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Quoted: The living quietly for 40 years makes me suspicious that there are not more murders associated with him. But I also tend to listen to crime podcasts often and am suspicious of a lot of things. View Quote I find those curious also. Some dude rapes/murders someone and never does it again. |
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Quoted: The article sucks but here’s the likely steps to finding him. He leaves DNA at the scene. Cold case cops run test on it now then submit it to Ancestry type places for comparison. Probable relatives pop up from that comparison. Using that they narrow down suspects to a handful of people and go dumpster diving to get suspect’s DNA from coke can without a warrant. Once DNA confirms that’s him they get warrant. View Quote This. |
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Quoted: Imagine getting away with murder, only to be caught because you couldn't dispose of your trash properly. View Quote That's not why they caught him. Dude was busted because people related to him sent things in. They already knew who it was; nabbing the can was just a formality required for charges. I'm not aware of an instance where investigators wanted a sample and weren't able to get one, one way or another. Just about everyone here is already fucked on the DNA front; even if you weren't stupid enough to send it in yourself, one of your 'tarded Karen cousins was. This isn't 1995; the technology for gathering DNA has expanded immensely. They're nabbing people because they touched a rock or some shit - just barehanded, not even bleeding or anything - then the rock was put in an evidence shoebox 30+ years ago. There are also DNA convictions off spent, ejected brass from people loading mags without gloves on. |
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Quoted: I remember a futuristic tv shows a few years back,where the bad guys had some kind of DNA bomb they set off at a crime scene. I could see that as a countermeasure someday. How hard would it be to go to parking lots and collect cigarette butts/chewed bubble gum/etc and have a bag full of other peoples DNA to leave at a crime scene? Throw some reasonable doubt out there anyway. View Quote The Town (2010) - Cop Turns The Other Way... someone else mentioned it already but here is the clip. |
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Quoted: It’s family members having their DNA tested that leads to this though. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: If guilty, good riddance to him. The larger picture here though is the DNA collection method. Don't get your DNA tested by anyone if you want privacy. It’s family members having their DNA tested that leads to this though. Yup |
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Quoted:I was adopted at birth. So, if they want to use the genealogy thing to arrest me on felony charges of Aggravated Voting for Donald Trump, do they have to unseal adoption paperwork and drag my birth parents into court? I guess that would be one way to track them down.... View Quote That would make a good movie plot. Character commits a crime to find his genealogical parents. Perhaps needing a transplant or explanation for genetic disease. |
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According to wiki, Vanilla Coke wasn't produced on the US until 2002. It was first tested at the Worlds Fair in Knoxville in 1982
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Quoted: I'm waiting for the day when the cops kick in my door after my DNA is found at some crime scene. Not because I actually committed the crime but because my DNA is on file. We found lots of DNA on these 86 things we tested but no matches, but this 87th thing, an empty can found in the victim's bag, contained your DNA. $75,000 later I'm a free man and will lock my cans up so the homeless don't steal them in the future. View Quote Yeah no lie...imagine getting arrested and jailed because of a snot rocket booger you let loose 20 years ago. |
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Quoted: Your first point is valid but the article doesn’t give shit for details so no idea if the DNA they gathered was jizz or a bloody smear at the window frame. Your second point is ‘tarded. A guy in his 60’s looks guilty in his mug shot? Guessing that’s not much of a glamour shot for most folks. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Playing devils advocate here. How do they know he wasn’t just some unlucky guy that she had hooked up with a day or two prior and the can of coke was still in the house from then? Although looking at his mug shot, he definitely looks like the kind a person that would do that. Your first point is valid but the article doesn’t give shit for details so no idea if the DNA they gathered was jizz or a bloody smear at the window frame. Your second point is ‘tarded. A guy in his 60’s looks guilty in his mug shot? Guessing that’s not much of a glamour shot for most folks. Wasn’t saying he did it. Just commenting that he looked like a creeper. But yeah it would depend on what they gathered the dna from for me to convict if I was a juror. |
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Quoted: You aren't conservative? View Quote Imagine some poor girl raped and murdered all those years ago, dying alone and in terror and despair. Then 40 years later you track down the animal that did it. You walk up to him and show him a picture of her. "Remember her? We never forgot her." Click. Hopefully her shade rests in peace. |
