Wait a minute. How did the cops find out about her DNA?
Uh, just curious, does ancestry.com or 23&me commonly/routinely share ‘DNA’ submissions with LEO? Not that I have anything to hide.
Apparently, if we get our DNA tested, it goes into a national database. Also, tests like cologuard test dna, and some doctors are doing dna tests. I know a guy whose pain mgmt doctor checked his dna. (Probably at the behest of the federal government, since they now call the shots on what pain meds can be prescribed).
Kara, now 42, (~born in 1982) would have been 15 YO in 97 when the baby was found. She didn’t notice her mom was pregnant, or was mom not in the picture?
I’m surprised they’re not secretly taking blood samples of all newborn babies and entering it into a national database for future need.
I remember getting my cheek swabbed in the mid 90’s for a DNA database when I was in the Marine Corps, it was supposedly to be able to identify war casualties. If any of your close relatives have done an ancestry test they can likely be matched to you. At this point we all need to assume that our dna is on file in a government database. I’m sure their records are extensive enough to identify virtually everyone in the U.S. by their DNA.
“Nancy is charged with one count each of open murder, involuntary manslaughter, and concealing the death of an individual. Open murder carries a potential life sentence.”
With the time that’s passed, it makes no sense to me to charge her with anything other than concealment of the death. Her story about the birth could very well be true. Law enforcement should have better things to do than lock up another granny who is no threat to the rest of us.
I remember some old articles that China was downloading the 23 and me databases.
“On the 23andMe website, the company’s privacy policy specifies that it “will not share your genetic data with employers, insurance companies, public databases or 3rd party marketers without your explicit consent.””
“U.S. officials have noted that BGI Group, a Chinese company with a U.S. subsidiary, operates the China National GeneBank, a vast government-owned repository that now includes genetic data drawn from millions of people around the world. Intelligence officials say they believe Chinese companies are trying to acquire DNA from Americans.”
My mother was adopted and we finally decided to try and find her biological family and when we did they requested we confirm with DNA so we did. She had 2 brothers living in San Diego - their mother had never said one word about having a daughter. What a shock to them but they were very kind and welcoming - to an extent. We discovered that engineers run in the family and also that we are related to a man who has just been appointed to one of Trump’s cabinet positions.
For us the DNA was a great thing.
I knew a guy in high school who applied for a job that required dna and fingerprints and he was arrested, tried and sent to prison for life for a murder almost 20 years earlier.
Wouldn’t a baby in communal toilet waste be exposed to many people’s DNA?
Mark
It’s called famial DNA, company’s who work with law inforcment to solve cold cases,
Freezers need to stop the knee jerk reaction about things.
When a company in Utah was selling DNA kits cheap guess where the records went?.
Doctors also mum.
It seems foolish to me that people willingly give their dna to government connected corporations. Sure you MAY be innocent but the feds will be happy to plant dna evidence from these samples when you become an enemy of the state. Or just fabricate matches outright.
Can a baby suffocate while the umbilical cord is attached?