Investigators said the body of 17-year-old high school student Mary London was found on a then-rural stretch of San Juan Road in North Sacramento in 1981.
Despite being used to identify suspects in dozens of other cases the technique has been criticized for its lack of oversight and seemingly lax privacy protections,"Genetic genealogy has revolutionized law enforcement's ability to solve violent crime: to identify the guilty and exonerate the innocent," district attorney Anne Marie Schubert said.
Police Chief Daniel Hahn said,"Though this case won't end with the suspect facing the justice system, the decades of work by... investigators, forensic personnel, and the office of the Sacramento County District Attorney has resulted in what we hope will be closure for London's family." Jefferson County Sheriff's Office said the technique had linked a man called James Raymond Taylor to the murder of 16-year-old Margaret"Peggy" Beck in August, 1963, CBS4 reported.Police said,"In 2007, a John Doe DNA profile was created from evidence originally collected from the crime scene, and the profile was entered into the Combined DNA Index System .
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