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Quoted: If guilty, good riddance to him. The larger picture here though is the DNA collection method. Don't get your DNA tested by anyone if you want privacy. View Quote Unless you have enough control over every single member of your blood related family, not taking one yourself is pretty pointless. |
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Quoted: I'm waiting for the day when the cops kick in my door after my DNA is found at some crime scene. Not because I actually committed the crime but because my DNA is on file. We found lots of DNA on these 86 things we tested but no matches, but this 87th thing, an empty can found in the victim's bag, contained your DNA. $75,000 later I'm a free man and will lock my cans up so the homeless don't steal them in the future. View Quote They've already had one murder case where touch DNA implicated a man who was in the hospital for detox at the time of the crime, they can't figure out how his DNA wound up on the victim. Fortunately, in his case, the authorities were doing a deep dive on him as the DNA was the only evidence tying him to the crime and found the medical records themselves, so while he was in jail for a period of time during the investigation, they dropped the charges against him so he didn't run the risk of being convicted because a public defender didn't have time to do that deep dive themselves (and the suspect was a habitual drunkard who couldn't remember what he did that day, which was how he wound up in the hospital to begin with). |
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Quoted: Vanilla Coke? Automatically guilty. View Quote I like Vanilla Coke. It's too bad they hate my whiteness and I'm unwilling to give them more of my money. I'm glad they caught this guy. I'm a bit worried about how they will use DNA to prosecute crimes in the future that aren't crimes today however. |
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I hope they had more evidence than just some lab work and 40 year old DNA.
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Quoted: Sexual assault and murder should NEVER be eligible for parole. In fact they should never even sit in prison taking up resources. Death penalty. And make it quick. Like the day after convicting. View Quote While the sentiment is commendable, the actual practice leaves much to be desired. Overzealous prosecutors and cops have led to too many innocent people being imprisoned. What is your opinion on what should happen to cops and prosecutors when someone is wrongly convicted and put to death? |
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using DNA from family members whose biological information is already on file, View Quote So, “on file” with 23&me etc? Quoted: If guilty, good riddance to him. The larger picture here though is the DNA collection method. Don't get your DNA tested by anyone if you want privacy. View Quote Yep. And even when you choose not to participate, your dna can be disseminated by analyzing that of relatives. In the end I think nothing good will come of these programs, because of their flimsy privacy rules. The ONLY dna test I’m interested in getting is one for Dog2, and even then I’m not sure it’s worth it. Not because of privacy, but because I think I already figured it out just from basic observation. (Beagle-lab I think, emphasis on beagle) And I think that’s the gimmick with these things... it doesn’t really matter what your dna mix is, unless you’re looking for medical issues. It doesn’t actually change who your are to know if you’re part French or German. Just like the dog. She’ll still be the same dog. It won’t make her smarter or less food orientated. So getting the test doesn’t matter. |
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Quoted: I don't plan on raping and killing anyone, so I won't lose sleep over this. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Don't get your DNA tested by anyone if you want privacy. I don't plan on raping and killing anyone, so I won't lose sleep over this. |
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Quoted: Playing devils advocate here. How do they know he wasn’t just some unlucky guy that she had hooked up with a day or two prior and the can of coke was still in the house from then? Although looking at his mug shot, he definitely looks like the kind a person that would do that. View Quote I was thinking the same thing. I hope Prosecutors will have more evidence at trial than; we found a Coke can at the crime scene. |
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Got to cover your mouth if you gonna sneeze at the grocery store.
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Quoted: You have a habit of blowing snot rockets on the rug at murder scenes? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Yeah no lie...imagine getting arrested and jailed because of a snot rocket booger you let loose 20 years ago. You have a habit of blowing snot rockets on the rug at murder scenes? Have you ever been to a hotel? |
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Quoted: Quick duckduckgo search says Vanilla Coke launched in 2002. View Quote Nice work Perry Mason, you broke the case wide open. No need to actually read the article. Attached File |
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Quoted: Imagine getting away with murder, only to be caught because you couldn't dispose of your trash properly. View Quote The cops picked cigarette butts out of his trash to catch him. He was a suspect but they couldn't do anything until the technology caught up. |
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