• starik@lemmy.zip
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    The murder clearance rate in the US is around 55%. Almost half of all murders go unsolved.

    It obviously varies by jurisdiction, with some being much better and some much worse. In Flint, Michigan, less than 18% of murders are solved.

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      I bet many more didn’t even get reported as murders in the first place. There are probably a shit load of cases from back in the day with 1950s wives poisoning their husbands or some shit that just got chalked up to heart attacks.

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        My wife’s grandmother casually makes jokes about the types of ways she would poison somebody and how she would get away with it.

        It’s uncomfortable but she’s old and dgaf.

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          I once saw a presentation where someone correlated the opening of banking and credit services to women and their steep rise in the 70s with the corresponding drop in deaths by poisoning.

          I’ve half-heartedly tried to find these numbers, but failure hasn’t stopped me from propagating this story