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by Kulsoom Haqqi Over the past month, I have been pouring over a multitude of cold cases in the U.S. When filling out rows of data about victims on different cases, it is very easy to forget that there are names and faces attached to these demographics. The numbers themselves weave their own story. Some…

by Charlotte Kopelman Over the past few weeks, I have been inputting data for a project where our team is examining demographic and structural variables related to unsolved homicides. This work consists of identifying an unsolved homicide in a specific county in the U.S and gathering demographic statistics—i.e. education, income, race—based on the census data.…

by Shannon Hickey The past two weeks have been a journey of discovering connections between serial homicide and path dependency. This new leg of the Social Homicide Project has been fascinating to indulge in. The process involves sorting through a list of United States Serial Killers and delving into as much as we can about…

by Tatum Kleis I’ve spent the past week looking over a database of almost 25,000 unsolved homicides in the U.S. (provided to our research team by Project Cold Case). When looking at the cold case data, the sheer number of cases that have gone unsolved–or uninvestigated–is appalling. Investigating deeper into the demographic information of the…