Websleuths Crime Sleuthing CommunityReviews of websleuths.com

Very bad site, especially for those witnesses who’ve witnessed a very bad crime. Websleuths denied things, have evidence & screenshots. I’d stay away from them. Is it time to shut the site down?

If I could give Websleuths a zero, I would. Being a member at Websleuths feels like standing in line for soup from the Soup Nazi (Seinfeld episode). Every time you post, you live in fear of the power-hungry Karens who pose as moderators. If they don't like you, your post gets removed and you get banned, usually without explanation, but occasionally you'll get a knuckle rap via a private message you can't even respond to. They don't care about actual justice, only being an echo chamber for everyone who thinks the way the administration thinks they should think, all while begging for money.

I posted a flyer for a Jane doe that linked a 50 year old missing person and an unidentified person and I got banned because I didn’t get it off of the internet! They deleted the picture. WOW I am sorry for all of those families that may have hope because that website has probably done more to prevent any crimes from being solved.

Sadly this site is moderated by a group of outcasts and misanthropes who are more likely to commit crime than solve crime. The lunatics control this asylum.

Just a bunch of people with too much time on their hands and play wannabe detective. Nothing but rumors and trash talk about people THEY think are guilty - whether or not law enforcement does. The owner, Tricia, picks the side that will make her the most money and then lets them run wild, banning those that don't agree. Crazy place!

I was just banned because I contacted friend of missing person offering to help research, get the word out, anything I could do. All family of said missing person live overseas with English NOT first language. I have capability to find out stuff so volunteered to help. First I received 3 day 'time out' – sit on the naughty step for 3 days and think about rule I broke (in Kindergarten are we ??) There was a side group chat where I could still post – members invited others...unfortunately at least one wrong one was added. Reported me for continuing to offer help whilst knowing it's not “allowed” There are good, lovely, kind-hearted members there who genuinely want to help BUT owner/mods don't ALLOW you to actually help. It's a dictatorship of the highest degree (think North Korea) Power tripping individuals....guess I shoulda known I was not gonna last long there!

If you get attacked and talk back, especially if you don't have the opinion that Websleuths favors and are not a regular poster, your posts will be deleted or edited. Only your posts, not the posts attacking or mocking you. As others have said, there is no sleuthing allowed, just links to newspaper articles and a few random youtubers (for whatever reason, why are a few hand picked random youtubers allowed as sources?). The owner whining on stream the last couple of days about how law enforcement won't let her and her great forum help with cases ... that did it for me, it's ridiculous. How can a bunch of random people on the internet solve any crime? A lot of them can't even read and understand a legal document and only post for the drama (of the crimes and on the forum), if anything, LE has to stay as far away from them as possible, they'd just make investigations more complicated thinking their opinions matter and bugging LE with them when they don't even have any of the evidence. I rarely posted for the reasons stated above and stopped lurking years ago (just look at cases that I'm interested in, if there are new developments, once in a while) because even when lurking, you usually only get posts that go in the direction that Websleuths wants and there is almost no discussion going on, seems like a lot of posts get deleted and a lot of people with different opinions are run off, so even lurking is just watching people agreeing with each other, sometimes for years, while being toxic with people who don't share the same opinion until they got rid of them. But hey, maybe they will solve a crime one day by being toxic and posting links to news articles.

Somebody posted something positive about Trump in a Trump thread and got absolutely eviscerated by and condescended to by the sad old biddies suffering from an ugly case of terminal TDS. AZPistonsGirl was especially nasty and provoking which is probably a good sign that she should put down the box o wine and step away from the Internet.