Oh yeah, lots of American police want to work this hard; there's probably five or six of them at least. What most police will do instead is arrest the first name on the list. When she or he documents an alibi, they'll arrest the second name on the list. Eventually, some poor bastard who lives in the same state will have gone hiking alone the day of the crime, or stayed home and slept after a week of overtime, or whatever. Unless there is a statistician on the jury, that person is going to prison.

Statisticians probably get excluded in jury selection, along with anybody else whose profession indicates they have a clue.

https://www.quora.com/Are-engineers-usually-excused-from-jur...

Unless you've got a cold case, that seems like more potential suspects than a general person may reasonably have.