Apparently, so called Golden State Killer responsible for at least 12 murders was caught after 40 years thanks to one of DNA ancestry projects. You don't need to know of course which one was that as it's not the only one, but if you still want to know:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/golden-state-killer-suspect-dna-genetics-genealogy
Using DNA to find a killer sounds easy: Upload some DNA to a database, get a match and — bingo — suspect found. But it took new genetic sleuthing tools to track down the man suspected of being the Golden State Killer.
Investigators have confirmed they used a public genealogy database, GEDmatch, to connect crime scene evidence to distant relatives of Joseph James DeAngelo.
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DeAngelo’s DNA wasn’t in any police database.
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The news prompted a flurry of concerns about privacy and ethics — there’s no telling how many people in the public database are being subjected to what amounts to a “genetic stop and frisk,” says Alondra Nelson, a sociologist at Columbia University. But others say they doubt police are actively trolling genealogy websites for suspects.
This interesting read, to me at least, urged me to google for more about the whole DNA "test" thing and thus I found a video that compiles 10 equally interesting cases though not crime related:
I have to put a few comments although I didn't put a thorough thought on all of this. I mean, this does look very useful thing at first look, but there is also a matter of possible abuse.
As you might spot in that video is a title from somewhere that says "the concept of race is meaningless" which I have to disagree with as it's based mostly on visual perception of a person and within ignorant (sub)cultures is treated similar to weight or beauty differences. We all knew bullies when we were kids, right? Or perhaps we were ones? On another side, I did state before in my posts that I adore asians although am not one myself, so if we remove the race concept how on earth would I explain that for some reason certain looks I find more cute than others?
It's great this technology didn't exist during WW2. Because if it did… So many more people would end up in concentration camps.
Which brings me to the abuse point. There is absolutely no way these services can be stopped and you already know although you don't need to, that ignorant fools can still use modern technology. My opinion is that any eugenics must be declared illegal through worldwide laws before people's worth(ness) becomes a result from public DNA "sleuthing". If the law doesn't happen soon, some of us might end up in some ghetto one day because our genes weren't "good enough".
Does any of this have anything to do with me? Perhaps.
On my mother's side, my grandfather had a dark brown hear and dark skintone, just as his kids. No, not me, I got much traits from my dad.
But everyone else in that family tree that I know and seen photos of (if deceased) are blonde or light brown with pale skin and usually with freckles. I'm kind of black sheep among relatives.
Am I really? Because this DNA tracking thing is new, I'm not sure would it be worth go DNA geneaology myself to find out if it was just a natural mutation or my grandgrandmother was naughty.
It's something I'll have to discuss with my bro and sis first ofc.
To repeat, I didn't give too much of thought on all of this. In fact I've never thought perhaps there are some more relatives out there I didn't even know about.
You've seen me shilling for a few of spanish series, but what you don't know is that I don't like what Spain did through history. And you don't need to know that I despise their inquisition equally as their massmurdering conquistadors. Sadly nothing today can change those old crimes against humanity.
But thanks to DNA ancestry projects, it's possible one horrible crime can still get a satisfying closure, this one:
The lost children of Francoism
Spain's stolen babies and the families who lived a lie
