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Those discarded items might not even have his DNA on them. Everyone knows about DNA evidence nowadays, if he's really on the ball it'd be easy enough to pick up some random decoys.
Doesn't it also require the DNA to be stored on file to be matched? They haven't even got a suspect to get DNA from.
No, they could pinpoint you just by dna of relatives. Hence why the whole 23andme is such a terrible idea.
If those were his items, and his dna on those items, sure. Iirc, this is how they got the BTK killer- a familial match.
Not BTK, Golden State Killer.
They can't pinpoint you. DNA is about as terrible as fingerprints and lie detectors. They're all full of false positives.
Sure its not perfect but if they can narrow it down from a few million people to just a few 100/1000's that makes fibding someone much easier .
Nah, this tech isn't useful to prove you're a suspect. Its only use is to prove that someone is not a suspect
They got his face on camera... maybe. Assuming it's the same smiling guy and with a partial DNA match, I'd think that's enough to get a court order to get a blood sample to get a better DNA match.
Of course that's assuming the smiling guy is the same guy AND one of his relatives did 23andme AND they can find and arrest him.
None of that is valid evidence. We've all seen the photos are terrible and, again, DNA tests are only useful for negatives