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Prestigious-Tie2049 t1_j21osiw wrote
We need to start DNA recording at birth.
It will definitely make things easier to find out who’s who.
Son_of_Thor t1_j2276aa wrote
It would be a smart thing for parents to do or for hospitals to offer as a service, but for a lot of reasons I'm not gonna even get started on I don't think there should be a federal database of this for everyone.
fisticuffin t1_j22dux2 wrote
i remember those billboards offering $10000’s for info on Billy’s disappearance.
his disappearance was linked to a connected politician—chris sorenson—and NOTHING was ever done about it. imo cops deliberately dropped the ball on this case for over a year when billy went missing in 2006–the lead detective literally stated that billy was “probably having a beer in europe and will come home when he’s ready.”
all that said, allegedly, madeline gleason is a foul lying murderer—or accessory to murder, and the woodbridge police deliberately helped her get away with killing a man.
i’m so sorry for, but so proud of Jan and Bill Smolinski, who have NEVER stopped trying to find the truth of what happened to Billy, defying every corrupt police officer and politician that tried to stand in the way of justice.
foodcoma85 t1_j235cdz wrote
Of course 4 republiclowns voted against it.
CalligrapherDizzy201 t1_j23oflt wrote
Prestigious-Tie2049 t1_j23p838 wrote
Are you a republican?
Warpedme t1_j23pljc wrote
Republicans are normally all in for easily abused totalitarian systems like a forced DNA database.
CalligrapherDizzy201 t1_j23pngv wrote
No. I’m a I don’t want the government to have access to my DNAican.
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sicknaban8 t1_j25e0ow wrote
How does a 30 year old grown man go missing? What an idiot lol
red_purple_red t1_j274s6k wrote
The wins just keep coming in for Biden and Murphy
Few-Information7570 t1_j2bflsq wrote
The republicans lost the plot when they fell in line with Trump. I honestly cannot understand how those america hating ass clowns are still a single party.
-ctinsider OP t1_j210v7p wrote
"Billy's Law," officially the Help Find the Missing Act, is named for William Smolinski Jr., who was 31 years old when he went missing from his Waterbury home on Aug. 24, 2004.
His parents, Janice and William Smolinski Sr., for years have pressured police to follow tips and combed thousands of acres of woods and fields themselves in an unwavering search for their son. Their determination inspired Sen. Christopher Murphy, D-Conn., to champion the legislation.
The law is designed in part to better coordinate missing persons databases and raise awareness among law enforcement and relatives of the missing about the availability of information and how families can update background and descriptions and track developments.
"I hope that other families get a chance to realize that there is hope," Janice Smolinski, formerly of Cheshire, said recently in an interview from her Florida home.
Billy Smolinski is among tens of thousands of Americans who remain missing for more than a year, what many agencies consider cold cases, according to the National Missing Persons and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs).
An estimated 4,400 unidentified bodies are recovered each year and about 1,000 of those bodies remain unidentified after one year, according to the agency, part of the National Institute of Justice. Because of gaps in databases, however, missing persons and unidentified remains are not often matched.
In their frustrated attempts to find their son, Janice and William Smolinksi Sr. faced many systemic challenges, most significantly federal databases that were incomplete and uncoordinated, according to Murphy, who had tried for years to gain bipartisan support for the legislation.
-Casey