The Perfect Criminal?

[Allen]

I saw something about this on an episode of C.S.I Las Vegas once. My mother was talking yesterday about a case she heard of that dealt with this issue. I think it's really kind of creepy. There are actually people in the world that are carrying two sets of D.N.A inside of them. My mother said that in the cases she heard of, a few women who had actually given birth to their children were told those children were not their biological children because their D.N.A did not match. One woman actually had someone witness her giving birth to her baby, and when D.N.A testing was done it came back that child was not hers. The D.N.A did not match. What causes this is that the pregnancy starts off initially as being a set of non- identical twins, but the twins somehow combine in the womb to become a single baby. Yet, the baby retains the D.N.A of their twin as well. I found a few links about it. This really got me thinking, how many criminals have gotten away with their crimes because their D.N.A did not match that found at the crime scene? How many criminals out there are chimera's?

http://www.katewerk.com/chimera.html

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art ... lekey=8905

http://www.beaufortgazette.com/features ... 2123c.html

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id= ... n_decision

[tasheka22]

It would ideal for a person with criminal intent to find this out about themselves.....but in the article it says most who are like this arent aware of it....but allen.......I agree...I bet the ones who have ..and i am sure there are some....were astounded themselves when the results of the dna came back NOT matching theirs..LOL....

[Kat]

I didn't try the links yet but I recall the Thomas Harris book Red Dragon became the movie with William Petersen "Manhunter" and he later became the character Gil Grisham on CSI. Then the next killer in The Silence of the Lambs, by Harris, had the chimera character who had absorbed his own twin in utero.
Maybe that's where they got the idea.
Did I get that right? It's been a while.

In another odd medical case Citizen Chikatilo (Citizen X) in Russia apparently had one blood type show up in his blood, and another in his semen. (I guess this is different than what you are referring to).
I don't know if this qualifies him as a secretor or a non-secretor- because his "secretions" don't match.
I was never really sure of that explanation given by the Soviets.

[Edisto]

When I was in high school, I remember taking a battery of tests to determine what natural talents I had and what I should study in college. (I was found to be talented in the very fields in which one can make almost no money.) Maybe these days a DNA test should be added to the battery. Those who have more than one DNA type could be told they are well fitted to be criminals. Then they could enroll in Crime 101.

BTW, we are having quite a crime wave in the D. C. area. A week or so ago, the police chief and his wife started out to go to church -- only to discover the chief's official car had been stolen. A few days later, the mayor was late for a meeting. When he arrived, he said, "I'm sorry to be late, but I looked everywhere for my car, and it seems to be missing." (It wasn't really stolen -- at least not this week.)