The Edmonton Police Department paid Parabon $1,700 Canadian dollars. The company has posted a selection of some of these so-called DNA mugshots that they've done for various law enforcement agencies around the world. Some of them do look a pretty good prediction of the person that was eventually caught. A lot of them are not even close.
Earlier this month, police in Edmonton, Canada, released a sketch of a suspect. The issue is, no one knows what the suspect looks like.
This episode was produced by Siona Peterous, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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