Genetic material from genealogy websites helped bring police a step closer to the man they believe is the Golden State Killer, the Sacramento District Attorney's office said.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Steve Grippi confirmed the news, first reported by the Sacramento Bee, that police matched crime scene DNA to genetic material from a relative who was registered on genealogy sites.
Joseph James DeAngelo, 72, was arrested Tuesday in a Sacramento suburb. He is accused of being the man who killed 12 people and raped more than 50 women in the 1970s and 1980s.
"It is fitting that today is National DNA Day," Sacramento District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert told reporters Wednesday. "We found the needle in the haystack and it was right here in Sacramento."
Source: CNN