DNA, genealogy research lead to teen’s arrest in sex assault

Published October 22. 2019 05:14AM

NORRISTOWN (AP) — Authorities say they used DNA testing and genealogy research to arrest a teenager in the gunpoint sexual assault of a woman in a suburban Philadelphia park.

Nineteen-year-old Mason Alexander Hall is being held on $1 million cash bail in the August 2017 attack at Norristown Farm Park.

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele says genetic testing of the DNA helped produce a sketch and showed the suspect had half European and half African ancestry and was about 25 years old.

Steele says that genealogy research led police to identify two people, one of whom was ruled out by the 19-year-old victim.

He says Hall was arrested Friday after the DNA sample was compared to blood found on a hammer still in evidence from his 2017 arrest for allegedly busting a car headlight.

Hall does not have a lawyer listed in court records.

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Dirty rotten rapists of women should be caught by any means possible. They need to pay for their crimes on innocent women and children. President Trump believes in enforcing laws and supports the Constitution. Only someone with mental dysfunction would think otherwise. Right on CG. Thanks to all of the scientists that unraveled strands of DNA.
An autocracy is a government where power is in the hands of "one individual" (GUESS WHO!). In a constitutional autocracy, the system of power is the same but there is a constitution that structures the government. I'm not surprised you don't what it is since your uneducated a$$ voted for it in 2016. We can't keep you Putinpanties out of the voting booths so this the crap we have to deal with until 2020.

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