Algorithm Podcast
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When Afrikka Hardy was strangled in 2014, it seemed completely random. But it wasn’t. It was part of a pattern.
Four years earlier, reporter Thomas Hargrove created an algorithm to detect serial killers, and it flagged Gary, Indiana, as the site of an unusual number of strangulations. But when Hargrove reached out to warn local police he was ignored – until Afrikka Hardy was murdered, and those cold cases suddenly didn’t look so cold. I pitched, researched, wrote and hosted and produced this 12-episode narrative. It was produced entirely remotely, during the pandemic. The story was an attempt to combine my interest in science and evidence-based approaches with my experience working in true crime.
I was the sole producer for most of the show. In later episodes I had production assistance assembling episodes and cutting down VO.
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