A San Francisco investment banker with quite a history of DUIs was out driving on January 11th 2005 when he hit, and killed 55-year-old Gurdeep Kaur. Lee Harbert, the driver fled the scene.

The story that Mr Herbert stuck to was that he hit a deer. Releasing  him from the need to stop and assist with whatever he had just ran over. Originally police reports were for a burgundy Jaguar, and Lee’s was black.  No way it could have been him.

Police later searched his house and computer. They searched his recent queries in Google and found these recent search terms: “auto parts, auto dealers out-of-state; auto glass, Las Vegas; auto glass reporting requirements to law enforcement, auto theft.” The one that did him in, was this gem, “hit-and-run” which he followed to a website that had the news story on the hit-and-run he committed.

Convicted, and later sentenced to three years in prison. Harbert attempted  to appeal just last week, but was denied.

(via yeahthatsodd.com)