Thursday, January 06, 2005
Truro, Mass DNA sweep in Worthington murder
Though legal, general testing arouses concern (Cape Cod Times, January 6, 2005)
See also
Boston Herald
Cape Cod Times
NY Post
Truro, Massachusetts police are asking all local men to volunteer saliva samples
hoping to find out who killed, or left semen in, Christa Worthington
three years ago.
Since the collection is voluntary, wouldn't it be cheaper and
easier to ask all men in Truro to fill out a postcard of the
form:
I ___did ___did not have sex with Christa Worthington.
I ___did ___did not murder Christa Worthington.
"Investigators will focus more closely on men who do not cooperate, Barnstable County District Attorney Michael O'Keefe told the station." But as long as it's voluntary and not
coerced, what the heck, right?
Comments:
apparently the dna sweep worked, right?
/eli (lazy but not anonymous)
/eli (lazy but not anonymous)
# posted by 
: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 2:24:00 PM EDT
: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 2:24:00 PM EDT
This sweep, the Truro-wide DNA collection didn't work. Suspect
Christopher McCowen had offered his DNA to the police three months after
the slaying, and his DNA was actually collected in March, 2004, 9 months before the condemned Truro-wide sweep. McCowen had a criminal background and was within Worthington's orbit. Neither was he a Truro resident.
So what happens to all the DNA data that was collected from Truro residents with no closer connection to the case than that?
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Christopher McCowen had offered his DNA to the police three months after
the slaying, and his DNA was actually collected in March, 2004, 9 months before the condemned Truro-wide sweep. McCowen had a criminal background and was within Worthington's orbit. Neither was he a Truro resident.
So what happens to all the DNA data that was collected from Truro residents with no closer connection to the case than that?
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