Last year, a police force in Hallandale Beach, Fla., released a sketch generated through phenotyping of a woman believed to be involved in the deaths of a Canadian couple. Most recently, the company said one of its composite images derived from a DNA profile helped identify and convict a North Carolina man who gunned down a couple in their home in 2012. One such firm is Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, whose “snapshot” technology is being used in a growing number of U.S. While the technology has existed for a while, he said, companies that offer the service have taken longer to become known. It was just last year that Toffoli said the force decided to explore the relatively new field of phenotyping.
Unfortunately, no one’s matched up to that DNA.” “We were hopeful that we’d be able to find him with all the tips we received. “There was a feeling that with the DNA we’d be able to identify the suspect positively,” Toffoli said. The profile also never surfaced in other databases either in Canada or the United States, a source of frustration for officers involved. Police investigated for years, comparing about 1,800 people to the DNA results and failing to come up with a match. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
