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Does anyone know if the crowd sourcing of suspects on 4chan the other day picked out the same suspects the FBI announced today?



No, neither of these suspects came up on 4chan or reddit.

There seem to be no real hi-res images of these suspects, except for a photo which just showed up of suspect at site #1 [1]

[1] - http://imgur.com/a/34wtj


Gosh that'd be eerie if it turns out to be these guys knowing they walked right past you and your friends and to have a photograph of it.


The source material here looks to be CCTV cameras, which were probably not posted online.


No they didn't


They were pretty close. The 4chan suspect had a forward-facing white baseball cap. The FBI suspect has a rear-facing white baseball cap. These kinds of minor inaccuracies are fairly common in crowdsourced solutions.




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