Amateur Sleuth Identifies Golden State Killer—and Now He's Behind Bars

One Crazy Idea

McNamara posed the question: What if someone used a genetic database—such as 23andMe, which McNamara herself had tried out for fun—to catch the killer? She assumed that somebody related to the Golden State Killer had to have submitted their DNA for testing...

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