Posted on 07/26/2022 8:24:53 AM PDT by bitt
The murder investigation included records of Italian social clubs, draft cards, and Ellis Island immigration logs.
For decades, it seemed that Lindy Sue Biechler’s killer would never be found.
The 19-year-old newlywed’s stabbing death in her Lancaster County apartment in 1975 had stunned her community and shattered her family. As years passed, police kept working the case, slowly eliminating suspects as technology improved.
Detectives on the scene had managed to save a sample of the killer’s DNA. But for decades it had no match in DNA databases of convicted criminals. That’s when CeCe Moore, a genetic genealogist at Parabon Nanolabs, a company that works with police to solve cold cases, decided to dig a little differently.
She and her colleagues in Reston, Va., identified the common ancestors of people who were partial matches to the DNA sample. They were all from a small town in Italy. And through generations and generations of genealogical records, authorities identified a prime suspect.
This week, Heather Adams, the Lancaster County district attorney, announced the arrest of David Sinopli, 68, a Lancaster native whose DNA, authorities say, matched the sample taken from the scene of Biechler’s murder nearly five decades before.
“It was a really good feeling to be able to get to this point,” Adams said. “It’s also just the beginning of the court process.”
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Cut his manhood completely off before he’s sent to prison.
yes... avoiding ancestry.com has to be a family affair or the authorities will be able to identify everyone... eventually... for any crime they deem fits.
The investigator did some pretty impressive research.
They did DNA gathering in 1975?.......................
We'd be the first ones rounded up by the Mega-State.
I am sure all those dna swabs, I mean covid tests and ancestry samples would never be collected and registered with the government. Just like firearm back ground check information.
Find the person, plant the dna, solve the crime. It’s not like our trusted government would ever do something like that to their political enemies.
If properly preserved, the DNA can be tested and accurate results obtained even after being stored for decades.
Deep State wouldn’t need to go to the trouble.
Nearly 50 years is a long time for it to be intact.....................
The trial won’t be based on any genealogical DNA.
He’ll be convicted because DNA collected directly from him is a match to DNA collected from the victim and the crime scene.
I watch a lot of crime shows and yes, the DNA databases help. But it’s amazing how correct it is. That being said, I will NEVER give my DNA up although my nephew did. Ughhh
What, you never saw Jurassic park? 🤣
Ping.
“Adams credited detectives at the scene in 1975 for securing DNA evidence — semen found on Biechler’s underwear. As technology improved, the killer’s DNA profile was submitted into CODIS, a national DNA database that includes samples of convicted criminals. It turned up no matches.”
DNA is stable if stored properly.
Million-year-old mammoth genomes shatter record for oldest ancient DNA
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00436-x
I work with this animals son . He was born after this murder took place and is a good man but it has shaken his family to the core. Hard to believe it took this long but I’m glad they got the bastard.
Even for non-criminals, dna/genealogy sites can mess up a person’s world! Don’t do it if you are not ready to learn momma was a skank and daddy is a loser.
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