Dorothy Marie Silzel was assaulted and killed in February 1980.
  • Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.winEnglish
    10·
    5 months ago

    forensic genetic genealogy

    I’m happy they got the guy, but this is why people submitting their DNA to any lab should understand that it also reveals the DNA of all your blood relatives to some extent, not just yours and yours alone.

    Not everyone would be pleased to find out they inadvertently got their child arrested for whatever crime even if it is ‘just’.

    • Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
      9·
      5 months ago

      I’d be cool with it if it was murder. That being said fuck these companies selling data to police and insurance companies

      • JonsJava@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
        7·
        5 months ago

        They don’t sell it, to my knowledge. That serial killer in CA was found because they submitted it the same way you or I would, and waited for the company to return familial matches.

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
      24·
      5 months ago

      They matched the guys own DNA to DNA he left at the crime scene. Did you eve read the article, or do you just need something to be outraged about today?

      • JonsJava@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
        6·
        5 months ago

        Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said on social media that his office’s sexual assault kit initiative funded forensic genetic genealogy testing that “narrowed the list of suspects.”

        so…

        Did you eve read the article?

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      5 months ago

      CBS is left-center? The AP is left-center? ABC is left-center?

      Does anyone know what number I can dial to reach MBFC’s “fuck all the way off you bunch of frauds” department?

      • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        Neither CBS, AP, or ABC organizations appears to support the removal of a woman’s right to choose her reproductive habits, nor do they make any claims that the 2020 election was stolen, never even seen them make claims that climate change is fake.

        However, I also haven’t seen them advocate for single payer healthcare, or expansion of pathways of citizenship for the undocumented, or extreme restriction of gun ownership.

        So left-center seems pretty sound to me. So what part of “left-center” offends you in that bot’s analysis?