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Posted: 2/26/2021 10:29:02 AM EDT
DNA evidence taken from a can of Vanilla Coke helped Colorado police crack a decades-old murder case, according to a report.
Investigators used a relatively new technology, called genetic geneology, to locate the suspect using DNA from family members whose biological information is already on file, either with a federal agency or a private company that has agreed to turn over its records to law enforcement. In this instance, the FBI partnered with a company called United Data Connect to trace the DNA on a can taken from the crime scene to a Nebraska man named David Anderson, who according to 9News Denver lived a quiet life in the nearly 40 years since cops say he murdered Sylvia Quayle in Cherry Hills, Colorado. .. In August of 1981, Quayle was found in her Colorado home after being sexually assaulted and then murdered. Police found that the phone wire had been cut, and the screen from Quayle’s bathroom window had been removed and thrown into the woods. .. According to the District attorney, Anderson will be tried under laws that were in effect during 1981 — meaning he could be sentenced to life in prison with a chance of parole after 20 years, should he be convicted. He faces two counts of first-degree murder, according to court records. https://www.foxnews.com/us/dna-vanilla-coke-colorado-murder-cold-case |
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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. |
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Imagine getting away with murder, only to be caught because you couldn't dispose of your trash properly.
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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. |
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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. |
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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. It is best not to murder someone and expect to get away with it. Unless you live in Chicago. |
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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 But I also tend to listen to crime podcasts often and am suspicious of a lot of things. |
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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.
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Quoted: The larger picture here though is the DNA collection method. Don't get your DNA tested by anyone if you want privacy. View Quote How are you going to stop everyone you are genetically related to from getting tested? I have been reluctant to submit a DNA sample to any of those family history companies. But since several family members have, my choice doesn’t really matter. It’s not like I have some heinous crime I am hiding, but you never know how that information will be used. |
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Pepsi Cola Rapist - Patrice ONeal |
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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. I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to comparing DNA from relatives to a suspect, but I do know that the feds have used some quack science in the past, swore to it as valid scientific evidence, and the truth is that it's mostly bullshit. I hope if people are getting imprisoned that the science is actually sound in these cases. I just don't see how anyone could trust the feds word on anything. Proven liars who don't get called out by the system for their proven lies. |
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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 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. |
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Quoted: Quick duckduckgo search says Vanilla Coke launched in 2002. View Quote 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. |
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View Quote My fear is this guys joke. |
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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 This "We found your dna/fingerprint on a used casing found at a triple murder...the murderer looks like he was using range pickup brass and reloaded it with special teflon cop-killer bullets, but since your prints/dna were found at the scene, the DA in our People's Republic has decided to charge you with felony aiding and abetting" |
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A guy in whatcom county in WA state got caught a couple of years ago about 30 years after rape and murder by dna through a soda can a co-worker supplied the police. The murderer was pretty cautious about allowing his dna to be found, he had refused to supply the cops with his dna so he was on their radar and he made one slip.
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Quoted: I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to comparing DNA from relatives to a suspect, but I do know that the feds have used some quack science in the past, swore to it as valid scientific evidence, and the truth is that it's mostly bullshit. I hope if people are getting imprisoned that the science is actually sound in these cases. I just don't see how anyone could trust the feds word on anything. Proven liars who don't get called out by the system for their proven lies. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: 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. I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to comparing DNA from relatives to a suspect, but I do know that the feds have used some quack science in the past, swore to it as valid scientific evidence, and the truth is that it's mostly bullshit. I hope if people are getting imprisoned that the science is actually sound in these cases. I just don't see how anyone could trust the feds word on anything. Proven liars who don't get called out by the system for their proven lies. FBI crime lab and that CSI crap is based on shaky foundations. Carpet fiber samples, ballistics and even the way they do fingerprints and the old hair samples are suspect. DNA has exonerated many people that have been convicted with their junk science. DNA science is real and accessible to others so hopefully it reduces their chance for cheating. |
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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 View All Quotes View All Quotes 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. he FBI partnered with a company called United Data Connect to trace the DNA on a can taken from the crime scene |
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Quoted: The larger picture here though is the DNA collection method. Don't get your DNA tested by anyone if you want privacy. View Quote Lol. Like U have a choice. |
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Quoted:DNA science is real and accessible to others so hopefully it reduces their chance for cheating. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:DNA science is real and accessible to others so hopefully it reduces their chance for cheating. a paper published in Forensic Science International: Genetics claims, “The scientists fabricated blood and saliva samples containing DNA from a person other than the donor of the blood and saliva. They also showed that if they had access to a DNA profile in a database, they could construct a sample of DNA to match that profile without obtaining any tissue from that person.” According to Dan Frumkin, lead author of the published study: “You can just engineer a crime scene…. Any biology undergraduate could perform this” — a revelation that raises the obvious concern that someone may indeed have performed such genetic forgery already. If the state wants you they'll get you. They created a false narrative to destroy an elected president and when that didn't work they stole an election. I think corruption like that can make someone suicide themselves, use DNA to frame a person, or just make someone disappear? |
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I am leery of what DNA they have from 40 years ago. What type of testing was done back then compared to now? Did they keep the evidence somewhere for 40 years, if so how well was it kept in custody, how many people handled it or mishandled it over 40 years?
If the guy did it, good for catching him but the story just doesnt leave a warm and fuzzy feeling. |
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Pick up that can, citizen.
