New DNA technologies for Forensics Science

Do you know what isDNA phenotyping? These are a photos of 25-year-old Chantay Blankinship. Her body was found on Sunday 15 May 2016 in an abandoned, dilapidated house in an area of isolated countryside. She had been sexually assaulted, but DNA collected did not provide any hits in the CODIS system. It was nearly a year and a half after Chantay’s murder, with no suspects and no remaining leads, when investigator Scott Bird learned about Parabon’s Snapshot DNA Phenotyping Service, after watching a true crime television show on which the technology was featured. Within weeks, Parabon produced the report which revealed the perpetrator to most likely be a white male of European ancestry with brown or light brown hair, blue or green eyes and some freckling. Within hours of the Snapshot release, police received numerous tips about the suspect’s possible identity. One of the candidates was Ryan Derek Riggs. Sheriff Hill said Riggs was “not even on our radar“ prior to the release of the Snapshot report. Riggs was charged with the capital murder of Blankinship after he provided details of the crime scene that only the suspect would know. Later he got life sentence without parole. digital forensics science history of forensic science bsc forensic science digital forensics science in cybersecurity principles of forensic science forensic science forensics science olympiad forensics science major bill nye the science guy forensics junk science forensics the real science of forensics trendy science teacher forensics bachelor of science in cyber forensics computer science digital forensics