Barbara Rae-Venter’s account of her genetic sleuthing illustrates the power of technologies to bring criminals to justice. But should there be limits to their use?
Barbara Rae-Venter helped to identify the Golden State Killer and crack other unsolved cases.
Word of Rae-Venter’s success spread and caught the attention of Paul Holes, a California detective with dreams of closing the Golden State Killer case before he retired. Unlike Jensen’s, this investigation required sleuths to create a fake profile using crime-scene DNA from an unwitting database participant — the putative killer — without their consent. Most DNA-database companies, including 23andMe and Ancestry, prohibit that.
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