Ask the corpus.
In development
Briefings will let you put a question to the entire cold-case corpus in plain language and get back a structured answer, with every claim traced to the agency record it came from. It isn't live yet. This page is a placeholder for what's coming.
What it will do
Today, asking a cross-cutting question of the data means filtering, sorting, and reading case by case. Briefings will let you ask it directly: describe a pattern, a place, a window of years, or a victim profile, and get a synthesized briefing that pulls the matching cases together and cites each one back to its source.
For example:
- • Unsolved homicides of women along the I-95 corridor between 1985 and 2000.
- • Cases within fifty miles of a location that share a weapon and a victim profile.
- • What is known, and what is missing, across every case tied to a given county.
Every briefing will be a starting point for a person to examine, never an accusation and never a name attached to a crime. The tool points; people decide. Answers will be grounded in what the investigating agency itself reported, with citations you can open and check.
How it will work
Like the rest of Latent, Briefings will run on local hardware. No case data is handed to an outside company, and the models are held to the same limits described on the Methodology page. The how will be documented there in full when the feature ships.
In the meantime
The full corpus is already browsable and searchable. Explore it through Cases and the Map, or read how the data is built on the Methodology page.