to danielle pixler came not because danielle had uploaded her dna, but because someone she d never met, who shared some of her dna, had. once one person puts up their dna, they re essentially agreeing for their entire extended family to be searchable, and that s a privacy issue, isn t it? well, it s an interesting issue. it s not really specific to dna. so, suppose you and i are room mates at a home and i m not at the house and the police come in to your house and say, james, could i please take a look inside your home? if you say yes, you ve essentially accepted that invitation for both of us. law enforcement doesn t access the underlying dna, but they do have access to the relationships that you would have to that unknown person in these photos. and that s the privacy concern. i think the thing that people have to make their mind up. you have two competing priorities here. the first priority is that
so, that is someone who would share a great great grandmother or grandfather, that kind of situation? yes. just like with the golden state killer, david and his team drew up another family tree. they worked out a common ancestor a shared great great grandpa rent. using that family tree, they developed a theory. when 0thram did their search, they came up with several different people that all share the same dna with the person who was found in missouri, and one of those people is called danielle pixler. she lives in topeka, kansas, so we ve come here to speak to her. i think i was in my 20s when i started to, like, you know, get on facebook. as an adult, danielle was told she had an older brother and sister that she d never met. she managed to connect