[michaelt]

In the Anglesea crossbow case, there were only 17 people on the island who'd brought crossbows. So presumably the police were going through his digital footprint with a fine toothed comb.

If you're one of 17 suspects; a car only you have the keys to gets stolen and burned on the night of the murder, with the car's GPS mysteriously failing during the theft; your Amazon purchase history shows you ordering a crossbow, the type of bolt used in the murder and a GPS jammer; the crossbow bolts you ordered have disappeared; your alibi is you were with someone who denies having been with you; and the phone network says your phone was in the area the murder happened?

You're probably still going to jail.

[mattigames]

That was not the question, I'm only interested in the possibilities to avoid gps tracking not any other mistakes the killer might have done.

[mystified5016]

Just pull the fuse on the infotainment systems. Disconnect the antennas and pull the Sim card.

GPS jammers are (AFAIK) quite illegal in most places and buying one will attract much more attention than modifying your car in your garage.

[OptionOfT]

While I fully support the privacy measures, I'd like to add a couple of caveats:

1) current cars have eSIMs embedded in the modules, no way to remove them.

2) assuming you can disable the (e)SIM, you also disable the eCall system. Although BMWs allow you to upload your own eSIM, I'm not sure which one is used for eCall / other services.

3) Disabling the MMI these days is fraught with peril, as they run the driver's display (speed, rpm etc) as well.