Coffee Cup DNA Leads to Arrest in Decades-Old Rapes in Two States
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A Michigan man, Alan Kurt Rillema, has been arrested and charged with felony sexual assault in Michigan and Pennsylvania after DNA from a coffee cup linked him to two rapes from over 20 years ago. Advances in investigative genetic genealogy led authorities to a suspect in a decades-old cold case. Investigators used DNA technology company Parabon NanoLabs to find suspects using DNA by searching for relatives in public databases and building family trees. Rillema is being held in Michigan and has pleaded not guilty.
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