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Imputation is a fairly common technique that would be familiar to most molecular or computational geneticists, especially those used to working with poor sample

• otherme123 4y ago
  The point is imputation is used regularly in genetics, just not on forensics. And for good reasons. This case is old enough to be a curiosity, an amusing reading. But 70 years ago it was a potential murder case. Imagine a forensinc lab using imputation to identify some samples and arresting someone based on them. It takes only a slighly interested lawyer to destroy that evidence at trial, saying that imputation is, literally, making up a good amount of data. In fact, defendant lawyers put a lot of effort in invalidating evidence, and imputation is quite easy to attack. This case is a good sample to build upon it, to try to introduce imputation as a victim identification. But forensics move slowly.