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Heard, they are putting together dna profiling to try and identify the more than two dozen people, the bodies they have recovered so far and continue to recover from that boat that went down in a fire. how difficult is it to identify these people at this point? ive heard you do an fbi profile. a dna profile? >> of the dna profile, depending upon the remains and what they e able to glean from those persons who may be found under water, they may be able to identify individuals by facial recognitio...

You can get a range of results from a good profile to an unusable one but weve reached the point where we can create a genetic profile from just 10 to 20 cells. since the early days in the development of d.n.a. profiling 35 years ago the amounts of genetic material needed to get a result have fallen steadily. every cell nucleus in the body contains a persons entire genome packed into 23 pairs of chromosomes. half of your d.n.a. comes from your mother and the other half is from your father forens...

And the profile from a person who has nothing to do with the crime. such false d.n.a. positives have confused a number of cases like this one the same d.n.a. was identified at 35 separate crime scenes it appeared that one woman had been committing crimes for 15 years burglary theft even murder investigators searched for her fever actually but a few months later they had to admit the notorious phantom was just that. the criminal mastermind didnt exist the d.n.a. was that of a worker and a medical...

>> same story, the wife, the brother, the mother, the friends of serial killers never suspect that they could be serial killers. >> on january 22nd, 1988, colin pitchfork became the first person ever to be convicted in a murder case solved by dna profiling and was sentenced to life in prison. for his part in the deception, ian kelly was convicted of conspiracy to pervert justice and sentenced to an 18 month prison sentence which was suspended. >> weve learned a lot from this death of these two g...

That was quite right. healthy skepticism of an entirely new technology. we did retesting. it was done independently all pointing to the same conclusion, namely that buckland was not the guilty part party in the case. >> after four months in custody richard buckland was released open became the first person in the world to be exonerated of murder through the use of dna profiling. >> i had no doubt whatsoever he would have been found guilty had it not been for the dna evidence and jailed for life....

Its used in identification of mass disaster victims and innocence project and paternity testing as well. >> is the dna profiling and comparison method using str youre going to talk about that your lab uses accepted in this scientific community as being reliable? >> yes, it is. >> is your lab, fdle, been accredited and been through all the hoops in terms of their accreditations or findings that theyre proficient, et cetera? >> yes. we are an accredited laboratory. >> i want to talk about the labo...