Joseph DeAngelo was convicted in the US after police used the DNA technique
(Picture: AFP via Getty Images)Police are exploring a DNA technique which is credited with cracking scores of unsolved murders in the US, the Standard can reveal.
Scotland Yard said it is leading a pilot on behalf of national policing into investigative genetic genealogy, which compares the DNA of an unknown suspect or unidentified victim with samples uploaded by the public onto a genetic genealogy database for likely relatives. It allows genealogists to place relatives into clusters of family trees and work backwards to identify them.
