Gilgo Beach murder case broken by landmark advances in DNA tech: Prosecutor
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Suffolk County, New York District Attorney Raymond Tierney spoke out on 'Special Report' following the arrest of Gilgo Beach murder suspect Rex Heuermann.
The bodies found at Gilgo Beach, several miles east of the better-known Jones Beach, had been exposed to weather for so long that the DNA was too degraded to be properly analyzed using standard nuclear DNA technology. Charles Creitz is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
"When people think of DNA, it's nuclear DNA that's the traditional DNA analysis that is done. But as the science advanced and although the hairs were [too] degraded for nuclear DNA, we were able to use them for mitochondrial DNA," Tierney said, He joined Fox News in 2013 as a writer and production assistant.
Charles covers media, politics and culture for Fox News Digital.
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