The girl’s vicious slaying remained a cold case until detectives used DNA evidence to link her disappearance to Martinez, who lived in the same building as her family, sources said.
I suspect external genetic forensics consultants had a lot more to do with breaking this case than the detectives; it would be interesting to know who helped them with the DNA analysis.
As perhaps I mentioned before, Steve Hsu, a professor of physics at Mich State, and others are involved in a genetic forensics company called Othram:
Chickens come home to roost. Just ask Malcolm Little [X].
ReplyDeleteThe girl’s vicious slaying remained a cold case until detectives used DNA evidence to link her disappearance to Martinez, who lived in the same building as her family, sources said.
ReplyDeleteI suspect external genetic forensics consultants had a lot more to do with breaking this case than the detectives; it would be interesting to know who helped them with the DNA analysis.
As perhaps I mentioned before, Steve Hsu, a professor of physics at Mich State, and others are involved in a genetic forensics company called Othram:
Othram -- Justice Through Genomics
They specialize in such 'cold cases' -- searching his blog for the term 'cold case' turns up a list of crimes Othram has helped solve -- Information Processing -- search term: 'cold case'