The murder accountability project is a great starting point to follow along the aims of this project.
"Matches" and "links" are terms that are explained at length in this document from the murder accountability project.
Given a starting database with cleaned data to preprocess as an input, match a set of subparameters across a suite of different predictive-analytical functions. Examples of subparameters may include:
>Victim profiles
>Crime Time
>Crime Location
>Type of Weapon
>Modus Operandi
>Other Miscellaneous Patterns
Methods like cluster analysis have been used to identify serial homicide patterns, but how can these be accelerated? Before proceeding, reducing bias is critical in order to eliminate false positives to a rate of zero.