DNA Evidence Finds a Link Between California Cases
While the case is not solved, police have linked DNA from a murder earlier in the year to a 10 year old rape case. An interesting account is brought to you off of crimevoice.com as they describe a murder in February. The murder case apparently had evidence collected in the same area as where the rape from 2003 had occurred. The DNA was from the rape case had been collected and put into the FBI’s database, and was matched to the DNA collected from the murdered person, Sylvia Mark Flores. Because of simple DNA matching, a criminal who eventually will be caught will be charged with two counts of criminal activity, most likely putting him or her away for a nice long time.
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Citation
Brown, L. (2013, September 16). Cold case assault connected to early 2013 murder.
[Abstract written by Karl “Kip” Zenowich, ForensIQ Intern]