Karma Wins Again...!

So many times we forget the old saying that what goes around, comes around. In other words, Karma can and will bite you in the but eventually. This story from Listverse shows just what I mean.

Genealogy Website

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Like Dennis Rader, Joseph DeAngelo would get away with murder for a long time—a very long time. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s in California, the man, then only known as the Golden State Killer, committed at least 12 murders and at least 50 rapes. This monster would evade capture for decades until early 2018, when authorities would finally be able to link him to his crimes using the latest in DNA technologies with one other aid: a genealogy website. People who submit their DNA for testing by genealogy websites online have much less freedom and security with their DNA, or even their family’s DNA, as opposed to other DNA databases.

Police were able to track him through an ancestry website and were able to find him at his home and obtain a DNA sample, which they then linked to the crime scenes he’d left behind. This ended a 40-year chase. The real kicker? Joseph James DeAngelo, it turns out, was a police officer at the time of his rapes and murders.

Kinda scary to think that places such as Ancestry.com can be used to track down serial killers. I guess the only folks that need to be worried are the serial killers themselves, right?

Coffee out on the patio this morning. The temps are gonna be pleasant enough, I think.