Posted on 08/27/2018 4:33:38 PM PDT by SMGFan
BRUSSELS — For 20 years, the Dutch police investigated the rape and murder of an 11-year-old schoolboy, and the Dutch news media chronicled the case’s many twists and turns . Now, after an investigation in which 17,500 Dutchmen voluntarily took part in DNA profiling, a suspect has been arrested in Spain.
The boy, Nicky Verstappen, had attended a summer camp at a nature reserve in the southern Netherlands in 1998. On a night that August, he left his tent and never returned. His body, pajama-clad and barefoot, was discovered the next day, hidden in a dense pine forest about a mile away. He had been raped and killed.
DNA found on the boy’s clothes was of male origin. But no samples in Dutch and international criminal databases matched it. Nor did hundreds of samples initially taken from men living near the nature reserve and from men linked to Nicky or the camp.
A Dutch law passed in 2012 allowed for a practice known as familial DNA profiling, which involves taking DNA samples from people who could potentially be relatives of a suspect, based on geographic and social profiles.
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“Are they going mention if the killer is gay?”
Isn’t it obvious?
taking DNA samples from people who could potentially be relatives of a suspect, based on geographic and social profiles.
Sounds kinda totalitarian to me.
Potentially be relatives of a potential suspect...
Maybe the kid cheated at cards, but yours is the high-probability guess.
I hope they profiled to help narrow the DNA search.
“At the time of the murder, Mr. Brech [35] lived with his mother about 10 miles from the scene of the crime. A former scout, an outdoorsmen and a children’s camp organizer, Mr. Brech...”
Definitely fits the twisted creep profile.
Constitutional rights end at the US border.
In France, they generally don't even bother with a trial unless they've already decided to convict you. Except for the extrajudicial killings, folks in Russia probably have more rights than do folks in most of Europe. (Except for Muzzies, of course. They pretty much get a free pass in all but a few European countries).
Yet when one person of special interest — Jos Brech, a 55-year-old Dutchman who had been missing since last April — failed to show up for obligatory sampling this year, investigators dug deeper.
Not sure this makes sense. Voluntary or obligatory???
BUT
"failed to show up for obligatory sampling"
YES!....it IS TOTALITARIAN!!!!
Homosexual. Of course they are going to ignore that bit.
A guy, with a previous conviction, is seen walking on a road near the crime, he lives 10 miles away. And they didn’t list him as a suspect?
No wonder they need laws where they force everyone to give DNA, they are stupid!
Was this child his only victim?
If I was in a situation like that I would,despite being innocent (I’d never kill anyone),refuse to give DNA.As I was doing so I’d say “tell you what...I will voluntarily give you DNA the moment I’m charged or indicted and I’d do so solely to embarrass you”.
I understand that Ancestry.com and 23andMe.com sell their data to the NSA
The murderer raped a boy. The murderer is a sodomite.
At least - after 20 years - the family got closure on Nick’s killer. Prayers to Nick’s family...
Roger that, but my response would also include Foxtrot Uniform.
Most of the time the taking of DNA samples is a voluntary affair, but it is very effective in small towns for finding the criminal.
It is also good for helping to find missing children whose DNA can be put into the Center for Missing Children and DOJ databases. Once an unknown child is found, often forced to live with a person/family and under their name or an assumed name, then the DNA is a goldmine for helping to identify them and reuniting them with their family.
That is one reason all babies are footprinted and fingerprinted at birth. This helps to solve missing/kidnapped babies (esp. from hospitals).
A database is just a collection of information. It is how it is used that counts.
And none of it is useful in a court of law- there is no chain of custody for the DNA, anyone can send in anyone else’s DNA.....
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