she reports the rape and swabs are collected. police can't ID the perp, and case goes cold.

many many years later, police start using familial dna to try to crack cold cases. police discover a match between the dna from rape kit and a dead woman whose dna is in a public dna database.

police look into the woman's relatives for potential suspects in the rape, and suspect that the dead woman's son is the perp. police then go to the son's house, find a soda can from his trash can, and test if for DNA. DNA matches the rape kit.

police then arrest and charge the perp. he was in his 40's at the time and is now in his 60's. man had somewhat of a record in his youth, but has led a relatively crime-free life since the rape.

my question for xo: should he be convicted of the rape? should he be locked up for life?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528502&forum_id=2#47661315)

You don't get a pass just because DNA technology sucked in the 90's and police weren't as good at investigating sexual assaults as they are today.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528502&forum_id=2#47661324)

the fact he escaped justice for this long it's points against him, not for. he should have been in jail during the prime of us life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528502&forum_id=2#47661798)

Edit: "rehabilitation" is shitlib flame, main goals are retribution and deterrence.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528502&forum_id=2#47662258)

His MO sounds like he'd done this before, maybe even killed someone, he had it all planned out, had rape kit in car. do the crime, do the time.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528502&forum_id=2#47662002)

It should be a felony for any individual or corporation to maintain a "public DNA database" that includes U.S. citizens in its dataset.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528502&forum_id=2#47661401)

I'm also skeptical of anything that lets police arrest you decades later w no other evidence

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528502&forum_id=2#47661406)

if the cops can ID the woman they then build out her family tree of all her close relatives. they start eliminating men who were too old or too young to be the perp or who lived far away from the crime.

at that point they may have 1 or 3 or 10 good prospects. cops stake out the trash of the suspect men and look for soda cans or other trash that may have saliva. they test that DNA against the perp's. they may have a perfect match in which case they found the perp.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528502&forum_id=2#47662022)

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/10/silk-road-lawyers-poke-holes-in-fbis-story/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528502&forum_id=2#47663509)

Prisons are abhorrent

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528502&forum_id=2#47661454)

if her brothers, husband, dad, etc. won't do the killing, that's your verdict right there

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528502&forum_id=2#47662919)

They don't match THE ENTIRE 46 chromosomes

alarm bells from the bar are going off about the 4th amendment, though I'm not a litigator

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528502&forum_id=2#47661725)

They don't match them all for family DNA matches, but the story said they got a full hit on the perp's DNA versus the rape kit.

He should get 15-20 years unless there's a reason to doubt that this was rape rape. But given the story and that she had a rape kit processed and had no idea who the dude was before, that seems unlikely.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528502&forum_id=2#47661982)

Other than cannabalism this sounds like about as far into psychopathic behavior as you can get....

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5528502&forum_id=2#47662389)