Victim and perp, according to the internets.
Posted on 06/05/2019 10:41:04 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
SANTA ANA, Calif. - A former U.S. Marine whose DNA ties him to a 1976 homicide near a California military base was arrested last month in Louisiana after he was tracked down through genealogy websites, authorities said.
Eddie Lee Anderson, 66, was arrested May 24 at his home in River Ridge, a suburb of New Orleans. According to Orange County Sheriff’s Department officials, he remains jailed in Plaquemines Parish on suspicion of murder in the May 17, 1976, slaying of Leslie Penrod Harris.
Harris, 30, was found dead by military policemen around 4:30 a.m. the following day on a roadway near Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, which was decommissioned in 1999. Her body was nude and she had been strangled.
According to news clippings from the time of the killing, Harris and her husband had recently moved to California from Hawaii and were living in a nearby hotel while searching for permanent housing.
“Through both traditional DNA and genealogical DNA, we now have the opportunity to solve decades-old cases that would have otherwise been left unsolved,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement. “These victims and their families have been waiting for justice for decades, and the addition of genealogical DNA is now helping us to advance our efforts to achieve justice for crime victims.”
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“And the corollary is that if you send in your DNA for a genealogy you may find some family member arrested for a crime they had previously gotten away with.”
Right. If you have murderers in your family and you don’t want them to get brought to justice — you may not want to submit your DNA.
How are you going to feel when their "Crime" was fighting with Nazis intent on rounding us up and sending us to camps?
Sure, ordinary crime should be punished, but I am alarmed at the rate at which "thought crimes" are being created, and likewise I am alarmed at the punishment's being meted out to anyone declared guilty by social media of these thought crimes.
In England they are arresting people for talking about Muslim rapes.
It’s known as a false positive.
He can’t find her because she did not give up her DNA.
I don’t really know much about this other than what I posted, but I found it interesting that a sister giving up her DNA found a match. Oh, I just remembered that her sister put a “hold” on giving out her DNA info so he would not see it.
If they murdered Abortion providers, child rapists, or brutal fascists, I certainly would not want them caught through my DNA.
People need to consider a future in which "crime" is not what normal people currently regard as crime. The Social Justice Warriors keeps expanding the definition of what is a "crime", and it may eventually be a crime to speak out against them.
>> does she tell him who she is?
We’ve had pretty good luck here.
1/ My mother had a half brother courtesy an affair my grandfather had in the late 1920s. Mom searched for him but never found him. After my DNA test I got an email from the grandson saying “It says we’re related and I have no idea why.” Great guy plus we also met a cousin who lives an hour from us and is a spitting image of my grandfather. We’re friendly with them all.
2/ My brother adopted two kids - we tracked down the family. He met his birth mother just before she died (She was 16 when he was born.) He now has three great siblings and their families.
>> does she tell him who she is?
We’ve had pretty good luck here.
1/ My mother had a half brother courtesy an affair my grandfather had in the late 1920s. Mom searched for him but never found him. After my DNA test I got an email from the grandson saying “It says we’re related and I have no idea why.” Great guy plus we also met a cousin who lives an hour from us and is a spitting image of my grandfather. We’re friendly with them all.
2/ My brother adopted two kids - we tracked down the family. He met his birth mother just before she died (She was 16 when he was born.) He now has three great siblings and their families.
If they murder and they are guilty then I believe they should be brought to justice.
If they murder and they are guilty then I believe they should be brought to justice.
Victim and perp, according to the internets.
“His Blood Cries out...!”
When you have to leave off part of a tongue in cheek reply to disguise it’s sarcastic nature, your pretentious outrage is purely virtue signaling.
Very poorly written article. Her body was not found the day after he was arrested.
Sometimes, mother and child are thrilled to meet. Sometimes one of them rejects the other (sometimes quite rudely). It's indeed a mess.
Saw that......fingers don’t fail me now
Canadian! Meh.
I understand what you were saying. However, in a lot of these cases the police obtain DNA profiles of family members who sign up for Ancestry.com. The police then narrow down potential suspects who are family members of those who submitted their DNA profiles. Bottom line: If Anyone in your family submits a DNA sample, the police can ultimately link it to you.
The murderer has to leave the DNA sample somewhere in the scene or on the victim. That may be semen, a tossed cigarette butt, a tossed drink can or bottle, etc.
Simply having a relative submit their DNA will not result in a match without DNA from the crime to match it against.
Besides, I don’t care if they match my DNA against a relative, however close, who has murdered someone. Son, daughter, sibling, cousin; if they murdered someone then they need to be brought to justice, period.
The only time it “might” be a problem is if you have an identical twin who committed the crime and even then the DNA might well have identifiable differences but that would be a statistically low probability.
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