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Safir, intrigued by Scorecard (named for its creator's favorite pastime, keeping baseball statistics), rented an office in San Francisco's Federal Building and assigned Wutrich to teach two dozen other investigators to use the system. Working at 15 terminals tied to an Altos 3068 computer, they fed in data about each fugitive from interviews, rap sheets and computerized files from the FBI, DEA and other government agencies. They learned to query for patterns and to dispatch tips to the field task forces. Investigators who had spent their careers exchanging information via slow, spotty teletypes became born-again high-tech...
Kesselman was finally run to ground in Waikiki several weeks ago, thanks to a computer program called Scorecard. The invention of Ron Wutrich, 28, a self- taught computer analyst for the Marshals Service, Scorecard is one of a new breed of investigative tools that promise to revolutionize the way authorities hunt down fugitives from justice. U.S. officials say Wutrich and Scorecard are the heroes of an international manhunt, disclosed last week by Attorney General Edwin Meese, that has resulted in the arrest of 210 people, including 166 top-priority narcotics traffickers...
...Safir surveyed U.S. Attorneys and Drug Enforcement Administration offices around the country, put together a list of some 700 most wanted suspects and had WANT field teams in place by March 1. The basics -- shoe leather, hunches and luck -- played their part, but what made the operation click was Scorecard, an electronic indexing system that Wutrich put together in just two months. "It's the thinking man's search," says John Pascucci, the WANT project manager...
...computer terminology, Scorecard is a "relational data base," a powerful filing and retrieval program that can not only search for clues but ferret out relations or links between those clues. In a complicated case involving operations in several cities, Scorecard can quickly identify a suspect's contacts and associates. Says Wutrich: "Our system even makes suggestions on where a fugitive might be or who is the strongest person to lead...
...case of Donnie Wayne Snell, a motorcycle-gang enforcer wanted for shooting a Texas highway patrolman, Deputy Marshal Ed Stubbs used the Scorecard system to predict where Snell was heading. A deputy sheriff in Montana said that he had seen someone matching Snell's description driving through town with two other men. Stubbs went to a map, drew a radius around the spot and figured the men had to be heading for Casper, Wyo., or Rapid City, S. Dak. He put out leads to law officers in the area, who started watching the roads. Reported sightings were relayed to Stubbs...