Police were cracking cold cases with a DNA website. Then the fine print changed.

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Police were cracking cold cases with a DNA website. Then, the company faced criticism for allowing police to search profiles without users’ permission, and decided it would make sure members understood explicitly how investigators were using the site.

Monte LaOrange / The Idaho Post-Register via AP fileAlmost a year later, California authorities said they’d used genetic genealogy to catch the Golden State Killer.

Parabon submitted the Dodge suspect’s DNA profile into GEDmatch in May 2018, but the DNA was so degraded that, even with more than 1 million profiles to compare against, the connections were sparse. Moore decided that genetic genealogy wouldn’t work and declined to take up the case. Police followed that man, collecting a cigarette butt he discarded and using it to obtain his DNA. It matched the crime scene profile, and in May 2019 Brian Leigh Dripps confessed, police said. A few weeks later, Tapp was exonerated. Dripps is awaiting trial.

Christopher Tapp hugs Carol Dodge after the Idaho Falls police announced the arrest of Brian Leigh Dripps for the 1996 murder of Carol's daughter Angie.She said she understood why GEDmatch’s owners made the decision, but the result was allowing some violent criminals to remain free for longer than they would have been with the full power of genetic genealogy. She pleaded with her audience to take DNA tests and upload their profiles into GEDmatch.

 

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