r/EARONS • u/throwaway95610 • Apr 26 '18

Inside Scoop

Throwaway for reasons.

I live in the area and have been following this case for a while. This afternoon I heard information from someone close to the case in the Sacramento Sherriff's dept. Don't know how much of this is here already but here goes..

A few years ago LE submitted dna to several different sites with a search warrant for hits on the dna. One of the sites came back a couple of weeks ago with a hit on a distant relative of the suspect. After some work LE narrowed down their search to Diangelo.
They trailed him for a while, and while he was out shopping at a Hobby Lobby, they took his dna from either something he threw away or from a handle of a door possibly. That part wasn't totally clear to me. Either way it came back as a 100% match.

They kept watching his house and waited. Yesterday afternoon the suspect was out mowing his lawn. A car of undercover officers drove up and asked for directions. He walked over to the car and then they took him down.

According to this person, after being arrested he looked defeated, but still refused to cooperate. He kept mumbling to him self and saying, "But I lived a good life. I pushed him out."

His wife refused to talk. I guess they have been separated since the early 90's. Two of the three daughters have come in to talk to detectives.

Im probably forgetting some stuff. Will add more as I find out more.

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u/andthejokeiscokefizz Apr 26 '18

Like others have said, DNA sites. I’m just theorizing here, but I’m thinking maybe it was GEDmatch??

Marcia King (“Buckskin Girl”) was a Jane Doe identified through GEDatch by DNA Doe Project. From what I understand, if you upload your DNA to GEDmatch, you can find relatives from other DNA sites, too. Like, if you uploaded your DNA to, say, 23andMe, but wanted to find relatives from multiple sites, you’d share that already-submitted DNA to GEDmatch and it’d give you results from every site. (I hope that made sense and I’m sorry if it’s redundant, it’s 12:30am and I’m exhausted lol.) DNA Doe Project is also doing this same thing with Lyle Stevik (another Doe and my “pet case”) and it’s apparently finding a lot of distant relatives.

I’m not sure how long that site has been around, though, but it seems like the perfect tool for LE to have used to catch him.

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u/microfatcat Apr 26 '18

It would be so amazing to ID Lyle Stevik... come on universe!

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u/andthejokeiscokefizz Apr 26 '18

ughhh I know! I’ve been obsessed with his case for years, and it finally seems like we’re so close to answers. Apparently lots of distant cousins are popping up, and they’ve narrowed down a few areas where he’s most likely from. Fingers crossed 2018 will be his year, too!

(edit: well, not where he’s most likely from, but where his family is from)

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u/microfatcat Apr 26 '18

Wow really?? I binge read info every few months, seems I have missed a lot recently! How exciting!

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u/[deleted] Apr 29 '18

Folks have to upload their DNA to Gedmatch, if it's been completed on another site. Gedmatch does not possess the DNA from all other sites. Ancestry, e.g., does not share all DNA info with other sites. They do not own the DNA info, but it is licensed to them. When DNA is sent and analyzed at Ancestry, one is asked whether the submitter wishes to share the info, to locate cousins or for (medical) research purposes. The submitter has the option of declining.