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GRAPEVINE, Page 17CATCHING SERIAL KILLERS IN THE SPOTLIGHT
By JANICE CASTRO/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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.