Tracing a crime suspect through a relative

Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 03:07 in Psychology & Sociology

California's familial searching policy, the most extensive in the nation, looks for genetic ties between culprits and kin. Privacy advocates and legal experts are nervous. Over nearly two decades, a serial killer has shot and strangled at least 11 people, often dumping their battered bodies in alleyways of Inglewood and Los Angeles.

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