Murder Accountability Project: How many unsolved murders are there? It’s greater than the population of Des Moines How many unsolved murders are there? It’s greater than the population of Des Moines WASHINGTON D.C. – More than 216,000 homicides committed since 1980 remain unsolved – a body count greater than the population of Des Moines, Iowa. That figure...
Killers are likely to get away with murder in several major cities within the San Francisco Bay Area. The problem is that insufficient resources have been assigned to combat deteriorating murder clearance rates — a problem facing police in much of the nation. But an experimental partnership between the Oakland Police Department and the FBI has both underscored...
The Murder Accountability Project has consulted with Cleveland’s Plain Dealer newspaper to produce an analysis of nearly 60 unsolved female homicides that found highly suspicious clusters of similar killings. Twelve of the murdered women had convictions for prostitution. The bodies of the sex workers were all found on or east of 70th Street in two geographic...
The nation’s largest suspicious cluster of unsolved female murders occurred over a 40 year period in Atlanta, Ga., according to a new series of investigative reports by WXIA-TV, the NBC affiliate in Atlanta. The Murder Accountability Project and members of its Board of Directors participated extensively in producing this report. Veteran investigative reporter...
More than 40 women in Chicago have perished in unusual and unsolved cases of strangulation and asphyxiation in recent years, mostly on the city’s south and west sides. Many of these cases have startling similarities in which the bodies of young mostly African-American women were deposited in dumpsters which were set on fire. The Chicago Police Department told...
Reporters from WKYC-TV and Cleveland’s The Plain Dealer newspaper have collaborated to review recent unsolved homicides of women and asked the Murder Accountability Project to review their data on 61 unsolved killings going back to 2004. The review found that 34 of these women were killed by gunfire, 10 by blunt force, 9 by strangulation and 8 by stabbing. Slightly...
The majority of homicides go unsolved in a growing number of major American cities, an alarming trend that has worsened significantly during the last 20 years. Some 130 major police and sheriff’s departments reported to the FBI that they failed to make an arrest in most of the homicides they investigated in 2020, up from 73 jurisdictions in 2019, according to a...