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Why Did a Computer Program Flag Ted Bundy as a Top Suspect and Then Filter Him Out?
Bob Keppel was one of the King County detectives who could see the pattern forming in the spring of 1974. Same age range. Same appearance. Same young man on crutches or in a sling. The Seattle papers started using the word pattern. The Task Force opened a tip line. The phone did not stop ringing.By summer, the Ted Task Force had a composite, a first name, and a car description from witnesses at Lake Sammamish, where the man calling himself Ted had taken two women from a crowded beach in a single afternoon. The tips eventually exceeded two hundred thousand names.Three of those tips came from…
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