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- Title: Fortuity and Forensic Familial Identification.
- Author : Stanford Law School
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 405 KB
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INTRODUCTION On July 7, 2010, Los Angeles police announced that they had cracked a series of murders spanning decades, (1) arresting a suspect in the Grim Sleeper murders--so called because of an apparent hiatus in killings lasting a dozen years. (2) Although the serial killer had left DNA behind at several crime scenes, that DNA was not identical to any of several million DNA profiles of past offenders in the National DNA Index System. (3) The break in the case came when California searched its state DNA database for a genetic profile similar--but not identical--to the killer's. (4) Because DNA is inherited in specific and predictable ways, a partial match might indicate that a close genetic relative of the matching offender was the Grim Sleeper.