VA VA - Ralph Leon Jackson, Blue Ridge Parkway Shooter, 4 May 2010

[jaejae]

Here is another report about the buy out of GEDMATCH. Again as I say I believe the site has been used through flawed investigative genetic genealogy science to wrongly accuse a number of innocent people of crimes they did not commit including in the Golden State Killer case and this has caused in my opinion a great deal of harm to innocent men and their families and therefore I again ask concerned people and groups to check on the site is used in the future:

Brett Williams, Verogens CEO, stated GEDmatchs customers would proceed to retain the power to opt-out from searches by legislation enforcement companies, equivalent to people who helped determine the person suspected of being the Golden State killer. However he additionally indicated a imaginative and prescient for the site that focuses on fixing crimes, not simply connecting relations through their DNA.

By no means earlier than have we as a society had the chance to function a molecular eyewitness, enabling legislation enforcement to solve violent crimes effectively and with certainty, he said in a statement. He added that the site would combat future makes an attempt to entry the info of those that haven’t opted in, in an obvious reference to a case final month that noticed Florida police acquiring a warrant to search opted-out profileson the site.

The quantity Verogen paid for GEDmatch hasn’t been disclosed. BuzzFeed Information reported that Verogen hopes to monetise the site by charging for entry to the database and instruments for DNA evaluation.

DNA site GEDmatch sold to firm helping US police solve crime – WebsFavourites.Com

 

[jaejae]

As I have said I believe the website GEDMATCH and its DNA profiles has been through the use of flawed investigative genealogy science been used to wrongly accuse a number of innocent men of crimes they did not commit including in the Golden State Killer case and this has in my view caused them and their families great harm and therefore I ask concerned individuals and groups to please check how the site may be used in the future:

Brett Williams, Verogens CEO, stated GEDmatchs customers would proceed to retain the power to opt-out from searches by legislation enforcement companies, equivalent to people who helped determine the person suspected of being the Golden State killer. However he additionally indicated a imaginative and prescient for the site that focuses on fixing crimes, not simply connecting relations through their DNA.

By no means earlier than have we as a society had the chance to function a molecular eyewitness, enabling legislation enforcement to solve violent crimes effectively and with certainty, he said in a statement. He added that the site would combat future makes an attempt to entry the info of those that haven’t opted in, in an obvious reference to a case final month that noticed Florida police acquiring a warrant to search opted-out profileson the site.

The quantity Verogen paid for GEDmatch hasn’t been disclosed. BuzzFeed Information reported that Verogen hopes to monetise the site by charging for entry to the database and instruments for DNA evaluation.

DNA site GEDmatch sold to firm helping US police solve crime – WebsFavourites.Com

 

[jaejae]

This is an older video from 2018 about investigative genetic genealogy but it is quite interesting and I think the presenter is quite knowledgeable:

To view this content we will need your consent to set third party cookies.
For more detailed information, see our cookies page.

Accept third party cookies

 

[jaejae]

Here is a report about the NorCal Rapist case and I want to make the point I believe that flawed investigative genetic genealogy 'science' was used to incorrectly identify an innocent man as the offender in this case as was also done in the Golden State Killer case and again the offender was actually a man called Ralph Leon Jackson and I also believe the FBI are aware of this fact as they were aware that Mr Talbott was not the offender in a Washington State case that lead to a wrongful conviction when this information was withheld from his defence team at the trial:

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article238195549.html

 

[jaejae]

Here is a report about the NorCal Rapist

case and I want to make the point I believe that flawed investigative genetic genealogy 'science' was used to incorrectly identify an innocent man as the offender in this case as was also done in the Golden State Killer case and again the offender was actually a man called Ralph Leon Jackson and I also believe the FBI are aware of this fact as they were aware that Mr Talbott was not the offender in a Washington State case that lead to a wrongful conviction when this information was withheld from his defence team at the trial:

https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article238195549.html

So I again address lawyers, concerned individuals and politicians when I say there has been one wrongful conviction that the FBI are aware of and therefore there may be more. So I ask them to consider all of their options because at this moment I am having difficulty posting.

