30 thousand murders in the US per year and 30% remained unsolved - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

treeman · 01-12-2008, 04:53 AM

Was a statement by Robert Stack on one of the episodes of unsolved mysteries i saw yesterday.
Does anybody know whether this is still the same?
With all the updates in technology and forensic testing has this figure gone down much?
Also are there as many murders in the US today? Or maybe even more???

With a stat like that though, there is no surprise that Unsolved Mysteries lasted for over 500 episodes....

-Ben

nohwheregirl · 01-12-2008, 01:53 PM

It doesn't look like the number of murders ever quite reached 30,000, but the absolute number and rate has gone down in recent years.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/hmrt.htm

As far as unsolved murders, it has gotten worse! Check it out!
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/cleared.htm

It's looks like about 40% are not "cleared" now.

Thiussat · 01-12-2008, 03:04 PM

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It's looks like about 40% are not "cleared" now.

And you must take into consideration that out of this 40% that have been "solved," there is probably a small percentage of them where the wrong person got convicted.

treeman · 01-12-2008, 07:35 PM

Interesting stuff.
So there would be plenty of content to make new episodes....

-Ben

01-12-2008, 04:53 AM	#1
treeman -Treeman Frequent Poster Join Date: Jan 12, 2005 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 151	30 thousand murders in the US per year and 30% remained unsolved Was a statement by Robert Stack on one of the episodes of unsolved mysteries i saw yesterday. Does anybody know whether this is still the same? With all the updates in technology and forensic testing has this figure gone down much? Also are there as many murders in the US today? Or maybe even more??? With a stat like that though, there is no surprise that Unsolved Mysteries lasted for over 500 episodes.... -Ben

01-12-2008, 01:53 PM	#2
nohwheregirl THE Mystery Machine Senior Member Join Date: Apr 23, 2004 Posts: 1,057	It doesn't look like the number of murders ever quite reached 30,000, but the absolute number and rate has gone down in recent years. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/hmrt.htm As far as unsolved murders, it has gotten worse! Check it out! http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/cleared.htm It's looks like about 40% are not "cleared" now.

01-12-2008, 07:35 PM	#4
treeman -Treeman Frequent Poster Join Date: Jan 12, 2005 Location: Adelaide, South Australia Posts: 151	Interesting stuff. So there would be plenty of content to make new episodes.... -Ben