The legal restrictions for LE to collect DNA samples in 1998 is outlined in the following link. It is unbelievable that Canada passed a bill that prohibited police from attaining DNA samples unless a perp had been charged with at least two murders or two rapes. This explains why lead investigator Tweedy asked for voluntary DNA samples in Christine's case, and why he presented his objections along with other police forces and their attorneys in the Senate hearings for Bill C-3, fourteen years after CJ's murder when he got her case.
RSBM
Glad it was changed. I guess that’s the ‘give a dog one bite’ principle? As you said—unbelievable.