tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post2768521094242848128..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Crime and twinsDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-66527742239781457522013-02-13T05:18:16.957+02:002013-02-13T05:18:16.957+02:00Mental illness has a high concordance in identical...Mental illness has a high concordance in identical twins. Like some think, possibly both were involved in the action especially if they were co-habiting. It's a bit of legal nightmare. Almost like the judgement of Solomon: put them both in jail together. If they live together then even if only one was actually raping women, the other knew about it and was hiding the information. They'd probably be lonely alone anyway.Gabriella Kadarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18294468426599703416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-46231309415101655632013-02-11T22:03:54.304+02:002013-02-11T22:03:54.304+02:00Colorado recently had a similar case involving a m...Colorado recently had a <a href="http://www.9news.com/news/article/312402/339/DeWild-twin-gets-maximum-sentence" rel="nofollow">similar case</a> involving a murder of one of their wives a little less than ten years ago that was resolved in January. Ultimately one brother confessed to the killing and was sentenced to 72 to 75 years with no possibility of parole for 27 years (second degree murder) and the other who watched the murder committed and covered it up was sentenced to 12 years in prison with a possibility of parole after about eight years. This was more lenient that the life without parole sentence that both of them could have been determined by a jury to have deserved if it had found that they conspired with premeditation to jointly commit first degree murder.andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08172964121659914379noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-12816180284038309342013-02-11T21:44:53.079+02:002013-02-11T21:44:53.079+02:00Deep sequence the twins to reliably identify diver...Deep sequence the twins to reliably identify divergent SNPs between the brothers and then design primers for PCR amplification of a few select divergent SNPs in the sample with limited genetic material. Problem solved for way less than a million dollars.Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01270554253475715322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-56746295204198878172013-02-11T18:30:07.996+02:002013-02-11T18:30:07.996+02:00There is also the possibility that both twins are ...There is also the possibility that both twins are guilty of the same rape, or that some rapes were committed by one brother and the other rapes by the other brother. To establish this, they would need whole-genome sampling for several samples from the victims.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-76895859152284198032013-02-11T17:04:26.043+02:002013-02-11T17:04:26.043+02:00Presumably there may be very little genetic materi...Presumably there may be very little genetic material of the perpetrator to work with, so getting a high coverage genome of that might be difficult and might require techniques similar to those used in ancient DNA research to avoid/remove contamination. Still, 1 million seems excessive to me.Dienekeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-36057889090002131232013-02-11T16:15:15.068+02:002013-02-11T16:15:15.068+02:00People who understand genetics would know who was ...People who understand genetics would know who was guilty from 3 high (or probably even medium) coverage sequencings (you'd need 3 tests, 1 for the sample, and 1 for each brother) would establish guilt and innocence. However this must pay for government labs, government regulations, lawyers, courts, etc. Government does nothing efficiently, and with technology, everything costs 10 times as much.<br />Bradhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16206864251085268607noreply@blogger.com