US police lineups are better at catching criminals than UK ones

Wednesday, September 7, 2016 - 07:31 in Mathematics & Economics

Ted Bundy was suspected of a string of kidnappings, rapes, and murders in the US. Police placed him in a lineup to see if an eyewitness to kidnappings in the Lake Sammamish area near Seattle would identify him. She did not – and Bundy was freed to continue his killing spree, murdering at least a dozen more women before he was finally convicted and executed.

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