In April 2018, law enforcement officials announced the arrest of a suspect in the Golden State Killer case (New York Times 4/27/2018 ). Shortly after the announcement, those same law enforcement officers explained that detectives had used a public forensic genealogy web site to help identify the killer.
What does it mean when a law enforcement agency accesses a public genetic genealogy database to search for a suspect in a crime?
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