All Cops Should Submit DNA Samples to Avoid Crime-Scene Confusion: Federal Report
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When 22-year-old German police officer Michele Kiesewetter was fatally shot in the head while sitting in her patrol car, DNA evidence captured at the scene led to a shocking discovery.
The DNA profile indicated the murder was committed by a female serial killer dubbed “The Phantom of Heilbronn,” after the town where the murder occurred on April 25, 2007.
The same DNA makeup, also dubbed “The Woman Without a Face,” was tied to at least seven other murders, a series of break-ins and multiple other crimes in Germany and throughout Europe over a 15-year stretch.
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Nearly 10 months after promising cuts to New York City’s controversial DNA database, city authorities have barely made a dent in reducing its scope, according to the city’s own records.
In February, the NYPD promised to downsize the city’s DNA database, which advocates have criticized for perpetually retaining the genetic signatures of tens of thousands of residents, many of whom had their samples taken without consent. With some exemptions, the removals were supposed to affect residents in the database whose profiles were at least two years old and who had not been convicted of crimes at the time of review.