CHICAGO — The bodies turned up in some of Chicago’s most derelict places: alleys, abandoned buildings, weed-choked lots and garbage containers. Now a national non-profit group and a computer algorithm are helping detectives review the cases and revealing potential connections. “When you put the narratives together … it just screams serial killer,” said Thomas Hargrove, the founder of the project who presented his findings to police in 2017. In 21 killings where DNA evidence was recovered, the genetic evidence belonged to 21 different people. Chicago police, like other law enforcement agencies, submit DNA evidence to a national database in the hopes that it will return a name.

Source: National Post May 30, 2019 04:03 UTC