• @halcyoncmdr
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    5 days ago

    DNA only helps if he’s already in the system for some reason, like a previous crime. Or I suppose if he’s ever used one of those DNA ancestry things. I bet the police have access to that, whether they’re supposed to or not.

    And for a no fly list, they need to know who it is first. If they knew that, we’d probably know as well since they’re clearly trying to cast the net as wide as possible.

    • ShadowRam
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      DNA only helps if he’s already in the system for some reason

      Noooope…

      He simply needs some family that contributed to 23andMe or similar, to narrow it down.

      That’s enough for a Judge to force them to hand over a DNA sample for comparison.

      • @halcyoncmdr
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        65 days ago

        People online always want to assume everyone has large families for some reason. Most people don’t have a huge extended family. Only children with small extended families are pretty common.

        • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]
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          As far as I know, my sperm donor doesn’t have a huge family. All it takes is your one sibling to take a genetics test to no longer be an anonymous sperm donor. Same applies here. It just takes one.