http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/07/connecting_the_dots.php
Simon Cooper
"DNA profiling is far from the investigator's trick of choice; in fact, to many police forces in the US, it's an exotic and expensive forensic luxury. Nowhere has this been felt more acutely than in investigations of the missing and the unidentified dead. The frustrating reality for those involved in actual cases is that, despite the progress in DNA fingerprinting, there exists no functional national system giving investigators universal access to forensic DNA resources—neither the ability to collect DNA from relatives of the missing, nor the facility to access data from investigations that do produce DNA."
