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Brown: Only 57% of US Murders Result in the Killer Being Found
“Did you know that if you're murdered in this country, there's only a 57% chance that your killer is found.”
Jim Brown Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 2:52 #118 Uncovered: The Business of True Crime
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Brown: Only 57% of US Homicides Result in Finding the Killer
“Did you know that if you're murdered in this country, there's only a 57% chance that your killer is found?”
Jim Brown Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 2:19 “VCs React to a Bold True Crime Startup—Is Crowdsourced Crime Solving the Future?”
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Uncovered has 49,000 cold cases mapped in its database
“It's a map of all of the cold cases that we have in our database. 49,000 cases.”
Jim Brown Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 3:22 “VCs React to a Bold True Crime Startup—Is Crowdsourced Crime Solving the Future?”
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Brown: 5,000 Murders Go Unsolved in the US Every Single Year
“5000 more every single year go unsolved.”
Jim Brown Sep 13, 2023 ▶ 16:52 “VCs React to a Bold True Crime Startup—Is Crowdsourced Crime Solving the Future?”
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Jim Brown: Uncovered stretched an 18-month $1M fundraise to two years
“I raised just shy of a million dollars two years ago, enough to last 18 months, right? I've now stretched it two years”
Jim Brown Mar 4, 2025 ▶ 22:13 #118 Uncovered: The Business of True Crime
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