You can buy a phone for $29.95 and unlimited calls & texts for about $25, or also with 6GB of data/internet about $35, per month, on cards with a sealed activation code, at any Walmart. You pay cash. You call the 800 number on the card, enter the activation code. No name, no credit/debit card, no bill, no address, no plan. You can choose any area code you want. Buy a new card every month to refill. Totally anonymous except for the towers you hit, the numbers you call and text, the websites or email you choose to access. Everything can be constantly deleted. Texts can be entirely symbolic with meaning only known to the sender and recipient: ⚄ A deniable communication meaning what from a phone with no named owner.And that wasn't even the phone that she had previously. Because the day that she got back, she burned that phone in her front yard if I recall correctly. Is that right?
Perhaps she was concerned that all of her applications and email and Facebook Etc was connected to her old accounts that they could easily get? Perhaps that's why she was hesitant.
Also, her husband gave her email address that he knew of for application signups excetera, but my guess is she had a couple of throw away email accounts also. I hope they have them all with Google.
In another case I followed, they said that when you buy a burner phone, you have to sign up with an email address or a credit card or such so that it can be tracked that way as far as who owns the phone.
does anybody have experience and knowledge in that area? They could have tracked all of her burner phones through such?
E.g. if they had Tower dumps they would not be able to subpoena each and every owner unless they had an owner that they wanted more information on?
ETA typos
For example, a drug dealer would be buying new phones and cards all the time everywhere he goes. He might let them "cool" for a time period before using them so he's not on surveillance video purchasing them. He would only use a phone briefly then toss it; just a cost of doing business.
Just my opinion