These two men, Frederick R. Bieber, a medical geneticist: And Charles H. Brenner, a forensic mathematician: … led a study which found that we’d find more bad guys if we start collecting the DNA profiles of relatives of known criminals. From a Washington Post article by Rick Weiss about the study: “In one recent case, […]

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Perhaps clearance rates are going down slowly because police departments are also slowly improving their crime reporting practices? (Am I stating the obvious here?) By the way, there was a great piece about “New York Killers” in the Times recently. Good work, Jo Craven McGinty. The section about clearance rates had some problems, which I’m […]

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Brian DePalma is making a movie about the Black Dahlia. It’s a horrifying case. If you’re not famliar with it, just google “black dahlia,” but it’s got to be among the most famous cold cases. Brian DePalma, I don’t know. He made “Obsession,” a great movie which is a remake of an Alfred Hitchcock movie. […]

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“The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy They told me pretty much the exact same thing, except they would also add imagination and I would have to agree.

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