The family names of criminals can be traced by a small modification in DNA testing, the mainstay of the modern scientific investigation methods, according to a TV program named 'Unsolved Cases' to be aired on 17th by SBS.
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| The episode, "DNA Tells the Truth" |
At the scene of a recent homicide in Daejeon, 160 kilometers south of Seoul, the police found a jacket and a piece of toilet tissue stained with blood. They sent these evidences to the National Forensic Service (NFS), but the case seemed to fall into a mystery as no suspects have been sorted out in DNA profiling. Because, at that time, the only one thing left was an eye drop prescribed from an ophthalmologist, but there were thousands of people who prescribed the medicine.
Police, however, started investigating the case upon being informed by the NFS that the suspect might be a man who has a family name, Oh, and found him as the suspect. Experts of the NFS analyzed family names using DNA, the service said. This case is the first case that police have ever picked out a criminal in an analysis of family names using DNA.
The NFS says that they are able to trace the criminal through analysis of family names in DNA as Korea has traditionally maintained a patriarchal society, but it is still in the beginning stages.
In the episode, the producer also looked at DNA testing methods in Korean investigations of crimes, checking how much information he can get from a strand of hair in collaboration with the forensic experts from the service.
The source of the article:
http://artsnews.mk.co.kr/news/233157
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That's really interesting and a little scary from a privacy perspective.
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