Searching for Missing Homicide Victims Developing a Data Driven Model

Working with the Office of the State Pathologist (Department of Justice), this postdoctoral research aims to provide practical assistance to the Gardaí in the investigation of cases involving missing persons who are suspected of being victims of homicide in Ireland.
This will be achieved by the refinement and further analysis of the created database of cases of disposal homicides. This will, in turn, contribute to a longer-term goal of creating a data hub of homicide and missing persons cases in Ireland at UCD and the Office of the State Pathologist.
The research will analyse the patterns in homicide and missing persons in Ireland using a database which will be compiled as part of the work. The use of this comprehensive spatial data will inform investigators about patterns of disposal homicides in Ireland.