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Algorithm

Teaser: Algorithm

Algorithm

iHeartPodcasts and TenderfootTV

Society & Culture, True Crime

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2021

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Can an algorithm connect cold cases -- and help catch a modern serial killer?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Whether we want to or not, we create records of our lives everywhere we go, phone calls,

0:08.0

emails, even credit card purchases can be used at pinpoint where we were at a certain

0:13.5

time.

0:15.5

When we touch a doorknob, the oil from our hands leaves fingerprints and our skin sheds

0:20.7

telltale DNA.

0:22.9

If we drive by a security camera, our license plate can be scanned and entered into a

0:28.2

database.

0:30.3

But despite all this information, we're creating, storing, sorting, all this power that

0:36.8

we're giving the government and police, the United States isn't getting better at solving

0:42.1

serious crimes like homicide.

0:44.9

In fact, we're getting worse.

0:47.4

90% of murders were solved in 1965.

0:51.0

Today that number has dropped dramatically.

0:54.2

One of every three murders goes unsolved.

0:58.0

The founder, reporter, found those stats unacceptable.

1:01.2

So he built an algorithm.

1:03.2

Algorithm.

1:04.2

Algorithm.

1:05.2

This software analysis could accurately find serial killings, but can it help police here?

1:11.1

From I Heart Radio and Tenderfoot TV, this is algorithm.

1:17.7

A podcast investigating a modern serial killer and how he could have been stopped.

1:26.9

Algorithm launches June 15th.

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