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Where Did Jack the Ripper Live? Geographic Profiling Pioneer | Former Detective Inspector Kim Rossmo
Could a map help answer the question: where did Jack the Ripper live?Dr. Kim Rossmo spent more than twenty years with the Vancouver Police Department, where he became Detective Inspector in charge of its Geographic Profiling Section. He now teaches at Texas State University. In this conversation, he explains how geographic profiling uses the locations of linked crimes to estimate where an offender may be based—and why it is a way to focus an investigation, not an “X marks the spot.”Using historic maps of Whitechapel and the five canonical murders, Rossmo’s analysis placed the profile’s peak…
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