Susanna Ryan
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Well, that can be done pretty simply by getting their DNA profile and doing a comparison to any developed DNA that we get from that crime scene.
And I really don't see it as a problem.
I think one of the things that you mentioned in the past is we don't have a suspect yet.
So we're not creating DNA.
We cannot create a DNA profile.
Whatever is on that evidence is on there.
We don't even have the suspect's DNA to compare it to.
So once we have that, if there's a match,
No one can say, ah, they somehow planted his DNA.
We didn't have his DNA.
So I really don't see it as a problem.
I work on cold cases all the time where we have DNA that maybe was collected in the 80s or 90s and we're just getting a profile today.
That doesn't mean that we somehow created it.
It's always been there.
We're just developing the DNA profile.
at this time.
So I don't see it as an issue.
That's true, but this is what I think he's talking about is genetic genealogy and SNPs.
SNPs, which is single nucleotide polymorphisms.
So we're looking at single base pair differences.