Database That Helped BTK Detectives May See Wider Use
An AP newswire article by Matt Sedensky, via InformationWeek, reports that:
Technology that helped crack the BTK case could be put into wider use after impressing authorities involved in the intense manhunt for the serial killer.
U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt is seeking $3 million to fund a pilot project to work on cold cases using a similar computer system.
The technology had helped detectives here whittle the list of possible BTK suspects down from millions to hundreds--and eventually to Dennis Rader, who is now serving a life sentence for 10 murders.
A McLean, Va.-based company, EagleForce Associates, developed a database that pools all the evidence from the 31-year history of the BTK murders. That system cross-correllates data to find links that might not easily appear to detectives.
It rates information by the probability it is true--a known fact like an address is given a high value, while something from one of BTK's communiques is given a low one.
posted by Fergie @ 8/25/2005 09:04:00 AM
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