Robert Kolker Bloomberg Businessweek
On Aug. 18, 2010, a police lieutenant in Gary, Ind., received an e-mail,
the subject line of which would be right at home in the first few
scenes of a David Fincher movie:
“Could there be a serial killer active in the Gary area?”............The police lieutenant never replied................
To make matters worse, Hargrove saw that despite a generation’s worth of
innovation in the science of crime fighting, including DNA analysis,
the rate of cleared cases wasn’t increasing but decreasing—plummeting,
even. The average homicide clearance rate in the 1960s was close to 90
percent; by 2010 it was solidly in the mid-’60s. It has fallen further
since............
Hargrove has his eye on other possible killers, too. “I think there are a great many uncaught serial killers out there,” he declares. “I think most cities have at least a few.”..........“It makes perfect sense,” Hargrove says. “If you leave the killers to walk the street, why wouldn’t that cause more killings? The answer is, it does.”............To Read Much More....
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