DNA Solves Cold Cases/Parabon Nanolabs & GED/Match.

[mpnola]

Perhaps there could be a separate thread to discuss Mr DeAngelo and concerns about DNA and Genealogy.

Please!!!!!! There is a thread for him. All of the victims paragon helps are being overshadowed with the same info over and over, for pages on end.

 

[ZaZara]

Perhaps there could be a separate thread to discuss Mr DeAngelo and concerns about DNA and Genealogy.

Generally speaking, The Parking Lot would be the designated place for persistent claims that are somehow never supported by MSM reports.

 

[jaejae]

Please!!!!!! There is a thread for him. All of the victims paragon helps are being overshadowed with the same info over and over, for pages on end.

Thanks for your post and I understand where other posters are coming from. It is my opinion though that ParaBon Labs have actually made victims of very many innocent people and their families through their use of unethical genealogy science they do not understand the flaws in and by employing a former actress as their lead genetic scientist. However I care for the victims of crimes as other posters on these boards do so I have set up my own thread about who I actually believe is the Golden State Killer or EAR/ONS and will only post on about genetic genealogy and its flaws on there and will not post about it on this thread again so as to respect the wishes of other posters, Thank you.

 

[Mrs. Badcrumble]

I claim the right to make my sincere and heart felt views under the US First Amendment.

Slightly off-topic, but also FYI:

From Rules - Etiquette & Information:

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[PayrollNerd]

I really enjoyed this thread until about post #83 - then I had to leave. I just can't take it. When the audience leaves, the performance stops.

 

[mpnola]

Thanks for your post and I understand where other posters are coming from. It is my opinion though that ParaBon Labs have actually made victims of very many innocent people and their families through their use of unethical genealogy science they do not understand the flaws in and by employing a former actress as their lead genetic scientist. However I care for the victims of crimes as other posters on these boards do so I have set up my own thread about who I actually believe is the Golden State Killer or EAR/ONS and will only post on about genetic genealogy and its flaws on there and will not post about it on this thread again so as to respect the wishes of other posters, Thank you.

I think you have well made that point. Do you not think other victims deserve to be seen and spoken about? It feels disrespectful to monopolize every thread possible with the same line of rhetoric. It has an agenda and this forum is about the missing and murdered. Not for a soap box platform. We heard your point loud and clear. For months.

 

[jaejae]

I think you have well made that point. Do you not think other victims deserve to be seen and spoken about? It feels disrespectful to monopolize every thread possible with the same line of rhetoric. It has an agenda and this forum is about the missing and murdered. Not for a soap box platform. We heard your point loud and clear. For months.

I have said I will not post here again yet you quote my post. My posts are all about crime cases and the missing and murdered. Perhaps you do not know I have tried to get the right answers for many victims in crime cases for years. Perhaps you might not be as casual about proper science and ethics if you or your family member was wrongly accused of a crime. My point is yours is a free country but I would prefer it if you do not discuss any of my posts again and quote them after I have said I will not post on this thread again. Thank you.

 

[watcher9]

Almost three decades later, the cold case rape and murder of Sarah Yarborough, 16, in December 1991 has been solved.

Patrick Nicholas, 55, became a potential suspect because of a new DNA family tree search. He was actually linked to the crime after cops tested his discarded cigarette butt for DNA which was then matched to evidence obtained from the crime scene.

Washington state teen's cold case murder cracked after nearly three decades

WA - WA - Sarah Yarborough, 16, Federal Way, 14 Dec 1991

 

[Suglo]

DNA evidence has linked a Visalia man to a 23-year-old homicide case in Fresno, Police Chief Jerry Dyer said Friday.

Read more here: https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article235813887.html#storylink=cpy

 

[Legally Bland]

DNA evidence has linked a Visalia man to a 23-year-old homicide case in Fresno, Police Chief Jerry Dyer said Friday.

Read more here: https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article235813887.html#storylink=cpy

CA - CA - Debbie Dorian, 22, Fresno, 22 Aug 1996

 

[Quad]

glad this thread is back on track

 

[watcher9]

CA - CA - Debbie Dorian, 22, Fresno, 22 Aug 1996

Another link.

California man named prime suspect in 1996 cold murder and rape case after DNA linked him to crime | Daily Mail Online

 

[margarita25]

Identified!
Man abandoned as baby in Gatwick Airport toilet tracks down birth parents after more than three decades

“He wrote on Facebook: “After 15 years of searching I am happy to confirm that with the very hard work of Genetic Genealogists, CeCe Moore and Helen Riding we have been able to trace and confirm my birth family.”

Thread:
UK - Abandoned airport baby 'Gary Gatwick' seeks his mother 25 years later

 

[dotr]

Ws thread..
TX - TX - Virginia 'Ginger' Freeman, 40, Brazos County, 1 Dec 1981

FIRST ON KBTX: DNA evidence solves oldest cold case in Brazos County
"DNA evidence analyzed by Parabon NanoLabs in the creation of their Snapshot profile of Freeman's killer led to the belief that Earhart was the killer. The Brazos County Sheriff's Office released Parabon's profile to the public in March of 2017. Parabon contacted the sheriff's office on June 20, 2018, with the hypothesis that Earhart was Freeman's killer.

"The solving of this 'cold' case after 37 years of investigating, brings relief and closure for the Freeman family, Virginia's friends, the local real estate industry and our community," said Sheriff Chris Kirk in a statement issued last year."

