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OMG. Wow, grocery store check out! Somewhere said he was married twice and 3 daughters, one living w/ him w/ granddaughter. Wow is all I can say. Poor children they didn't deserve that father.
No--mechanic for grocery delivery trucks, so probably no public contact.
All this talk makes me forget the cornerstone of our judicial system: innocent until proven guilty.
There will be a trial (unless he waves that right) in which the government has to prove his guilt.
In the meantime, the police arrests someone, so he must be guilty.
Think the jury of public opinions bad.....
Arrests may as well be engraved in stonestone. Do police investigators and prosecutors ever say "damn, we got the wrong guy "?
Police still mum on how they determined he was a suspect and how they got the DNA sample from him. Maybe someone, after all these years, broke their silence about him knowing what he did? Or the recent publicity about the killer from TV and books had someone voicing their suspicions? Maybe even the familial DNA match as some mentioned.
Or law enforcement screwed up big time and is still thinking of a good excuse to tell the public to protect themselves from humiliation? Anything is possible.
How a Genealogy Site Led to the Front Door of the Golden State Killer Suspect
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Investigators used DNA from crime scenes that had been stored all these years and plugged the genetic profile of the suspected assailant into an online genealogy database. They found distant relatives of Mr. DeAngelo’s and, despite his years of eluding the authorities, traced their DNA to to his front door.
By MICHAEL BALSAMO and JONATHAN J. COOPER
Associated Press
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Investigators who used a genealogical website to find the ex-policeman they believe is a shadowy serial killer and rapist who terrified California decades ago call the technique groundbreaking.
But others say it raises troubling legal and privacy concerns for the millions of people who submit their DNA to such sites to discover their heritage.
This is fascinating. So it's possible there was no tip at all. Just the entry of a DNA code into a public database, a link to a distant relative, and skilled Internet investigation of all possible relations until it was narrowed down to a male of likely age, living in Sacramento. This was followed by comparison of the subject's discarded DNA to the original crime-scene sample. Pretty cool. Don't the authorities have Zodiac's DNA? One wonders if the same thing could be done, although he is probably dead so it would be trickier.
This is fascinating. So it's possible there was no tip at all. Just the entry of a DNA code into a public database, a link to a distant relative, and skilled Internet investigation of all possible relations until it was narrowed down to a male of likely age, living in Sacramento. This was followed by comparison of the subject's discarded DNA to the original crime-scene sample. Pretty cool. Don't the authorities have Zodiac's DNA? One wonders if the same thing could be done, although he is probably dead so it would be trickier.
This is a very interesting turn of events regarding DNA and ancestry. It sounds like the one of his relatives uploaded a DNA profile to GEDMatch, and police uploaded the DNA profile of the suspect to the same site. The website did the work of connecting the suspect with a relative. Police must have then looked at genealogy and birth records to locate someone with that familial history who lived in the crime area. I'm curious where the relative lives.
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