[bukkdems]

“I don’t know how many of the men gave samples but, I bet the main perps did not.”

“The first DNA mapping will be to connect children with their true mothers.”

Mothers are easily traced by mitochondrial DNA. I would imagine the DNA samples of fathers after 100 years of inbreeding will be extremely puzzling, and defense lawyers will be able mount a formidable defense against male paternity, since the DNA will be so similar. It will be much harder to prove than normal DNA comparisons among very different people.

[Tennessee Nana]

since the DNA will be so similar
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Similiar but still different..

However there was acase where identical twin men were so similiar that the DNA match wasnt certain enough to prosecute one of them for rape...

But that shouldnt happen here..

[Mamzelle]

That's interesting--but incest is also a crime, and a horrible kind of abuse.

Actually, a forensic geneticist (if I'm using the right term) would likely regard this sort of mystery as the highlight of his career!

Zookeepers who manage breeding of endangered species might have the same interesting problem--finding suitable partners with enough dissimilarity.

[wolfcreek]

The real problem is going to be the fact many children at the ranch will have NEITHER parent available for testing.

Some were taken from their real parents at such an early age, they likely don’t remember them.