How Did a Website Identify a Serial Killer?

Wild Wild Tech by Studio71

Dec 2, 202036:11Technology

The FBI estimates that as many as 40% of homicides go unsolved, with no national database to keep track. But what if an algorithm could help identify trends and even potentially bring the number of unsolved murders down?...

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