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A variety of legal measures are needed to protect against potential abuses of gargantuan genetic repositories.
Cops can collect DNA when making an arrest, sometimes before charging a person with a crime.
This practice poses a threat to the civil liberties of innocent people
Starting in the mid-1980s, a serial killer murdered at least 10 women in the Los Angeles area. Nicknamed the “Grim Sleeper” because of the long dormancy between his crimes, he eluded capture for nearly 25 years. Then, in 2010, police arrested a man in California for what appeared to be a totally unrelated felony weapons charge. State law required the man to submit a DNA sample for a national DNA database. Typically a DNA database search looks for an exact match between a profile of DNA left at a crime scene by an unknown person and the profile of a known convicted offender. It focuses on 13 places in the genome (the full complement of our DNA) where bits of genetic material vary from person to person. If the crime-scene material differs in any of those 13 places, then the samples do not match, and investigators know that they do not have their suspect.
This time, however, the search was more subtle. It aimed to find DNA profiles that were similar, but not an exact match, to that of the Grim Sleeper. Such an inquiry was possible because in 2008 California became the first state in the nation to formally authorize a new kind of database search.
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- DNA Sequencing Market Is Expected To Progress At A CAGR Of 15.3% To Reach US$ 40.5 Billion By 2032 | Market.Uson May 25, 2023 at 10:28 pm
According to Market.us, the dna sequencing market size is projected to surpass around USD 40.5 billion by 2032 and it is poised to reach a CAGR of 15.3% from 2023 to 2032. DNA sequencing technology ...
- DNA research is responsible for cold case breakthroughon May 25, 2023 at 9:09 pm
After 26 years of no leads, new DNA technology has reopened one of Marshall County’s most notorious cold cases.
- DNA research responsible for Marshall County cold case breakthroughon May 25, 2023 at 5:10 pm
After 26 years of no leads, new DNA technology has reopened one of Marshall County’s most notorious cold cases.
- 'Absence of database on convicted offenders and defined set of markers among challenges for DNA profiling'on May 24, 2023 at 11:55 pm
Improper sample collection and preservation, and the absence of a defined set of markers and a database on convicted offenders are the major challenges in realising the full potential of DNA profiling ...
- Genetic testing cracks two cold cases with bodies found in Columbus area over 10 years agoon May 23, 2023 at 12:41 pm
Chow Chan, whose body was found in September 1992, and Randy Raines, whose body was found in March 2006, have been identified.
- Sought Out by Science, and Then Forgottenon May 23, 2023 at 12:00 am
Four decades ago, medical researchers reached out to ailing families in Colombia for insights into Huntington’s disease. Scientists are just now following up, hoping it’s not too late.
- Rapid DNA testing helps police solve old crimes, but raises privacy concernson May 22, 2023 at 7:10 am
The big problem is the cost ... it would slow the growth of these DNA databases.
- New rapid DNA test for solving crime raises privacy concernson May 22, 2023 at 1:44 am
The big problem is the cost ... it would slow the growth of these DNA databases. STEPHANIE SY: Certainly something to keep our eyes on our communities correspondent out of New Orleans, Roby ...
- Sheriff: DNA sample used to identify Oregon man's body found in woods in 2006on May 19, 2023 at 7:53 am
The Linn County Sheriff's Office reports a body found in the woods in 2006 was identified as Jesus Ruiz of Aumsville, Ore.The investigation began on the evening ...
- With the power to reach across generations, genetic genealogy is solving the unsolvableon May 18, 2023 at 8:40 pm
Inside a sterile lab room, a single human bone may hold the clues to finally solve a mystery.Details are confidential so far, but if Othram has the success they hope, they will soon use the DNA locked ...
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- Type of DNA genealogy research used in April Marie Tinsley case described as possible ‘game-changer’ in cold caseson May 25, 2023 at 5:00 pm
She always declined, she said, because she didn’t believe it would be right to track down criminals using DNA data that people had uploaded to a family history database without knowing the data ...
- Man who murdered teenage girl in 1991 caught with DNA on cigarettes, sentenced to 45 yearson May 25, 2023 at 2:36 pm
A Seattle-area man who killed a teen girl while attempting to rape her in 1991 was sentenced Thursday to 45 years and 8 months in prison. Patrick Nicholas, now in his late 50s, was convicted earlier ...
- Cold case: Private lab finds DNA nine years after a Georgia couple was brutally murderedon May 25, 2023 at 2:32 pm
Cutting-edge technology is helping law enforcement crack cases that went unsolved for decades. Just last week, we explained how a Texas lab helped identify a Macon Jane Doe. 20-year-old Yvonne Pless ...
- Biden admin. to end familial DNA testing used to protect kids from child smuggling at the border: reporton May 25, 2023 at 7:38 am
The Biden administration is reportedly ending the familial DNA testing at the United States southern border that authorities use to prevent traffickers from posing as the family members of children ...
- Putnam County sheriff: Private lab finds DNA in Dermond murders, 9-year-old cold caseon May 24, 2023 at 3:49 pm
Just last week, we explained how a Texas lab helped identify a Macon Jane Doe. 20-year-old Yvonne Pless was murdered in 1977. Serial killer Samuel Little confessed to her murder in 2018. That lab ...
- New DNA evidence could finally solve murders of husband found beheaded, wife dropped in Lake Oconeeon May 24, 2023 at 1:31 pm
Channel 2 Action News has learned that investigators could be one step closer to solving the gruesome murder of a husband and wife near Lake Oconee in 2014. Nine years ago, someone shot and beheaded ...
- New bill would force detained illegal immigrants to provide DNA, fingerprints for nationwide crime enforcementon May 23, 2023 at 4:54 pm
A bill proposed in the Alabama state legislature would require illegal immigrants detained by law enforcement to provide their fingerprints and a DNA sample.
- Rapid DNA testing helps police solve old crimes, but raises privacy concernson May 22, 2023 at 7:10 am
And rapid DNA encourages the growth of government databases. The ACLU warns there are already racial disparities in DNA collection, which could be made worse by the practice. For its part ...
- EDITORIAL: Limit police ability to retain our DNAon May 21, 2023 at 5:00 pm
Police have also used DNA databases to profile individuals, often resulting in minorities and the poor being targeted. The American Civil Liberties Union says if your DNA is in a police database ...
- With the power to reach across generations, genetic genealogy is solving the unsolvableon May 18, 2023 at 9:03 pm
THE MARKERS ARE CLUES. THEY COMPARE TO DNA DATABASES. BUT NOW THEY DON’T NEED AN EXACT MATCH. EVEN A VERY DISTANT RELATIVE CAN PROVIDE A CRUCIAL INVESTIGATIVE LEAD. YOU GET ANY MATCHES UP TO SIX ...
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