Cops Are Now Deepfaking Murder Victims To Catch Their Killers

Detectives are trying something that appears to never have been done before: deepfaking a murder victim in a last-ditch attempt to bring his killer to justice. As Euronews reports, Dutch police are describing their use of "deepfake" technology in the cold case of Sedar Soares' 2003 murder a "world first." The 13-year-old Soares was shot dead in a parking garage in Rotterdam nearly twenty years ago, in what appears to be a classic case of someone being in the wrong place at the wrong time, the report notes. His killers were never caught. Now, Rotterdam police have published a video of the boy walking on a soccer pitch, surrounded by his friends and family and imploring the public to come forward with any information they may have about the unsolved homicide.