How DNA on coffee cup led to arrest in the 1972 rape and murder of a woman.
Genetic genealogy takes the DNA of an unknown killer left behind at a crime scene and identifies a suspect by tracing the family tree through his or her family members, who voluntarily submit their DNA to public genealogy databases. The first public arrest through genetic genealogy was the April 2018 arrest of theand since then, genetic genealogy has helped identify more than 40 suspects in violent crimes.
On Aug. 29, 2018, investigators followed Miller to a casino and recovered a coffee cup he threw into the trash; tests later confirmed the DNA on the coffee cup matched the DNA from the sperm on the victim's boot, the probable cause affidavit said. After Miller's wife invited the detectives into the garage, they noticed a newspaper from May 2018 on the table, the document said. On the front page was an article on how genetic genealogy led to an arrest in a local double murder, and that crime also involved rape and gunshot wounds to the head, the document said.
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