 

[Awsi Dooger]

I really enjoyed this thread until about post #83 - then I had to leave. I just can't take it. When the audience leaves, the performance stops.

I'll take it further. It was a catastrophe what happened to this thread. I don't care if that is overstating matters. Overstatement is warranted and deserved to happen months ago.

I bookmarked this thread on an early page because the topic was so interesting. Then it was never interesting. I would enter and leave within seconds, always in disgust.

If a thread had to be sacrificed for so long it shouldn't have been this one

 

[Legally Bland]

Apologies if already posted. Courtesy of @jaejae from another thread:

Twenty-six years later, the man police believe is responsible for the attack, 54-year-old Jeffrey King of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, has been indicted, thanks to DNA found in the woman's rape kit and information obtained through a genealogical website, Newark police announced jointly with Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings on Tuesday morning.

The indictment, which a New Castle County grand jury handed down on Sept. 30, comes about two years after the case was reopened as part of Delaware's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, an effort that began in 2016 to test previously untested rape kits, Jennings said.

Pennsylvania man charged in decades-old rape case after DNA links him to attack​

 

[ZaZara]

Apologies if already posted. Courtesy of @jaejae from another thread:

Twenty-six years later, the man police believe is responsible for the attack, 54-year-old Jeffrey King of Coatesville, Pennsylvania, has been indicted, thanks to DNA found in the woman's rape kit and information obtained through a genealogical website, Newark police announced jointly with Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings on Tuesday morning.

The indictment, which a New Castle County grand jury handed down on Sept. 30, comes about two years after the case was reopened as part of Delaware's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, an effort that began in 2016 to test previously untested rape kits, Jennings said.

Pennsylvania man charged in decades-old rape case after DNA links him to attack​

The person you mention has made it clear that he does not want to be referred to here. Please keep it that way and keep this thread on track. TYO!

 

[Legally Bland]

I did a search and I can't find this one on this thread:
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A man has pleaded guilty to the broad-daylight abduction and rape of a lifeguard at a pool in Alexandria, Virginia, after a high-tech DNA tool was used to link him to the crime.

Jesse Bjerke, 37, of Arlington, raped an Alexandria lifeguard at gunpoint in 2016 and almost got away with the crime.

[...]

But Alexandria police and Detective Ryan Clinch weren't ready to give up. They turned to Northern Virginia tech company Parabon NanoLabs. Using something called genetic genealogy, researchers were able to use a publicly available genetic database to create a possible family tree and first locate relatives of the likely suspect and then to pinpoint Bjerke.

Clinch then followed the suspect to an Old Town restaurant and picked up a discarded straw to get a new DNA sample to compare with DNA gathered at the rape scene.

[...]

It was a match.

Bjerke was arrested in February. Although his defense attorneys challenged the use of discarded DNA evidence, the judge allowed it. Bjerke pleaded guilty Thursday to all six charges against him, including kidnapping, use of a firearm and rape.

Detectives Used DNA From Straw to Catch Rapist in Alexandria

 

[Legally Bland]

The daylight rape was as shocking as it was brazen. A 19-year-old woman, walking alone in the pastoral Norristown Farm Park, had a gun pressed to her head in the waning days of summer 2017 and was pulled into a secluded wooded area.

And for two years, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele had obsessed over the case. He and his staff, Steele said Monday, began to “think outside the box.” They posted a $10,000 reward. They consulted with prosecutors in California who caught the “Golden State Killer.” And they submitted their only clue, the attacker’s DNA, to strenuous testing at a lab.

[...]

The key break in the case came from a genetic profile created for investigators by Parabon NanoLabs, a scientific laboratory in Virginia, using DNA left behind after the assault.

With that profile, investigators began to essentially work backward, looking for the then-unidentified suspect’s family members in publicly available databases. They found some local matches, and after interviewing them, developed two suspects, according to Steele.

One of them was Hall, who detectives later discovered had been arrested in Norristown a month after the rape was reported, according to the affidavit of probable cause for his arrest. In that case, the teen was arrested for allegedly vandalizing a car with a hammer.


The instrument, stained with Hall’s blood after he cut his hand on the auto glass, was still in evidence, the affidavit said. With help from Philadelphia police, county detectives in September compared the blood with the DNA from the park.

It was a match. Hall was taken into custody at his home late last week after trying to flee from police, Steele said.

DNA links Montgomery County teen to violent 2017 rape in Norristown Farm Park

 

[Mrs. Badcrumble]

"She became known as The Fly Creek Jane Doe.

And that’s essentially where the homicide case stood for nearly 40 years -- until investigators uploaded a DNA sample to a public genetic genealogy database recently and followed the branches of the possible family trees.

“I had no idea Sandra Morden even existed until I made a cold call and explained the awkwardness of the call,” Schultz says.

Thanks to the DNA investigation by Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs and Schultz’s awkward phone call to a cousin of Sandra Renee Morden, The Fly Creek Jane Doe has now been identified."

‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ identified after 40 years, opening up potential new clues that could lead to teen girl’s murderer

DNA testing helps ID Jane Doe found murdered in 1980

Sandra "Sandy" Morden's WS thread:
Identified! - WA - Clark Co., Fem Skeletal Remains, near Fly Creek, Feb'80 - Sandy Morden