Yep.
And that's what happened here.
Still, glad they caught the guy but it seems that DNA archives are here to stay and only growing. I'm not convinced this is a good trend.
I know what you mean.
Sure. It is great this guy was nabbed by whatever means were available.
But this is the “Good Use”. What is the “Bad Use”?
One of the things I have learned in life is that almost everything has a duality to it.
That is, a person could use a hammer to build a beautiful coffee table. That’s a “Good Use”. But the same hammer could be used to brutally murder someone. That’s a “Bad Use”.
In the case of a global DNA identifier database, the possible “Bad Uses” fill me with dread. I simply don’t trust my fellow man with any tool that might end up being used as a weapon against me. We just are not trustworthy enough.
Our founders tried to protect us from people with “Bad Uses” in the way they wrote the Constitution, and living under a Constitutional Republic, that worked out pretty well. Now that our status as a “Constitutional Republic” is on unsafe ground, I trust “my fellow man” even less.
Just wait until they can create a virus that targets a DNA.
And the US Navy took my blood and sequenced it in 1988 when I went to boot camp.
I’ve been in every government database relevant (and non-relevant) since then.
My understanding is that if someone in your extended family has ever used a commercial genetic testing service, that’s enough of a DNA trail for authorities to zero in on a suspect.
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Yep.
And that’s what happened here.
Still, glad they caught the guy but it seems that DNA archives are here to stay and only growing. I’m not convinced this is a good trend.
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I enjoy seeing justice in this world, no matter how rare it happens.
I have watched true crime programs where this practice of locating relatives of the suspect’s DNA from a crime 30 or more years ago...
It extremely satisfying to see several old geezers in an interrogation room dumbfounded saying it could not be them.
To all those persons who think they will never be caught, WATCH OUT!! LOL.