The Murder Project: By the Numbers

Bloggers are lazy? Microkhan chortles at that stereotype. We just wrapped up a long morning of analyzing FBI data, all in the name of furthering The Murder Project, our ongoing effort to assess the state of today's contract-killing marketplace. And today's verdict does not exactly lift our hearts.

As mentioned previously, the only reliable pricing study we've come across (via Slate's Nina Shen Rastogi) is this one from Australia. It examined 163 contract killings in that nation, and found that th