Detectives used consumer genealogical websites to identify Golden State Killer suspect
by Richard Winton, Joseph Serna and Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times
Apr 26, 2018
3 minutes
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The break that authorities said led them to the man accused of being the Golden State Killer came when they linked DNA evidence from the slayings to genetic information contained on a consumer genealogical website, authorities said Thursday.
Investigators knew the killer only through a string of DNA recorded in several of the dozen murder scenes. Shaun Hampton, a spokesman for the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department, said officials had struggled for years to
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