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BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Could a 2005-era DNA collection have law prevented the death of a Maryland mother of five? It’s not out of the realm of possibilities, according to three federal whistleblowers included in an investigation posted to the social media platform X.
Catherine Herridge, an independent investigative journalist – Herridge was a longtime FOX News journalist and a CBS News reporter – published a report highlighting the lack of compliance from U.S. Customs and Border Protection with a 2005 law named the DNA Fingerprint Act. The law calls for migrants who are detained or arrested at the border to be swabbed for DNA and those samples are then sent to the FBI. The information is added to a database that can be used to match evidence in other crimes.
Migrants who are under the age of 14 years old, or would reasonably be allowed into the United States, would not be swabbed for DNA.
In Herridge’s investigative report, she spoke with the whistleblowers, Michael Taylor, Fred Wynn, and Mark Jones, about their concerns surrounding the noncompliance with the DNA Fingerprint Act. The three government employees have combined law enforcement experience of nearly 70 years.
“The willful noncompliance I believe is inexplicable,” Taylor told Herridge.
Rachel Morin was a mother of five and was found murdered along the Ma and Pa trail in Bel Air, Md. in August 2023. The suspected killer was later identified...
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