Over 10 years, the notorious 'bicycle bandit' terrorised innocent bank tellers at gunpoint. His identity remained a mystery for almost two decades until police used a game changing forensic technique to unmask the culprit.
His identity remained a mystery for almost two decades until police used an emerging forensic technique to unmask the culprit.Carrying a duffle bag, a man seamlessly pulls a balaclava down over his face, yanks out a rifle and aims it towards the bank teller.
She was relieving at Bank SA's branch in Tanunda, in the scenic Barossa Valley region, when he struck in 2006."I was just leaning on the counter, behind the other teller and looked at her. We were just chatting away, and I went, 'We are about to be held up'," she says. Still wearing his disguise, the gunman flees via a rear exit, cutting himself on an uncapped fence and leaving a valuable spray of blood behind.Kym Parsons, also known as the bicycle bandit, pulls a mask and a balaclava over his face during the 2014 heist in Mount Pleasant.DNA left on a bicycle Kym Parsons used during a 2005 hold-up was a match to DNA found in blood left in a 2008 robbery.Hundreds of suspects are investigated and eliminated.
It involves uploading a detailed DNA profile to a private genealogy database like GEDmatch to see if there are any matches to members of the public."Using that top search result, who is a person who has consented to having their profile used for law enforcement searching, we reverse engineered a family tree back to 1800."
He says Parsons openly engaged with the officers and made admissions during the four-hour interview which followed. "It's a game-changing technique for law enforcement and it will be used to solve more cold cases, not only in South Australia but around Australia," he says. "We already have an understanding about where lines are drawn, it's just that sometimes technology can jump ahead of our understanding of those things," she says.
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