Raymond Rowe, Christy Mirack
Posted on 01/11/2019 6:00:01 PM PST by lowbridge
A Pennsylvania wedding DJ admitted Tuesday to raping and strangling to death an elementary school teacher whose 26-year cold case was solved with help from DNA submitted to a genealogy database by his half-sister.
In court Tuesday, Raymond Rowe, 50, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death of 25-year-old Christy Mirack, online court records show.
Rowe went by the stage name DJ Freez and claimed on his now-defunct website he worked as a DJ for celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Brooke Hogan, as well as at events featuring Sting, The Eagles and Kenny Kravitz.
He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
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I got an email from Ancestry yesterday telling me they haed a 99% match for a second cousin and gave me her Ancestry screen name. I know of her (although never met) and she is my second cousin, exactly. The daughter of my father’s aunt.
Weirded me out.
Yeah, this part creeped me out as well. This guy, my age, goes on what appears to be a single recreational rape/murder 27 years ago and then goes about his life.
He seemed to give himself up pretty easily. I'm guessing the guilt had been gnawing at him over the years and he always knew the day of reckoning was going to come.
This had tormented our community since 1992. Christy’s home was less than 10 miles from our place. A firm I worked at helped build the apartment complex she perished in. It happened during the early morning hours and spooked quite a lot of people. When he was finally caught, most here were shocked. He was a well known DJ. Never suspected he would do such a thing. Very, very glad her murder has been solved and the SOB will rot in prison, never to taste freedom.
However, this also includes those related to you.
So if you had a relative who committed a crime, that you were never aware of, they could track him/her through YOU.
Not sure that I am too thrilled about that. The potential for abuse with this is far greater than the probative value.
And people think this is bad.
“Not sure that I am too thrilled about that. The potential for abuse with this is far greater than the probative value.”
Could you provide an example of potential abuse greater than catching a murderer?
That was the Brown’s Chicken massacre. DNA evidence saved from the scene played an important role, years later, in convicting the 2 animals who did this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%27s_Chicken_massacre
Dna testing samlling is far from perfect, due to the few locii chosen there are false positives.
Which is why i will never use these services because they do sell and turn over genetic info to “the powers that be”.
No. Way.
I’m glad he was caught but am I the only one creeped out by how these geneology sites seem to be front operations for Big Brother?
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I don’t consider it “Big Brother”. I consider it JUSTICE. Modern technology has simply extended the “long arm of the law”. This is a good thing.
You may want to think about rephrasing that.
Whether “Geneology sites seem to be front operations for Big Brother?”
I accept the question. My answer is, no. The Human Genome Project was completed in 2005 and now every person, all 7 billion of us, have the opportunity to learn our personal diseases, personal nutrition needs, personal exercise needs and personal insurance needs. Plus, I joined 23andMe ten years ago and get excellent advice about my diseases from the chat rooms. People really suffer and understanding personal genes really give hope.
Gattaca was a good movie back in 1997 about Big Brother and conspiracy. Fiction.
Not sure that I am too thrilled about that. The potential for abuse with this is far greater than the probative value.
The DNA from the ancestry site has no probative value.
It is only used to give a lead to a potential perp. It is then necessary for the police to collect a DNA sample from this individual in order the make the match.
Actually, my grandma and other relatives have been known to, well
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Google, one of the biggest suppliers of data to the NSA and a PRISM company, is a lead investor in 23andMe. Ancestry.com has applied to the FDA to create a national genetic database.
And people think this is bad.
Justice is important. Maybe as important as privacy, as long as it is true justice.
I think my cousins are good people. But if one of them raped a child in 1994, and my dna connects cops to him and his victim, it would help justice. It may seem creepy but if that is what it is used for, it isn’t a bad thing.
“It may seem creepy but if that is what it is used for, it isn’t a bad thing.”
It doesn’t seem creepy at all.
It seems great.
Not the only one. I now assume that any of these social-oriented wbesite businesses are fronts in some way.
“If” is the operative word. Patriot Act. Homeland Security. TSA. FBI. DOJ. FISA.
Where do we see unilateral power not abused?
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