{"id":45357,"date":"2019-03-15T14:27:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T18:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45357"},"modified":"2019-03-14T22:45:09","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T02:45:09","slug":"writing-prompt-23-and-me-go-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/15\/writing-prompt-23-and-me-go-to-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Prompt: 23 and Me Go to Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forensic genealogists are using DNA databases to recreate family lines and help police solve cold cases when the DNA itself is no help. Even trace amounts of DNA can place a criminal at the scene of a crime, but only if the police can match the sample to a person. If a match doesn&#8217;t appear in any law enforcement database and detectives don&#8217;t have a suspect in mind &#8211; or might be compelled to give a DNA sample or unintentionally leave some laying around &#8211; the evidence won&#8217;t help close a case.<\/p>\n<p>In several such cases, forensic genealogists have dropped DNA samples into online databases intended to help people find family members and ancestors. The result? Matches to a family line that narrowed the identity of a killer to just one or two people.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.topic.com\/the-cold-case-factory\">Read the full post here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/illustrations\/dna-genetic-material-helix-proteins-3539309\/\">Image courtesy of Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forensic genealogists are using DNA databases to recreate family lines and help police solve cold cases when the DNA itself is no help. Even trace amounts of DNA can place a criminal at the scene of a crime, but only if the police can match the sample to a person. If a match doesn&#8217;t appear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[474,440],"tags":[513],"class_list":["post-45357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-mystery","category-writing-prompts","tag-what-happens-next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45677,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45357\/revisions\/45677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}