Siri Killer 2014: Defense Denies Alleged Killer Asked Siri Where to Hide Victim's Body
Apple promotes its personal assistant Siri as a way for users to get help with many different things; things like setting appointments and finding restaurants.
But Siri has her limits and, evidently, asking her help in hiding a corpse is beyond that limit.
Prosecutors in a Florida murder trial allege that a Florida man told Siri "I need to hide my roommate." That man, Pedro Bravo, is now on trial for the 2012 murder of Christian Aguilar, who was dating the defendants ex-girlfriend, Yahoo News reported.
Prosecutors this week brought forward a screen grab on Bravo's phone that showed that exchange with Siri. According to reports, Siri's response was "What kind of place are you looking for? Swamps. Reservoirs. Metal foundries. Dumps."
Siri's response was an easter egg put in by Apple engineers, wrongly assuming that no one would be foolish enough to ask for that advice seriously. Apple has changed the response to Siri saying "What, again?"
But, Apple engineers may have been correct in thinking no one would ask for serious advice about hiding a body. The defense says that not only did Bravo not ask Siri about hiding Aguilar's body, he couldn't have, ABC News reported.
At the time of Aguilar's death, Bravo owned an iPhone 4, which was the model right before Siri was introduced. Also, Bravo and Aguilar were not roommates, according to testimony in the trial. The defense says the screen grab on Bravo's phone was a photo from an outside source.
Bravo claims that he met Aguilar on the night the latter disappeared.
"He got out of the car and I fought him and after that, I remember going in the car and I remember seeing him in my rearview mirror while I was driving away," Bravo said during police interrogation.
The prosecution acknowledges that Bravo drove away, but they say that he did so with Aguilar's body in the back of his vehicle. Aguilar's body was discovered in a forest 22 days after he went missing.
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