Texas DPS Marks 10,000th DNA Match in Open Cases

  • by Maurice Chammah

The Texas Department of Public Safety announced Wednesday that it has now found suspects in 10,000 open crime investigations using a federal DNA database.

The department uses a FBI database known as the Combined DNA Index System, better known as CODIS, to match biological evidence found at various crime scenes with the DNA profiles of people who have been convicted of previous crimes. Often, multiple crimes are not believed to be committed by the same suspect until the database is used to link the DNA.

According to Texas law, all felons, sex offenders and juveniles in the Texas Department ...

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