Johnny S. Clarke & Lisa Straub- young Ohio couple murdered

[EastCoastKat]

But with the DNA, on the crime shows on tv anyway, there have been times and occasions where LE asked for DNA samples with the thought process to CLEAR an individual. If you had nothing to hide, wouldn't you give a DNA sample--but never take a polygraph? And if you refused to voluntarily give a DNA sample, I would imagine your stock would soar on LE's suspicion scale.[/color]

I'd have to be in deep shit before I'd give my DNA to anybody. If I did, I would have a lawyer draw up some iron clad contract that it had to be destroyed after my being cleared. I'd be afraid of it getting mixed up, with real criminals, by some half assed lab worker or corrupt individual. I'm paranoid like that, lol.

There was a bizarre cold case, in Michigan, where an old murder got pinned on some guy who was currently in prison. Okay, that wasn't too far out but for this - he would have been like 8 years old when the adult murder victim was killed 30 years ago. What does THAT tell you? I'm also very suspicious of the motivations behind the human genome project which is all about collecting the DNA of everyone on earth.

Exactly you would want an iron clad guarantee that your DNA is not going to be misused. The old murder case in Michigan...was that DNA related? I thought DNA was pretty much the pinnacle in deciding who was guilty/innocent.

It was on some teevee show, like Cold Case Files, or something. New science, that did not exist at the time of the murder, allowed for old evidence to be tested for DNA. They got a match to a guy in prison but the murder was like 30 years old and the guy was just a little kid at that time, living in some other town! That tells me the lab got shit mixed up!

This is long, sorry...

There are many reasons for giving up your DNA, my sister disappeared in 1983 and it took us over 19yrs, fucking 19yrs before they would even accept her as a missing person, she lived in Chicago...she disappeared in Canada...Chicago sent us to Canada....Canada sent us to Chicago...The FBI sent us back to Chicago...and NONE of these MOTHERFUCKERS would do anything because she wasn't officially a Missing Person, I got the whole catch 22 run around for 19yrs!! I wrote more letters than you can imagine, checked hospitals, institutions, churches in the area she disappeared from, check routes that she may have traveled to get to Canada, most of my family had given up or died, my mother died never knowing what happened to her daughter, only myself and my younger sister wouldn't let it go, my other siblings just let it go...I couldn't, she was my big sister, who we called "Sissie". When I got my first computer in the 90's I found a group on the internet called The Doe Network and this was set up for missing and unidentified woman, they also required a formal missing persons report but the Administrator made an exception because of the years and effort involved on my part in trying to get my sister disappearance classified as a missing person...long story made really, really, terribly short here...in 2002 we got someone in the Canada end of things to finally help, he was an Angel of a cop let me tell you, CAM MOORE of the Moosejaw, SK police, he also was involved in a Cold Case group, Project Resolve, it was his hobby, not official. There were a few unidentified females that could have been my sister, and Cam got the Canooks to pay for the DNA test, so yes I RAN, ME THE ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT HIPPIE FROM THE 60'S, TO GIVE UP MY DNA AS FAST AS I COULD TO THE LOCAL COPS AND SAID SWAB. My sister was found in 2005 she had died in 1987(only 4 short years later)under an alias and was buried under that alias. She was showing signs of mental illness before she left for this Canada trip, but little did we know just how bad things were (she became a full blown paranoid/schizophrenic). I wasn't living in Chicago and hadn't seen her for about 3yrs. so I really had no idea, she was very good at keeping up a I'm okay face. She died of natural causes, a pulmonary embolism. I had even contacted the detectives that were on the Green River Killer case thinking she may been one of his victims and Det. Jensen of that case was just wonderful to me, he checked every known data base he could for me, even though he believed my sister wasn't one of the victims because the GR killer had a type, still he told me how to get things done, how to approach the police, because no cop wants a cold case handed to them. The Canadian officer (a selfless, decent, giving human being) who cracked this case, Corpral Cam Moore, passed away a few years later of cancer, so it was like fate that we some how connected. But I gave my DNA up in a flash!! Sorry for the long story..but you would be surprised how fast you'd give up some DNA!!

Sometimes police will get a DNA hit because of familial DNA, a close family member, also. That may have been what happened in Mich. to the guy in prison??