Like much of America, I'm watching the manhunt for the lizard who shot up the students at Brown University over the weekend. We're on day five of the investigation.
I've worked a few murders and if you don't catch the guy in the first 48 hours, you are in for a slog. Investigators get tired, leads fissile out and at some point, you get some sleep and start over.
I'm not convinced that the local cops are up to this investigation, and that is not an indictment on their competence. Sometimes we just need help and the sooner you ask for it, the sooner you get it. If I were running the lead at this point, I'd be looking at geofences and seeing if the digital gurus could help me with digital identification. That takes time, but there is no better time to get started than right now.
What we know right now is that the shooter appears to be a stocky white dude, which doesn't narrow the suspect pool much.
The longest murder I worked took about two years to run the guy to ground.
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