A Missing Underscore Sent Innocent Man To Prison For 18 Months

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A Nova Scotia man, Brandon Klayme, spent 18 months in prison due to a username typo during a 2018 child-luring investigation. Police in Madison, Wisconsin, and Halifax, Canada, sought records for the Kik username "fus__ro_dah" but mistakenly requested data for "fus_ro_dah". This single-character difference led authorities to the wrong individual. Klayme was imprisoned based on this false premise, as the missing underscore misidentified him as the perpetrator of the crimes being investigated.
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