http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2006-10-19-dna-analysis_x.htm
Richard Willing
"Marie Varriale, lab forensics supervisor, uses a machine that tests DNA evidence samples at the state crime lab in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin is one of 10 states where DNA matches in property-crime cases have exceeded the number of matches in violent crimes. The national database of criminals' DNA, designed by the FBI to help solve rapes and murders, increasingly is being used to identify suspects in unsolved burglaries and other property crimes, a USA TODAY review of state crime lab records shows."
See also: DNA Analysis for “Minor” Crimes: A Major Benefit for Law Enforcement
NIJ Journal No. 253 • January 2006
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/journals/253/dna_analysis.html
Edwin Zedlewski and Mary B. Murphy
