{"id":2869,"date":"2008-04-02T17:49:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T17:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/fbi-looks-at-dna-technique\/2869\/"},"modified":"2008-04-02T17:49:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T17:49:44","slug":"fbi-looks-at-dna-technique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/sicence-technology\/fbi-looks-at-dna-technique\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI looks at DNA technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"main1\">A DNA police technique used to hunt down a rapist is being lauded in the United States as an example of pioneering detective work.<\/p>\n<p>Avon and Somerset Police&#8217;s first success using familial DNA searches to crack unsolved cases could now be adopted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2007, 42-year-old Bridgwater man Geoffrey Godfrey was jailed for raping a 36-year-old woman in April 1993. The success of the force&#8217;s Cold Case Review Team in bringing Godfrey to justice has been used by the Wall Street Journal to highlight the familial search techniques.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><!-- DIV added for task NFT00001396 --><a name=\"continueNews\" style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: none\"><\/a><span id=\"main2\">At present, familial searching has been rarely used in the US because crime labs there do not typically have the sophisticated software for such searches.<\/p>\n<p>DNA was obtained from the victim following the attack but despite a thorough investigation, the case remained unsolved.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005 the cold case team secured funding to launch a familial DNA investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This allowed officer to look at any potential relatives of the offender who might be on the national DNA database. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"src\">Western Morning News<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A DNA police technique used to hunt down a rapist is being lauded in the United States as an example of pioneering detective work. Avon and Somerset Police&#8217;s first success using familial DNA searches to crack unsolved cases could now be adopted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In October 2007, 42-year-old Bridgwater man Geoffrey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1614,13],"tags":[45],"class_list":{"0":"post-2869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-surveillance-big-brother","7":"category-sicence-technology","8":"tag-database-state"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}