Social Media DNA
Tag

murder

5 articles

2015

12 August 2015Public sector

Murder game: Her Story

Her Story is the new video game from Sam Barlow, creator of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and Aisle. Acrime fiction game with non-linear storytelling, Her Story revolves around a police database full of live action video footage. It stars Viva Seifert, actress and one half of the band Joe…

13 April 2015Apps & platforms

Crime Locker

The world’s first true crime unsolved social investigation site (not operational yet). There are 200,000 unsolved murders in America since 1980. Forty Percent of the homicides in the United States go unsolved. In 1960, that number was only 10 percent. Crime Locker is the nation’s largest…

2014

20 August 2014Public sector

Siri: speech crime

An American man Pedro Bravo supposedly asked Siri through voice control where he could dump the body, after just committing a murder. That was the storyline in most media as new evidence was presented in the case against the man. Pedro Bravo is on trial for the murder of an American student who…

19 August 2014Apps & platforms

Crimemap: Alertos.org

The crimemap above displays a 90-day period of crime, as reported by the citizens of Guatemala (Alertos.org) In the past three months there have been 356 murders in Guatemala, 202 armed attacks, 44 drug deals, 11 kidnappings and six cases of “extortion via a mobile phone”. Guatemala is trying…

18 January 2014Crime ABC

A – Accessory

Accessory to a Facebook Murder? A public prosecutor asked for an open trial, because it concerns a very serious and shocking case. Winsie Hau was stabbed at the street in front of her home in Arnhem (the Netherlands). She later died from her injuries. The 15 year old boy who could have done it,…