murder

Hillar Moore on the increase in murders in Baton Rouge

Jim Engster

East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore comments on the increase in murders in the Capital region, the pending loss of funds for the BRAVE program…

Jerome Loving on Norman Mailer and Jack Henry Abbott

Jim Engster

Jerome Loving talks about the wild nexus between writer Norman Mailer and fellow author Jack Henry Abbott, a convicted killer who was captured in Morgan…

Detective Mark Williams (right) speaks with an officer in Richmond, Va. A decade ago, amid a surge in violent crime, Richmond police were identifying relatively few murder suspects. So the police department refocused its efforts to bring up its "clearance rate."

Law and Order

Open Cases: Why One-Third Of Murders In America Go Unresolved

Martin Kaste

Police today are identifying fewer murder suspects than they did a generation ago. One criminologist says that may be because departments are more focused on preventing crimes than on making arrests.