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...Police said out of the 170 tips that came in about the case, detectives have narrowed it down to 24 men. They will soon be contacting the men by going to their homes and asking some for voluntary DNA samples.
“That would be one of the easiest ways to eliminate somebody, would be to get a voluntary DNA sample," said Lt. Jim Mack of the Lacey Police Department.
Detectives plan on sending the DNA samples to a lab to run tests for a possible match to the DNA from the rapist -- already collected at the crime scene.
"I think if it helps narrow it down and help find the guy who raped the girl, I'm all for it you know," said Kylie Nelson of Lacey...
They always try to sell the "
This will eliminate you as a suspect" angle. Fact is, they aren't looking to
eliminate anyone, they are looking to
identify someone. Any eliminations are just a side effect. By asking for your DNA, they are essentially telling you that you are a suspect. I am sorry (well actually I am not...) but at the point you are considering me a suspect of something I am NOT going to help you in doing your job to gather evidence.
If you wish to consider my lack of "cooperation" suspicious, knock yourself out and try to put enough evidence together to justify a warrant to collect the DNA. Until then go away.
Fact is there are times when victims lie, or relationships fall apart and someone becomes vengeful, or evidence is planted. It may be a very small minority of cases, but it only takes one to royaly screw up a person's life.
Duke University ring a bell with anyone? I personally know a guy who had consensual sex with a woman who he caught afterwardstrying to inseminate herself with thecontents of his condom after she dug it out of the trash. Had she succeeded, she could have named him as her babies daddy and gone after him for child support.
Yes, they have a legal right to retain your DNA and add it to the database. THAT is what I have problem with. I have no problem with a database being mantained of anyone CONVICTED of a violent or sexual crime. When they start cataloging every identifiable DNA sample they come across, I think they have gone too far.
