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| Using his computer code, which he sometimes calls the serial killer detector, Hargrove searches for anomalies among the most common murders that result from gang fights, robberies or love triangles |
Archivist and researcher Thomas Hargrove has developed his own algorithm that he uses to track the habits and status of serial killers.
He told The New Yorker that according to the FBI, 1,400 murders remain unsolved but are linked to other killings through DNA.
Hargrove, who is a part of the Murder Accountability Project (MAP), said his estimate of 2,000 serial killers at large is the number he came to after analyzing data available.
Hargrove collected records of murders for the last seven years, and he has a catalogue with 751,785 murders carried out since 1976, according to the New Yorker.
That number is roughly 27,000 more than appear in the FBI's files.
In order to obtain this figure, Hargrove needed records from each state. In some cases he had to sue states that either reported inaccurately or failed to report the murders altogether. (more...)
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