 

[jaejae]

There is already an active campaign to get people to OPT IN to DNA databases through organisations like the Institute for DNA Justice and here are details of another campaign to get people to upload their DNA into databases for LE to use:

"Upload for Justice" is a year-long initiative to collaborate with law enforcement to assist their own officers and detectives, families of victims, survivors and others to upload DNA to close cold cases.' data-reactid="11">"Upload for Justice" is a year-long initiative to collaborate with law enforcement to assist their own officers and detectives, families of victims, survivors and others to upload DNA to close cold cases.

EMPORIA, Va., Dec. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovative Forensic DNA is partnering with the Southeastern Homicide Investigators Association (SEHIA) and  Project: Cold Case to launch "Upload for Justice," a year-long collaborative initiative to encourage law enforcement officers, families of victims, survivors, advocates, and the public to upload their DNA to Family Tree DNA and GEDmatch for use in cold case investigations.  The first Upload for Justice outreach will be held at the Year of Hope event, on January 25, 2020, in Jacksonville, FL, the 5th annual fundraiser supporting Project: Cold Case.' data-reactid="12">EMPORIA, Va., Dec. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovative Forensic DNA is partnering with the Southeastern Homicide Investigators Association (SEHIA) and Project: Cold Case to launch "Upload for Justice," a year-long collaborative initiative to encourage law enforcement officers, families of victims, survivors, advocates, and the public to upload their DNA to Family Tree DNA and GEDmatch for use in cold case investigations. The first Upload for Justice outreach will be held at the Year of Hope event, on January 25, 2020, in Jacksonville, FL, the 5th annual fundraiser supporting Project: Cold Case.

Innovative Forensic DNA Partners with Southeastern Homicide Investigators Association and Project: Cold Case to Launch "Upload for Justice"

https://www.institutefordnajustice.org/

 

[jaejae]

There is already an active campaign to get people to OPT IN to DNA databases through organisations like the Institute for DNA Justice and here are details of another campaign to get people to upload their DNA into databases for LE to use:

"Upload for Justice" is a year-long initiative to collaborate with law enforcement to assist their own officers and detectives, families of victims, survivors and others to upload DNA to close cold cases.' data-reactid="11">"Upload for Justice" is a year-long initiative to collaborate with law enforcement to assist their own officers and detectives, families of victims, survivors and others to upload DNA to close cold cases.

EMPORIA, Va., Dec. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovative Forensic DNA is partnering with the Southeastern Homicide Investigators Association (SEHIA) and  Project: Cold Case to launch "Upload for Justice," a year-long collaborative initiative to encourage law enforcement officers, families of victims, survivors, advocates, and the public to upload their DNA to Family Tree DNA and GEDmatch for use in cold case investigations.  The first Upload for Justice outreach will be held at the Year of Hope event, on January 25, 2020, in Jacksonville, FL, the 5th annual fundraiser supporting Project: Cold Case.' data-reactid="12">EMPORIA, Va., Dec. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Innovative Forensic DNA is partnering with the Southeastern Homicide Investigators Association (SEHIA) and Project: Cold Case to launch "Upload for Justice," a year-long collaborative initiative to encourage law enforcement officers, families of victims, survivors, advocates, and the public to upload their DNA to Family Tree DNA and GEDmatch for use in cold case investigations. The first Upload for Justice outreach will be held at the Year of Hope event, on January 25, 2020, in Jacksonville, FL, the 5th annual fundraiser supporting Project: Cold Case.

Innovative Forensic DNA Partners with Southeastern Homicide Investigators Association and Project: Cold Case to Launch "Upload for Justice"

https://www.institutefordnajustice.org/

I am sure these people want to see cold cases solved and I want to see cold cases solved as well. The point I want to make again though is that I believe many innocent people have been wrongly accused of crimes through the use of flawed genetic genealogy science that those using it including LE and the scientists at places like ParaBon Labs do not understand the flaws in it. Hence in my opinion many of the men whose images that are shown at the Institute for DNA Justice website are actually innocent including the three currently held by Sacramento LE in the Golden State Killer case, the NorCal Rapist case and another rape case. I also believe that Mr McCraney in the Alabama double murder is also likely innocent. I again ask concerned people to consider what I have said in the light of these very active and vocal campaigns to get other people to enter their DNA into databases by some organizations but not all who have a financial stake in the growth of DNA databases which allow free access to investigative genealogy:

https://www.institutefordnajustice.org/

Innovative Forensic DNA Partners with Southeastern Homicide Investigators Association and Project: Cold Case to Launch "Upload for Justice"

