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How They Caught The Golden State Killer
Veritasium
Veritasium explains how investigators caught the Golden State Killer using forensic genealogy, matching crime scene DNA to distant relatives in public genealogy databases. It also covers the privacy implications of DNA databases.
HN points to it as the go-to explanation of how police can identify anyone through relatives' DNA tests, in privacy and genetics threads.
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