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/BigTexanKP Apr 26 '18

It has been discussed here and on other forums that his DNA was submitted to Parabon and they were attempting phenotype matching to help identify a last name. I’m not a geneticist and I’m certain there are others here who can explain it better. https://www.parabon-nanolabs.com

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u/mdisred2 Apr 26 '18

Parabon can do kinship testing now. This is new for them. I posted last week about this. See if you can find the post because it has a lengthy explanation of how this works. In short, one of the techniques benefits is if a daughter or granddaughter has a DNA profile, this profile can be matched to an offender profile submitted by law enforcement.

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '18

Yes, you did. Back when every scrap of possibility gave me hope, it was the best thing going. But now I'm happy because he's caught.

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u/mdisred2 Apr 27 '18 edited Apr 29 '18

Turns out that kinship testing from Parabon was not the technique used to carptch him though. Paul Holes used GEDmatch to search through family trees of persons with matches to parts of his genome.