Unsolved murder rate at record high

Over the weekend, NPR reported that national rate for unsolved murders has hit a record high.

NPR: “While the rate at which murders are solved or “cleared” has been declining for decades, it has now dropped to slightly below 50% in 2020 – a new historic low. And several big cities, including Chicago, have seen the number of murder cases resulting in at least one arrest dip into the low to mid-30% range.”

Journalist Larrison Campbell discussed with me how Mississippi’s low percentage of solved murders drove her to revisit her grandmother’s 2003 murder – Who Killed Martha Campbell?

 

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Author: Rick Outzen

Rick Outzen is the publisher/owner of Pensacola Inweekly. He has been profiled in The New York Times and featured in several True Crime documentaries. Rick also is the author of the award-winning Walker Holmes thrillers. His latest nonfiction book is “Right Idea, Right Time: The Fight for Pensacola’s Maritime Park.”