12-09-2016, 12:49 PM
Cases solved with Familial DNA
Ten states, including California, Texas and Florida, conduct familial DNA testing.
Ohio announced this week that its first effort had yielded an arrest in the kidnapping and rape of a six-year-old girl and the attempted abduction of a 10-year-old girl.
British police have also been using it successfully for some time.
In May this year Christopher Hampton, 64, was jailed for life for the previously unsolved murder in 1984 of Melanie Road, 17, in Bath, England. Hampton was identified after his daughter's DNA appeared on the database when she was involved in a 'minor incident'.
Familial DNA's greatest success was in identifying Lonnie Franklin Jr as the 'Grim Sleeper', a serial killer whose crimes spanned from 1985 to 2007.
Franklin was convicted and sentenced to death in Los Angeles earlier this year after a search came up with his son, Christopher.
Full story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...scope.html
Ten states, including California, Texas and Florida, conduct familial DNA testing.
Ohio announced this week that its first effort had yielded an arrest in the kidnapping and rape of a six-year-old girl and the attempted abduction of a 10-year-old girl.
British police have also been using it successfully for some time.
In May this year Christopher Hampton, 64, was jailed for life for the previously unsolved murder in 1984 of Melanie Road, 17, in Bath, England. Hampton was identified after his daughter's DNA appeared on the database when she was involved in a 'minor incident'.
Familial DNA's greatest success was in identifying Lonnie Franklin Jr as the 'Grim Sleeper', a serial killer whose crimes spanned from 1985 to 2007.
Franklin was convicted and sentenced to death in Los Angeles earlier this year after a search came up with his son, Christopher.
Full story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...scope.html