Genealogy

After police used a new technique to arrest a man suspected of being the Golden State Killer, a Maryland legislator proposed a law that would prohibit use of a familial DNA database for the purpose of crime-solving. House bill 30, sponsored by Delegate Charles Sydnor, D-Baltimore County, seeks to prohibit searches of consumer genealogical databases for the purpose of identifying an offender in connection with a crime through their biological relative’s DNA samples. In 1994, the state enacted the Maryland DNA Collection Act, which authorized the gathering of DNA for an official investigation of a crime, to identify human remains, and to identify missing persons, among other purposes. In 2008, Chapter 337 amended the Collection Act to allow the state to gather and retain DNA from people arrested for burglary or violent crimes at the time of their arrest. more

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota man was arrested last week after DNA from a used napkin he threw away at his daughter’s hockey game matched DNA left at the scene of the brutal 1993 stabbing death of a Minneapolis woman.

It's been 45 years since the body of Linda Ann O’Keefe was discovered in Newport Beach,

A H istory of  M ultnomah County Sheriffs  mid-1800s to 1989 Reprinted with written permission from Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association "A History Of The Oregon Sheriffs" 1841-1991 ------------- by Linda McCarthy Published by the Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association Copyright 1992 by The Oregon State Sheriffs’ Association www.oregonsheriffs.org