Police Report: Dna Profiles Grow More Helpful in Solving Crimes

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A computer database named CODIS is earning its keep big-time for police detectives around Washington.

Last year, CODIS made a record 379 hits typically matching DNA profiles found at new crimes scenes with DNA profiles taken previously from criminals when they were convicted of crimes including burglary, homicides, rapes, robberies, assaults and sex and kidnapping offenses.

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Police Report: Dna Profiles Grow More Helpful in Solving Crimes

More than one-third of those 379 matches or hits up from 257 in 2009 ended up solving violent crimes, according to a Washington State Patrol bulletin issued...

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