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Montgomery County, MD Police Bring in Geographic Profiler
Aired October 06, 2002 - 18:11 ET
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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: The fear of senseless sudden death grips the nation's capital as the sniper who has killed six Washington area residents and wounded a seventh remains at large. Police have brought in a geographic profiler to help crack the case. CNN's Kathleen Koch is covering today's police news conferences in Montgomery County, Maryland.
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KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For a few hours Sunday fear was set aside for mourning. Cab driver Prenkumar Wallekar, the third sniper shooting victim was laid to rest in a traditional Indian funeral. County Executive Doug Duncan spoke promising justice.
DOUG DUNCAN, MONTGOMERY CO. EXECUTIVE: We are doing everything we can to find who did this, to capture them, to bring them to justice, but today we are here to offer you our condolences, our love and our prayers.
KOCH: Meanwhile, 150 officers continue pursuing evidence in the now seven cases in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. Eight hundred credible leads have come from some 4,000 calls and police are pleading for more residents to share what they know.
CHIEF CHARLES MOOSE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY MD POLICE: We remain convinced that someone in our community knows who's engaged in this, is aware that they haven't been around, is aware that they've been acting differently, that they've altered their schedule, that they may be gloating.
KOCH: Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose calls the investigation complex with little evidence to go on. Police do have a new tool this afternoon, a so-called geographic profile. It finds a pattern in the apparently random shootings and uses that to zero in on the killer or killer's base of operations.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Generally the crime shows that crimes occur fairly close to an offender's home but not too close, so there is a balance.
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KOCH: Geographic profiling authorities say does have a high degree of success. It has been used on cases in over 100 U.S. cities over the last 12 years and in once case they claim that they were able to narrow the search for a criminal down to the very same block that he lived on, back to you Carol.
LIN: All right, thank you very much, Kathleen Koch reporting live there on the latest in that investigation.
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Aired October 6, 2002 - 18:11 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: The fear of senseless sudden death grips the nation's capital as the sniper who has killed six Washington area residents and wounded a seventh remains at large. Police have brought in a geographic profiler to help crack the case. CNN's Kathleen Koch is covering today's police news conferences in Montgomery County, Maryland.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For a few hours Sunday fear was set aside for mourning. Cab driver Prenkumar Wallekar, the third sniper shooting victim was laid to rest in a traditional Indian funeral. County Executive Doug Duncan spoke promising justice.
DOUG DUNCAN, MONTGOMERY CO. EXECUTIVE: We are doing everything we can to find who did this, to capture them, to bring them to justice, but today we are here to offer you our condolences, our love and our prayers.
KOCH: Meanwhile, 150 officers continue pursuing evidence in the now seven cases in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia. Eight hundred credible leads have come from some 4,000 calls and police are pleading for more residents to share what they know.
CHIEF CHARLES MOOSE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY MD POLICE: We remain convinced that someone in our community knows who's engaged in this, is aware that they haven't been around, is aware that they've been acting differently, that they've altered their schedule, that they may be gloating.
KOCH: Montgomery County Police Chief Charles Moose calls the investigation complex with little evidence to go on. Police do have a new tool this afternoon, a so-called geographic profile. It finds a pattern in the apparently random shootings and uses that to zero in on the killer or killer's base of operations.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Generally the crime shows that crimes occur fairly close to an offender's home but not too close, so there is a balance.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
KOCH: Geographic profiling authorities say does have a high degree of success. It has been used on cases in over 100 U.S. cities over the last 12 years and in once case they claim that they were able to narrow the search for a criminal down to the very same block that he lived on, back to you Carol.
LIN: All right, thank you very much, Kathleen Koch reporting live there on the latest in that investigation.
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