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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday July 18 2018, @04:03PM (6 children)
<sarcasm> But, Citizen! DNA samples can only be used for good! Insurance companies won't raise your rates because you have and/or carry hereditary diseases. And, no one can ever, ever, EVER "plant" your DNA at a crime scene. $ethnicity haters can't find out that you are $ethnicity from your DNA. And, people who judge people guilty by association will never find out that your *parent was a murderer, child molester, traitor, or whatever else will learn who your daddy is. </sarcasm>
Unfortunately, this is the way the world is going. Eventually, those DNA samples will be taken from the newborn baby, and kept on file forever and ever. Classified and categorized, analyzed, and plugged into the system, long before Baby is ready to join the system.
"Oh, Becky can't take advanced academic classes, because her DNA indicates that she isn't smart enough to pass those kind of classes."
"John cannot go into medicine, because" whatever. Cindy will be pushed INTO medicine because HER DNA indicates that she will excel.
And, most of the rank and file will be deemed to be worth little more than cannon fodder.
You life will be mapped out according to some algorithms, based on your DNA. How wonderful - NOT!
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday July 18 2018, @04:13PM
A GATTACA dystopia is one way for the 1% to bring the population down to 500 million.
Oh, wait. Those invalid breeders will keep breeding.
If a lazy person with no education can cross the border and take your job, we need to upgrade your job skills.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @06:09PM (4 children)
I read California had been doing this for a while.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday July 18 2018, @09:12PM (3 children)
Actually it's the whole country.
http://genes-r-us.uthscsa.edu/ [uthscsa.edu]
I don't know why so many AC trolls and TRDT are so fixated on California.
The Musk/Trump interview appears to have been hacked, but not a DDOS hack...more like A Distributed Denial of Reality.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday July 18 2018, @11:07PM (2 children)
Samples are handled differently state-by-state [aclu.org]. Even if the sample is used for research, it might not be associated with an individual's name, or fully sequenced. California's criminal database is worse, and it's likely expanding:
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/03/golden-state-killer-case-why-is-california-fighting-over-collecting-criminals-dna/ [mercurynews.com]
https://ballotpedia.org/California_Violent_Crime_Definition,_DNA_Collection,_and_Parole_Initiative_(2020) [ballotpedia.org]
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(Score: 2) by captain normal on Thursday July 19 2018, @02:00AM (1 child)
Violent crime DNA database is way different from collecting DNA from all new born babies.
The Musk/Trump interview appears to have been hacked, but not a DDOS hack...more like A Distributed Denial of Reality.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday July 19 2018, @02:29AM
Define "collect". How long do they store it in your state?
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