[Captainpaintball]

I’m sure I could research it, but...Did they even have plastic water bottles back then?

[quilterdebbie]

The water bottle was obtained recently.

[a fool in paradise]

So BPD Sgt. Brian Albert, a surveillance expert, followed nephew Tim DeSalvo to his worksite in Boston and retrieved a water bottle he drank from and left behind.

It's a modern water bottle sipped by a relative of the Boston Strangler.

So now the government has this innocent man's DNA on file (used to check for his dead relative's similar DNA profile).

Scary what the police can do.