I live in the town of Truro on Cape Cod about 4 or 5 months out of the year. This past week, the Truro has been on the national news because the local police are attempting to obtain DNA samples of all men of the town in order to solve a three-year old murder case. Here are a couple of the

The Beast doesn't know who licked the stamp. A fiducial sample is what they want. In Calif, they could merely arrest you for a bogus charge to have the "right" to sample your families DNA as carried by you. Schwarzenegger is not Austrian accidentally. GATTACA was optimistic. At 06:02 PM 1/10/05 +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: articles

that give the details of what is going on in this DNA round-up:

To Try to Net Killer, Police Ask a Small Town's Men for DNA http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/10/national/10cape.html

Truro abuzz over 'swab' DNA testing http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/truroabuzz7.htm

I am headed back to my Truro house later this week. If I am approached by the police to provide a DNA sample for their round-up of Truro males, I am planning to refuse. However, I just realized that I already gave a DNA

sample to the Town of Truro recently. I paid my property tax bill to the Truro tax collectors office two weeks ago. My DNA is on the tax payment envelope that I licked.

Envelopes are apparently a good source of DNA material according to this article:

DNA on Envelope Reopens Decades-old Murder Case http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/wabc_052103_dnaarrest.html

Richard M. Smith http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com

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