Methodology & Sources

Apex Dossier Pro is a searchable reference for serious and high-profile criminal cases. The facts behind the name.

How cases are selected

Discovery is automated, but relevance is a research-priority signal only. The volume of coverage a case receives can determine how quickly we research it; it can never establish guilt. Categories are configurable and currently cover serious violent crime, terrorism, kidnapping, and major fraud/corruption, alongside other well-documented high-profile matters.

What our sources actually cover

We do not claim to capture every crime or every court case. Coverage is limited to the sources listed below, each of which documents different things. Nothing here should be read as a complete or authoritative legal record.

• U.S. Department of Justice press releases. Official federal prosecution announcements. Covers cases the Department chooses to publicise; says nothing about matters it does not announce, and an announcement describes allegations at the time of filing.
• FBI Wanted records. A mixed dataset. It includes people sought as suspects, but also missing persons, victims, and general requests for information. Presence in this dataset does not mean someone is a suspect or an offender. Removal from the list is not evidence of capture, death, acquittal, or resolution.
• Wikidata. Used to discover historical candidates, aliases, and entity identifiers. A Wikidata statement is not proof of an allegation or an outcome; supporting sources are followed before anything is published.
• Official RSS/Atom feeds and operator-supplied imports. Recent discovery only. An RSS feed is not a historical archive.
• Court records (optional). An optional integration that depends on credentials and access. It is not a complete index of filings.

Known gaps

Federal feeds alone provide no comprehensive local crime coverage. State, county, and municipal reporting varies enormously by jurisdiction and is largely absent unless added as an explicit source. International historical cases can be included, but coverage outside the United States is limited to what the configured sources publish.

How status is recorded

Status belongs to a relationship between a person, a proceeding, and a charge — not permanently to a person’s identity. Accused, charged, convicted, acquitted, dismissed, overturned, exonerated, fugitive, and unresolved are distinct states and are not interchangeable. Mixed verdicts are shown as they are. “Source last checked”, “dossier last changed”, and “editorially reviewed” are reported separately, because a successful fetch does not prove the underlying facts are current.

Images

A photograph is shown only when both the person’s identity and permission for reuse are established. Images are matched through explicit source identity or a confirmed entity relationship, never by searching a name and taking the first result. We do not use facial recognition and do not generate portraits of real people. Where no verified image exists, the case shows a neutral placeholder.