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Posted on 12/22/2020 6:30:57 PM PST by nickcarraway
A 75-year-old North Whitehall Township man accused in the 1969 murder of a San Diego go-go dancer pleaded not guilty Tuesday in a California courtroom and was held on $3 million bail.
John Sipos was arraigned in San Diego Superior Court. He denies killing 24-year-old Mary Scott, a dancer who was found strangled in her apartment Nov. 20, 1969.
Sipos was detained Oct. 24 at his home in the 5200 block of Cobbler Road on a California arrest warrant. He waived extradition in November and was flown to San Diego on Dec. 4.
Court records say detectives made the arrest in the cold case after using forensic genealogy to link Sipos to Scott’s killing.
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Scott was last seen around 2:15 a.m. getting into a cab at the Star and Garter Club, where she worked as a dancer. When she didn’t arrive for work later that day, another dancer went to Scott’s apartment and discovered her nude body sprawled on the floor near the door, newspaper reports from 1969 said. She had been sexually assaulted, police said at the time.
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I don’t get what they learned to finally arrest him...
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How did they find him?
Is his DNA in some database?
23 and me?
I used to eat lunch at the Schnecksville Diner often.
I bet he killed more than one.
*Clean up your thread before posting.
She went from Go Go to Gone Gone.
So, 50 years later they make an arrest? Some justice.
Genealogical DNA is when they use DNA from family members to narrow their search for a killer. If this guy has no record and has never submitted a DNA profile, he could be acquitted because the police cannot FORCE a suspect to submit their DNA - although the police often use tricks like getting your DNA from cigarette butts or soda cans after the suspect has used them.
Is his DNA in some database?
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It doesn’t have to be.
Traced through a blood relative who is in a DNA data base. Found through a process of elimination.
How did they find him?
Is his DNA in some database?
23 and me?
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Hoot is right. His DNA doesn’t need to be in the database. He doesn’t need to have done a DNA test. But a relative or more than one can provide the data to show who could match to the DNA from the crime scene.
Seems thin, but that’s the only thing I can figure.
51 years later a relative thinks a relative in PA raped and killed a stripper from CA in 1969?
Like I said in my last post(not to you), seems thin but I have nothing else.
I thought that allowing strip clubs would satisfy men’s urges and there wouldn’t be this violence....guess not.....
That’s not how it works. The police have the DNA from the crime scene. They match it on Ancestry or 23 and me. When they find a first cousin or close relative they have significantly narrowed down the suspects. Many times the perp was picked up and questioned years ago but the authorities had no proof.
Basically triangulating relative DNA with the old direct samples they might still have.
That’s essentially how they found the Golden State Killer the other year.
Oops, sorry. But you probably could. Prisoners on death row, and other ineligibles did it.
Couldn’t they have gotten a warrant, if they had probable cause?
Against whom, any individuals that are male on person A’s mother’s side?
I guess they could get the pool of potential DNA matches.
Say 30 from genetic relatives of proximity to the original DNA sample “closely matched” to the crime sample. Then narrow down by seeing who was in CA at the time?
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