murder in Maryland, Washington, DC, and beyond
is this picture cliched yet?
My new idea is linking suspects' names to the court records for their cases. The first time you click one of these links, you have to agree to a disclaimer. After you do that, just hit your browser's back button to get back to the map, then click the name again. You'll only have to do this once. Sorry, I haven't thought of a better way around this yet. Also, I am nowhere near done implementing this yet, but I'm working on it. Also, I think the kind of records I'm looking for are only available for Maryland and (in an inferior format) Pennsylvania. Virginia's court records can't be directly linked to, so I'm just providing case numbers, which you can look up yourself here.
Today's updates (7/4/08):
-Suspicious death Friday in Dunn Loring (Fairfax County, VA)
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Burgersub.org in the news: Baltimore City Paper, Jan. 17th, 2007, Washington Post, Jan. 14th, 2008, Baltimore Sun, Feb. 11th, 2007 (not archived), Baltimore Sun, Feb. 17th, 2008.
This site was around long before the murder maps in The Sun or The Baltimore City Paper, just so you know.
If you want to link to my site on your blog or whatever, that's fine, but please link to this page and not directly to the maps themselves so people can see the RSS feed and the daily updates and stuff
(I'm talking to YOU, username "stammer" on MetaFilter!).
2008 murders: Here is a map showing the area covered by my 2008 maps.
2007 murders: Maryland, DC, Lancaster County, PA, and Fairfax and Prince William Counties, VA
2006 murders: Maryland and DC only
2005 murders: Maryland and DC only
All murders 2005-2007:
Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore City, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Montgomery County, MD, Prince George's County, MD, Washington, DC
Year-To-Date murders through July 4th, 2005-2008:
Anne Arundel County, MD, Baltimore City, MD, Baltimore County, MD, Montgomery County, MD, Prince George's County, MD, Washington, DC
This week's updates by county:
Baltimore City, MD (106):
-Victim dies June 26th after being beaten on June 23rd in Baltimore-Linwood aka Patterson Park (Updated 7/2/08)
-Second arrest made in a May 14th fatal shooting in the Perkins Homes (Updated 7/2/08)
-Arrest made in a March 8th fatal drowning in Carrollton Ridge (Updated 7/2/08)
-The fatal strangulation on June 27th happened on Garrison Avenue, not Garrison Boulevard as the Sun wrote in four separate articles (Updated 6/30/08)
Charles County, MD (3):
-Fatal shooting Saturday in Newburg (Updated 6/28/08)
Fairfax County, VA (9):
-Suspicious death Friday in Dunn Loring (Updated 7/4/08)
Fauquier County, VA (1):
-Murder of undetermined circumstances Sunday in Marshall (Updated 7/2/08)
Montgomery County, MD (10):
-Suspicious death on June 27th in Fairland (Updated 6/28/08)
-Victim identified in a June 26th suspicious death in Travilah (Updated 6/28/08)
New Castle County, DE (23):
-Fatal shooting Thursday in Wilmington (Updated 7/3/08)
-Victim identified in Monday's fatal shooting in Wilmington (Updated 7/1/08)
Prince George's County, MD (66):
-Cause of death determined in Sunday's murder at the county detention center (Updated 7/1/08)
-Fatal stabbing and arrest Sunday in Chillum (Updated 6/30/08)
-Fatal stabbing Saturday in Langley Park (Updated 6/30/08)
-Arrest made in a June 3rd fatal shooting in Chillum (Updated 6/30/08)
Prince William County/Manassas/Manassas Park, VA (7):
-Fatal beating Tuesday near Manassas (Updated 7/2/08)
-Fatal stabbing Sunday in Bull Run (Updated 7/1/08)
Saint Mary's County, MD (1):
-It looks like the June 20th fatal heart attack summered by a man in Leonardtown after being carjacked at gunpoint is not being counted as a murder, so I've removed the marker from the map (Updated 7/1/08)
Stafford County, VA (5):
-Fatal police-involved shooting Sunday near Fredericksburg (Updated 6/30/08)
Washington, DC (88):
-Fatal shooting Wednesday in Riggs Park (Updated 7/3/08)
-The March 21st death of a DC Jail inmate has been ruled a homicide due to a beating on Sept. 18th, 2007 (Updated 7/1/08)
York County, PA (11):
-Victim identified in Saturday's fatal shooting in York (Updated 6/30/08)
When the map states someone's address, and then says that another person involved in the incident is "of the same address," that just means their address is on the same block, not necessarily in the same house.
Other maps:
Shootings (fatal AND non-fatal) in Baltimore City: 2006, 2007 and 2008
The 2008 shootings map hasn't been updeated in a really long time and I'm thinking about getting rid of the shooting maps entirely.
Police surveillance cameras in Baltimore (that I've found)
The cameras map is pretty out-of-date, and I read recently that they're going to be phasing out the portable ones anyway.
Links:
© 2008 chris nelson
chriss chross at gmail dot com