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“DNA and me” strikes again.
Posted on 3/17/19 at 10:47 am
Posted on 3/17/19 at 10:47 am
I never knew of this story but it looks like the cops used the DNA database to locate a mother (38 years later) that left her baby to die in a ditch. Awful story but at least she was caught.
Baby left to die in ditch in 1981
Baby left to die in ditch in 1981
Posted on 3/17/19 at 10:49 am to SECdragonmaster
Thanks for posting, will read again
Posted on 3/17/19 at 10:56 am to SECdragonmaster
Thanks for ruining my Sunday
Posted on 3/17/19 at 11:03 am to SECdragonmaster
I find it interesting that the NIH is getting into this conversation. A government agency doesn’t approve of the sharing of data to another government agency dealing in law enforcement. I suppose the NIH itself isn’t sharing a damn thing, right??
Posted on 3/17/19 at 11:13 am to LSU Wayne
For anybody thinking "I don't have anything to hide, I'm not a criminal," It's a short step to this being shared with insurance companies and prospective employers. Insurers would love to screen out people with genetic markers for expensive diseases. Ditto company HR departments. Think of the headaches they could save by eliminating job applicants with a susceptibility to alcoholism.
Posted on 3/17/19 at 11:14 am to SECdragonmaster
If you go by the title then it’s odd, but reading the article isn’t not like the Ancestry.com opened up their database for a search.
Posted on 3/17/19 at 11:19 am to SECdragonmaster
Never understood why people willingly sent their DNA to these companies thinking that LE would never try to access that data
Posted on 3/17/19 at 11:24 am to Jim Rockford
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Insurers would love to screen out people with genetic markers for expensive diseases. Ditto company HR departments.
Yep.
And even if we eventually get single payer, it's still a problem. The government will want to forcibly sterilize people who might pass on risky genes (and according to Nancy Depreo, the Mississippi ambassador for rare diseases, everyone has at least five bad pieces of DNA - most rare diseases are caused by getting a bad roll of the dice from both parents).
That's before you even get into potential political abuse, ie finding genetically influenced diseases that are correlated with groups of people the government dislikes.
Posted on 3/17/19 at 11:30 am to SECdragonmaster
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the baby boy was found dead in a ditch, his umbilical cord and placenta still attached and tears frozen on his cheeks
God damn baw...
Posted on 3/17/19 at 11:41 am to TulaneFan
I am starting to regret my earlier decisions to participate in dna testing.
Posted on 3/17/19 at 11:44 am to LeroyBrown
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I am starting to regret my earlier decisions to participate in dna testing.
What did you do in the past that you could be charged with? You can tell me. I promise not to tell others.
Posted on 3/17/19 at 11:47 am to LeroyBrown
That's bad, bad; Leroy Brown.
Posted on 3/17/19 at 11:48 am to upgrayedd
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Never understood why people willingly sent their DNA to these companies thinking that LE would never try to access that data
In this case, as in the Golden State Killer case, it wasn't the suspect, it was relatives, and not even particularly close relatives.
By the same token you can go online and find your family history has already been done going back many generations by people you've never met with whom you share a common ancestor.
Posted on 3/17/19 at 11:51 am to upgrayedd
It’s sad that cops are using this dna fad to pin crimes on people instead of using good ol fashion police work to pin crimes on real criminals
Posted on 3/17/19 at 12:04 pm to Jim Rockford
People haven't figured out yet that every single thing about them is accessible and for sale
Posted on 3/17/19 at 12:17 pm to SECdragonmaster
God can you imagine how her husband feels?
His long time wife murdered his son by leaving him to freeze to death in a ditch and she lived with the crime for 38 years.
His long time wife murdered his son by leaving him to freeze to death in a ditch and she lived with the crime for 38 years.
Posted on 3/17/19 at 12:22 pm to SECdragonmaster
Has this story made its way to the OT yet?
1999 Murder of two teens
Two Alabama teens got lost on the way to a birthday party in 1999. One called her mother to tell they were heading home because they couldn’t find the party location, and that was the last time anyone heard from them. Their car was later found with their bodies in the trunk.
A DNA match was made through a family member, and an arrest was made.
1999 Murder of two teens
Two Alabama teens got lost on the way to a birthday party in 1999. One called her mother to tell they were heading home because they couldn’t find the party location, and that was the last time anyone heard from them. Their car was later found with their bodies in the trunk.
A DNA match was made through a family member, and an arrest was made.
Posted on 3/17/19 at 12:28 pm to brass2mouth
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but reading the article isn’t not like the Ancestry.com opened up their database for a search.
uh, so the cops can swab this 38 year old, send it in as a normal request for a DNA match. Ancestry sends the results pinpointing who the likely mom is, and voila!
How is that NOT opening up their database to the cops, without a warrant?
Posted on 3/17/19 at 12:33 pm to Bestbank Tiger
quote:I’m a bona fide O-Ter, and as such, I have exactly ZERO bad pieces of DNA.
according to Nancy Depreo, the Mississippi ambassador for rare diseases, everyone has at least five bad pieces of DNA - most rare diseases are caused by getting a bad roll of the dice from both parents
So I’ve got nothing to hide.
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