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i find it hard to believe that they were so lucky that a "small website that allows you to upload DNA data directly" just happened to have that data.


For an individual, the set of data those websites have on who matches you is around "Your total living relatives out to 6th cousin or so" * a ratio of people willing to use the site's services. That turns out to be a lot of people. And when you correlate that with data on where people live and where they lived at the time of a string of crimes, it turns out to be a lot of data.




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