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Thanks for your questions, NJEverCurious. Unfortunately, the Supplementary Homicide Report, the FBI source for most of the records you see at the "Search Cases" tab, does not include the street address of homicides, preventing geo-coding. This is very unfortunate since disorganized serial...

Thank you, really thank you, for these thoughts. We have gathered records on more than 715,000 homicides, searchable by year, geography down to the county and police agency, victim's sex, exact age, race and method of killing. I too have wondered how feasible it would be to automate Web...

Dear Dr. K: Thanks so much for thinking about volunteering. The problem is that few police departments would consider using volunteers to file case information to the FBI. The process of reporting to ViCAP is not easy, and summarizing case details is even more difficult. ViCAP reporting really...

Unfortunately, the FBI never required that victims' names be captured in the Supplementary Homicide Report. The original intent of this database was to provide researchers with information about the nature of homicide in the United States. It was never intended to act as a homicide archive...

First, see if you can find the record of your aunt, if she was murdered in 1976 or later. (We can't post FBI data earlier than this because the formats to the SHR changed so much in 1976.) Use the "How to Use" tab learn how to find a specific case. (We use the murder of JonBenet Ramsey as an...

Christopher: If you go to www.murderdata.org and select the "How to Use" tab, there are pretty complete instructions on how to use our data portals to the Uniform Crime Report ("Clearance Rates" tab) and Supplementary Homicide Report ("Search Cases" tab).

Thank heavens you survived this! Am afraid cases like Reese are the most difficult to solve or even to track. Mobile killers -- especially those who alter their methods or victim types -- are essentially invisible. This is why the FBI created the Highway Serial Killer Initiative using DNA or...

Thank you for that question, Wolfdad11. Ethnicity (Hispanic-ness or non-Hispanic-ness) is not considered to be a race. Most Hispanics in the United States consider themselves to be racially "white." Since the racial choices are white, black, Asian, American Indian or "other", police agencies...

Kodiak: Yes, I agree it would be nice if the case-level data could be sorted by year or month or other items among the more than 30 variables we get from the FBI. This is a current limitation for the Tableau Software system. One work-around technique is to copy and paste the data into a...

If you want to see the results of the Long Island Serial Killer (LISK) go to the "Search Cases" tab at www.murderdata.org. Then select "New York" under states, "Nassau" and "Suffolk" counties under county, "female" under victim sex and "other or type unknown" under weapon. Our you can go to...

Hello Websleuthers! There are many uses for the "Search Cases" function at www.murderdata.org. One of them is that serial killers, if they are prolific enough, become visually obvious. If you want to see the work of Green River Killer Gary Ridgway, simply select "Seattle" under metro area...