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Even more scary: without any living relatives, there would be no way to identify himself with that degree of accuracy. Sure, you can disinter a corpse, but that
by kmoser 2y ago
Even more scary: without any living relatives, there would be no way to identify himself with that degree of accuracy. Sure, you can disinter a corpse, but that's bureaucratically way more difficult than performing a DNA test on a live human, and assumes you know where your relatives are buried to begin with.
- jimbob45 2y agoAre fingerprints no longer viable?
- neaden 2y agoOnly if there are prior fingerprints to compare them too, which certainly isn't a given.
- kmoser 2y agoOr footprints since some hospitals take footprints of newborns, but it's neither a given that they did, or that they're readily available, or that you can identify which hospital to ask, or even that the person you want to identify still has both feet.
- excalibur 2y agoIt sounded like Kierans was arrested as a teenager, if so they would have fingerprinted him then.
- neaden 2y agoThey didn't know who Kierans was though did they? Woods knew he was someone else, but no one else knew who he was until he confessed.
- hackerdues 2y ago> Even more scary: without any living relatives, I wonder if that is at all possible. Could there be someone alive today who has no blood kin ( father, mother, siblings, uncles, aunts, cousins 1st, 2nd, etc )?
- kmoser 2y agoEverybody has relatives. The question is how distant and whether DNA testing will be useful.
- Viliam1234 2y agoAnyone from an orphanage, for starters.
- krisoft 2y agoNot necessarily. Many who grows up in an orphanage has living relatives. For example many who are in an orphanage has living parents, but the social services and the courts have decided to take them into care for their own safety.
- syndicatedjelly 2y ago23 and Me was working on a leaderboard of the most isolated people in the world before they went bust