The arrest of the Golden State Killer puts DNA sites in the spotlight
by Jamie Ducharme
May 14, 2018
2 minutes
POLICE RECENTLY ARRESTED THE SUSPECTED Golden State Killer using a tool they could only have dreamed of decades ago, when a gruesome spree of rapes and murders shook California: a database filled with people’s genetic data.
Investigators used an obscure open-source database called GEDmatch to find
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