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THE ZODIAC'S NAME REVEALED?

6/22/2013

 
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Forensic science has come a long way since the late 1960s, and almost certainly had the Zodiac Killer committed his crimes today he would be safely locked up behind bars. However, there still may be a chance using DNA without the conventional method of entering the suspect's data into CODIS (Combined DNA Index System) to search for a match.

This new system works by taking the Y chromosome from a suspect's DNA and instead of searching for a direct match, which of course is wholly reliant on the suspect being in the database, this system removes that need. In other words, the suspect does not have to have committed a prior offence to be matched. It works by creating a database of thousands of different surnames from the American population, or the relevant country - and in the same way DNA and the Y chromosome is passed from generation to generation, so are surnames. So by generating a link between the specific inherited marker and the surname, the door opens up.  
  
Using this technique the Y chromosome can be taken from evidence left at a murder scene, or from DNA deposited on the seal of an envelope, entered into the system and a potential surname is presented to the observer. This technique can therefore provide the police immediately the name of potential suspects, vastly narrowing the field of investigation, coupled with the location of the likely perpetrator, making the job of apprehending a killer far easier.  

​The rarer the surname, the easier this technique becomes to secure a match with over a 75%  probability, but the probability reduces as the surname becomes more prevalent (so a preferred suspect would not be called Smith). This forensic advancement used in the Zodiac Killer case could shake the murderer's family tree to its roots and literally drop the killer's name directly into the palms of our hands.

Alex link
7/13/2013 05:15:08 am

Well, that headline certainly works if the intent is to attract readers lol. However, after reading the article entitled 'ZODIAC'S NAME REVEALED!' I must confess to feeling slightly short changed lol. Only messing mate. Whatever new Technology becomes available to the authorities, I don't see them having "Zodiac" as a high priority case to use the new tech against to try and solve the case. I think the SFPD just wish that 'The Zodiac' case and the spin off series that followed it, ie...Us lol, would just go away. I can't say I blame them, if we were SFPD Detectives and really had daily access to the emails, calls and letters from people claiming Zodiac was Bubdy's father Lyndon B Johnson, and everybody in between, we'd probably just want them togo away also. That's always been one of the sad things about this case, while it attracts a high number of serious, logic thinking, intelligent people, it has twice as many crack pots who seem determined to email and write and call day after day wanting to speak with Detectives about the case. I honestly can't see them using any new technological advance to test any of the evidence, not until this current SFPD Chief has retired as he's going out of his way, from what I have been able to determine, to make sure the Zodiac case stays on the shelf in a back room with the label 'Inactive' attached.

Rich
7/13/2013 06:20:49 am

Yes, I was careful to attach the exclamation mark to the title.
As for your thinking, I cannot argue. I mean if the real Zodiac turned up in a police station, somewhat similar to the film Se7en, they would probably show him the door to avoid the paperwork, but in all seriousness they must get fed up of all the cranks that a case like this always attracts, it is a sad indictment of human nature, that these crackpots only muddy the waters and make the chances of apprehending the real killer that much harder, which in itself is the saddest thing of all.

Alex link
7/13/2013 10:55:58 am

Yeah agree totally. If Z were alive, as you said, and walked into SFPD headquarters and said to the Officer on reception "This is the Zodiac Speaking, I am the San Francisco serial killer of the late 60's and....." and that's as far as he'd get before being told if he didn't leave the building now, he would be arrested for wasting police time and reporting false allegations. He'd need to slam Stine's drivers licence on the front desk, maybe a piece of his shirt also, and even then the Officer of the desk would probably tell him to go away and he will enter the items into lost and found property for the person who's lost them to come in and claim. I read an interview with the current SFPD Chief and he said when asked why the Zodiac case was sat gathering dust that it they really had no choice in the end to render it inactive because as you know, anytime a tip or lead comes in to the Police Dpt on an open, active case, they are bound by the law in their duties to investigate each and every one of them. And I sympathise with his position when he says that it got to the point where so many crazy people were emailing or calling with tips that you knew were outrageous and had no validity or truth to them at all, that we were spending so much man hours on this one case chasing down leads from crack pots that we didn't have time to work a homicide case that someones son was the victim of 4 days ago, and I have to now tell his mother we have no new leads in his case because we havn;t been able to allocate the time and resources to her son's case because we're so busy with a case from almost half a century ago. He ended by saying he could not justify that to that boys mother, or to himself, and that's not going to get an argument from me. The people to blame are the ones who have nothing better to do that flood SFPD with crap


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