One positive note concerning this undertaking is that the victims were all slain within the confines of their own homes, and the bodies were never moved elsewhere. This provides us with the most accurate data for the purposes of this experiment. I am working on putting together the Ellsworth, Kansas case now and thinking about pushing Monmouth, Illinois to the second tier. The more I look into the evidence that has survived, the closer I come to the conclusion that the Monmouth case in particular was not in any way related. Please, let know what you think over the next few days. After I get the victim locations pinned down on the map, I will be spending quite a bit of time deciding what kind of grid to be used to lay over said map in order to collect the right information. This should be tedious, and I should have a bunch of free time to field questions and consider new information and theories.

Collecting the initial data. For purposes of getting the ball rolling, I have selected the victims of the "Midwest Axe Murderer" as my base data set. Because this killer was never caught, and we don't know exactly how many killings he was involved in, I will be attributing the murders in Villisca, Iowa; Ellsworth, Kansas; and Monmouth, Illinois to our man due to the similarities between the modus operandi in those three instances. I will include the many other unsolved axe murders of that time period on a secondary tier with far less effect on the numbers overall.

Welcome to the Dark Genesis Project

 At this point we are at a truly new screaming infant stage of development, spraying all it sees with poop. What will be built here over the next couple of weeks is a very in depth GPS map showing locations of where notorious killers left their victims, and the trails they blazed as they satisfied their sick addictions.

 Through out this time we will be capturing output of statistically significant data and begin to set up our own forecasting tool. In addition, I will be wrenching some of my own people to volunteer some time in data entry, housekeeping, and my lovely sociologist to lend a hand on community profiling.

And while that is all going on I will delve into criminal and victim profiling to tweak with a completely new set of data before it is time to launch. I am hoping to get some really good collaboration right off the top with this thing, "GettingtheAxe" I'm looking at you!