There are many others with available DNA evidence that’s never matched any existing DNA profiles in law enforcement databases.
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In the end, they found DeAngelo, who fit their profile of GSK in too many ways to count.Īfter learning how the serial killer was fingered, anyone fascinated with cold cases immediately jumped to the next logical step: Who else is lurking in the shadows of the virtual forest of family trees?Īt least one legendary unsolved serial case may already be on its way to answer. Using forensic genealogy, investigators made meticulous family trees, tracing family relations, ever-expanding branches of mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, cousins and so on.
A long-ago ancestor who’d lived in the early 1800s. Using the Golden State Killer’s DNA profile, police searched for a hit on GEDmatch, a kind of self-service site that allows people to find family connections from around the world. So, DeAngelo’s arrest came in part from a relatively new and unexpected direction for a pursuit some once considered an absorbing hobby.
As defined in a 2016 interview by practitioner Colleen Fitzpatrick, forensic genealogy is simply “the study of identity and kinship in legal contexts.” After the arrest of alleged Golden State Killer ( GSK) Joseph James DeAngelo, police revealed the novel method they’d used to find him: forensic genealogy.
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