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- <text id=91TT2298>
- <title>
- Oct. 14, 1991: Catching Serial Killers in Spotlight
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- Oct. 14, 1991 Jodie Foster:A Director Is Born
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 17
- Catching Serial Killers In The Spotlight
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- <p>By Janice Castro/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
- </p>
- <p> How can police in towns separated by hundreds of miles
- tell when a roaming serial murderer or rapist is at work? The
- FBI will soon provide a key with its new Combined DNA
- Identification System (CODIS). The computer program provides a
- universal registry of DNA traces found in the blood and semen
- samples the attackers often leave behind. All forensic labs in
- the U.S. will be asked to use the FBI's system, so that no
- matter where a person's DNA is tested, the record will be
- uniform. Using CODIS, authorities can tell if a faceless
- criminal has been detected elsewhere.
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- </body></article>
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