question about DNA and bodies

[jason_c]

As for DNA its quite likely that JtR left DNA evidence on Kelly's bones, particularly the right thigh bone. If a fire was raging then it would have been sweaty work for her killer.

Wether this DNA has survived(or indeed Kellys skeletal remains) is another matter.

We would also have the doctors who carried out the autopsy leaving DNA.

I dont for a second suggest its feasable to carry out such DNA tests, purely thinking aloud.

[Cubitt]

As for DNA its quite likely that JtR left DNA evidence on Kelly's bones, particularly the right thigh bone. If a fire was raging then it would have been sweaty work for her killer.

Wether this DNA has survived(or indeed Kellys skeletal remains) is another matter.

We would also have the doctors who carried out the autopsy leaving DNA.

I dont for a second suggest its feasable to carry out such DNA tests, purely thinking aloud.

I'm not even sure whether sweat contains DNA, being purely a waste product. Could be wrong though.

Aren't Kelly's remains buried in Leyton in a clearly numbered grave? I doubt whether any "foreign" DNA could be extracted at this stage but maybe some of Mary's DNA could still be found.

Would be awesome to use it to cross reference a national DNA database to track down the area she likely came from and maybe even some modern descendants with a common ancestor. Then work backwards from them using geneaological records to find out who she likely was.

So....who fancies doing that?

[Cubitt]

Btw, something even more unlikely than this was achieved a few years ago in Cheddar. A local school teacher was identified as being a close descendant of a stone age man who'd died 9000 years previously.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheddar_Man

"Bryan Sykes' research into Cheddar Man was filmed as he performed it. As a means of connecting Cheddar Man to the living residents of Cheddar village, he compared mitochondrial DNA taken from twenty living residents of the village to that extracted from Cheddar Man’s molar. It produced two exact matches and one match with a single mutation. The two exact matches were schoolchildren, and their names were not released. The close match was a history teacher named Adrian Targett."