A Northern Ontario man was convicted this week of murdering two women 40 years ago, after police tracked him down with a new investigative technique that uses crime-scene DNA to close in on suspects by mapping their family trees. The man, 62-year-old Joseph Sutherland of Moosonee, Ontario, confessed after investigators demanded a sample of his …
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Guilty Plea in Two 40-Year-Old Murders Hinged on Genetic Genealogy
A Northern Ontario man was convicted this week of murdering two women 40 years ago, after police tracked him down with a new investigative technique that uses crime-scene DNA to close in on suspects by mapping their family trees. The man, 62-year-old Joseph Sutherland of Moosonee, Ontario, confessed after investigators demanded a sample of his …
Guilty Plea in Two 40-Year-Old Murders Hinged on Genetic Genealogy
A Northern Ontario man was convicted this week of murdering two women 40 years ago, after police tracked him down with a new investigative technique that uses crime-scene DNA to close in on suspects by mapping their family trees. The man, 62-year-old Joseph Sutherland of Moosonee, Ontario, confessed after investigators demanded a sample of his …