Tuesday, October 04, 2011

Solving crimes using crowd sourcing

 
Prof heats up cold cases with student society
A year prior, the students in the course came up with the identity of who they felt was the Grim Sleeper serial killer in Los Angeles. The information was shared with the L.A. police. It may have been coincidence, Arntfield says, but an arrest was made two months later and it was the same man the students suspected to be involved in the case.
 


I'd like to know more about their work on the Grim Sleeper case. When Lonnie Franklin, Jr. was arrested,  the news reports indicated that he was off the police radar until familial DNA testing linked him to the crimes. Now it sounds like there might have been other evidence that pointed to him.


Or the reporter got a little carried away.





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