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Profiling Evil · Saturday · 32 min

MAPPING EVIL Episode 5: Cold Case Doesn't Mean Dead Case

What makes a case go cold, and can it ever truly be dead? We begin in Salida, Colorado, with Suzanne Morphew, who vanished on Mother's Day 2020. Her mountain bike turned up about a quarter mile from home, down in a ravine against a tree. Her husband offered four theories to a passing YouTuber: a mountain lion, a crash, an abduction, or she ran away. I walk through each against the evidence, or really the lack of it: no blood, no drag marks, no torn clothing, and a mother who had just beaten cancer twice doesn't walk away from her daughters. When Suzanne's brother asked for help, we brought in geographic information systems and turned hundreds of volunteers into a coordinated search force. Using mapping apps on their phones, we tracked every searcher in real time, and over five days that crowd covered 6,500 linear miles of rough country. I call it public CSI, and I believe it's the future of search and rescue. Then Adelaide, 1966: the Beaumont children. Jane was nine, Anne seven, and Grant just four when they caught a bus to Glenelg Beach on Australia Day and never came home. I break down the three crime scenes every case like this has to consider, and show how aerial imagery going back decades lets us walk that beach as it was in 1966. #SuzanneMorphew #BeaumontChildren #Glenelg #Adelaide #Salida #Colorado #coldcase #missingperson #searchandrescue #volunteers #victimology #MothersDay #crowdsourced #MappingEvil #ToriShepherd #Esri #ArcGIS #crimemapping #CrimeAnalysis #GIS #map #Mapping #Maps #profiling #crime #criminal #criminalbehavior ======================================== Get 20% Off at www.Newspapers.com/profilingevil ======================================== Website: www.ProfilingEvil.com ======================================== Email your questions to: ProfilingEvil@gmail.com ======================================== 💳 DONATE: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=T54JX76RZ455S 💵 PayPal: https://paypal.me/profilingevil 🕵️BECOME A MEMBER: https://www.youtube.com/profilingevil/join 🛒SHOP MERCH: https://www.profilingevil.com/profilingevilshop 📖SHOP BOOKS: https://www.profilingevil.com/store See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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What makes a case go cold, and can it ever truly be dead? We begin in Salida, Colorado, with Suzanne Morphew, who vanished on Mother's Day 2020. Her mountain bike turned up about a quarter mile from home, down in a ravine against a tree. Her husband offered four theories to a passing YouTuber: a mountain lion, a crash, an abduction, or she ran away. I walk through each against the evidence, or really the lack of it: no blood, no drag marks, no torn clothing, and a mother who had just beaten cancer twice doesn't walk away from her daughters.

When Suzanne's brother asked for help, we brought in geographic information systems and turned hundreds of volunteers into a coordinated search force. Using mapping apps on their phones, we tracked every searcher in real time, and over five days that crowd covered 6,500 linear miles of rough country. I call it public CSI, and I believe it's the future of search and rescue.

Then Adelaide, 1966: the Beaumont children. Jane was nine, Anne seven, and Grant just four when they caught a bus to Glenelg Beach on Australia Day and never came home. I break down the three crime scenes every case like this has to consider, and show how aerial imagery going back decades lets us walk that beach as it was in 1966.

#SuzanneMorphew #BeaumontChildren #Glenelg #Adelaide #Salida #Colorado #coldcase #missingperson #searchandrescue #volunteers #victimology #MothersDay #crowdsourced #MappingEvil #ToriShepherd #Esri #ArcGIS #crimemapping #CrimeAnalysis #GIS #map #Mapping #Maps #profiling #crime #criminal #criminalbehavior

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Get 20% Off at www.Newspapers.com/profilingevil

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Website: www.ProfilingEvil.com

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Email your questions to: ProfilingEvil@gmail.com

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