18,777 per year...
Posted on 11/21/2010 8:18:26 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
Authorities in Indiana and Ohio have launched investigations into suspected serial killings after a Scripps Howard News Service study of FBI computer files found many alarming clusters of unsolved homicides of women across the nation.
Also, police in Nevada confirm for the first time that they are hunting a likely serial killer who has targeted up to seven women, mostly prostitutes, and has scattered their partial remains across three states.
Many of the suspected serial killings detected in the study have never before been disclosed to the public.
All told, authorities in seven cities have confirmed that a statistical analysis of federal crime files conducted by Scripps has detected known - or strongly suspected - serial homicides in their communities.
The study was based on computer records of 525,742 homicides committed from 1980 to 2008. The FBI provided most of the data. But Scripps supplemented these using the Freedom of Information Act to obtain detailed records of 15,322 killings that local police did not disclose to the federal government's entirely voluntary crime reporting system.
The resulting database - which crime experts say is the most complete accounting of homicide victims ever assembled in the United States - was created to determine if serial killings could be identified among the nation's 185,000 unsolved homicides.
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>>>The study was based on computer records of 525,742 homicides committed from 1980 to 2008.<<<
That right there is a startling statistic.
It spans nearly 30 years. Although it’s still pretty tragic.
What would be the "startling statistic" would be the number of those murders that were black on black crime...
Talk about a startling statistic. Why would police not report these murders?
185,000 unsolved murders. THAT is the tragedy.
A half million women murdered? No problem - our ‘justice’ people are doing important work - they’re trying to find a conservative lone wolf who MIGHT be violent. Yep - ignore the killers of a half million women ... bigger fish to fry.
If you have a strong stomach watch "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer" sometime to help put that vast figure of death in some context. There are thousands of thoughtless, senseless killers amongst us, and people (mostly women) are murdered quite randomly every single day.
All homicides are not murder. Self defense shootings are one example.
18,777 per year...
We better be getting “right with God”, this HAS to be a sign of the “end times”.
I didn't know a movie had been made about him. Several years ago, I saw him in a documentary, where he talked about his career as a murderer. What was amazing was that he often elicited some measure of trust from his victims--despite his appearance--and without that trust, he would have never have gotten them into a position where he could kill them.
No, Chris. This kind of senseless killing of women and children has been going on for a long time. Yes, I added children because I know of a few of those whose bodies have been found but are Jane/John Does never reported missing — which is really sad.
Jack the Ripper wasn’t the first serial killer, only the first to be publicly acknowledged by authorities.
I’ve come across information concerning others through out history and literally every where on our planet.
Because big federal government will steal your liberty, soul and money?
The werewolf and vampire legends were probable started as a way for people to explain the actions of serial killers throughout the centuries,as people were unable to conceive that these random brutal killings were done by another person; therefore it had to be some mythical animal of some kind.
Why do you think in the old world, women are not encouraged to wander about without escort? They understood the nature of predators amongst us. But we taught our women that they are no different from men and they can do whatever they want. Drink and cavort like a man till the wee hours of the morning and not end up as dismembered remains????!!!! Well, the economy is getting tough, more people unemployed and desperate or drugged out from the despair. Talk about returning to the dark ages, women and families who ignore this trend and do not take precautions or change their free and wily ways, will add more victims to the stats. Tragedy and death are sometimes life’s strongest lessons on wisdom.
Drinking and cavorting is safer for a woman who packs heat
Yeah, all those dead tramps, who cares?
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