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Wichita Police Seek Serial Killer Using Laserfiche Technology
LONG BEACH, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- April 27, 2004 -- It's any cop's nightmare: a serial killer who disappeared a quarter century ago pops up again, taunting police with clues about unsolved murders. But it's not a nightmare; it's a real case unfolding in Wichita, KS.
Wichita IT analyst Cliff Thomas became part of the search team in early April when local detectives and FBI agents arrived in his office. They told him Wichita police reports stored in the LaserFiche digital records management system contain clues needed to break the case. They've been studying LaserFiche files daily ever since.
The killer murdered seven people between 1974 and 1979--four young women, two children and a man. He calls himself "BTK" in letters to police and news media due to his preferred murder method: "bind, torture and kill."
"Critical police investigative records from the '70s are indexed in LaserFiche," Thomas said. "Paper records have been scanned and are accessible on investigators' computers. LaserFiche's full-text search capability lets police study similarities between the cases in ways they couldn't 25 years ago."
The BTK case is a joint investigation of the Wichita Police Department, Kansas Bureau of Investigations and Federal Bureau of Investigations. Detectives believe the killer is still in town. Wichita Police administrative aide Vonnie Forgie said LaserFiche helps new investigators become productive instantly.
"Having the BTK case indexed and searchable is a great help in a cold case," Forgie said. "With LaserFiche, new officers can research specific details of the case without having to read through every file folder."
The killer resurfaced after The Wichita Eagle ran a story on the 30th anniversary of the first killing. He wrote a rambling letter to police, taunting them that he killed another woman in 1986 and revealed facts about several of the '70s murders.
LaserFiche solution provider Galaxie Business Equipment, in suburban Winfield, KS, is ready to create a new database of information for Wichita based on the breaking developments.
LaserFiche (www.laserfiche.com) is a division of Compulink Management Center, Inc., headquartered in Long Beach, Calif. Since 1987, LaserFiche has been helping manage documents in more than 21,000 government agencies, schools, law offices, financial services companies and other businesses worldwide.
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