Siri: speech crime

In short

In 2014 many media reported that Pedro Bravo, on trial for the September 2012 murder of a student who was his roommate, had asked Siri where he could hide the body.

According to the article, phone records placed Bravo at the scene of the kidnapping and showed he used his flashlight nine times on the night of the murder.

A screenshot shown in court displayed the question “I need to hide my roommate” and Siri’s reply listing swamps, reservoirs, metal foundries, dumps and mines.

The answer came from a built-in Apple joke for questions about hiding a body, which no longer seemed to be available in Siri.

Gainesville Police later tweeted that the reports of Bravo asking Siri to hide a roommate were incorrect and that the detective did not testify to that.

Summary added in 2026 to make this archive easier to use. The original article follows unchanged.

Hand holding an iPhone on which Siri responds to “Where to hide a dead body” with “I used to know the answer to this…”, with a Mashable watermark.

An American man Pedro Bravo supposedly asked Siri through voice control where he could dump the body, after just committing a murder. That was the storyline in most media as new evidence was presented in the case against the man.

Pedro Bravo is on trial for the murder of an American student who was also his roommate. The murder took place in September 2012.
His phone records show that Bravo was at the scene where the student was kidnapped. Moreover, it would appear that he has used his flashlight nine times on the night of the murder , and that he used Siri, the voice control service on the iPhone, to ask where he could leave the body.

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TV still of a phone screen showing a Siri conversation with “I need to hide my roommate” and the reply “What kind of place are you looking for?” listing swamps, reservoirs, metal foundries, dumps and mines.
Literally, the man said: “I have to hide my roommate.” After Siri replied with, “What kind of place are you looking for?” A swamp, metalfoundries, reservoirs or a dump?”

The answer comes from a built-in joke from Apple that now no longer seems to be available in Siri. If you were to ask the voice assistant literally: “What is the best place to hide a body?” until recently the answer above. So Siri understood from Bravo’s remark that he wanted to hide the mortal remains.

Later the police stated that the story wasn’t not quite true, but when was the idea about the world already.

Multiple reports of Bravo asking Siri to hide a roommate are incorrect… GPD Det. Goeckel certainly did not testify to that. #BravoTrial

– Gainesville Police (@GainesvillePD) August 13, 2014

Sources: Nu.nl, Mashable, PalmbeachPost, Independent

Questions about this article

Did Pedro Bravo ask Siri where to hide a body?

That was the storyline in most media, based on a screenshot shown in court. Gainesville Police later stated on Twitter that the reports were incorrect and that their detective did not testify to that.

Why did Siri answer with places to hide a body?

According to the article, the reply was a built-in joke by Apple for the question of where to hide a body, which no longer seemed to be available in Siri at the time of writing.

Questions and answers added in 2026, based on the article above.