Erin Andrews video story gets curiouser with bloggers on the case
If the FBI wants to investigate the Erin Andrews peephole video scandal – in which crimes have obviously been committed – then some bloggers are doing some fine preparatory detective work in figuring out whodunit.
Primary among these bloggers is Don Chavez, who has taken time out of his regular “lad” blog schedule to post some heavy duty stuff about the originator of the Erin Andrews video material. There are several surprises in his revelations.
First of these is the fact that the person who uploaded the video to NSFWPOA.com, which is where the scandal got public prominence, may not have been the one who shot the video in the first place. The videos – plural – were originally uploaded to French video site DailyMotion by a 49-year-old user who goes by the nickname of Goblazers1.
The five minute video clip that has now propagated its way across other video hosting sites, plus BitTorrent and Rapidshare, is a compilation from seven separate videos which were uploaded by Goblazers1 as early as February 17 of 2009. Chavez and others have speculated on the identity of Goblazers1 by pointing out places in the US which have sporting teams called the Blazers, such as Portland’s Trailblazers and the University of Alabama-Birmingham Blazers, but there is no hard evidence on that front.
More importantly, Chavez, who friended Goblazers1 on Daily Motion, logged the IP addresses and dates of the uploaded videos, and has now matched them to locations in the US:
March 10: Montgomery, Alabama
March 12: Atlanta, Georgia
March 19: Dallas, Texas
March 21: Charlotte, North Carolina
March 26: Dallas, Texas
March 27: Dallas, Texas
April 21: Buffalo, New York state
May 6: Chicago, Illinois
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Chavez also argues that because Goblazers1 also uploaded peephole videos of other unidentified women, the culprit is probably not an ESPN employee, something which has been speculated elsewhere.
The FBI is not currently on the case, but they’ve got enough to go on now. Perhaps Mr Chavez can expect a call from law enforcement some time soon.
