Clever guy. Sign up for 23 & me, send them your DNA.
Go on murder rampage... Leave DNA behind.
School and Degree's do not make dumb people smart. They just complete a course/program...
Where does it say he signed up for 23 and me? I don’t think he needed to sign up for any of that for genetic genealogy to work. I don’t know how they match the perpetrators DNA to close family members but I don’t think he signed up for 23 and me. Maybe one of his family members did and they matched his DNA to the family members. The Golden state killer was caught using genetic genealogy and he’s 77-they didn’t have 23 and me back then so he could not have used it. This method has been used to solve lots of crimes without criminals signing up for 23 and me. But I’m not exactly sure how the process works.
“First, the assailant’s DNA is collected from crime-scene evidence. That DNA profile is converted to a format that can be anonymously uploaded to GEDmatch or Family Tree DNA, the only two major consumer genetic genealogy databases that explicitly permit law enforcement use.
Once the database processes the sample, it produces a list of matches to the perpetrator’s DNA. Those matches could be close family members or distant relatives, such as fourth cousins. The more DNA the two profiles share, the more closely the match is probably related to the perpetrator.
Then, genealogists build family trees for the matches using various traditional sources, such as birth certificates, obituaries, wedding announcements and public records. They work backward in time, with a goal of finding common ancestors in the matches’ family trees. Then they work forward in time, identifying those ancestors’ descendants as well as marriages. Each DNA match helps narrow down the list.
Once promising candidates have been identified, law enforcement might collect a discarded DNA sample from them (such as a used napkin or cigarette) and compare it to the crime-scene DNA. That analysis either confirms or disproves the match.”
