How your DNA could solve a murder

Genetic information from ancestry databases is being used to solve murders and identify bodies. Is this the end of DNA privacy?

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This story originally appeared in The New York Times. Used with permission.

In the year since the arrest of the man believed to be the notorious Golden State Killer, the world of criminal investigation has been radically transformed.

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