Twins DNA links a series of sexual assaults

[steve wilson]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21401200

Basically they have the twins DNA from a series of sexual assaults, but because the DNA is almost identical they cannot tell which one did it ... or if both of them did it. To decipher this the testing would cost 1m Euros, which is roughly 1.34m USD (this is in France).

You would be really pissed off if you were being held in Jail for something your twin brother did, but with out spending the 1m Euros how the hell do you tell which one did it? You can't just lock them both up indefinitely because you can't prove either of them did it, but you can't let them go because you know at least one of them did it. What would you do?

 

[Newbian]

women aged between 22 and 76

Pick a damn age group and stick with it.

Find out who the guilty one is with the test and make him do hard labor until he pays it back off while he rots in jail that is after you take everything he owns to help pay for the cost.

Also the one with the goatee is the guilty one.

 

[Jimzz]

Finger prints are differant for twins and also if they have a blood sample there are things in blood you can look for cheaper than just DNA.

Im guessing they only have a seman sample? If so not sure what else to test for in that like blood.

 

[dabuddha]

Simple. Get a 75 year old grandma wearing something from Victoria's secret and see which one's heart starts racing.

 

[dawp]

if one ends up dead you will know who the perp is and who killed him.

 

[khon]

Seems like this is where you start looking for evidence other than DNA, like alibies.

 

[baydude]

How does it cost 1 mil for some lab tests?

 

[Jimzz]

How does it cost 1 mil for some lab tests?

facepalm.


Yea its just "some lab tests"

 

[HardcoreRobot]

innocent until proven guilty

 

[Jimzz]

innocent until proven guilty

This case is not in the US.

 

[HardcoreRobot]

This case is not in the US.

The OP asked for my opinion, my opinion is that an individual is innocent until PROVEN guilty

 

[bigrash]

Simple. Get a 75 year old grandma wearing something from Victoria's secret and see which one's heart starts racing.

Cheapest and best method.

 

[Gibsons]

How does it cost 1 mil for some lab tests?

If they were just siblings it would be about as easy as any other DNA test. The typical tests done in these cases can't distinguish between identical twins.

If they had a blood sample of the perp (instead of semen) they could probably figure it out sort of cheaply, maybe.

 

[CZroe]

Obviously, I'd know if I did it or not. If innocent, I'd be equally pissed that my twin brother didn't fess up and got me on the hook so I'd rat him out in an instant. Do the crime, do the time. If I did it there's no way I'd let someone else take the heat for it. What better way to make a despicable thing more despicable?

 

[ElFenix]

i think i saw this on an episode of Castle once.

 

[Gibsons]

i think i saw this on an episode of Castle once.

Featured prominently in a recent arc on Whitechapel as well.

 

[Skitzer]

Sodium Pentathol FTW

 

[amdhunter]

What if they were Siamese twins and one raped while the other protested? :hmm:

 

[Ichinisan]

Obviously, I'd know if I did it or not. If innocent, I'd be equally pissed that my twin brother didn't fess up and got me on the hook so I'd rat him out in an instant. Do the crime, do the time. If I did it there's no way I'd let someone else take the heat for it. What better way to make a despicable thing more despicable?

Stop this. You're just trying to make it seem like it was me. Just admit that it was you.

Those poor, poor little puppies...

 

[SaurusX]

Time for some waterboarding.

 

[Rakehellion]

It was an obvious gang rape.

 

[coldmeat]

I used to wonder about this. What if you and your twin planned out a bank robbery just right, so that one had a perfect alibi that could apply to either twin, and the other just strolled right into a bank and robbed it. How could they prove which twin it was?

 

[Ichinisan]

I used to wonder about this. What if you and your twin planned out a bank robbery just right, so that one had a perfect alibi that could apply to either twin, and the other just strolled right into a bank and robbed it. How could they prove which twin it was?

By catching him with the loot.

 

[KeithTalent]

What if they were Siamese twins and one raped while the other protested? :hmm:

:hmm:

KT

 

[Murloc]

this is a classic...
in the end they're gonna have to spend that money unless they can prove someone lied or one has an iron alibi.