Police said they cracked an old rape case using a genetic technique that has grown in popularity in recent years.
When the girl arrived, the man abducted her and took her to a dirt road where he brutally raped her, police said.
O’Carroll said Clark was not a suspect at the time of the rape. Instead, police developed him as the potential perpetrator in January by using genetic genealogy.In genetic genealogy, investigators upload DNA from a crime scene to a database of genetic profiles to try to find relatives of the perpetrator. Investigators then use a traditional genealogy technique — building a family tree — to locate people who might be connected to a crime.
The man said the woman also needed to give personal information to proceed with the award, police said. The woman provided her home phone number and address.The man then called the woman’s home and the 14-year-old answered, police said. The man used the same ruse to convince the girl to go to a radio station in Fairfax City, and he picked her up from there.
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