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...What they're engaged in is one of the most perplexing cases of serial murder this country has ever seen - and one of the largest media stakeouts since the Chandra Levy case broke. Moose, who served for 27 years (including six as chief) on the Portland, Oregon police force, has some experience with the media, but nothing that could have prepared him for the blunt force of the cameras and microphones that confront him, sometimes four or five times a day, during his 20-hour shifts...
...while they're working with extremely paltry evidence, they have gotten about 1,250 "credible" leads from more than 6,000 phone calls - which means there's probably someone out there with valuable information. Now the key is finding that person and putting the pieces together before the next murder. Can they do it? The good news is there are hundreds of extremely qualified people working this case. The bad news is that thousands of violent crimes go unsolved each year...
...been hearing a lot about this forensic technique, in part because it's one of the only ways officials have to track the sniper. Geographic profiling is generally used when investigating serial crimes - rape, murder, robbery - and depends on mapping the location of each crime in order to determine the most likely point of origin for the suspect. In other words, if you pinpoint the place each shooting occurred, you can deduce a "center" for the criminal's activity, and that often ends up being the perpetrator's home...
...there's one part of America that Moore loves, it's Canada--a country with plenty of guns, poverty and violent films, but a murder rate one-twelfth that of the U.S. He speculates that the reason may be its less sensational media and more enlightened politicians. If he has no answers to U.S. violence, he does offer some scapegoats. He blames TV news for creating a climate of unjustified fear (reports of killings have risen 600%, he says, while the murder rate has decreased 20%) and the Executive Branch for an us-vs.-them foreign policy...
...capital punishment in cases involving 16 defendants. Now it appears his hard-line stance has opened a Pandora's box of legal ammunition for death-penalty foes. Recently Ashcroft told prosecutors in upstate New York to ask for the death penalty in the case of three men charged with murder, drug conspiracy and weapons possession in the killing of an alleged rival drug dealer; the prosecutors had planned to seek life without parole. Lawyers for those defendants are contemplating a motion to delay the trial while an appeals court considers the Fell decision. Other such challenges are sure to follow...