CC Moore
Appearances
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True Crime Vault: Golden State Killer
About 2009, this new type of DNA to use for genealogy was introduced, and it's become a huge industry.
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True Crime Vault: Golden State Killer
You're a mom. Oh, give me a hug. Adoptees and people with unknown parentage started coming to me and asking me to identify their birth parents.
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True Crime Vault: Golden State Killer
It's a public database. The largest database is 23 million ancestry DNA, only except saliva samples. And so you have to spit in that tube, create quite a bit of saliva. So you can't get that from a crime scene biological sample.
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True Crime Vault: Golden State Killer
That's correct. And those companies have purposely tried to make that difficult because they don't want law enforcement using their databases for these purposes.
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True Crime Vault: Golden State Killer
This is indeed a game changer because every law enforcement department in the country or maybe in the world just realized the power of genetic genealogy.