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"Between the ubiquity of surveillance cameras and DNA, any budding Ted Bundy can commit one hideous murder, but then he'll get caught."

This might why the FBI has only grainy (and that is being generous) video footage of someone or something (bigfoot...?) supposedly placing pipe bombs at the RNC and DNC on Jan 5, with egg timers that only worked for an hr, had to be manually set, WERE manually set on insurrection day so that they were 'discovered' 40 mins before the 1pm start of festivities inside the House chamber despite a Secret Service sweep of the area before Kamala Kwanza arrived at the DNC.

Police have to this moment NO IDEA who placed the bombs, at least not 'officially.' Then again, this bigfoot only placed 2 bombs once, so maybe police are waiting for it to strike again.

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Yea why haven’t the famous but incompetent caught this person? They caught 900 others trespassing and they have the video as well. Don’t we all know why? Yes we do. They’re not on our side.

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"They caught 900 others trespassing"

I like the part about how police were able to use geo tracking to figure out the guy's movements, as well as the FBI's use of geotracking to go to Alaska to show up on the porch of a couple who had been in DC but not the Capitol...BUT...... geotracking is unreliable in tracing the movements of 2000 mules piling thousands of ballots into street boxes.

Another Ruby Ridge is badly needed though hopefully next time the result will more closely resemble what happened in Mayerthorpe Alberta, when RCMP tried to repo a half ton and 4 of them assumed room temperature, which is to say the temperature of the snowbank they fell in.

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Police have no idea who planted these bombs, but I do.

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isn't everyone saying it's Marjorie Taylor Greene? :P

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Ann, an excellent review of the situation! Keep up the good work! 👍

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the point of this article is especially troubling given the many ways that govt agencies (DOJ/FBI/CIA/IRS) will spy on us, intrude into our privacy, all with the approval of Leftists...

but you look for evidence like DNA and they shit a brick.

it's not actually the evidence or how it was gathered... sometimes I think the Left just WANT Americans to suffer. they WANT fear, chaos, and insecurity.

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Blackstone owns Ancestry.com.

Knowing that, alone, is worth the cost of subscribing. I’ve resisted the temptation to creep on my Great-Great Granddad because my spider-sense kept tingling. I knew those DNA trolling sites were bad news.

Ann confirmed it.

You learn things on this Substack.

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Ann makes a sad but true case about the murder lobby and their nonsensical blabber to put abominable creatures back on the street.

I have always wondered why liberals are so successful at always moving civilization backwards...support murderers instead of victims; promote disorder instead of order; create policies that lead to dumber people rather than smarter people; dirtier people rather than more hygienic people, etc.

Maybe it is just easier to go down hill and owning the means of production for bedlam is a more certain bet for success than trying to promote policies that requires one to work really hard.

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Those fraudulent "genealogy" DNA sites are major scheme to make as many suckers as possible to submit their DNA for the FBI to abuse. The way things are going these days, one never knows what measures he/she has to take in the near future to protect this country from the upcoming left-wing fascism. With the FBI having their fingertips on the DNA database of tens of millions of American citizens, any stealth warfare against tyrannical government would be virtually impossible. One will be caught after the first act of resistance. As for so called genealogy sites, they're outright fraud. According to one experiment, DNA of a person was submitted to five different sites, and all five sites gave completely different genealogy result. This is just a major scheme to collect your DNA for the FBI database.

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It's hard to believe that a PhD student in Criminology would leave such incriminating evidence as knife sheath at the crime scene. The sheath for the KA-Bar Knife in question, usually straps around the belt, so one has to unbuckle his belt in order to remove the sheath. According the police report, Kohberger never attempted to rape his victims, so there was no need for him to unbuckle his belt. Something doesn't adds up here.

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I would guess that he was not wearing a belt because I believe he was not wearing trousers in the traditional sense...might have had a metal clip on the back of the sheath...but either way, since the knife has not been found, it would seem he exited the building while still holding the knife.

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I'm guessing he just forgot it. They always forget something.

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My gut says as he was a PhD student in criminology he was playing a game of “catch me if you can”. I assume he left a fingerprint at the end of the sheath knife. I never knew DNA could be extracted from a fingerprint.

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Cell phone geotracking and surveillance cameras did almost as much as DNA. I'm surprised that a PhD student in criminology no less didn't have the sense to leave his phone at home while he was casing the residence of the victims those 12 times.

I'm glad DNA nabbed Kohberger but still have mixed feelings about genealogy companies freely sharing their DNA databases with law enforcement. Kohberger was fast becoming the prime suspect anyway and I think they had enough evidence to make an arrest before the DNA match, so they could have arrested him and swabbed him upon arrest without using the public genealogy companies.

This is no different than being opposed to the NSA unconstitutionally having access to all of our electronic records and communications and then Ann or someone shouting at us that if you didn't do anything wrong then you have nothing to worry about.

I'm not sure if Kohberger will have any champions because he's white. If he were black the best defense attorneys would be lining up to take this case and change the venue to liberal Boise. They would claim that white privilege and lack of slave reparations made Kohberger do it and that the Moscow police were white supremacists.

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Mind boggling and sad to think how Jeffrey Dahmer would've been caught today after one kill - two at the most.

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Thank you for the follow up news on this heinous crime Ann. Ms. Tal Murphy ought to do more thorough research. Did not know about the “union” of Ancestry.com/Blackstone Group. Frightening.

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I hope nobody at the genealogy site ever used “THE N-WORD” or was a Trump voter.

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Right on..... Ann strikes again!

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But perps of drive-by shootings in Chicago have about zero chance of getting caught. Shows guns are still best for killing.

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I dunno, there was an incredible amount of resources that went into this case, resources that WILL NOT be put into any of the usual street crime murders.

That will be fun--and it will be true--that blacks will complain that DNA tracking is only used when white people are murdered. Black folk be murdered all the time, ain't nobody break out the DNA testing kit for dem!

And it will be true, because they live in black run cities, where the DNA testing kits will have been left in the back of the evidence room by the heater; where no one will know how to use them; where the grant money to get them was "lost".

Oh, and the water will be dangerous to drink.

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"Paranoia strikes deep . . . into your life it will creep." (old Buffalo Springfield song) I've been following the Idaho killings. I have thought about the whole DNA/Ancestry/etc "thing" for a while. People are uncomfortable with it, but their reach is growing quickly. It's possible insurance companies can buy in and decide who to insure or not to insure. Same with Medicare, etc. ("Oh THAT could NEVER happen.")

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I have used these ancestral sites to find long lost relatives. I don’t ever recall when I signed up that these sites would give my DNA a to law enforcement without my permission. This is a privacy issue. This is also dangerous. Why not have every American produce a DNA sample to the government to keep in a database so when a crime is committed we can simply access the database and catch the perp. This would be authoritarian and terrifying. This is why if law endorsement wants to go to an ancestry site and look at my DNA to compare to crime scene DNA, then get my permission and if I say no, then no means no

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Sorry to be so cynical but there is no way that Blackstone is not monetizing the data they collect way beyond the initial fee the user pays...companies like Blackstone are soulless leverage creating money machines.

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