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The Serial-Killer Detector (2017)

by hotgoldminer on 4/26/19, 2:03 PM with 7 comments

• by IfOnlyYouKnew on 4/27/19, 8:18 AM

  Note that he’s running this as a rather young retiree of 60 years, and is limited by the lack of corporate resources exposing him to possible lawsuits.

  The news business still works well enough for this excellent article in the New Yorker to tell us of an instance where it stopped working. Right now, we still get a glimpse of what is being destroyed. Soon, the idea of someone having the freedom to devote a year’s work to an unproven method of investigation will be lost to history.

• by rossdavidh on 4/27/19, 2:48 PM

  More recent article from Cleveland news station indicates no serial killer caught yet, but I guess at least now they're actively looking for one (or three):

  https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/cleveland-met...

• by triplee on 4/29/19, 1:18 PM

  Someone sent me this a few weeks ago, and I've been playing with loading his datasets into a graph database. It's kind of a mess of CSV and some column formatted files, but it's a fun process.

  Will share if I make something of it.

• by Haga on 4/27/19, 7:02 AM

  The improve crime solved statistics by implying correlation equals causation. How does the total percentage of serial anything compare to other countries.