I’m of two minds on this. On the one hand, catching the golden state killer is awesome. On the other, DNA matching is a stochastic process. False positive matc

I’m of two minds on this. On the one hand, catching the golden state killer is awesome. On the other, DNA matching is a stochastic process. False positive matches are possible, and likely if used to identify suspects at scale with no other evidence or links to the crime. We’re probably still in the infancy of DNA-based law, I suspect.