 

[jaejae]

Here is an interesting report about ancestry DNA investigative genetic genealogy Buzz Feed news:

10 Years Ago, DNA Tests Were The Future Of Medicine. Now They’re A Social Network — And A Data Privacy Mess.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...ago-dna-tests-were-the-future-of-medicine-now

 

[jaejae]

Here is an interesting report about ancestry DNA investigative genetic genealogy Buzz Feed news:

10 Years Ago, DNA Tests Were The Future Of Medicine. Now They’re A Social Network — And A Data Privacy Mess.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...ago-dna-tests-were-the-future-of-medicine-now

Here is part of the article about investigative genetic genealogy;

That possibility burst into the public consciousness in April 2018, with the arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo, alleged to be the Golden State Killer responsible for at least 13 killings and more than 50 rapes in the 1970s and 1980s. DeAngelo was finally tracked down after DNA left at the scene of a 1980 double murder was matched to people in GEDmatch who were the killer's third or fourth cousins. Through months of painstaking work, investigators working with the genealogist Barbara Rae-Venter built family trees that converged on DeAngelo.

Genealogists had long realized that databases like GEDmatch could be used in this way, but had been wary of working with law enforcement — fearing that DNA test customers would object to the idea of cops searching their DNA profiles and rummaging around in their family trees.

But the Golden State Killer’s crimes were so heinous that the anticipated backlash initially failed to materialize. Indeed, a May 2018 survey of more than 1,500 US adults found that 80% backed police using public genealogy databases to solve violent crimes.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...ago-dna-tests-were-the-future-of-medicine-now

 

[jaejae]

Here are interesting details about how LE in Colorado used ancestry websites and investigative genetic genealogy to identify a suspect in a murder case. I say again I am as sorry for the victims as anyone including CeCe Moore and do not know who the offender is in this case but ask that it be checked in the light of the fact I believe that investigative genetic genealogy has lead to LE wrongly accusing people of crimes they did not commit including in the Golden State Killer case where I believe the actual offender was a man called Ralph Leon Jackson and hence an innocent man has been unjustly incarcerated for his crimes for over eighteen months:

After a renewed effort to solve the case started in 2017, investigators turned to forensic genealogy to try to find relatives who had uploaded their DNA profiles to online public databases like Ancestry.com and GEDmatch.com, to trace their way back to a possible suspect.

According to the affidavit, investigators uploaded the suspect’s DNA information to GEDmatch.com which led to the identification of several potential distant relatives. Two of the top matches later authorized investigators to access their family trees on Ancestry.com.

DNA Websites Break Open A 40-Year-Old Colorado Cold Case

 

[jaejae]

Here are interesting details about how LE in Colorado used ancestry websites and investigative genetic genealogy to identify a suspect in a murder case. I say again I am as sorry for the victims as anyone including CeCe Moore and do not know who the offender is in this case but ask that it be checked in the light of the fact I believe that investigative genetic genealogy has lead to LE wrongly accusing people of crimes they did not commit including in the Golden State Killer case where I believe the actual offender was a man called Ralph Leon Jackson and hence an innocent man has been unjustly incarcerated for his crimes for over eighteen months:

After a renewed effort to solve the case started in 2017, investigators turned to forensic genealogy to try to find relatives who had uploaded their DNA profiles to online public databases like Ancestry.com and GEDmatch.com, to trace their way back to a possible suspect.

According to the affidavit, investigators uploaded the suspect’s DNA information to GEDmatch.com which led to the identification of several potential distant relatives. Two of the top matches later authorized investigators to access their family trees on Ancestry.com.

