Today we'd do it without even thinking about it. But back in 2005, Googling a person — even the star witness in a murder trial — wasn’t commonplace. But as National Post reporter Joseph Brean settled into covering the murder trial of Kevin Madden, a teenager charged with killing his 12-year-old brother Johnathon, he did exactly that – and ended up in a place all journalists try to avoid: right in the centre of the story.

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