“I wonder if we could teach a computer to spot serial killers in data,” Thomas Hargrove thought as he parsed the FBI’s annual homicide reports. The retired news reporter would soon answer his own ...

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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- The map is covered with Google map dots, nearly 60 of them, each representing a woman killed, a murder unsolved. A cluster of dots forms a loose corridor along Euclid Avenue, ...

A national nonprofit group, known for its work identifying serial killings, may have found a pattern in the murders of multiple Black prostitutes and drug addicts in Chicago. Using a computer ...

One might think authorities have gotten better at solving murders over the years – what with new technology and methods like DNA testing -- but solve rates were actually better 50 years ago. Today one ...

Google’s algorithmic failures can have dreadful consequences, from directing racist search terms to the White House in Google Maps to labeling Black people as gorillas in Google Photos. This week, the ...

“I wonder if we could teach a computer to spot serial killers in data,” Thomas Hargrove thought as he parsed the FBI’s annual homicide reports. The retired news reporter would soon answer his own ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Thomas Hargrove, founder of the Murder Accountability Project, about the algorithm he created to track a possible serial killer in Chicago. The FBI is investigating the ...