Vinny Ferraiolo found dead in his store

[Pythonfriend]

unfortunately the clearance rate for murder is so low that smarter-than-average criminals have a good chance of getting away with it repeatedly. the low clearance rate also explains why many people only end up in prison because they brag about it.

here in Germany, where i live, they are really good at solving homicide cases, and the solved cases free up resources which can then be focused on unsolved cases. the clearance rate is around 97% for homicides.

and in the USA its just 63%. which basically means that if it isnt solved after several months, it will most likely never be solved, because unsolved homicide cases come and go so frequently. new cases come in, and the officers are used to the fact that over a third of the cases wont be solved. ambitious officers might strive for a clearance rate of 80% or more, which would set them up for a career, but even they drop the cases that get cold. in Germany, an ambitious officer that wants to stand out has no alternative, with 97% clearance rate in the background you can only stand out by solving the cases faster and better, and you need to go for the 100%.

its tragic in any case. i mean, whats worse for friends and family, a suicide or a homicide that most likely will never be solved? or only solved years later for a random reason, like the perpetrator bragging, or the perpetrator gets caught for something different and it comes up. and they had a taste of both, the public believing it was suicide for a long time, and now the documents clearly stating that it was homicide. thats really messed up. all these hundreds of students that knew him, wondering what went wrong and how it could be that he killed himself for so long, long enough to maybe start to get a grip and somehow accept it. only to find out that in fact he didnt do it, it was homicide, oh and, by the way, the killer is still out there.

its really terrible what happened here.