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It took more than a decade, but authorities have finally learned the identity of a Jane Doe homicide victim in Kern County.

New York's highest court on Tuesday ruled police can resume a DNA searching method that can identify relatives of potential suspects, a technique that has helped solve crimes but caused privacy concerns. The method, known as familial DNA searches, allows law enforcement agencies to search information in their DNA databases to find blood relatives of people who have left genetic material at a crime scene. The order from the New York Court of Appeals allows the state to use such searches in c...

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Extent that we know, in the investigation leading up to his arrest that was a key part of the investigation? what were the tools you think brought him to this moment? >> well, i think the lynch pin tool was the use of forensic genealogy, a fairly new area. it is basically the use of private dna databases from these products you buy where you can trace your genealogy. in the private sector theyve built up a significant bank of dna and the higher goal, the ancestral relatives of this particular pe...

Specifically identify a person. and thats fingerprints and dna. now, fingerprints have been around for a long time. im sure its likely that they got fingerprints there. my sources tell me that they did get some good dna profiles but this person has never been arrested so hes not in the dna database which is the other way you identify a killer. what i believe happened is they used forensic genealogy, which is diving into the commercial dna databases that are out there that are available to any on...

Scene and find unknown dna and they think its significant, they will put that unknown dna through the codis database to see if there is a hit, a match. if isnt, it remains unknown dna. thats when they take it to the public dna databases, the ones that do allow law enforcement to go there. they run it. if there are any familial hits, and it can be distant relatives, that gives them a working knowledge right there to narrow it down to look and try to find that potential suspect. if they find someo...

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For familial dna, i was looking for a guy named the grim sleeper. he went underground, came back out, started to kill women. his son got caught -- his son was a dirt bag, got caught with the gun, they took the gun and it matched up in codis. so, we got the grim sleeper because his son was a dirt bag and familial dna is working good. the best thing is its a horrible bloody place. nowadays, theyve hooked up the different states where they have their own dna databases not about the person. they hav...

Sleeper because his son was a dirt bag and familiar dna is working good. the best thing is, it is a horrible, bloodied place. also, nowadays, they have hooked up the different states where they have their own dna databases, not about the person they have its about the crime scene. what they do is, they put it into the computer. you are not in kotas unless you are a convicted felon. this takes the dna from the crime scene and matches it with other unsolved cases and other crime scenes. if he is s...

Jurors in Downtown L.A. began to hear closing arguments Friday in the trial of a man accused by prosecutors of being a serial killer, who was arrested after...