It’s not even science fiction anymore…it’s FACT. Due to the explosion of interest in genealogy databases a new paper published in the journal Science claims that “roughly 60 percent of Americans of European Ancestry–including at large killers responsible for unsolved cold cases–can be identified…using the scope of current public DNA databases.”
The Golden State Killer was identified through a link to a third cousin! THIRD COUSIN!! Can you imagine?
You can read more about this here.
And then we can discuss the privacy concerns that this brings up. I’m all down for catching killers…but what about keeping our secrets? Ack!
