How Genealogy DNA Helped Catch Joseph DeAngelo

How Genetic Genealogy Helped Catch The Golden State Killer

Joseph DeAngelo murdered 13 people and thought he had gotten away with it — until genetic genealogy was used to identify him as The Golden ...

Forensic genealogy, bioethics and the Golden State Killer case - PMC

A case study will be used to examine specific issues of bioethics and forensic science that occur in forensic investigative genealogical searching, ...

We will find you: DNA search used to nab Golden State Killer can ...

(Erlich is chief science officer of the ancestry DNA testing company.) If you live in the United States and are of European ancestry, there's a 60% chance you ...

How Forensic Science Cracked the Golden State Killer Case

A serial killer who evaded authorities for over thirty years, was recently caught thanks to new and unconventional forensic science methods involving DNA ...

Golden State Killer - National High School Ethics Bowl

In 2018, authorities discovered the identity of the Golden State Killer by running crime scene DNA evidence against an online genealogy ...

The untold story of how the Golden State Killer was found

SACRAMENTO — The dramatic arrest in 2018 of Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was all the more astounding because of how detectives said they caught ...

Golden State Killer pleads guilty to 13 murders - BBC

DeAngelo, who was a Californian police officer during his crimes in the 1970s and 80s, was arrested in 2018 after his DNA was found via a ...

DNA from genealogy site used to catch suspected Golden State Killer

One of California's most prolific serial killers and rapists was caught by using online genealogical sites to find a DNA match, prosecutors said Thursday.

Golden State Killer: DNA and GEDmatch profile led police to wrong ...

They tracked their suspect through a genealogy website using a method that seems like sci-fi, either thrilling or horrifying.

How a Utah assault case upended the website that caught ... - CNN

Curtis Rogers, the founder of the free DNA website GEDMatch, wanted to do all he could to help police solve a disturbing assault case out of Utah.

The Retiree Who Helped Catch the Golden State Killer

Barbara Rae-Venter pioneered forensic genealogy as an investigative tool. She doesn't understand why letting police have our DNA might make people nervous.

In Hunt For Golden State Killer, Investigators Uploaded His DNA To ...

After failing to find a match within criminal databases, law enforcement uploaded the killer's DNA profile to a no-frills website used to ...

How DNA from family members helped solve the 'Golden State Killer ...

... Joseph DeAngelo. Here is how the pieces of the puzzle were put together, according to Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie ...

Golden State Killer: ancestry website DNA profiles helped ID suspect

He wasn't the first criminal to fall to familial DNA matching, and he won't be the last.

How a Genealogy Site Led to the Front Door of the Golden State ...

The suspect, Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was arrested by the police on Tuesday. Investigators accuse him of committing more than 50 rapes and 12 murders over ...

The 'Golden State Killer': Inside the timeline of crimes - ABC News

DeAngelo served as a police officer in Auburn, California, from 1976 to 1979. Suspected "Golden State Killer," Joseph James DeAngelo is the police officer on ...

What the Golden State Killer Tells Us About Forensic Genetics

In the year since the arrest of the Golden State Killer, investigative genetic genealogy has emerged as the most powerful crime-fighting ...

I Had the Golden State Killer's DNA. I Drove to His House - Newsweek

Paul Holes Joseph James DeAngelo,. Paul Holes pictured (L). In this handout provided by the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department (R), Joseph ...

DNA match on genealogy sites led to suspected "Golden State Killer ...

Investigators compared the DNA collected from a crime scene of the "Golden State Killer" to online genetic profiles and found a match.

Police used genealogy website to nab Golden State Killer - NBC News

Police followed the DNA down several family trees as they searched for the man accused of 12 murders, 45 rapes and more than 100 burglaries.