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But why was this perpetrator with an extensive criminal record not already in CODIS? Why were his fingerprints not matched? What a waste of money on two exhumations and two expensive unvalidated genetic genealogy tests. The case should have been solved many years ago. #CODISgap
NEW: Deceased man identified as killer of two East Bay women in the 1970s after DNA genealogy analysis solves cold cases, authorities say mercurynews.com/2024/02/08/h… @mercnews @eastbaytimes
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This article about the failure to follow up on cold hits dates back to 2015. Sadly little if anything has changed since then. web.archive.org/web/20160303… #CODISgap

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It's hard to understand why a law should be necessary to ensure that the police in Texas follow up on a hit in the CODIS database. This problem appears to occur throughout the US. eu.statesman.com/story/news/… #CODISgap

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Many of the suspects identified through genetic genealogy could have been caught years ago. @jonschuppe investigates the CODIS gap - the failure to get DNA from tens of thousand of prisoners and convicted sex offenders in the US. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nat… #CODISgap

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