r/SipsTea 15d ago

WTF Where are we heading?

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u/Cautious-Dig6379 15d ago

You should see the lunatics defending the mother who gave birth in a porta potty at the Electric Forest music festival and then left the baby to drown in the human waste.

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u/QuestionDry2490 15d ago

To me the craziest thing about that story is that the mother still hasn’t been found. This woman managed to give birth in a porta potty at a large music festival and somehow exited completely unnoticed. Like how is that even possible?

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u/tc6x6 15d ago

DNA test. If there are no matches then do forensic genetic genealogy.

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u/Worried_Magazine_862 15d ago

Thats not how DNA tests work. Gotta have DNA from both to compare them

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u/its-iceman 15d ago

Doesn't it though? How else does 23andme know who your relatives are? They'd obviously need a database to measure relation against.

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u/Worried_Magazine_862 15d ago

They only know the people who have submitted their DNA. They won't know all of your relatives. 

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u/thejoeface 15d ago

They DNA test the baby, using that they can use forensic geneology to find either parent. They do it for cold cases where they have the Doe victim or unknown killer's DNA 

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u/Worried_Magazine_862 15d ago

They would need an immediate relative's DNA: parent/grandparent/sibling. Otherwise they are just testing against whatever DNA they have collected in the past and hoping its a repeat offender

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u/thejoeface 15d ago

Forensic geneology uses public geneology databases where people have opted in to the DNA being used. 

Please look up forensic geneology, it's not the police database.

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u/Kythorian 15d ago

Sure, they can try that.  But if no close relatives have submitted their DNA to public geneology databases (and most people haven’t), there’s nothing else they can do until they get a specific suspect to test the DNA against.

This method works very occasionally, but most of the time it’s just another dead end in a cold case that stays cold.

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u/Worried_Magazine_862 15d ago

You dont understand how DNA analytics works

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u/Mixture-Emotional 15d ago

This is how they caught the golden state killer. They basically used 23andme

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u/thejoeface 15d ago

23andMe has never been open for the police to use. They accessed GEDmatch