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Mike McQueary Found By Investigators Thanks To Message Board Post, According To Report

The New York Times published an extensive look into the investigation that resulted in former Penn State assistant Jerry Sandusky being changed with dozens of counts of sex crimes against minors. The detailed report, pieced together by Jo Becker, Pete Thamel and Mark Viera runs down the investigation from beginning to end, shining a light on how the grand jury came to its findings.

In an interesting twist, investigators hit a wall in 2010 before stumbling onto an Internet forum post that eventually led them to Mike McQueary.

Working off the brief mention on an Internet forum where people chatted about Penn State athletics, according to the two people with knowledge of the case, investigators narrowed their list of coaches likely to have seen something to Mike McQueary, then an assistant coach and the football program’s recruiting coordinator.

State College is a close-knit community. Word would get around that a Penn State coach had met with investigators. So investigators set up a meeting in an out-of-the-way parking lot, according to those with knowledge of the case.

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McQueary proved to be a key witness in the grand jury investigation after spilling what he allegedly saw in the locker room. And it was all, according to the New York Times, triggered by a bit of Internet sleuthing, resulting in the lead investigators needed to add another dimension to the case against Sandusky.

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