Molly Greenberg VT About the search drones,
Each flight took around 30 minutes, with the aircraft flying at an approximately 300 feet.
http://inthecapital.streetwise.co/2014/10/08/virginia-tech-drone-used-to-find-hannah-graham/
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Thanx for sharing, FindHG..
Seeing the Billboard of HG missing in the above <bolded> article and the enormous amount number of tips received by investigators in the past 26 days is reminiscent of a 1989 FL investigation of the missing Rogers family<Mother and two Daughters>. This was the first US case that billboards were utilized in a missing person/s investigation and due to the high number of tips, the significant tip, which was due to the billboard awareness, that ended up cracking the case was overlooked several times by task force investigators. Data Management and the prioritizing of tips is critical in missing/murdered persons investigations.
1998 — Feature Writing - Pulitzer Prize Winning
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http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/7892
Angels and Demons
Sunset - Chapter 1
By: Thomas French
One year had gone by since the murders, and then another, and now the investigators were deep into a third. They were working day and night, working weekends, putting off vacations, losing weight, gaining weight, growing pale and pasty and haggard, waking at 3 a.m. with a jolt and scratching notes on pads beside their beds. Their sergeant did not know if they would ever find the answer. As far as he was concerned, the case was not even in their hands.
Ultimately, he believed, it was up to God whether they made an arrest.
A born-again Christian, the sergeant carried a Bible in his briefcase. He had no doubt that both heaven and hell were real. He saw good and evil not as theoretical or philosophical concepts, but as absolute realities walking upright through the world. He believed in the forces of light and darkness. He believed in demonic possession. He took it as a matter of fact that Satan and his cohorts currently reigned over the Earth.
"I believe there are demons all around us," he would say, "just as I believe there are angels all around us."
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FBI Serial Murder Investigation Symposium 09/2005
Behavioral Analysis Unit-2
National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime
Critical Incident Response Group
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Data Management
A common problem in serial investigations occurs when data is not entered into the electronic database in a timely manner. Useful leads are lost when investigators are overloaded with information. The following suggestions were provided regarding data management issues:
• In order to avoid time lags, reports should be written as soon as the investigative lead is completed. If reports are not finished before the end of the investigator’s shift, the lead investigator(s) may not have time to review those reports. This will lead to a back-log of reports, containing pertinent and timely investigative information.
• Sufficient time should be allocated during work shifts to complete reports.
• Information should be obtained, documented, and distributed in a standardized manner, to maintain consistency among different agencies. Ideally, reports should be computer generated to ease the communication issues.
• Systems similar to the FBI’s Rapid Start computerized case management system should be utilized, to effectively organize and collate lead information. Computerized systems promote the analysis of a tremendous amount of data. There should be sufficient personnel committed to ensure that data is recorded into the system, in a timely manner.
http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/serial-murder