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| Topic | Do you agree ethically with the method they used to catch Golden State Killer? |
| pinky0926 03/04/24 9:29:05 AM #1: | Identification of DeAngelo began in December 2017 when officials, led by detective Paul Holes and FBI lawyer Steve Kramer, uploaded the killer's DNA profile from a Ventura County rape kit to the personal genomics website GEDmatch.[179] The website identified ten to twenty people who had the same great-great-great-grandparents as the Golden State Killer; a team of five investigators working with genealogist Barbara Rae-Venter used this list to construct a large family tree.[180] From this tree, they established two suspects; one was ruled out by a relative's DNA test, leaving DeAngelo the main suspect.[181] Basically, they can identify suspects based on DNA submitted by distant relatives, so the actual suspect never has to agree to a DNA test or have anything in a database. The police just match the dna at the crimescene to an open access geneology website to find the matching dna and rule out suspects. The good part is that this same technique has since been used on a number of other murders and found suspects, so it works. The wider argument isn't generally about how to catch horrific serial killers but about how this technique could be used in virtually anything. --- CE's Resident Scotsman. http://i.imgur.com/ILz2ZbV.jpg ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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