DNA Websites Break Open A 40-Year-Old Colorado Cold Case

What is interesting here is that LE appeared to at first use GEDMATCH and then move on to another ancestry website that may have had different privacy settings. I say again to concerned groups and people out there the major problem with LE's use of investigative genetic genealogy is it is a flawed 'science' that they do not understand and they have actually been using it to accuse the wrong people of crimes:

Ancestry® | Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records

 

[jaejae]

Here are details of another case where investigative genetic genealogy has been used to identify a suspect and this time a deceased one:

In 2018, Detective Jacob Blass, Fremont police's cold case homicide investigator, Jacob Blass, took a renewed look at the case and determined additional information was available that needed to be reviewed and they had the opportunity to use new DNA technology.

The same Investigative Genetic Genealogy process that was used in identifying Joseph DeAngelo as the suspect in the Golden State Killer case eventually identified Hudspeth as the suspect in the deaths of Malatag and Atup, police said.

Investigators learned that Hudspeth, who was 31 in 1982, had lived in Milpitas at the time of the crime and lived relatively close to where the teenagers had been seen walking.

Fremont: Police use DNA to solve cold-case murders of two teens

 

[jaejae]

What is interesting here is that LE appeared to at first use GEDMATCH and then move on to another ancestry website that may have had different privacy settings. I say again to concerned groups and people out there the major problem with LE's use of investigative genetic genealogy is it is a flawed 'science' that they do not understand and they have actually been using it to accuse the wrong people of crimes:

Ancestry® | Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records

Here is a report about how Colorado accessed DNA at Ancestry Com to identify a possible suspect in a murder case:

“If they need it for criminal purposes,” said Jack Hudson, who is vacationing in Sanibel Island, “I think, you know, just like anything else, they should have a warrant of some sort and they should have some means to get it in those cases.”

But others said, if you have nothing to worry about, then the clause should not be a problem.

“If you like didn’t do it, then he wouldn’t be like scared or anything like that,” said Madison Franco, who lives in Fort Myers. “So I mean, I think it’s ok using peoples’ DNA. Just like to solve the crime.”

Ancestry test kit leads to an arrest of a serial rapist with a Sanibel victim

 

[jaejae]

Here are details of another case where investigative genetic genealogy has been used to identify a suspect and this time a deceased one:

In 2018, Detective Jacob Blass, Fremont police's cold case homicide investigator, Jacob Blass, took a renewed look at the case and determined additional information was available that needed to be reviewed and they had the opportunity to use new DNA technology.

The same Investigative Genetic Genealogy process that was used in identifying Joseph DeAngelo as the suspect in the Golden State Killer case eventually identified Hudspeth as the suspect in the deaths of Malatag and Atup, police said.

Investigators learned that Hudspeth, who was 31 in 1982, had lived in Milpitas at the time of the crime and lived relatively close to where the teenagers had been seen walking.

Fremont: Police use DNA to solve cold-case murders of two teens

Here is another report about where investigative genetic genealogy was used to identify a deceased individual as the possible offender in a double murder case:

In 2018, Fremont Police Dept. Detective Jacob Blass looked at the case again and said new DNA technology, including the process that identified the Golden State Killer, could be used.

DNA testing at labs in San Leandro and Richmond narrowed a suspect to Hudspeth, who was dead, ABC 7 reported. Hudspeth lived near the victims at the time of the killings and could have been involved in other unsolved crimes.

Sources confirmed to authorities that Hudspeth was on the street where Atup and Malatag were last seen. His house was four minutes from where Atup’s body was discovered.

“We are a family that has been grieving for almost 37 years,” the family said in a statement on Twitter, CBS San Francisco reported. “We are attempting to put our lives back together as we re-mourn the loss of our beloved Jeffrey Atup and Mary Jane Malatag…Our family over the years had lost hope in believing that we would ever have justice in knowing, who did this and as to what had happened to them.”


