Criminologist looks for link in student deaths[I-94-Minnesota]

AP ^ | Dec 10 2006 | AP

[Justa]

Patterns aka statistical clustering is a valuable investigative tool and there are several pattern here which certainly do not correlate with similar conditions elsewhere aka statistical averaging. I.e. all of the deaths are not accidents.

"Nearly 82 percent of the drownings occurred during the first two weeks of the month, and three-quarters of the disappearance occurred when the moon was less than half-full."

Bingo. The two occassions are not causally related however encompass 75% of the deaths. The odds of this occuring randomly over 20 deaths are very small. Factor in the frequency of deaths vs. similar conditions elsewhere and their proximity to I-94 and there is a very strong indicator of criminal activity. Imo the associate pofessor's investigation is legitmate and justified. There is a killer afoot.

[driftless2]

My wife is from Norwich, England. They have a university there and a number of young college men who have fallen into the Wensome River in the heart of Norwich and drowned. The total almost equals the number of young men who have fallen into the Mississippi and drowned. In La Crosse the police have in the past year stopped one young, thoroughly soused, college male from going down to the river after a night in the bars. They told him his dorm was the opposite way, but he vehemently insisted he was walking in the right direction. Right towards the river. Last year another drunken, young male fell into the river but was lucky enough to haul himself out. He sheepishly acknowledged that he fell in himself. No serial killer pushed him in. I repeat, there is NO! serial killer.

[igiveudoubt]

whether a serial killer is involved is a math puzzle; a probability question. relevant facts such as the drownees similar physical stature & the volumem of these drownings compared to the rate in other locales should reveal whther this grat a number of "accidents" break the laws of probability. I don't know all the relevant facts but from whay i do know it seems something more than chance is at play here. i used to live in Buffalo, plenty of bars, plenty of drunken young men, a river and lake nearby --unfrozen 9 months per year--adn i can't recall a single such incident

[driftless2]

There have near nine or ten young college men who have died from drowning in the past ten years in La Crosse. The last one was on the UW-La Crosse basketball team. He was six-three, and weighed two hundred and twenty pounds. All of the other dead men were in good shape and strong, young men. Don't you think that if a serial killer was trying to kill young men, he would pick ones that weren't likely to offer opposition? Don't you think that at least one victim would have been able to fight off an attacker and report it to the police?

[Ignatz]

Guess again!