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| Ohio makes first DNA match in unsolved crime |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/19/2001 |
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Ohio has for the first time linked a prison inmate to an unsolved crime by comparing DNA found at the crime scene with 30,000 DNA samples from prisoners contained in a new computer database, authorities said recently. The match resulted in charges against an inmate in the 1999 rape of a Cincinnati-area woman. 'This is going to solve unknown crimes throughout the state of Ohio,'' said Ted Almay, superintendent of the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation. 'We will now be able to identify rapists and murderers who have left DNA at crime scenes who have been previously unknown to anybody. We anticipate hundreds more of these over the next year or two.'' But defense attorney Jon Paul Rion, of Dayton, had reservations about the use of such a system. 'It seems awfully intrusive ... that the government can take our own genetic coding, our own personal attributes, and then use those against us,'' Rion said. 'This would be the first step toward every person being subjected to this type of analysis.'' After the DNA match, Sean B. Price was indicted on charges of rape, attempted murder, aggravated robbery and aggravated burglary, authorities said. The woman was raped and beaten Oct. 17, 1999, in her home by an intruder. Price, 25, of the Cincinnati suburb of St. Bernard, is currently serving time for burglary, theft, possession of criminal tools and for a parole violation on a conviction of aggravated burglary. Ohio is now one of 30 states to use a computerized file of DNA samples from prisoners to identify suspects. Since 1997, blood samples have been taken from convicts as they entered Ohio prisons. The samples are analyzed and tested 13 times to produce a genetic marker that authorities believe accurately identifies a person. Attorney General Betty Montgomery worked with Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, to get a federal grant to help speed up the process of entering the DNA samples into the database. Last month, the state finished entering the last of 30,000 markers into its Combined DNA Index System and began comparing the markers with DNA samples collected at the scenes of unsolved crimes. Almay said the DNA sample that resulted in a match was among the first of a batch of 175 samples from unsolved crimes put into the computer. He said the match was made a few hours after the sample was entered into the computer. |
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