Wow. Damned impressed, we are.
Posted on 11/18/2017 2:46:14 PM PST by jazusamo
New forensic DNA analysis that can create an eerily accurate image of an unknown individual helped cops in Texas solve a year-old murder mystery.
Ryan Riggs, 21, is charged with capital murder for the killing of Chantay Blankinship, 25, in May 2016. The man gave confessions to his local church and the Brown County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday after predictive DNA imaging released Nov. 8 breathed new life into law enforcement’s investigation.
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Now you see why Google is so interested in 23andMe...imaging the value of being able to comb through an immense database of everyone’s DNA. Big Data, man.
Don’t believe it? One of the founders of 23andMe, Anne Wojcicki, is presently married to Sergei Brin, the founder of Google.
One word - Gattaca
Wow! What a great tool for law enforcement...though my hatred for anything, ‘Big Brother’ kind of tempers my enthusiasm! ;)
I believe it when Google has the slightest connection.
Bump!
They divorced in 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Wojcicki
I don’t trust either one of them!!!!
It’s a new form of identification. If an assailant leaves his driver’s license at the scene of the crime, and gets busted, is that Big Brother? How is this different?
Lets git ‘er done, folks!
I said I didn’t mind Law Enforcement having/using this technology.
It’s the OTHER applications, as mentioned in other posts, that make me nervous.
Wow.
Brand new era, it is.
Gee, except for the eyes, nose, mouth, jaw, and ears, it looks just like him!
Blond-haired blue-eyed male of Northern European descent.
Eliminates a lot of suspects in a small town.
I guess now you need someone else’s face switched with your own to get away with a crime nowadays. Which, considering that kind of transfacial surgery isn’t encouraged like transsexual surgery, is a good thing.
The problem with dna is when criminals start leaving other people’s dna at the crime scene. Law enforcement believes so strongly in dna no matter how strong an alibi LE and the courts will go with the dna.
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Looks like a white guy with brown hair and blue eyes. That narrows it down to, I dunno, 50 million people.
Not impressed. The DNA got the haircut all wrong. /g
That is pretty amazing.
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