Didn't I start a thread about using DNA as an anti-crime tool?
Anyway, from BBC--
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scot ... 493698.stm

Texas 'rapist' granted state's first posthumous pardon

Years after his death, his family demanded DNA tests after they received a letter from a convicted rapist confessing to the crime.
It transpired the man had confessed earlier. He had sent letters to court officials four years before Mr Cole died - but the admission was never followed up.



SJ wrote:Taxpayers' money was wasted on feeding and housing this criminal for 13 years? He should have been executed right away! That would have been JUSTICE!!!
The court heard he carried out the killing with "ruthless efficiency", leaving no fingerprints or obvious clues.
But prosecutor Mark Dennis QC said Cryne left behind one crucial piece of evidence.
"DNA traces from the right hand of the deceased and the roll of tape used to bind her were recovered and found to match the DNA of (Cryne)," he said.


Some law student wrote:A DNA profile distills a person’s complex genomic information down to a set of 26 numerical values, each characterizing the length of a certain repeated sequence of “junk” DNA that differs from person to person.
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