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, representing women whose lives, and deaths, shared some common traits. Are some of the unsolved deaths the work of the same killer? Only detective work can answer that question. But some say a computer algorithm created to spot serial killers might help. Fm 2005 Download Completo In English. The Cleveland area has recorded nearly 60 unsolved killings of women since 2004, and most don't appear to share the indications of a serial killer.

They include drive-by and other shootings that police believe are gang- or drug-related. Several clusters of deaths highlighted by such a computer formula, which finds common patterns of victims and killings, do share such markings. View in a full screen map Those should absolutely be explored to see if a serial killer or killers could be at work, said Eric Witzig, a retired homicide investigator for the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department and for the FBI's Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP).

The clusters involve two strings of killings of approximately a dozen women, and one trio of more widely dispersed killings of older women. Witzig was trained by John Douglas, one of the fathers of criminal profiling.

He works now with the 'It's not only possible that there is one series of offenses, but as many as three,' Witzig, who reviewed details of the cases as part of a collaboration between MAP and The Plain Dealer. The algorithm hit on at least 20 of the unsolved cases in Cleveland and East Cleveland, including five later determined to involve women with histories of prostitution. Witzig cautioned that full case files, with photos and more nuanced detail of the murders, must be reviewed before firmer conclusions can be drawn. He suggested that Cleveland ask the FBI's agency's behavioral analysis unit, based in Quantico, Va., to help determine whether one or more serial killers might be responsible for the deaths. 'Prove this is a series or prove is isn't,' he said. Cleveland police officials were interested enough in the potential patterns to discuss them with MAP over the phone last week. 'It's got us thinking,' Commander James McPike, who heads the department's special investigations bureau, which includes the homicide and sex crimes unit said.