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Every time you use your phone to text, make a call or post on social media, you leave a mark.

The same thing happens when you use your credit card or online banking or access the internet.

You leave behind a digital footprint that you might not even realize.

I get excited when I start pulling out these little pieces of information from these vast vats of information that have something that can help my investigators move their file forward.

Just the little piece of information that means they can move to the next step is like a win for me.

If anyone watches criminal lines, my role is Garcia.

I'm Nancy Hicks, a senior crime reporter with Global News.

Today, on Crime Beat, I'm going to take you behind the scenes with a crime analyst and share how she's used her expertise to help solve several high profile cases you'll remember from previous episodes.

I refer to that as the best and the worst moment of my career.

The worst moment in the sense that we've got a deceased mom, we've got a missing little girl.

For the first few days, we were working on the assumption that she had been kidnapped and we were working as hard as we could to get her and bring her home alive.

This is The Data Tells of Story.

Trish Pace has been with the Calgary Police Service for nearly 24 years.

I'm a civilian member of the police service. We still go through some of the same process that the sworn members go through to get hired.

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