![]() Hargrove created the code, which operates as a simple algorithm, in 2010, when he was a reporter for the now defunct Scripps Howard news service. ![]() Hargrove intends to find them with his code, which he sometimes calls a serial-killer detector. ![]() Each year, about five thousand people kill someone and don’t get caught, and a percentage of these men and women have undoubtedly killed more than once. Using computer code he wrote, he searches his archive for statistical anomalies among the more ordinary murders resulting from lovers’ triangles, gang fights, robberies, or brawls. States are supposed to report murders to the Department of Justice, but some report inaccurately, or fail to report altogether, and Hargrove has sued some of these states to obtain their records. For the past seven years, he has been collecting municipal records of murders, and he now has the largest catalogue of killings in the country-751,785 murders carried out since 1976, which is roughly twenty-seven thousand more than appear in F.B.I. ![]() To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your iPhone.
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