Wait, that can now has your DNA on it. You are under arrest. 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.... |
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Quoted: I am leery of what DNA they have from 40 years ago. What type of testing was done back then compared to now? Did they keep the evidence somewhere for 40 years, if so how well was it kept in custody, how many people handled it or mishandled it over 40 years? If the guy did it, good for catching him but the story just doesnt leave a warm and fuzzy feeling. View Quote OJ's evidence was thrown out because it sat on the hood of a police car for 30 minutes. But, 40 year old DNA in a damp basement somewhere is enough to convict average people. |
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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 From the comments. |
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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 Further reading - Curtilage |
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Quoted: This "We found your dna/fingerprint on a used casing found at a triple murder...the murderer looks like he was using range pickup brass and reloaded it with special teflon cop-killer bullets, but since your prints/dna were found at the scene, the DA in our People's Republic has decided to charge you with felony aiding and abetting" View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: 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. This "We found your dna/fingerprint on a used casing found at a triple murder...the murderer looks like he was using range pickup brass and reloaded it with special teflon cop-killer bullets, but since your prints/dna were found at the scene, the DA in our People's Republic has decided to charge you with felony aiding and abetting" 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. |
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Quoted: I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to comparing DNA from relatives to a suspect, but I do know that the feds have used some quack science in the past, swore to it as valid scientific evidence, and the truth is that it's mostly bullshit. I hope if people are getting imprisoned that the science is actually sound in these cases. I just don't see how anyone could trust the feds word on anything. Proven liars who don't get called out by the system for their proven lies. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: I don't know shit about fuck when it comes to comparing DNA from relatives to a suspect, but I do know that the feds have used some quack science in the past, swore to it as valid scientific evidence, and the truth is that it's mostly bullshit. I hope if people are getting imprisoned that the science is actually sound in these cases. I just don't see how anyone could trust the feds word on anything. Proven liars who don't get called out by the system for their proven lies. 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. |
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Quoted: I don't plan on raping and killing anyone, so I won't lose sleep over this. View Quote I'm sure you don't plan on abducting a child so you won't lose any sleep over the police searching your home, car and property any time a child is missing. Let the government have unlimited power since you don't plan on breaking any laws = dumbest logic on the interwebs. |
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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 View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 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. This "We found your dna/fingerprint on a used casing found at a triple murder...the murderer looks like he was using range pickup brass and reloaded it with special teflon cop-killer bullets, but since your prints/dna were found at the scene, the DA in our People's Republic has decided to charge you with felony aiding and abetting" 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. Don't you think LEOs would identify the fact that there are a shit ton of different DNA samples. They generally talk to people before they go and get a warrant to arrest. At that point, the subject would have the ability to offer an alibi which would more than likely be vetted prior to arrest. In this case, I am willing to bet there is potentially some other indirect evidence that led to this person's arrest in addition to the DNA evidence. ETA: Grammar |
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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. exactly this. they caught an alaskan murderer from 25 years ago recently here in maine because his relative was in a genetic database. They went ot her and asked " have any of your male reletives been to alaska? she said her nephew had gone to college there for a year" they then got DNA sample from nephew and it was a match to semen at the scene. (i lived in teh dorm where it happened, several years after the fact) |
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“Quayle was found by her father covered in blood with several broken fingernails and red marks that were "consistent with the shape of fingers," according to a police report.”
Having a daughter, I don’t even want to try to imagine finding a loved one like that and then going to my grave not knowing that the killer would some day be found and hopefully justice would eventually be served. I would be living life a very bitter man. |
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Quoted: Don't you think LEOs would identify the fact that there are a shit ton of different DNA samples. They generally talk to people before they go and get a warrant to arrest. At that point, the subject would have the ability to offer an alibi which would more than likely be vetted prior to arrest. In this case, I am willing to bet there is potentially some other indirect evidence that led to this person's arrest in addition to the DNA evidence. ETA: Grammar View Quote |
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Quoted: Yes, that's usually how these things go. The DNA results make all the other evidentiary bits line up. Might have been as simple as confronting the suspect and he confessed. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Don't you think LEOs would identify the fact that there are a shit ton of different DNA samples. They generally talk to people before they go and get a warrant to arrest. At that point, the subject would have the ability to offer an alibi which would more than likely be vetted prior to arrest. In this case, I am willing to bet there is potentially some other indirect evidence that led to this person's arrest in addition to the DNA evidence. ETA: Grammar This wasn't for just you but other people posting thinking this dude was ripped from his house because his DNA was at the crime scene. I would love to read the affidavit. |
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Quoted: Snip According to the District attorney, Anderson will be tried under laws that were in effect during 1981 — meaning he could be sentenced to life in prison with a chance of parole after 20 years, should he be convicted. He faces two counts of first-degree murder, according to court records. https://www.foxnews.com/us/dna-vanilla-coke-colorado-murder-cold-case View Quote If he's going to be prosecuted under 1981 laws why isn't the death penalty in play, according to the webz, that wasn't abolished until 2020. |
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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 View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: 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. This "We found your dna/fingerprint on a used casing found at a triple murder...the murderer looks like he was using range pickup brass and reloaded it with special teflon cop-killer bullets, but since your prints/dna were found at the scene, the DA in our People's Republic has decided to charge you with felony aiding and abetting" 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. The crew in the movie The Town bought hair from the local barbershop and dumped it in their getaway car...."all the DNA in Charlestown". To quote a friend of mine from years ago.....' If you are going to commit a crime pick up cigarette buds and empty cans from around police station and city hall and leave them spread around the crime scene. Good luck unwinding that knot officer/detective/prosecutor/judge.' |
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