Written by investigative experts, one a seasoned homicide investigator, the other an experienced criminologist, Criminal Homicide: Murder and Its Investigation breaks new ground in the study of murder and its investigation and shares new, provocative findings. This work details how stranger killers commit their crimes and the factors that lead to their arrest. It draws upon fifty years of investigative and research experience of the authors, on popular and academic literature on murder, and most unique, comprehensive individual case-level data from the Homicide Investigation and Tracking System on every solved and unsolved murder committed since 1980 in the states of Washington and Oregon.