This is an interesting use of new technology to solve old cases. A potential issue to consider is how to best design chains of evidence that will protect the evidence for analysis in the future given that we may not know what that future analysis will require. In some cases I am surprised that law enforcement is still able to analyze DNA that comes from cases which happened before such evidence was routinely collected, analyzed, and stored.
I also seem to recall that some criminal or another has been identified because relatives gave DNA samples for some study... does finding a link but not a perfect match.
This is an interesting use of new technology to solve old cases. A potential issue to consider is how to best design chains of evidence that will protect the evidence for analysis in the future given that we may not know what that future analysis will require. In some cases I am surprised that law enforcement is still able to analyze DNA that comes from cases which happened before such evidence was routinely collected, analyzed, and stored.
I also seem to recall that some criminal or another has been identified because relatives gave DNA samples for some study... does finding a link but not a perfect match.
We live in interesting times.