March 1999
Catch as CATCH Can
Forensic Science: A neural network helps hunt for serial killers
By Antonio Regalado
King County, Wash., detective Robert Keppel was hunting a serial murderer in 1974. Working from the leanest of clues, his staff assembled some 30 lists of potential suspects. One named 4,000 University of Washington classmates of a female victim. Another, every patient released from the state's mental wards in the preceding decade. Using a punch-card computer, the investigators compared the lists. Among the 25 that turned up most often was one now-infamous name: Ted Bundy.
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