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Arrest announced in 2003 murder of woman found in Rancho San Diego Dumpster
“RANCHO SAN DIEGO (KUSI) – Sheriff’s officials Friday announced the arrest of the husband of a murder victim who went unidentified for nearly two decades after her legs were discovered inside a dumpster in Rancho San Diego.”
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Arrest Announced In 2003 Murder Of Woman Found In Rancho San Diego Dumpster
“Genetic genealogy testing, the same technology used to capture the Golden State Killer, aided investigators in identifying Laurie Potter, who was a Temecula resident at the time of her death, Seiver said.
"This case was unlikely to have ever been solved without the use of investigative genetic geneaology," according to Seiver, who said Laurie Potter was never reported missing. Troy DuGal, a detective with the sheriff's Cold Case Homicide unit, said Laurie's family, though unaware of her whereabouts, believed she was still alive.
Seiver said the case is the first in the San Diego region in which the technology was used to identify a homicide victim. DuGal said genetic geneaology was used on two prior occasions to identify local suspects, both of whom were already deceased by the time they were identified.”
