Murder suspect due in U.S. court after DNA cracks open 1988 case
A 59-year-old Indiana man will be formally charged on Thursday with the 1988 murder of an eight-year-old girl after the decades-old cold case was cracked open by DNA evidence linked to a genealogical website, authorities said on Tuesday.
John Miller of Grabill, Indiana, was arrested in nearby Fort Wayne on Sunday after DNA evidence and records on publicly accessible genealogical websites helped investigators track him down. Investigators followed a pattern similar to that used to track down the "Golden State Killer" in California earlier this year.
Miller on Monday was preliminarily charged with murder, child molestation and confinement of someone under 14 years old, 30 years after eight-year-old April Tinsley was found dead in a ditch. He has been ordered held without bond.
If you don't hand over your DNA, you want child murderers to frolic in freedom.
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by VLM on Wednesday July 18 2018, @04:33PM (6 children)
Interesting cultural implication:
"recently" tough on crime, big brother is better brother, type of propaganda focused on creating new prison / death row inmates who were mostly young black men guilty of killing other young black men over crack cocaine related issues. Partially made up Hollywood, fake news, and politics and partially entirely factual, although a politically incorrect hate fact to observe their demographics, etc.
We're entering a new era due to technology and big brother culture, such that for "awhile" we're going to get a temporary impulse of re-opened cold cases where "tough on crime" is gonna mean gray/white haired baby boomers doing the perp walk and being displayed in political advertisements, instead of young black men. So that will be interesting to watch, culturally.
(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @05:48PM (3 children)
Middle age to senior white men are current society's useless garbage responsible for every ill in modern life.
Not saying I subscribe to that sentiment, just recognizing its existence.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday July 18 2018, @08:40PM (2 children)
I typically qualify it further. The evil of society is Senior, Rich, Heterosexual, Racist, White, "christian", men.
People today are educated enough to repeat what they are taught but not to question what they are taught.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @11:30PM
Who are also "stable geniuses".
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday July 19 2018, @02:33AM
Humm...I do fit some of those categories, but I am not Rich, Racist nor "christian".
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 2) by Entropy on Wednesday July 18 2018, @06:18PM (1 child)
Or a group of mostly old men of a very predictable demographic. Roughly 6% of the population commits over 50% of murders. Thinking that would change just because a case is old?
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Wednesday July 18 2018, @09:28PM
Your 'predictable demographic' is obviously young black men killing other young black men.
They're not going to put much effort into solving a 30 year old case where one black gang member shot a rival gang member. The cold cases that get this treatment will be those involving young kids / serial killers / politically connected victims. The profiles of those criminals are probably quite different.
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