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Genealogy Websites Were Key to Big Break in Golden State Killer Case
New York Times ^ | 4/26/18 | THOMAS FULLER

Posted on 04/26/2018 4:04:33 PM PDT by Blue House Sue

SACRAMENTO — The Golden State Killer raped and murdered victims all across the state of California in an era before Google searches and social media, a time when the police relied on shoe leather, not cellphone records or big data.

But it was technology that got him. The suspect, Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was arrested by the police on Tuesday. Investigators accuse him of committing more than 50 rapes and 12 murders.

Investigators used DNA from crime scenes and plugged that genetic profile into a commercial online genealogy database. They found distant relatives of Mr. DeAngelo’s and traced their DNA to him.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: dna; dnatests; earons; genealogy; helixmakemineadouble; serialkiller
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To: luvbach1

Not long ago, several sites admitted they were adding a percentage of black DNA to the results just to mess with people.

Waste of money in my opinion.


61 posted on 04/26/2018 8:24:33 PM PDT by Clay Moore (MAGA)
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To: Chainmail

Exchange blood for guns in this example. “You can have your guns, and if you have no murderous intent with them, you should have no problem entering their serial numbers into a database.”

Still feel the same way?


62 posted on 04/27/2018 2:27:31 AM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: Blue House Sue

Gee it’s nice of people to have registered their DNA with the state— er, I mean ancestry.com.

This is even creepier than Facebook, in that your relatives can register you.


63 posted on 04/27/2018 3:39:26 AM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: Blue House Sue

They used techniques adoptees use every day to find birth parents. Every. Single. Day.
Ancestry just provides the databases for constructing the mirror trees. Actually ancestry had no part. You can’t upload raw data to them. The police uploaded to gedmatch, and used the closest match to construct the mirror trer


64 posted on 04/27/2018 9:50:33 AM PDT by gracie1 (Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesnÂ’t mean you have to approve of it.)
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To: goldstategop

DNA doesn’t lie. Exactly.
I found out what happened to my husband’s missing grandfather. We found a love child of a cousin no one knew about. And of course the biggest surprise was me. I matched a 1st cousin. That match proved my birth mother. Found my birth father through a 3rd cousin match.


65 posted on 04/27/2018 10:57:58 AM PDT by gracie1 (Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesnÂ’t mean you have to approve of it.)
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To: Pravious
The DNA testing to find relatives recently exposed a doctor in Idaho Falls. He was hired to assist an artificial insemination. When one of the offspring of the procedure sent in DNA for analysis...voila! The doctor is "dad". There are lots of siblings too. The doctor provided "seed" for a lot of "clients". There is absolutely fallout.
66 posted on 04/27/2018 11:33:58 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: bgill
Just wait until your insurance company decides to pay for your DNA and kick you off because those with certain markers are prone to xyz disease.

Precisely. That is coming. The Ancestry DNA analysis doesn't probe health issues. The 23 and Me version does. On purpose. Part of the "service". Part of the hazard too.

67 posted on 04/27/2018 11:36:30 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin

The Ancestry DNA analysis doesn’t probe health issues.

Thank you. That makes me feel better because they’re the people I ordered the kit from.


68 posted on 04/27/2018 12:18:36 PM PDT by Pravious
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“Cut off their head and send it in, as well.
So they have brain information.”

Cyrogenically preserve everyone’s head for 75 to 100 years. If there are no indications of misdeeds then allow the heads to remain frozen until the brains can me reanimated onto a futuristic robot to live again!

If there is a troubled past send the offenders heads to the landfill.


69 posted on 04/27/2018 1:00:32 PM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: Myrddin

I haven’t and have no plans to send in a sample. What all exactly is sent back to the customer?


70 posted on 04/27/2018 5:13:30 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bgill

Depends on the service. Ancestry gives you an ethnicity “estimate” which varies person to person. Keep in mind migrations and that ethnicity and nationality are 2 very different things.
You also get a list of other users who match to you. These can range from parent/child to distant cousin. This is the service that is spot on accurate and of most use to those persons looking for family. I found my birth father. I verified my birth mother. Neither of them were required to test, it was done triangulating the matches. Well, actually I got a 1st cousin match on maternal side, so that required little further work. Of course, once I made contact I did verify my none id info with them.


71 posted on 04/27/2018 7:00:19 PM PDT by gracie1 (Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesnÂ’t mean you have to approve of it.)
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To: cicero2k

I know two people who found very close relatives through Ancestry.

One of them signed up and a woman emailed him saying she was a 1st cousin. So he emailed his 5 uncles about it. They all got mad at him saying he sent an inappropriate email. LOL Not sure what happened after that.


72 posted on 04/27/2018 7:07:10 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

I think some people here don’t understand satire.


73 posted on 04/27/2018 9:37:32 PM PDT by Postman Pat
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To: ladyjane

It happens quite frequently. Chickens are coming home to roost, so to speak, people are finding out about secrets and lies. They can deny all they want, but the DNA speaks for itself.


74 posted on 04/27/2018 9:46:11 PM PDT by gracie1 (Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesnÂ’t mean you have to approve of it.)
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To: luvbach1

As for myself and my husband, the results were spot on,and he’s truly a Heinz 57. Father was Mexican and mother was from Oklahoma. Iberian peninsula, Italian/greek,native American, and Irish and white Anglo. Myself I’m 1/4 Czech, potato famine Irish, and the usual white Anglo. But keep in migration, invading armies, informal adoption, and sanchos in the wood pile.


75 posted on 04/28/2018 1:34:29 PM PDT by gracie1 (Look, just because you have to tolerate something doesnÂ’t mean you have to approve of it.)
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