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The First Successful Use Of A Low Stringency Familial Match In A French Criminal Investigation, Emmanuel Pham-Hoai, Frank Crispino, Greg Hampikian
The First Successful Use Of A Low Stringency Familial Match In A French Criminal Investigation, Emmanuel Pham-Hoai, Frank Crispino, Greg Hampikian
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We describe how a very simple application of familial searching resolved a decade-old, high-profile rape/murder in France. This was the first use of familial searching in a criminal case using the French STR DNA database, which contains approximately 1,800,000 profiles. When an unknown forensic profile (18 loci) was searched against the French arrestee/offender database using CODIS configured for a low stringency search, a single low stringency match was identified. This profile was attributed to the father of the man suspected to be the source of the semen recovered from the murder victim Elodie Kulik. The identification was confirmed using Y-chromosome …