11mo ago

44 years after woman murdered in suburban Seattle, DNA on cigarette leads to suspect in Arkansas

www.cbsnews.com

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forensic genetic genealogy
I'm happy they got the guy, but this is why people submitting their DNA to any lab should understand that it also reveals the DNA of all your blood relatives to some extent, not just yours and yours alone.
Not everyone would be pleased to find out they inadvertently got their child arrested for whatever crime even if it is 'just'.
- I'd be cool with it if it was murder. That being said fuck these companies selling data to police and insurance companies
  
  They don't sell it, to my knowledge. That serial killer in CA was found because they submitted it the same way you or I would, and waited for the company to return familial matches.
  
  Almost everyone would be good with it if the crime were murder or sone sex thing.
  But like you point out, the data could be sold. It's going to be in data leaks soon enough. And who knows what happens if the government you live under gets fascist.
- I'm a twin. I do not have exclusive license over my DNA, and also I fear I'm gonna get picked-up for some crime he committed 20 years ago.
  
  Sounds like you have a permanent excuse for beyond reasonable doubt
  
  I’d be out committing crimes. 🤷‍♂️
- They matched the guys own DNA to DNA he left at the crime scene. Did you eve read the article, or do you just need something to be outraged about today?
  
  Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said on social media that his office's sexual assault kit initiative funded forensic genetic genealogy testing that "narrowed the list of suspects."
  so..
  Did you eve read the article?
I was expecting 23andMe strikes again! Just regular police work.
hey, this was an episode of Law & Order
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stop promoting the idea that DNA is evidence.
- Is it not?
- This guy murders and can’t get away with it.

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