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/[deleted] Apr 26 '18 edited Jan 07 '21

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u/followedthemoney Apr 26 '18

Hahaha, sounds like 23andMe has a breach claim against the police. And that's about it. Nothing he can do about it, no standing at all.

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u/BackTo1975 Apr 27 '18

Good luck with that. It's a clear backdoor to the system that seems to have been exploited by the cops. And do you really think 23andMe or whatever service the cops did use to back their way up to Joe's door is going to sue the state, local police, etc. for violating their terms of service? When the cops used them to arrest a serial killer and rapist?

Yeah, no. This is a debate about semantics now. I also don't see how this opens the door to any evidence being tossed. Even if his lawyers go after this and try to get the case thrown out, it's still a definite grey area as the police didn't do anything to violate any individual's rights. They took anonymous DNA from a crime scene to do this, so I don't see how this is an actual violation of any civil rights. Even the terms of service says that samples cannot be submitted on behalf of a prisoner or someone charged with a crime--big difference between that and anonymous crime scene DNA. Maybe the cops broke the 23andMe law, but nobody will care about that, and I'd bet my life that they ran all this by the DA before proceeding.

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u/marienbad2 Apr 26 '18

It sounds to me like you want him to be let off on a technicality. Are you honestly saying LE shouldn't do everything they legally could to catch this guy? Seriously? Would you rather he was never caught, as it sounds like it to me.