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Feb 12 2020 rbbm
Delphi murders: After 3 years with no arrests, police say case isn't cold
''With an unsolved case that is three years old, such as the Delphi slayings, even with the use of DNA "you're not going to get a solution to a case, unless somebody is in the database," Pagliaro said.
State Police officials won't say whether they have collected DNA samples from the Delphi crime scene.
However, the advent of DNA testing, evidence databases, artificial intelligence and still-emerging crime-solving techniques, makes it more possible to solve cold cases, Pagliaro said. In one famous case, Joseph DeAngelo, the suspected "Golden State killer," was arrested in 2018, decades after those murders, after investigators matched his DNA with that of a relative found on a genealogical website.
"Even a case that's very old can ultimately be solved," Pagliaro said.
"If additional information goes into one of the databases, then there could be a hit and it could solve the crime. If there's additional information gained through new technology, then you may be able to solve a crime."
Few crime scene details
Investigators in the Delphi slayings have been reluctant to release detailed information from the crime scene, such as whether DNA or other evidence was collected, how the two girls died and when the slayings likely occurred.
Riley, of the State Police, said it's "kind of like a poker game. You don't want to throw out all your cards at the start."
"We don't want to put out any more information than we feel the public needs to know," he said. "When we have the person we want, we want to know what they know about the case. … That's why we've held back on the information that we've given out."
Feb 12 2020 rbbm
Delphi murders: After 3 years with no arrests, police say case isn't cold
''With an unsolved case that is three years old, such as the Delphi slayings, even with the use of DNA "you're not going to get a solution to a case, unless somebody is in the database," Pagliaro said.
State Police officials won't say whether they have collected DNA samples from the Delphi crime scene.
However, the advent of DNA testing, evidence databases, artificial intelligence and still-emerging crime-solving techniques, makes it more possible to solve cold cases, Pagliaro said. In one famous case, Joseph DeAngelo, the suspected "Golden State killer," was arrested in 2018, decades after those murders, after investigators matched his DNA with that of a relative found on a genealogical website.
"Even a case that's very old can ultimately be solved," Pagliaro said.
"If additional information goes into one of the databases, then there could be a hit and it could solve the crime. If there's additional information gained through new technology, then you may be able to solve a crime."
Few crime scene details
Investigators in the Delphi slayings have been reluctant to release detailed information from the crime scene, such as whether DNA or other evidence was collected, how the two girls died and when the slayings likely occurred.
Riley, of the State Police, said it's "kind of like a poker game. You don't want to throw out all your cards at the start."
"We don't want to put out any more information than we feel the public needs to know," he said. "When we have the person we want, we want to know what they know about the case. … That's why we've held back on the information that we've given out."