Apparently he has 3 hard drives at home that once belonged to a vendor that was busted on Silk Road. I guess his Grandfather is good friends with the vendors father or something. Vendor is (or was) locked up so his father donated his computers. Not sure why LE didn't have them, but whatever...
This kid barely knows what Silk Road is, and has no clue what to do with the HDDs. He was going to format them and reuse them on his computer. I told him to bring them in and let me look first...
So, if there are abandoned BTC on the drives, what would I be looking for? A wallet file?
EDIT: I am not getting my hopes up yet. The story is from a guy who heard it from his grandfather who heard it from his friend. None of these people have any reason to lie and insert "Silk Road" into a story so I am confident that it they are connected in some way. But I find it much more likely that it was a buyer than a seller. I am just not that lucky to stumble onto one of the relatively few busted vendors...
Wallet.dat