Rescue me: SMS from kidnapped 14-year-old

Jim Davenport in South Carolina as reported in the Sydney Morning Herald:

POLICE have arrested the man they believe is responsible for kidnapping a 14-year-old girl who sent a text message to her mother that led to her rescue from a booby-trapped bunker.

The sheriff said the text message the girl sent to her mother came from Filyaw's mobile phone. Investigators used telecommunications towers to determine the general location of the phone used to send the message.

Soon, triangulation (iffy at best) will be a thing of the past.

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