From Gimlet, this is Revile, I'm PJ Boat.

And I'm Alex Gold.

And you are a truthy pin of Manani as far as I know.

Yeah, I'm here with a story.

So a year ago, I read this article about bounty hunters and there's this one line in it

that said, bounty hunters are now finding almost 90% of their fugitives, which I thought

sounded like a really high number.

In this article, they say, quote unquote, like the success rate has a lot to do with technology

for skip tracing, the term of art for locating a man on the lamb.

A man on the lamb.

A man on the lamb.

So this is a thing.

Like there's a whole group of people, they're called skip trace errors because of people

they're looking for, called skips.

And they've apparently gotten so good at tracking people's digital trails that no matter who

you are, if you try to hide, they can find you.

So like there's a story that just totally captured my heart, which is this one guy.

He was trying to find the skip who was known to have a particular, a taste for seven

eleven slurpees and this guy, he got this database of all the video footage from all the

local seven elevens and he ran this like facial recognition software and like found which

seven eleven, the skip had most recently frequented and staked it out and caught the guy

coming out with a star feet.

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