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It seems like even the article contradicts what this group says... > "Our Homicide Cold Case Unit has determined the murder of Cheri Jo Bates in 1966 is not re
by codazoda 5y ago
It seems like even the article contradicts what this group says...
> "Our Homicide Cold Case Unit has determined the murder of Cheri Jo Bates in 1966 is not related to the Zodiac killer," the Riverside Police Department's Homicide Cold Case Unit told Fox News.
- bogwog 5y agoIt seems like the group asked the police department to test the DNA found in the Bates case to confirm it once and for all, but the police department has refused. So there's probably some internal politics thing going on here.
- pwinnski 5y agoThe FBI says it is related, the local PD says it is not, and to ask the FBI. The local PD is also refusing to do DNA tests which would resolve the issue.
- Ansil849 5y ago> The local PD is also refusing to do DNA tests which would resolve the issue. Yeah, mean ol' law enforcement, refusing to do DNA tests for any crank mystery squad solving team that demands them.
- tacocataco 5y agoIf the group wants to incurr the costs what does it matter?
- _jal 5y agoBecause if they start doing it, they'll get more requests to do it in the future. And then they'd have to make more process around it and pay people to execute that process, and then they're in the business of selling small bits of criminal evidence to random cranks.
- saturnV 5y agoThere is probably not an infinite supply of dna evidence, and testing it is destructive. So I can imagine they don’t want to testany plausible theory but save it for when they are really convinced.