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am trying a case, what drives me the most is the victims that i wanted to speak for them. i wanted to speak for helene. >> i just turned on the news. woman found murdered in denver, colorado. i just grabbed my son and screamed and cried. >> was it someone she worked with at the radio station, could it be the boyfriend that she just broke up with in december marks >> you are giving the detectives names of people? >> yes, we looked at everything. i was even like, where was ted bundy at t...

fig out who our doe is. what if this is your family. you want to give them closure >> to us homicide detectives, its way above our heads. >> i said, i think i know how we can do it. >> all of these people share some amount of dna with our unknown person. >> we thought, this is the family. this is it. >> surreal. it felt like somebody had just punched me in the stomach. >> its a funny thing, isnt it? that it would be important to have a stone with your name on it. >> it is. its written ...

Shouldnt worry about where your dna ends up. which -- how its archived or used. do you buy that, though? do you see that privacy needs to be protected, as well, in a certain way? >> i think theres obviously privacy interests. when we start talking about people putting their into things like ged match or family dna, these folks area agreeing to allow law enforcement to use their dna, like anybody else -- booemp going in to find their biological parents that were adopted, all those things. should ...

We figured out hey, wait, were being followed around by technology in our pockets, by commercial services we use. in this way, people are developing some hives about it. it began for me with realizing that all of the sort of privacy policies we signed up for back in the day dont apply in the future. for instance, ged match. this was an innocent genealogy site you go to find long lost relatives. they had become a big law enforcement tool. they were used by law enforcement to find the golden state...

That louisianaasted for years. he tormented his victims, some he shot and killed. others bludgeoned to death. he wore a mask and bound his victims hands. law enforcement identified him using dna obtained at one of the crime scenes but there was no match. clue came from an amateur genealogy website why search.org. they compared their sample to people seeking family tree information. at first they identified the wrong man, a sickly 73-year-old. they eventually located de angelo using a different s...

Wheelchair, joseph deangelo spoke softly while addressing the judge. he did not enter a plea to murder charges stemming from a case from 40 years ago where he allegedly killed a young married couple. an attorney for deangelo says the 72-year-old is depressed and fragile. investigators allege he is the golden state killer, a brutal rapist and murderer who terrorized cal ifornians during the 70s and 80s. >> we all knew that we were looking for a needle in a haystack. we founds needle in the hay st...

>> when i was 11 years old, he killed two people across the street from my house, we heard the gunshots. its always affected me. im kind of paranoid. >> his sister lives in one of these central valley towns, meeting with a pastor and is floored by the allegations. >> trace: were fascinated, we know they matched the night stalkers dna from the l.a. area, right, then the east area rapist. but were curious, how did they do this, genealogy website? >> dna reveals these guys, ged match, open sores we...