Over nearly two decades, a serial killer has shot and strangled at least 11 people, often dumping their battered bodies in alleyways of Inglewood and Los Angeles.
Most were black women or girls, the youngest just 14. The latest was found last year, shrouded in a garbage bag.
Police have determined through DNA and other evidence that the killings were the
work of a single person. But the DNA does not match any of the millions of
genetic profiles of convicted criminals in law enforcement databases, and
detectives have few other clues.
Now Los Angeles Police Department investigators want to search the state's DNA
database again -- not for exact matches but for any profiles similar enough to
belong to a parent or sibling.
first major use of California's newly approved familial searching policy
idea of scrutinizing families based exclusively on their possible genetic
relationship to an unknown suspect makes privacy advocates and legal experts
nervous
clipped from: www.latimes.com 
