Very interesting, in particular, the difficulty profiling the killer...
bbm.
Lengthy, detailed article.
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...did-not-know-killers-star-analysis-shows.html
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Nearly half of murdered indigenous women did not know killers, Star analysis shows
A Star analysis suggests 44 per cent of the women were victims of acquaintances, strangers and serial killers. This finding is based on a Star review of publicly available information on more than 750 murder cases. Of that number, 224 murders remain unsolved".
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" By: David Bruser Jim Rankin Joanna Smith Tanya Talaga Jennifer Wells Staff Reporters, Andrew Bailey Data Analyst, Published on Fri Dec 04 2015
In the seemingly ceaseless tragedy of murdered indigenous women, the country has been left with one crystal-clear impression: the overwhelming majority of those women were in some sort of relationship with their killers.
This is not true.
A Toronto Star analysis suggests 44 per cent of the women were victims of acquaintances, strangers and serial killers. This finding is based on a Star review of publicly available information on more than 750 murder cases. Of that number, 224 murders remain unsolved.
There are many public lists of murdered and missing indigenous women in Canada. The Star compiled those lists into a single database then set out to verify as much information as possible. Relying on newspaper clippings and court documents, the Star’s database includes 1,129 names, dates and, when a case was solved, some information on the offenders.
Our review found 420 cases where details of the relationship between victim and offender were known. Some of them date to the 1960s. Of those:
Half of the victims were domestically related to the perpetrator. This includes all types of family and partner connections.
16 per cent of the offenders were acquaintances; 15 per cent were strangers; and 13 per cent serial killers.
Aboriginal leaders who reviewed the Star’s findings say
they show that the killers cannot be easily profiled and that reasons why indigenous women make up a disproportionately high percentage of homicide victims are not so neatly diagnosed.
