Barbara Rae-Venter doesn’t understand why letting police have your genetic code might make you nervous.
Slate receives a commission when you purchase items using the links on this page. Thank you for your support.This discovery electrified Rae-Venter. She describes sitting in her office chair, staring at her computer screen, transfixed by the realization that, apart from the murderer himself, “I might have been the only person in the world who knew the precise identity of the Golden State Killer.
Hadn’t she and other researchers been using the same data to find the birth parents of adoptee for years, without any fuss? “It was a surprise to me that the use of the DTC databases and GEDmatch for investigative genetic genealogy would suddenly become an ethical issue,” Rae-Venter writes.
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