I'm obviously not saying this clearly at all. Sorry. 
Say, you have 100 men who report their wives missing in a city, over a period of a year. (I'm making up numbers here). 50 of those wives will return during the initial process when the cop has just arrived - ran out of gas, whatever. Another 25 will be found quickly, having left on purpose. Another 15 will have had an accident or seizure, heart attack, something, and will be located in a hospital within the next few hours.
5% have been murdered by a stranger, or their car ran off the road into a lake, who knows, they will never be found. The remaining 5% were already murdered by their husbands before the husband reported them missing.
Those numbers are just guesses, but they illustrate 5% of husbands who report their wives missing have already killed them.
In the other case, you are talking about the pool of men who kill their wives and then call and report them missing. Say, in a city you have 20 men within a year who kill their wives. My guess is, maybe 10 of those men will initially call and report their wives missing to LE.
So. You've got two population pools. One is a pool of men who report their wives missing.
In the second case, it's the pool of men who kill their wives.
Sorry. I'm a statistics wonk. ;D
Say, you have 100 men who report their wives missing in a city, over a period of a year. (I'm making up numbers here). 50 of those wives will return during the initial process when the cop has just arrived - ran out of gas, whatever. Another 25 will be found quickly, having left on purpose. Another 15 will have had an accident or seizure, heart attack, something, and will be located in a hospital within the next few hours.
5% have been murdered by a stranger, or their car ran off the road into a lake, who knows, they will never be found. The remaining 5% were already murdered by their husbands before the husband reported them missing.
Those numbers are just guesses, but they illustrate 5% of husbands who report their wives missing have already killed them.
In the other case, you are talking about the pool of men who kill their wives and then call and report them missing. Say, in a city you have 20 men within a year who kill their wives. My guess is, maybe 10 of those men will initially call and report their wives missing to LE.
So. You've got two population pools. One is a pool of men who report their wives missing.
In the second case, it's the pool of men who kill their wives.
Sorry. I'm a statistics wonk. ;D
