In March 2017, in the final months of law enforcement’s 40-year hunt for the Golden State Killer, the private genetic testing company FamilyTreeDNA and their parent company, Gene by Gene, were served with a federal subpoena to provide “limited information” on one of their account holders. Investigators were looking for genetic matches between the then-unknown serial killer’s DNA (which had been collected from the crime scenes) and profiles in the company’s public genealogy database, Ysearch, and they’d hit on a partial match. The subpoena required FamilyTreeDNA to...
- 2/1/2019
- by Amelia McDonell-Parry
- Rollingstone.com
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