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Amateur Detectives are Now Crowdfunding DNA Sequencing to Solve Murders – In 2018 police arrested the Golden State Killer now a 72-year-old man who had committed 13 murders between 1974 and 1986, the New York Times remembers: What made the investigation possible was GEDmatch, a low-frills, online gathering place for people to upload DNA test results from popular direct-to-consumer services …