Teaser: Algorithm

Can an algorithm connect cold cases -- and help catch a modern serial killer?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Whether we want to or not, we create records of
our lives everywhere we go. Phone calls, emails, even credit
card purchases can be used to pinpoint where we were
at a certain time. When we touch a door knob,
the oil from our hands leaves fingerprints, and our skin
sheds tell tale DNA. If we drive by a security camera,

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our license plate can be scanned and entered into a database.
But despite all this information we're creating, storing, sorting all
of this power that we're giving the government and police,
the United States isn't getting better at solving serious crimes
like homicide. In fact, we're getting worse. Murders were solved

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in today. That number has dropped dramatically. One of every
three murders goes unsolved. One reporter found those stats on acceptable,
so he built an algorithm. Algorithm Algorithm. This software analysis
could accurately find serial killings, but can it help police?

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Here from My Heart Radio and Tenderfoot TV, this is Algorithm,
a podcast investigating a modern serial killer and how he
could have been stopped. Algorithm launches June fift Subscribe today

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