[CedarDave]

You have to read the entire story - it is the equivalent of a well written crime novel. After the woman was raped, she immediately went to the hospital and doctors obtained a semen sample. His DNA was not in the crime database so at that time it was a dead end.

After reading about genealogy helping find a suspect accused of multiple murders and rapes in California, ABQ investigators uploaded his DNA sample into a genealogy database website. It turned out Gurule’s second cousin twice removed — on a hunt for his paternal grandfather’s ancestry — uploaded his DNA and his fathers into the GEDmatch.com database. The cousin lived in Southern California, had never been to New Mexico and did not know Gurule. The father's and son's DNA helped narrow down the family match.

Skipping ahead in the story, the rape victim is an artist and gave investigators a dead-on sketch of the attacker. The last link and the one that got Gurule arrested was that his wife was in the hospital and investigators followed him, obtained a discarded cup he used, and the DNA matched.

[centurion316]

Moral of the story: don’t rape a stranger and expect to get away with it. The police may catch you.

[CedarDave]

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[northside]

Can read here without paywall. http://archive.is/jimtG

[DesertRhino]

Wow, Good work. Damned monster.

[gattaca]

I’m glad he was caught.