How Scared Should Hidden Killers Be of Genetic DNA Kits Outing Them? -2024 Year in Review
Hidden Killers With Tony Brueski | True Crime News & Commentary
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🗓️ 28 November 2024
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's a busy holiday week, and during this week, we are bringing you a look back at some of the most compelling stories and conversations we've covered for you in 2024. It's 24 in review. |
| 0:15.0 | This is the examination of the hidden human condition. You're listening to the Hidden Killers podcast. This is the Hidden Killers podcast with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:24.0 | We are talking with forensic scientist and professor Dan Crane today. |
| 0:30.2 | A joke that I've made on the show over the last year has been a joke, but I think almost |
| 0:36.1 | somewhat true. |
| 0:36.7 | And I'm curious to get your take on it. |
| 0:38.9 | Is Christmas time's coming up, people that give out those DNA kits and tests from ancestry or 23 and me, |
| 0:46.1 | how worried should someone be who maybe has gotten away with a crime many years ago? And then suddenly, |
| 0:53.2 | your grandchildren are doing the test, |
| 0:55.4 | your brother, your cousin, your mom, your dad, these tests are all going into this database. |
| 1:00.3 | And you've gotten away with it. |
| 1:01.3 | The only way you could be connected to something is through DNA, but now we're seeing so |
| 1:04.8 | much of that familial DNA connecting individuals who have just laid low for most of their |
| 1:09.7 | life after committing a crime. |
| 1:11.3 | Are we going to continue to see a lot of people kind of coming out of the shadows or being |
| 1:16.6 | forced out of the shadows due to just that, families giving their DNA willingly for curiosity |
| 1:23.2 | of their heritage, but at the same time, maybe connecting someone in their family to a crime |
| 1:28.3 | that they had no idea. |
| 1:30.8 | Well, the very short answer to your question is, yes, it's going to be much more of an issue |
| 1:36.8 | going forward than it has been in the past. |
| 1:39.6 | And an earlier question that you were asking is that if you have committed a crime in the distant |
| 1:45.7 | past and it looks like you're not, you know, you're in the clear, you should be extremely worried. |
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