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Occupy Murder Mess Points to Problems With New York’s DNA Database

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An intensive and intrusive new DNA-collection regime appears to suffer a high-profile embarrassment, reports Jesse Singal.

Wednesday, the nation was peppered with breathless, if thinly sourced, reports of a shocking link between two very different, seemingly unrelated crimes: a match between DNA samples lifted from the CD player owned by and found near the corpse of slain Julliard student Sarah Fox in 2004 and ones taken...

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