AI could help solve NJ missing child mystery in new step for cold-case probes

Harvey Castro talks about how AI could be used in cold cases and the symbiotic relationship between AI and a detective. New Jersey police are deploying new technology to try to break an unsolved case in what some experts believe could be the greatest advancement in cold-case investigations since forensic genetic genealogy caught the infamous Golden State Killer in 2018. A police department in the 70-square-mile town of Middle Township, along with the Cape May County Prosecutor's Office, will use artificial intelligence to try to solve the case of Mark Himebaugh, an 11-year-old child who seemingly vanished on Nov. 25, 1991. In the 30-plus years since Himebaugh went missing, law enforcement's strongest leads are a composite sketch of a person of interest and a theory that a convicted child sex predator, who's currently in prison, is involved. But neither are strong enough to bring charges or even advance the case.