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If you want to be up for snitching on your old timey serial killing relatives, you do you but it's not for me.
If I remember right didn’t the Golden state killer get caught by a distant relative taking a DNA test?
No the only way for the evidence to match up was the DNA so they asked a relative to take a DNA test to see if it was him for sure and that was what confirmed it.
Really? I thought that the relative had already taken a DNA test and published the results on GEDmatch.
Nah they actually asked one of them because they suspected it was him and she was in agreement.
Huh, interesting. There's no mention of that in the Wikipedia summary. How closely related was this relative? Do you have a source I could take a look at?
It’s in the movie about the golden state killer.
Do you recall the title of the movie?
Wikipedia says that they obtained samples from his car door and trash can.