Newsweek has a fascinating look at the investigation into the murder of Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old British coed killed this month while studying abroad in Perugia, Italy. Using Skype and Facebook, caribinieri were able to identify and trace the location of suspect Rudy Hermann Guede, a 20-year-old native of the Ivory Coast who immigrated to Italy as a child, who was on the lam in Dusseldorf. (There are also two additional suspects, an American student who lived in the same cottage as Kercher; and this American student's Italian boyfriend. Every suspect denies any involvement.) This gruesome story is tabloid-ready, but like many tabloid stories it may also be representative of the age in which we live. Look at the elements: the Internet, social networking applications, globalization, technological surveillance, the rise of study-abroad programs and American out-migration (if only presumably temporary in this case), immigration from the global south to the global north. ... No wonder people are fascinated by it.