East Area Rapist/Original Night Stalker arrested after 40 years

[RicInOR]

No way. As far as I'm concerned, my DNA is one of my last remaining privacy's and I won't give it up voluntarily.

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Others unknown to you can post their DNA and if you are related to them, can be extrapolated from the data.

Say your 4th cousin (shares a great, great, great, great, grand-parent) and some 2nd cousins (great, great, grandparents) post their DNA to a matching site. Then others can extrapolate that to a group of people which includes you. And, since some genetic material doesn't care whether you feel that way, can eliminate about half the group (male/female)

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You may leave, or abandon, your DNA. Ever spit somewhere? Use a cup, utensils, at a public place? Drop off a can or bottle you used? Give a medical sample ( say a required UA for your job) or donate blood for a drive? Get tested as a marrow donor? Ever get a haircut away from home? Dentist?
Donate clothing?


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Lots of questions in my head, not necessarily on point but kind of related to privacy. Like:
If you get a transfusion, can the donor DNA show up in your blood test for DNA? For how long?
Can they get viable samples from your Pee? Poo?

Some of the legal questions abound:
Should we grab samples from convicted violent offenders? (including juvenile) Most crime happens in certain areas. Having those samples can narrow down a list of suspects and while not "proof" it does help the police focus their efforts.

How about victims? Does a rape victim's dna get tested along with the suspects? If so, is that now apart of the "record" A victim's relative may commit a heinous crime and this data may get it solved.

 

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You may leave, or abandon, your DNA. Ever spit somewhere? Use a cup, utensils, at a public place? Drop off a can or bottle you used?

If they're after me there's not much I can do. But I ain't gonna get in line to volunteer the information (via genealogy sites and services).

Give a medical sample ( say a required UA for your job) or donate blood for a drive? Get tested as a marrow donor?

Nope. I jealously guard my fluids.

Ever get a haircut away from home?

[chuckle] see my avatar.

Dentist?
Donate clothing?

Well, like I said, if they got a hard-on for me they'll get me, but the point I'm making is that I'm not willing to make it so easy for them to wrongly accuse me of something I didn't do by submitting to a "fun and informative" genealogy test.

I received a phone call a few years back from someone who said they were a distant relative and were trying to put together the family tree and there were some discrepancies (I come from a family of Polish lumberjacks who liked women, not necessarily their own). Since I was the only remaining survivor of my family (Mom, Dad, and both my sisters are gone) would I be willing to have my gene's tested to help fill out the picture?

Um. No. But thanks for asking, Total Stranger Who Just Called Me Out Of Nowhere...