Mapping Murder: The Secrets of Geographical Profiling | 
As I have found in just about every investigation I have looked at, a very plausible suspect always turns up who is not the culprit.
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As I have found in just about every investigation I have looked at, a very plausible suspect always turns up who is not the culprit.
In the U.S. it is often the case that only a couple of police officers are available to investigate a murder and that if they do not get some significant progress in the first day or two the case will be put on the back burner.
Just as in a fictional whodunit the villain needs to be particularly clever, devious or evil to highlight the skills of the detective, so in real-life investigations I have found the police will often concoct complex stories to explain the criminal's actions, making themselves seem especially insightful and intelligent.
Places are never without significance. Our lives are scratched into the surface of the Earth's crust, scratches that tell our personal history as much as our social history.