These new DNA methods are absolutely amazing to me. I love it! Very promising for catching murderers who have gotten away with their old crimes. Very dangerous for hundreds of millions of innocent people if the gov’t misuses it. I hate it!
Many of these cases are now being made because of people submitting their DNA to various companies like 23 and ME.
Your DNA becomes part of the public record when you do this. Then the police get a partial match on some old cold case. They compare the DNA that they may have from 1973 to the person who summited their DNA to 23 and ME. It is not usually the person who summited the DNA sample but some relative who is a brother/sister cousin to that person who MAY have been a “person of interest” back in then but they could never prove the link.
These new DNA methods are absolutely amazing to me.
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A case near me, they did a sketch of the guy based on nothing but DNA and they caught him.
“They say DNA doesn’t lie. But people do, and what’s worse, they make mistakes and think they have the truth.”