Australian police may soon turn to geneology websites to identify criminals

A landmark trial in the US has found a man guilty over a cold-case double murder in 1987, with investigators using the increasingly popular technique of ‘genetic genealogy’.

William Talbott II was convicted after US investigators used DNA profiles built from crime-scene evidence and uploaded them to public genealogy databases, like GEDmatch and Ancestry.com, to find his relatives.

They then built a family tree and whittled down the suspect pool via a process of elimination.

This method of crime solving, known as genetic genealogy, first rocketed to mainstream attention with the capture of Joseph DeAngelo, alleged to be the notorious Golden State Killer, and is becoming an increasingly popular tool for investigators in the US.

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Tau.Neutrino said:

Australian police may soon turn to geneology websites to identify criminals

A landmark trial in the US has found a man guilty over a cold-case double murder in 1987, with investigators using the increasingly popular technique of ‘genetic genealogy’.

William Talbott II was convicted after US investigators used DNA profiles built from crime-scene evidence and uploaded them to public genealogy databases, like GEDmatch and Ancestry.com, to find his relatives.

They then built a family tree and whittled down the suspect pool via a process of elimination.

This method of crime solving, known as genetic genealogy, first rocketed to mainstream attention with the capture of Joseph DeAngelo, alleged to be the notorious Golden State Killer, and is becoming an increasingly popular tool for investigators in the US.

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Sssh. Not so loud.

Seems like a great idea to me.

Diddums to all those poor rapists and murderers who feel like their privacy has been violated in all this.

you would want to make sure that your outsourced DNA profiling has some sort of accreditation to it. I mean there is no chain of record when the DNA goes from buccal swab to post guy to sorting place to another post guy to lab..

seems like an area fraught with some issues that even an average lawyer could dispute

Arts said:

you would want to make sure that your outsourced DNA profiling has some sort of accreditation to it. I mean there is no chain of record when the DNA goes from buccal swab to post guy to sorting place to another post guy to lab..

seems like an area fraught with some issues that even an average lawyer could dispute

I think they are only using it to find suspects. Once they have their field of suspects and narrowed it down to one or two, then they obtain DNA another way and have that properly recorded and tested to see if it matches the properly recorded crime scene DNA. After that the generic DNA test doesn’t matter. It was only a guide to getting a pool of suspects.

Thanx for the ‘heads up’
spitting in the lil tube has become all the rage
…the “IN” thing… just like inviting each other to “G-Mail” not so long ago

afaic
when “THEY” come looking for me
I’ll be dammed if I’m going to be supplying the blood hounds