Donald ChipPughugh texted police a photo of himself and wrote: "Here is a better photo that one is terrible".
Of the 140 texts police sent out to numbers found in a recent raid, 20 people got directly back to police.
The gunmen eventually let Mr Catalano go, while Mr Lepere relayed information via text to police from the box where he was hiding.
As Mr Gravestock lay unconscious on the floor that morning, Doherty took a photo of him with his foot on his head and sent it to others via text message, police added.
The evidence – incriminating text messages, police reports and threatening voicemails – was unequivocal.
After being signaled via text message, police say, the gang descended on the five men, mutilating them with a sadist's arsenal of knives, wooden clubs, and machetes.
Once the girl saw the text messages police had retrieved, though, she said that he had repeatedly digitally penetrated and orally copulated her under her clothes, Matsumoto-Heslin said.
Finally, Jen's roommate texted the police, who arrested Routh and took him to Green Oaks.
He said the man, Lilian Lepère, had secretly texted the police during the standoff and negotiations with the brothers that lasted until dusk.
Three other people, initially suspected as being terrorists but later released, are believed to be members of the same family – a Kenyan man and his two granddaughters, who had been in hiding and texting with police for the past three days.
