A New Way to Solve a Murder, Part 2: The Future of Genetic Privacy

<p>The police identified a suspect in a double murder after combing through DNA profiles on a website designed to connect family members. We look at what his trial will tell us about the future of genetic genealogy in solving crimes. Guests: Heather Murphy, a New York Times reporter, spoke with CeCe Moore, a genetic genealogist, and Curtis Rogers, a creator of the genealogy website GEDMatch. For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/thedaily" target="_blank">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. </p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/18/science/ancestry-site-arrest-washington.html?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank">case of William Earl Talbott II</a>, who is accused of killing a Canadian couple in Washington State 32 years ago,<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/golden-state-killer-dna.html?smid=pc-thedaily" target="_blank"> could result in legal precedents</a> involving the use of genetic genealogy techniques by law enforcement.</li></ul>