48 Hours episode on the Golden State Killer:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-...ler-caught-michelle-mcnamara-48-hours-update/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-...ler-caught-michelle-mcnamara-48-hours-update/
Golden State Killer
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Not sure if this has been discussed, SIAP.
I finally read a blog about the Golden State Killer and his crimes, and then how they caught him. It’s pretty incredible how police reversed engineered a DNA test on a site similar to AncestryDNA.
The long and short of it is this: the police had the killers DNA from past crimes scene. They submitted the DNA to a family tree website to see if they could find relatives. They found 10-20 matches of distant cousins.
The police then built a family tree going backwards in time until they got to a common person that could be their connection. In this case it was their great great great grandparents.
From there they built out the family tree until they got to present time. They had to do this the old school way by looking up grave sites etc. Eventually they had it built out with over 1000 suspects.
They did a little more work and caught the guy.
Unbelievable work by the police.
Here is a great blog from the Washington post. It better explains it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...865fe7-dfcc-4a0e-b6b2-0bec548d501f_story.html
I finally read a blog about the Golden State Killer and his crimes, and then how they caught him. It’s pretty incredible how police reversed engineered a DNA test on a site similar to AncestryDNA.
The long and short of it is this: the police had the killers DNA from past crimes scene. They submitted the DNA to a family tree website to see if they could find relatives. They found 10-20 matches of distant cousins.
The police then built a family tree going backwards in time until they got to a common person that could be their connection. In this case it was their great great great grandparents.
From there they built out the family tree until they got to present time. They had to do this the old school way by looking up grave sites etc. Eventually they had it built out with over 1000 suspects.
They did a little more work and caught the guy.
Unbelievable work by the police.
Here is a great blog from the Washington post. It better explains it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wa...865fe7-dfcc-4a0e-b6b2-0bec548d501f_story.html
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Oh yeah...forgot to mention that part...complete freaking lunatic. And I’m not going to say anything else, not trying to get political.
https://news.sky.com/story/was-an-i...rs-by-the-golden-state-serial-killer-11354456
A man spent almost 40 years in jail after being wrongly convicted of two murders which the so-called Golden State Killer may have committed.
Craig Coley spent 39 years in prison for the killing of his ex-girlfriend and her young son in 1978 in California.
The 70-year-old was exonerated in 2017 after prosecutors realised the DNA evidence at the scene in the Simi Valley did not match his.
Now, investigators have submitted DNA samples from the strangling of Rhonda Wicht, 24, and Donald, four, to see if they match up with former police officer Joseph DeAngelo.
A man spent almost 40 years in jail after being wrongly convicted of two murders which the so-called Golden State Killer may have committed.
Craig Coley spent 39 years in prison for the killing of his ex-girlfriend and her young son in 1978 in California.
The 70-year-old was exonerated in 2017 after prosecutors realised the DNA evidence at the scene in the Simi Valley did not match his.
Now, investigators have submitted DNA samples from the strangling of Rhonda Wicht, 24, and Donald, four, to see if they match up with former police officer Joseph DeAngelo.
It would be staggering to know how many innocent people have been convicted — and executed — over the years. Our legal system may be the best in the world, but it still makes tons of mistakes. Lots of moving pieces along the way — police, prosecutors, defense lawyers, judges and juries — and the best and brightest people are not always involved in every case.
Exactly. How does he just wake up one day and never want to do it again?
I follow the Innocence Project and their work with people who where wrongly convicted and imprisoned. It is amazing how much time and resources they use to get those wrongly convicted released.
I am aware of several cases where it is absolutely clear that a person was wrongfully convicted. In one of those cases, the Judge — simply because he was lazy — was unwilling to correct the obvious error. Easier on him to just go into Boss Hog mode and say “the people have spoken.” Infuriating, and completely at odds with all professional obligations that applied to him. Unfortunately, this 9-to-5 bureaucratic mindset is not isolated in our judiciary. When this happens, it requires appeals, etc. Tick, tick, tick while an innocent person rots in a hole. Awful.
I don’t believe he just stopped. I bet that guy found a way to kill still. Probably not in the same way because he was older, but I am sure here are more victims out there.
