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    Post DNA from a Vanilla Coke can ties a man to a cold case...

    DNA from a Vanilla Coke can ties a man to a cold case... DNA from Vanilla Coke can ties Nebraska man to Cherry Hills Village cold case

    Sylvia Quayle, 34, was found dead inside her Cherry Hills Village home in August 1981.

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    A relatively new technology known as genetic genealogy helped investigators with the Cherry Hills Village Police Department identify and arrest a Nebraska man for the brutal sexual assault and murder of Sylvia Quayle in 1981.

    "It's been a journey, and then getting to know Jo, and understanding, being a little sister and what Sylvia meant to her, it's been a little breathtaking," said CHVPD Chief Michelle Tovrea who shared the news of the arrest with Quayle's sister and brother-in-law.

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    This is the story: https://www.9news.com/article/news/c...2-eb2948cd1228
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    Anderson was a young man when he killed her, and 40 years have passed--40 years that he had to live free and enjoy his life even though he snuffed out the life of an innocent person.

    Imprisonment now is fine but it's not the same as if they'd caught him soon after the killing and locked him up.

    No matter what happens now, he got away with it for 40 years and that's unacceptable.

    Who knows whether he killed others? As I understand it, sexual killers often have more than just a single victim.

    At this point, there really is no punishment good enough for him. Even the death penalty would not suffice.

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    Avoiding DNA is going to be extremely difficult. They do not have to match yo to these databases. It could be your sibling, parent or other close family member.

    In one of our local cases, the mother of a baby found in the woods was identified through the DA of the one night stand's brother, found in a genealogy database.
    The college kid found out he was a murder suspect and also briefly a father in the same interview.
    The brother became the first suspect. Then the baby daddy. Then the mother.

    Just don't spit on the sidewalk anymore. Someone might be a victim of a crime and fall on that spot a few hours later.

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    Unless I missed it, the story doesn't detail whether the killer submitted his DNA to the genealogy search data base or if a relative submitted theirs. If he did it himself, I'm sure it never occurred to him that satisfying his curiosity about his family's history would change his own life so dramatically.

    If it was a close relative who did the genealogy search thing it would be interesting to find out how they felt about the outcome. I mean obviously they'd be horrified that a family member could have done such a heinous crime, but it would have to be an unreal sort of feeling to have something you did out of innocent curiosity result in somebody's arrest for a decades past murder - not to mention the way some people are no doubt holding their breaths now, hoping that their relatives don't suddenly develop an interest in genealogy.

    I'm picturing a family gathering, maybe around the Holidays, and cousin Andrea mentions that she's going to be submitting a DNA sample to one of those services to find out which countries their ancestors came from, and cousin Billy goes white and drops a plate of biscuits.
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    He should be in prison just for drinking Vanilla Coke.
    “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” - Barry Goldwater

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    I recall watching a cop show where a suspect is being questioned by the police in the presence of his attorney. The guy is given food and a drink, then later one of the cops picks up the bag with the soda can in it and the attorney grabs the bag and says something to the effect that she isn't letting the police get a "free sample" of her client's DNA. For a few seconds the cop and the lawyer are standing there playing tug-o-war with the bag. I wanted to see the cop say, "Get your hands off police property or you'll be in a cell next to your client". I believe in real life, if the cops had any backbone at all, the lawyer wouldn't have been permitted to take out the trash, so to speak.
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