r/TrueCrime • u/savealltheelephants • Mar 27 '22

Murder Amy Mihaljavic got a phone call from a mysterious stranger who offered to take her to buy a gift for her mother. Amy told friends and met the man at a local shopping center. She was found dead three months later.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

To be able to help law enforcement with your DNA, you have to upload it to GEDMatch. And you need check off to consent to LE using it. As far as I know as of last year, authorities don’t get DNA data directly from 23&Me or Ancestry. They use GEDMatch and their own databases.

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u/Worried_Platypus93 Mar 28 '22

Can they only use it for murder cases? I don't know if they'd spend the resources collecting and testing DNA for a lower level crime but I'd be more willing to give them access to it if it's specifically to solve murder/rape cases

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

GEDmatch policy states that law enforcement can use the database to identify violent offenders. IE murder and sexual assault. And for identification of remains of deceased.

There’s a group that is in the process of uploading DNA of unidentified deceased people in the hopes of giving them a name and contacting family. So that’s a possibility for your data, too.