up with an image of its suspect. Naturally, the first follow-up was by CBS yesterday, when Allen Pizzey reported on the leads flowing into Interpol's hotline. Now ABC has chimed in, with Jim Sciutto (subscription required) examining how the scrambled online self-portrait of a pederast and his pre-teens was digitally unswirled and turned into a Wanted Poster. Visual clues on the images suggest that the child rapes occurred in Cambodia or Vietnam. Sciutto used the shocking statistic of "more than 200 pictures of himself on the Internet sexually abusing boys." Pizzey was more circumspect in his enumeration of the outrage, counting not the images but the boys, "about twelve." The online trail, however, may be cold: Pizzey pointed out that the suspect's most recent posting was in 2004.
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