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    The Genomic Revolution Reaches the City Crime Lab

    How will law enforcement handle the deluge of new information available from DNA?
    by Sarah Zhang Sep 22, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Mike Fuentes / AP

    Lisa Ziegert disappeared from the gift shop where she worked on April 15, 1992, and her body was found four days later. From then until this past Monday, her murder remained unsolved.

    Then on Monday, the the arrest of a 48-year-old man for Ziegert’s death. Among the clues that led police to him was a computer-generated “mug shot” based on DNA found at the crime scene 25 years ago. Back then, the idea of predicting a face based on DNA would have seemed like science fiction.

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