Read more here: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article238480668.html#storylink=cpy

https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/nation-world/national/article238480668.html

 

[jaejae]

Here is an article about the male victims in the Golden State Killer case and of course they deserve sympathy. I just want to make the point again as I believe it is my moral duty that I do not believe that the man being held for the crimes is the offender and the actual offender was a man called Ralph Leon Jackson. The article mentions his health deterioration and in my mind for someone to suffer for someone else's crimes in such a way is a very unjust situation:

Control remains a central fact of DeAngelo’s now-limited life, housed in solitary confinement on the top floor of the Sacramento County Jail. He has not entered a plea — nor have prosecutors presented their evidence to bind the case over to trial.

He is locked in his concrete room almost 23 hours a day. Inmates say DeAngelo refuses food and in 18 months has dropped from 205 pounds at arrest to an estimated 135 pounds at his last court hearing in August.

For men attacked by the Golden State Killer, victim is a hard word

 

[jaejae]

Here is a report about a case where it appears investigative genetic genealogy and the suspect identified has plead guilty:

Rapist pleads guilty in decades-old San Diego, Riverside cases

Police link 6 rape cold cases to Arizona man

 

[jaejae]

Here is a report about a case where it appears investigative genetic genealogy and the suspect identified has plead guilty:

Rapist pleads guilty in decades-old San Diego, Riverside cases

Police link 6 rape cold cases to Arizona man

This man may well be the offender in this case but I would like all cases involving investigative genetic genealogy inspired by the Golden State Killer case to be checked in light of what I believe was a misidentification in this case and the actual offender in my opinion being a man called Ralph Leon Jackson. This to me has relevance in all subsequent cases. In my opinion in cases like the Golden State Killer case because of flawed 'science' LE was presented DNA hits as a zillion to one fact when in fact there is no legitimate DNA hit in my opinion and this puts huge pressure on the people accused. So again I ask interested and concerned people to consider what I say about all the cases needing checking in the light of what I have said about what I believe was a misidentification in the case that started it all the Golden State Killer case.

 

[jaejae]

Here appears to be another case where investigative genetic genealogy was used to identify a potential suspect in a murder case:

Suspect arrested in murder of Florida mother 38 years later:

In November 2018, detectives in Lakeland were contact by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in Orlando about new DNA technology. FDLE asked the department if they would be interested in submitting DNA to a company that uses generic genealogy. The department submitted DNA from Slaten's case.

On June 5, 2019, they were contacted about the results. According to the affidavit, it was found that the subject in the murder was most likely Mills.

"Joseph should be strongly considered due to the fact generic connections were found to both sides of his family tree, and he was living in close proximity to the scene of the crime in 1981," the results said in part.

 

[jaejae]

Here appears to be another case where investigative genetic genealogy was used to identify a potential suspect in a murder case:

Suspect arrested in murder of Florida mother 38 years later:

In November 2018, detectives in Lakeland were contact by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in Orlando about new DNA technology. FDLE asked the department if they would be interested in submitting DNA to a company that uses generic genealogy. The department submitted DNA from Slaten's case.

On June 5, 2019, they were contacted about the results. According to the affidavit, it was found that the subject in the murder was most likely Mills.

"Joseph should be strongly considered due to the fact generic connections were found to both sides of his family tree, and he was living in close proximity to the scene of the crime in 1981," the results said in part.

Here is another report about the above case:

38 years later: Former youth football coach charged with murder, sexual battery in Lakeland mom's death

 

[jaejae]

Here is another case where investigative genealogy has been used to identify a potential suspect. As I said in my opinion all of the cases using investigative genetic genealogy after the Golden State Killer case will need to be checked as in that case an innocent man was wrongly identified as the offender and in my opinion the actual offender was a man called Ralph Leon Jackson:

Detectives say the suspect’s DNA profile initially didn’t find a match in the national database. In 2008, detectives say a match in the case emerged in another sexual assault, “which led us to start investigating a series of cases," detectives say.

“We were kind of at a loss [of] what to do because we had a profile but we didn’t know who it was,” Cold Case Detective Darrell Price said.

The Sexual Assault Kit Initiative offered to fund genealogy, and through that testing, McNamee was identified as the suspect in the sex assaults, Price says.

Genealogy testing links suspect to 1991 cold case, ‘series’ of sex assaults