AKA-Golden State Killer. Very prolific serial burglar, rapist and murderer.
Was a very big deal when I was a lad. Around here, he would break in while people were home, tie them up, put plates and other breakable stuff on top of the husband, and sexually assault the wife.
So I guess you won't be coming to any of the events for a while?
Instead of putting the next Bud in the coozie I tried to put it into the old Bud. I think I froze the interwebs looking for a meme. I still can't believe someone actually replied.
What's interesting about this case is that the killer was found through a relative who had used a geneaology-related commercial DNA analysis service (which narrows it down to 23andme and AncestryDNA), who turned up because his DNA was similar to DNA from the crime scenes. Then law enforcement eventually got the killer's DNA through his garbage to make a positive match:
https://globalnews.ca/news/4171752/golden-state-killer-dna-genealogy-website/
It's pretty big news that law enforcement is able to do such broad searches through DNA analysis companies' databases, even if it shouldn't be surprising:
In reply to GameboyRMH :
From an article I read, it was some other site called gedmatch that's some "open-source", free site that is basically designed to share DNA profiles.
The other two you mentioned claim to have policies that require a court order for law enforcement use, but that's something of a paper tiger since there's no actual law that does anything to actually restrict what can and cannot be done with your data.
wae said:In reply to GameboyRMH :
From an article I read, it was some other site called gedmatch that's some "open-source", free site that is basically designed to share DNA profiles.
The other two you mentioned claim to have policies that require a court order for law enforcement use, but that's something of a paper tiger since there's no actual law that does anything to actually restrict what can and cannot be done with your data.
You're right, it was actually GEDmatch and the other two weren't used:
https://www.wired.com/story/detectives-cracked-the-golden-state-killer-case-using-genetics/
I can't imagine why anyone might think putting their name and DNA online together for public viewing is a decent idea (although I'd guess "Never saw GATTACA" is a good start), but I can't complain about the cops searching it.
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