Googling the Trail of a Serial Rapist

theodp writes "Innovative Interactivity has a behind-the-scenes look at the Washington Post's On the Trail of a Serial Rapist series. Information Designer Kat Downs details her experience designing and building the impressive interface for the series, including the use of Google Maps to track the rapist. Wary, perhaps, that it might encourage vigilantism, the WaPo stopped short of allowing readers to add their own input to the maps and urged anyone with additional information to contact the police."

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Re:Vigilantism

[bluefoxlucid]

No kidding. I might know exactly one girl that wasn't raped in her life, and all my friends are girls. One of my friends called me one night to tell me her coworker just raped her ... I found out later that he had raped another one of her coworkers 2 weeks prior, and management dismissed the complaint. But this was at Target, so you know... we don't want to show up in the news for this shit, keep it quiet.