Professor Dan Crane from Wright State University in Ohio knows more about DNA than your average true crime enthusiast. He has testified as an expert witness in cases involving DNA evidence since January of 1991. We asked him what he thought when he saw the Edmonton police using DNA phenotyping to try and track down their suspect. Well, I think it brought to mind a pretty wide variety of thoughts. At one level, I'm thinking this is actually a fairly nondescript representation. And yet I also appreciated that that's consistent with what you should expect from that technology.
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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